Rethinking Marxism’s 5th International Gala Conference

“MARXISM AND THE WORLD STAGE”
6-8 NOVEMBER 2003
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST
 

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Global Priority Art Exhibition

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SCHEDULE

For a full program of paper sessions in pdf format, including presenter names and paper titles and times, click here

Overview of Plenary, Exhibition, and Performance Events:

Thursday, November 6   7:30-9:30 p.m.   Graves, a play by HartBeat Ensemble
Friday, November 7   3:00-4:30 p.m.   Panel Discussion for Global Priority Art Exhibition
Friday, November 7   4:30-6:00 p.m.   Opening Reception for Global Priority Art Exhibition
Friday, November 7   7:30-9:30 p.m.   Plenary Session, “Postcolonialism Post-9/11”
Saturday, November 8   1:00-3:00 p.m.   Plenary Session, “Whither Global Capitalism?”
Saturday, November 8   7:30-9:30 p.m.   Plenary Session, “Manufacturing Empire”

 

Overview of Session Schedule:

Concurrent Sessions A Thursday, November 6 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions B Thursday, November 6 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions C Friday, November 7 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions D Friday, November 7 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions E Saturday, November 8 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions F Saturday, November 8 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

 

Schedule Details:

Thursday, November 6

10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Vendor Display [Campus Center Auditorium]
   
1:00-3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions A
3:00-3:30 p.m. Coffee break
3:30-5:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions B
5:30-7:30 p.m. Dinner in area restaurants
7:30-9:30 p.m. Graves, a play by HartBeat Ensemble
9:30 p.m.- ? Reception and cash bar

Friday, November 7

10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Vendor Display [Campus Center Auditorium]
   
9:30-11:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions C
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Lunch in area restaurants
1:00-2:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions D
2:30-3:00 p.m. Coffee break
3:00-4:30 p.m. Global Priority Plenary Session
•Grady Gerbracht (artist)
•Heng-Gil Han (Jamaica Center for the Arts)
•Susan Jahoda (University of Massachusetts)
•Jesal Kapadia (artist)
•Olu Oguibe (artist)
•John Peffer (Northwestern University)
•Michael Rakowitz (artist)
•Minnette Vari (artist)
•Alex Villar (artist)
•Peter Walsh (artist)
•Jack Amariglio (Merrimack College) — chair
4:30-6:00 p.m. Opening Reception for Global Priority Art Exhibition
6:00-7:30 p.m. Dinner in area restaurants
7:30-9:30 p.m. Postcolonialism Post-9/11 Plenary Session
•Okwui Enwezor (Art Institute of Chicago)
•Amitava Kumar (Pennsylvania State University)
•Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago)
•Eiman Zein-Elabdin (Franklin and Marshall College)
•S. Charusheela (University of Hawai’i) — chair
•Joseph Buttigieg (University of Notre Dame) — Tribute to Edward Said
9:30-11:00 p.m. Taylor & Francis reception in honor of Rethinking Marxism

Saturday, November 8

10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Vendor Display [Campus Center Auditorium]
   
9:30-11:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions E
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Lunch in area restaurants
1:00-3:00 p.m.

Whither Global Capitalism? Plenary Session
•Jim Crotty (University of Massachusetts)
•Leo Panitch (York University)
•Richard Wolff (University of Massachusetts)
•Stephen Cullenberg (University of California) — chair

3:00-3:30 p.m. Coffee break
3:30-5:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions F
5:30-7:30 p.m. Dinner in area restaurants
7:30-9:30 p.m. Manufacturing Empire Plenary Session
•Michael Hardt (Duke University)
•Slavoj Zizek (University of Ljubljana)
•Harriet Fraad (psychologist, New York City) — chair
9:30 p.m.- ? Cash bar and dance to the sounds of Collective Trip Sound System