A1 (Post-)Modern Imperialism: Class, Gender and Globalization

• Suzanne Bergeron, University of Notre Dame, Chair
• Delia Aguilar, Bowling Green State University, "Global Restructuring, Rethinking Marxism, and Filipino Women"
• Joe Medley, University of Southern Maine, "(Post-)Modern Imperialism in the North Pacific Political Economy"
• John Milios, National Technical University, Athens, "Pre-Industrial Capitalist Forms: Lenin's Contribution to a Marxist Theory of Economic Development and Its Actuality for the Study of LDCs"
• Amy Wolkoff, University of Massachusetts, "A Postmodern Class Analysis of MNCs: Some Nike Stories"

A2 Class Analysis and Mental Health: Current Developments

• Harriet Fraad, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, New Haven, Chair
• Melissa Perry, Medical College of Wisconsin, "Sexism and Psychopathology"
• Carles Muntaner, Institute of Occupational Health, "Social Class and Mental Health: An Introduction and Current Developments"
• Joel Kovel, Bard College, "Mental Illness and the Negation of Class Struggle"
• Harriet Fraad, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, New Haven, "At Home with Incest"

A3 Specters of Derrida/Marx

• Stephen Cullenberg, University of California, Riverside, Chair
• Nina Belmonte, Hampshire College, "Resisting Dialectic"
• Peter Hitchcock, Baruch College, "Of Ghosts"
• Azfar Hussain, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, "Marx's Body, Marx's Ghost: Foucault's Microphysics and Derrida's Spectropoetics"
• Sourayan Mookerjea, Simon Fraser University, "Fetishes and Specters: Geopolitical Differences Between Spivak's and Derrida's Readings of Marx"

A4 What a History Difference Makes

• Lucas Wilson, Mt. Holyoke College, Chair
• Cecilia Rio, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Doing the Dirty Work: Towards a Marxist-Feminist Analysis of Domestic Workers, 1900-1960"
• Nina Banks, Hood College, "Black Women Migrants' Unpaid `Race Work': Resistance and Cooperation in Pittsburgh, 1916-1930"
• Min Song, Tufts University, "Gloriani's Garden: Ideological Analysis and Racial Formation"
• Carla Willard, Franklin and Marshall College, "Race and National Culture in Early Brand-Product Advertising"

A6 Evolutions in Marxian Theory: Legacies, Obstacles, Revisions

• John Roche, St. John Fisher College, Chair
• Harry Challis, University of Wolverhampton, "How Important is It That Marxism is Pre-Darwinian?"
• Peter Hudis, News and Letters, "Hegelian-Marxism in Light of Today's Changed World"
• Edwin Roberts, California State University, Long Beach, "Against Contradiction: The Resistance to Dialectical Criticism in the Anglo-American Philosophical Tradition"
• Darko Suvin, McGill University, "Two Cheers for Essentialism and Totality"

A7 Politics and Languages of Workplace Restructuring

• Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine, Chair
• Luis Aguiar, York University, "The Building Cleaning Industry in Toronto: The Economics and the Language of Work Reorganizing"
• Franco Barchiesi, University of the Witwatersrand, "Restructuring, Flexibility and the Politics of Workplace Subjectivity: A Worker Enquiry in the South African Car Industry"
• Judith Biewener, University of California, Berkeley, "Corporate Reorganization, Downsizing, and the Transformation of the Employment Relationship"
• Timothy Marjoribanks, Harvard University, "Globalization or Local Practice? Technology and Workplace Reorganization in the Newspaper Industry"

A8 Aesthetic Considerations

• Gail Day, Wimbledon School of Art, "The Languages of Negativity in Art and Art Theory"
• E. Dean Kolbas, Cambridge University, "Aesthetics as Radical Politics?: Difference and Diversity as Ideology"
• Julia Rothenberg, CUNY, "Resistance and Totality: American Modernism Reconsidered"
• Gary Tedman, University of North London, "The Aesthetic Level of Practice"

A9 Left Intellectuals: For Whom?

• Julian Murphet, Trinity College, Cambridge, "Propaganda Now? Prospects for Marxist Literary Pedagogy"
• Rodolfo Rosales, University of Texas, San Antonio, "Intellectuals and Their Borders"
• Edward Royce, Rollins College, "Left Academics as Public Intellectuals: A Critique of Said's Representations of the Intellectual"
• Kathi Weeks, Fairfield University, "The Eclipse of Marxism in the Modernism/Postmodernism Debate"

A10 Languages of Unity, Languages of Insurrection

• Mwangi wa Githinji, Gettsyburg College, Chair
• Ashwin Desai and Heinrich Bohmke, University of Durban, Westville, "Africanism, Rainbowism and the Discourse of Nation-Building in South Africa"
• John Malley, University of Wisconsin, "Victims of Modernization Speak: The Socioeconomic and Political Causes of the Zapatista Rebellion"
• Gautam Premnath, Brown University, "`National Consciousness' and New Discourses of Community: Fanon in Diaspora"
• Alejandro Raiter and Irene Munoz, Buenos Aires University, "The Zapatistas's Discourse: Is it a Postmodern Discourse?"

