9:00-10:30

Sensual/Bodily Excess

Roshanak Kheshti “Marketing Surplus Sensuality: An Ethnographic Account of a World Music Record Company”

Jacqueline Elam “Excessively Rotten”

Aya Nakagoshi “What Is a Human Organ? Cultural Understanding of Organ Transplants and Recent Arguments on the Organ Market”

Recycling: Obsolence and Resistance

Derek Merrill “Recycling Excess: Mapping the Social Relations of Obsolete Materials”

David Wills “Cultural Mulch”

Alessandro Fornazzari “Surplus in the Era of Real Subsumption”

11:00-12:30

Trauma, Thanatos, Violence

Stephanie Hammer “Postmodern ‘epics’: Surplus as Trauma/Trauma as Surplus”

Maita Abola Sayo “Accumulation and the Problem of Violence: Notes

Towards a Theological Political-economic Critique of Surplus/Excess”

Alexander Ezekiel Chang “Futurists, Excess and Fin de Siècle Italy”

Psychoanalytical Politics of Surplus

Henry Krips “The Politics of Badiou and the Work of Lacan”

Ceren Özselçuk and Yahya M. Madra “An Axiomatic Politics of Surplus”

Chris McMillan “Zizek's Marxism: From Surplus-enjoyment to Surplus-value”

2:30-4:00

Exploitation, Surplus and Labor

Oliver Cooke “Rethinking AESA’s Exploitative Appropriation Concept”

Kevin A. Yelvington “Rethinking Exploitation”

Eray Düzenli “On Labor, Surplus, and Excess: Marx, Contra Baudrillard, Via Bataille”

Premodern Surplus I

James Andrew Cowell “The Hero as Supplement in Medieval Europe”

Anna Harrison “Beautiful Gifts: Creating Community in Gertrude of Helfta’s ‘Herald’”

Brantley L. Bryant “Hot for the Hungry: Mouthing Excess in Medieval London”

Surplus in Cinema, Surplus of Cinema

Mikel Parent “‘Surplus Enjoyment’, the ‘State Repressive Apparatus’, and the Lumpenproletariat of the Carceral Inner-City in Assault on Precinct 13, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, and Escape from New York”

Andrew Skomra “Fassbinder, or Cinema as the Extra Art”

Sylvia J. Martin “Surplus Spectacle: Labor in the Hollywood and Hong Kong Film Industries”

Jian Chen “Sex without Friction: Sexual Labor without Human Recourse in Cheang Shu Lea’s I.K.U.”

4:30-6:00

Efficiency, Scarcity, Consumption: Critiques of Economic Ideology

Dimitri Papandreu “All by Myself: Consumer Sovereignty and the Invisibility of Labor”

Jeff Cusack “Surplus and Excess: Capitalism, Efficiency, and the Western European Welfare State.”

Sean Corbin “Excess Destruction: The Cultural Consequences of the Inflation of Scarcity”

Social Technologies of Global Economy

Wai Kit Choi “Mechanisms of Surplus Extraction in the Era of Global Capitalism”

Jakob Funkenstein “Air Cargo and the Total Distribution Cost Concept”

Shannon May “The World’s First Village: Carbon, Consumption and Rural Urbanization in China”

The Gift, Expenditure, and Excess

Maliha Safri and Ceren Özselçuk “The Ambivalence of the Gift”

Mark Osteen “Jazzing the Gift: Improvisation, Reciprocity, Excess”

Allan Stoekl “Notes on the Logic of Expenditure: Bataille via Michael Marmot and Robert H. Frank”

Antonio Callari, Commentator

Jack Amariglio, Commentator