9:00-10:30

Queer Excess

Shannon Bush “‘A new frolick took these rogues’: Regulating Transatlantic Sex and Desire in Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines and Daniel Defoe’s The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”

Joshua Fenton “Do Marxist have Sex? Are they Freaky?: Indeterminately Queer Angles of Engels”

Robert W. Anderson “‘The Rectum as a Shaft’: Male Homosexual Panic in H. G. Wells's The Time Machine”

Premodern Surplus II

Kristin Noone “Fairyland and the Power of Things: Excess in the Medieval Otherworld”

Claire Nava “Positively Excessive: John Mirk’s Rhetorical Surplus”

Matthew McGraw “Exchange and Debt in the Middle English Poem ‘Cleanness’”

Theorizing Surplus/Excess

Peter Gratton “The Excess of the World: Rethinking Marx via Jean-Luc Nancy”

Christopher Farrish “Societal Surplus and Radical Rupture: The 1992 Los Angeles Uprising
and the Excess of Geography and Ideology”

Ozan Isler “The Problem Of Delimiting Surplus From Excess”

Heiko Feldner “The Conceptualization of Excess in Foucault and Zizek”

11:00-12:30

Narrative and Excess

Gretchen Bartels “‘Will you let me lend you all I have? Will you let me give it you?’: Unacceptable Gifts and the Purging of Excess in the Marriage Market of Dickens’s Little Dorritt”

Antonino G. Callari “Robinson Crusoe: The Constitutive Deficit of Modernity”

Jeremy Kaye “Hey, Holden!:The Conduct Manual, The Catcher in the Rye, and the Excesses of Interpellation”

Serhat Kologlu, Commentator

Premodern Surplus III

William Kuskin “Textual Formalism and the Excess of History: Reading the Fifteenth Century in Literary History”

Carl Walker “Personifications of Goods in the Everyman Tradition”

Seth Lerer “Superfluity: Chaucer, Lydgate, and the Surplus Word”

Geographies of Surplus

João Aguiar “Excess of surplus, capitalist urbanization and the production of slums”

Cosimo Zene “When the surplus ‘feeds’ the community: gift-giving in central Sardinia”

Gerda Roelvink and J.K. Gibson-Graham “Surplus and Dignity: A Post-Humanist Community Economics”

2:30-4:00

Rethinking Marxism: 20 Years!

David F. Ruccio, Editor

Jack Amariglio, Former editor and member of the editorial board

Susan Jahoda, Art editor and member of the editorial board

Joseph Childers, Review editor and member of the editorial board

Philip Kozel, Remarx co-editor and member of the editorial board

4:30-6:00

Politics of Aesthetics

Cheukwa Jones “Excessive Power Struggle in the Process of Exhibition-Making”

Eric Worcester “Surplus Structure in Contemporary Architecture”

Yaeri Kim “Dealing with Surplus Literature: Narrative Production in Cyberspace and Its Critiques in South Korea”

Racialized Surplus, Race as Excess

A. Kiarina Kordela “Surplus and (Postmodern) Bioracism: The 'War Against Mortality'”

Katy Webber “Irish Economies: Excessive Lack”

Ilker Corut “From Surplus to Waste: The Changing Discourse of Turkish Nationalism on Kurds”

Yahya M. Madra, Commentator

Rethinking Resistance

Richard Bailey “Bare life as capital’s excess: Resistance and life in the camp”

Carole-Anne Tyler “Fanon, Revolution, and the Jouissance of the Death Drive”

Ryan O'Neill “Learning From Bush? Preemption as an ‘Affective’ form of resistance”