A11Knowledge and Class: A Dialogue

• Jack Amariglio, Merrimack College, Chair
• Etienne Balibar, University of Paris, X
• Julie Graham, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

A12 Politics and Literature

• Natasha Kirsten Kraus, University of California, Berkeley, "Sexuality and the Governess: Class Fragments in Freud's Dora"
• Julian Markels, Ohio State University, "Does the Novel Belong to the Bourgeoisie?"
• Kim Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles, "The Hero as the (Non)Visionary: Reading George Orwell through Georges Bataille in Homage to Catalonia "

A13 Althusserian Marxisms

• Bruce Norton, San Antonio, Chair
• Yen-bin Chiou, National Taiwan University, "The Importance of Errant Matter: Louis Althusser's Theoreticism and His Self-Criticism Revisited"
• Roberto Finelli, University of Rome, "Overdetermination and Abstraction: A Comparison between Two Marxisms"
• Mario L. Robles-Baez, UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico, "Marx, Althusser and Postmodernity: On the Subject of Capitalism"
• Jo-Young Shin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Gramsci's Marxism in Light of Althusserian Overdetermination"

A14 Radicality or Regress? Hope and Utopia in Recent Social(ist) Theory

• Pamela Leach, York University, "The Science of Progress and the Saint-Simonien Critique"
• Jim Miller, Bowling Green State University, "Postmodernism and Utopia: Jameson, Derrida and the New World Order"
• Darren Webb, University of Sheffield, "Gratuitous Revenge or the Only Way Out? The Staggering Rise of Pro-Utopianism in Contemporary Marxist Thought"
• Kerryann DiLoretto, Loyola University, "From Fragmentation to Differentiated Center: Towards a Socialist Utopia"

A15 Rereading Recent Film

• Eric Glynn, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Elizabeth Abele, Temple University, "A Hero's Work is Never Done: The Construction of the Hero in Recent American Films"
• Andrew Biro and Steven Hayward, York University, "The Usual Suspects: Labor, Justice and Postmodernity in The Usual Suspects"
• Matthew Ruben, University of Pennsylvania, "Toward a Marxist Intellectual Praxis: 12 Monkeys and the Politics and Languages of Urban Globalization"
• Thomas Wartenberg, Mt. Holyoke College, "Film as Social Critique: The Unlikely Couple Film"

B1 Rethinking Knowledge and Class in Third World Political Movements

• S. Charusheela, Franklin and Marshall College, Chair
• Radhika Desai, University of Victoria, "The Modern and the Sacred: Hindutava's Challenge to Indian Secularism"
• Jayati Lal, Cornell University, "Re/Covering the `Subject' of Class: Gender, Structure and Agency in the Representation(s) of Indian Women Factory Workers"
• Amy Lind, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Consuming Development: Rethinking Women's Political Practices in Ecuador"
• Meera Nanda, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "In Search of an Epistemology for Third World People's Science Movements: Against the Indifferent `Difference' of Social Constructivist Theories of Science"

B2 Political Economy Beyond the Nation-State

• Stephen Cullenberg, University of California, Riverside, Chair
• Fernando Castrillon, University of California, Davis, "Discourses of Development, Post-Fordism, Post-Modernity and the Disjunctures of Global Capitalism"
• James Crotty, Gerald Epstein and Patricia Kelly, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Multinational Corporations, Stagnation and Inequality"
• William Milberg, New School for Social Research, TBA
• Marc Schaberg and Stephen Cullenberg, University of California, Riverside, "Class and Globalization"

B3 Academic Institutions and Struggles

• Ken Byrne, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Lizanne Minerva, Florida State University, TBA
• Rachel Sharp, University of New England, Australia, "Marxist Theory and Education: A Black Hole for Marxists in University Management?"
• Wesley Shumar, Drexel University and Jonathan Church, Beaver College, "Above and Below: Mapping Social Positions within the Academy"
• Frank Wilderson III, "The Terms of Surrender: University `Transformation' as a Colonizing Agent in the `New' South Africa"

B4 Issues in Socialism and Democracy (works in progress by some of the editors of Socialism and Democracy)

• Inez Hedges, Northeastern University, Chair
• John McDermott, "Reflections on 1848 and 1968"
• Edward Greer, Southern New England School of Law, "Sexual Panic in the Academy: Playing Fast and Loose with Rates of Incest"
• Robert J. S. Ross, Clark University, "Immigrants, Bosses, Workers: A Critique of the Ethnic Discourse on the New Sweatshops"
• Victor Wallis, Berklee College of Music, "The Myth of a Green Capitalism"

B5 Who Do We Think We/They Are?

