THE SPIRIT OF CAPITAL: A GRADUATE CONFERENCE ON MARX AND HEGEL
UPDATE 3rd APRIL 2011
April 28 – 29 2011
At the New School for Social Research
New York City
6 E 16th Street, Room 1103
The Spirit of Capital – with Moishe Postone: http://spiritofcapital.com/
Conference Flyer: http://spiritofcapital.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/flyer1.pdf
PROGRAMME
Thursday, April 28th:
10.00am – 11.15am: Capital or Spirit
Brad Tabas (American University of Paris)
Respondent: Aaron Jaffe (New School)
Moderator: Todd May
11.30am-12.45am: Measure, Mediation & Method
Frank Enster (Freie University, Berlin)
Respondent: Matt Congdon (New School)
Moderator: Dimitri Nikulin
2.00pm-3.15pm: Class Interests, Ethics & Law of the Heart
Jen Hammond (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Respondent: Mariane Lenabat (New School)
Moderator: Alice Crary
3.30pm-4.45pm: Hegel, Marx & the Question of Theft
Kieran Aarons (DePaul)
Respondent: Jacob Blumenfeld (New School)
Moderator: Chiara Bottici
KEYNOTE 6.00-8.00pm
The Power of Negative Thinking
Paul Mattick (Adelphi)
Moderator: Jacob Blumenfeld
Friday April 29th:
10.00am-11.15am: Real Abstractions of Capitalism
Demet Evrenosoglu (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Respondent: Emilie Connoly (John Hopkins)
Moderator: Ross Poole
11.30am-1.00pm: The Time of Capital & The Messianicity of Time
Sami Khatib (Freie University, Berlin)
Respondent: Massimiliano Tomba (University De Padova)
Moderator : Cinzia Arruzza
2.00pm-3.15pm : Western Marxism (Panel)
1) Empiricism & Idealism in Karl Korsch’s Reading of Hegelian Dialectic
Giorgio Cesarale (Sapienza, Italy)
2) From “Commodity Fetishism” to “Teleological Positing”
Pu Wang (NYU)
Moderator: Richard Bernstein
3.30pm-5.00pm: Aesthetics & Politics (Panel)
1) The Comedy of Religion
Rachel Aumiller (Villanova)
2) On Contradiction & Political Optimism
Ryan Culpepper (University of Toronto)
KEYNOTE 6.00-8.00pm
Capital: Marx’s Mature Critique of Hegel
Moishe Postone (University of Chicago)
Moderator: Jay Bernstein
Full Conference Schedule: http://spiritofcapital.com/schedule/
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