2013 Rethinking Marxism Events

WSIP at Rethinking Marxism Conference
UMass-Amherst, Sept 20-21, 2013

Please join us for the four WSIP-sponsored panels at the Rethinking Marxism conference. If you are a newcomer to WSIP who plans to attend one or more of the WSIP panels and would like to participate in the Saturday seminar, please contact Laura Doyle at ldoyle@english.umass.edu.

Please use the links below to view panel and paper abstracts. All abstracts and papers are the intellectual property of the authors; any reference to the materials or ideas expressed in them should be explicitly attributed to the author and his/her paper at the RM conference.

SCHEDULE OF WSIP EVENTS
Overview:
Friday Sept 20, 2013
8:30AM-4PM: WSIP panels (UMass Campus Center, see below)
7:30: Dinner for panelists (details TBA)

Saturday Sept 21, 2013 (RSVP required)
Lord Jeff Inn, Webster Ballroom (downstairs)
1:15: Dessert and coffee/tea
1:30-3:30/4PM: Seminar, followed by refreshments

WSIP PANEL SCHEDULE FOR FRIDAY
A1: 8:30-10:00 [Campus Center 174-76]
Brave New Worlds: Race, Capital, Reproduction
• Laura Briggs (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Chair
• Iyko Day (Mount Holyoke College) “The New Jews: Asian Racialization and Romantic Anticapitalism”
• Chris Vials (University of Connecticut) “Neoliberal Development, the Rise of Apocalyptic Popular Culture, and the Crisis of Reproduction in the United States”
• Asha Nadkarni (University of Massachusetts Amherst) “Transnational Surrogacy and the Neoliberal Mother India”
• Laura Briggs (University of Massachusetts) Discussant

B3: 10:15-12:00 [Campus Center 163C]
Development’s Backstory: Discourses and Conjunctures Across “Medieval” Middle East and “Modern” Atlantic
• Wes Yu (Mount Holyoke College) Chair
• Sahar Amer (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) “Rethinking Modernity and Political Economy through Cross-Cultural Medieval Studies”
• Jane Degenhardt (University of Massachusetts Amherst) “Global Trade and Early English Empire: Inter-imperialism and the Pursuit of Gold on the Renaissance Stage”
• Valerie Forman (New York University) “Developing New Worlds”

C3: 12:45-2:15 [Campus Center 174-176]
Rehistoricizing World Economy: Empires, Environment, Ethnicity, and Capitalism
• Stephen Platt (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Chair
• Laura Doyle (University of Massachusetts Amherst) “Inter-imperial Economies and Geopolitical Agencies”
• Alan Mikhail (Yale University) “War and Charisma: Horses and Elephants in the Indian Ocean Economy”
• Sergey Glebov (Smith College and Amherst College) “Imperial Trades: Accommodation and Security in Political Economy of 17th Century Eurasian Empires”
• Greg White (Smith College) Discussant

D12: 2:30-4:00 [Campus Center 811-815]
Africa and its Diaspora: Marx and Method, Labor and Surplus
• Joye Bowman (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Chair
• Maghan Keita (Villanova University) “Marx And The People Without History: Rethinking Marxist Historiography”
• John E. Higginson (University of Massachusetts Amherst) “Revolutions Then and Now”
• Dale Tomich (Binghamton University) “Successive Approximations: The Anthropology of Sidney Mintz”
• Mwangi wa Gῖthῖnji (University of Massachusetts Amherst) “Economic and Cultural Identity: Ethnic Solidarity as Access to Surplus”