• Vin Lyon-Callo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Rosalee Blumer, West Hollywood, "Locating Agency: Marxism, The Frankfurt School, and the Subject(s) of Gender"
• Paul Costello, Tuscon, "Ethnic Identity and Civic Nationalism"
• James Heartfield, London, "Marxism and Social Construction"
• Lisa Soccio, University of Rochester, "Everybody's Hip (And [Why] That's Not Cool)"

B6 Political Visions and Strategies

• George DeMartino, University of Denver, Chair
• Howie Chodos, Ottawa, Canada and Colin Hay, Harvard University, "It's Our Party: Marxist Political Strategy after the Fall"
• Nico Kielstra, University of Amsterdam, "The Wearing of the Green"
• Anja Rudiger, Kiel, Germany, "Radical Politics of Displacement"
• Brendan Works, University of California, Berkeley, "Structuralism and Counter-Hegemony in Popular Opposition to Apartheid"

B7 The Cultural as Political?

• Richard McIntyre, University of Rhode Island, Chair
• David Butler, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, "The Materialist Study of Culture in Northern Ireland"
• Jeremy Kerr-Ritchie, Wesleyan University, "The Politics of Jubilee"
• Chris Newfield, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Business Culture Wars"
• Lingyan Yang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Cultural China and Cultural Politics"

B8 Power and Empowerment in Contemporary Citizen Struggles

• Glen Ernst, University of Delaware, "We See Your Power. Can We See Our Own?: Ideology and Action in Citizen Deliberation"
• Peter Kalliney, University of Michigan, "The Empire's Old Clothes: Community Policing in Britain"
• Marie-Christine Leps and Lesley Higgins, York University, "Mobil Homes: Legal, Economic and Governmental Implications of `Mobility Rights' in Our Times"

B9 Languages and Politics of Marxian Theory

• William Olson, East Orange, New Jersey, Chair
• Ron Brokmeyer, Oakland, California, "Subjective Barriers within Today's Socialization of Labor and Marx's Provocative Concept of Fetishism"
• Charles Brown, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Dialectics and Complexity: Marxism in New Science"
• Peter Matthews, Middlebury College, "The Language of Marx and the Mathematician"
• Gertrudis Nagel, Rosario, Argentina, "Federico Engels Y La Vigencia de su Pensamiento"
• John Steel, University of Sheffield, "Karl Marx and Free Speech"

B10 Ecology and Economy

• Blair Sandler, San Francisco, Chair
• Russell Janzen, York University, "The Spatial Economy of Environmental Politics: Logging and Wilderness Preservation in British Columbia"
• Alan Jones, York University, "Ecological Marxism and Sustainable Development in a Native Canadian Community"
• Luis Saez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Of Different Natures: Natural Environments and Industrial Change"
• Anna Vlachou, Athens University, "The Political Economy of Global Warming"

B11 The New Value Theory Controversy: An Orientation Workshop

• Alan Freeman, University of Greenwich
• Andrew Kliman, Pace University

B12 Feminist Re-Marx

• Julie Graham, University of Massachusetts, Chair
• Carole Biewener, Simmons College, "Marxism and Feminism: Towards a Decentered Marxian Politics"
• Laurie Green, University of Chicago, "From the Postmodern Turn to a Re-turn to Marx?
• Feminist Rethinking in the 1990s"
• Frigga Haug, Hochschule fuere Wirtschaft Und Politik, Hamburg, "The Dialectics of Sexual Politics"
• Ann Woodward, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, "Answering the `Woman Question': Women's Liberation and the Thought of Rosa Luxemburg in a Post-Marxist Era"

B13 Meaning and Resistance in Welfare Reform

• Ulla Grapard, Colgate University, Chair
• Lynne Haney, University of California, Berkeley, "Globalized Discourses of Need: Regulation, Resistance, and Welfare Regime Change in Post-Socialist Hungary"
• David Leadbeater, Laurentian University, "`Economic Dependency' in the Decline of the Welfare State: Problems of Meaning, Measurement, and Policy"
• Warren Longmire, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "The `Nanny State': Understanding Welfare Backlash within Gay Activism"
• Brian Waddell, University of Connecticut, "Rethinking the Warfare-Welfare State: The Current Attack on the Welfare State in Historical Perspective"

B14 Marxian and Postmodern Reflections on the Knowledge Economy

• Lorenzo d'Auria, University of Rome, "Exploitation on the Internet: Some Reflections on the Accumulation of Knowledge from a Marxian Perspective"
• Christian Gregory, University of Florida, "Spectacles of the Literate: What it Means to be Dumb in a Knowledge Economy"
• Derek Hrynshyn, York University, "New Information Technologies and New Conceptions of Intellectual Property"
• David Sholle, Miami University, "Wired for Capitalism"

Opening Plenary: Knowledge, Science, Marxism

• Richard Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair
• Jack Amariglio, Merrimack College
• Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles
• Vandana Shiva, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resources, Delhi, India

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