K1 Marx and Freud: Permutations and Combinations

• Harriet Fraad, Psychoanalyic Psychotherapist, New Haven, Chair
• Joel Kovel, Bard College, "Marx and Freud Moving Toward a Synthesis"
• Richard Lichtman, Wright Institute of Pyschoanalysis, "A Marxist Analysis of Object Relations Theory"
• Harriet Fraad, Psychoanalyic Psychotherapist, "Exploitation in the Labor of Love: A Marxian Analysis of Childhood Pain"

K2 Violence and Nonviolence: Suffering and Survival

• James Freda, University of California, Los Angeles, "Absent Suffering and the American Dream: Discourse on Han (Grudge, Resentment) in South Korean Oppositional and Popular Culture"
• Janet Gunn, Virginia, "Survivor Knowledges"
• Elizabeth Hodge, University of Cincinnati, "Women, Domestic Violence and Mental Health: Anxiety Disorders or Survival Tactics?"
• Greg Moses, Marist College, "The Challenge of Nonviolence to Marxism"

K3 Politics and Media Culture

• Steven Cresap, Audrey Cohen College, "The Metaphysics of Virtual Pleasure"
• Maximino Gulias II, Illinois State Univesity, "Revolution Performed in Boredom: Brechtian Alienation Effect and Epic Theater in 2001: A Space Odyssey"
• Malek Khouri, Carleton University, "Ideology, Hegemony, and Film Theory"
• Mike Wayne, Brunel University, England, "Video, Oral History, Culture and Practice"

K4 New Directions in Marxist Theory

• Stephen Cullenberg, University of California, Riverside, Chair
• John Ehrenberg, Long Island University, "The New Civil Society: A Marxist Critique"
• Makato Itoh, University of Tokyo, "How to Think of Trifurcation of Socialism"
• Richard Norgaard, University of California, Berkeley, "Rethinking Marx and Western Thought on Progress, Progressive Governance, Cultural Convergence and Globalization"
• Bertell Ollman, New York University, "The Place of Socialism and Communism in Marx's Analysis of Capitalism"

K5 African Americans in the Quest for Social Justice (co-sponsored by Nature, Society, Thought)

• John Bracey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Kevin K. Gaines, National Humanities Center, "African-American Expatriates in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1966"
• Sundiata K. Cha-Jua, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, "Louis Farrakhan and the Million Man March"
• Joy Carew, Lincoln University, "Role of African Americans in the Economic and Cultural Development of the USSR"
• Sudhir Venkatesh, Harvard Society of Fellows, "Grass Roots Mobilization in Chicago's Project Housing"

K6 Class, State and the Public Sphere

• Colin Cavell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• William Aviles, University of California, Riverside, "Instrumentalism and the Strategic-Theoretical Approach"
• Patrick Flaherty, Arlington, Massachusetts, "State and Class in the Soviet Epoch"
• Ioannis Kaskaris and Georgios Grollios, Thessaloniki, Greece, "Ideology and Politics of the European Union's Programme for the School Education (COMMENIUS)"
• Lisa McLaughlin, University of Michigan, "`The Public Sphere' as Tragedy and Farce: A Brief Encounter Between The Structural Transformation and The Eighteenth Brumaire"

K7 Late Capitalism and Post-Marxism

• Patty Lee Parmalee, New York City, "Work Brigades and East German Identities"
• Stephen Shapiro, New York City, "Beta-modernism (November 9, 1989 - June, 1997): The Transition to a New Phase of Capital Accumulation"
• John Trombold, Sam Houston State University, "Multiculturalism: A Language of Late Capitalism or Capitalism's Critique?"
• Mohamed Zayani, Cape Cod Community College, "Capitalism, Post-Marxism and the Open System"

K8 Consuming Marx

• Ian Fraser, Nottingham Trent University, "Marx and the Dialectical Mediation of Need"
• Elaine Hartwick, Central Connecticut State University, "Towards a Politics of Consumption"
• Sheila Lloyd, SUNY, Buffalo, "Affect and Capital, or Don't Worry, All It Takes is a Dollar and a Dream"
• Matthew Soar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "`The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola': Advertising, Capitalism, and Commercial Activity"

K9 Language and Materialism

• Andriana Silvia Benzaquen, York University, "Vygotsky's Marxism, Childhood, and the Languages of Development"
• David Bernans, York University, "Historical Materialism and Ordinary Language: Grammatical Peculiarities of the Class Struggle `Language Game'"
• Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Freie Universitat, Berlin, "Brecht, Gramsci and Wittgenstein: The Language Question in the Philosophy of Praxis"
• Galin Tihanov, Oxford University, "Rereading Voloshinov: The Problem of Superstructure, Ideology and Language"

K10 Socialist/Democratic Politics

• Viren Murthy, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, "Civil Society and Political Practice in Hegel and Marx"
• David Michael Smith, York College, CUNY, "Why Socialism Has a Future"

K11 Questions for Critical Theory

• Eva Corredor, United States Naval Academy, Chair
• Martin Morris, Duke University, "What Does `Capitalism' Mean Today? The Critique of Reification in Habermas's Social Theory"
• Charles Shaw, University of Northern Iowa, "Marx, Freud, and the Positing of the Sub-Conscious as a Means of Oppression: The Critical Theory Connection to Post-Modern Marxist Thought"
• Chad Thompson, York University, "Mutations of Adorno: Corporeality and Critical Theory"
• Jamie Own Daniel, University of Illinois-Chicago, TBA

K12 Hegemony, Language, Politics: New Directions in Gramscian Marxism

• Nancy Bell and Lily Ling, Syracuse University, "Theorizing Hegemony: A Critical Examination of Race and Gender in Gramscian IPE"
• Derek Boothman, University of Perugia, "The Historical Bloc and Notions of a Dynamical Totality"
• Peter Ives, York University, "Incongruous Languages: Where Gramsci and Bakhtin Diverge"

K13 (Re)Presenting the Subject

• Vin Lyon-Callo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "False Consciousness or Constructed Subjectivities? An Exploration of Political Ramifications of a Critical Post-Modern Ethnographic Intervention"
• Ulla Grapard, Colgate University, "Lady Bountiful: Gender and Representation in International Trade"
• Eric Ruckh, University of California, Irvine, "Inscriptions: The Ends of Man and the Figure of the Jews in Marx's `Zur Judenfrage'"
• Randall Terada, York University, "Discerning the Post-Althusserian Subject"

K14 Totality, Tonality and Jameson

• John O'Kane, University of Southern California, "Adventures in Totalization: Jameson's Search for a Method"
• Fred Moten, University of California, Santa Barbara, "The Tonality of Totality: Sound, Spatial Representation, Utopia"
• Stephen Sheehi, University of Michigan, "Three Works of Fredric Jameson: All the Same"

K15 Left Politics, Fragmentation, and Solidarity in the 1990s

• Kenneth Long, St. Joseph's College, Chair
• John Berg, Suffolk University, "Beyond Parliamentary Cretinism: Why (and How) the Left Should Take Congress More Seriously"
• Bill Fletcher, Education Director of the AFL-CIO, and Fernando Gapasin, Pennsylvania State University, "Race, Fragmentation, and Unity in the U.S. Labor Movement"
• William David Fusfield, University of Pittsburgh, "Identity Politics as Backlash: American Feminism and the Global Implosion of the Left"

K16 Angry White Men

• Lauren Langman, Loyola University, Chair
• Douglas Kellner, University of Texas-Austin, "From O.J. to Unibomber"
• Valerie Scatamburlo, York University, "POed about PC"
• Jessie Daniels, Hofstra University, "Angry White Men: Capitalism, Crisis, and Contradiction"
• Deborah Shneer, Westfield State College, "The Scapegoats of Capital"

Closing Plenary: Postmodern Socialism(s) and the Zapatista Struggle

• Carmen Diana Deere, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Roger Burbach, Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA)
• Arturo Escobar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Fernanda Navarro, University of Michoacan, Mexico

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