May 2, 2024 | 9:00AM
Classics Building, room 110
The Future of Capitalism—Neo-Feudalism?
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May 2, 2024
Classics 110
Conference Schedule:
Welcome and Coffee (8:30-9:00 AM)
Introduction (9:00-9:20 AM)
1. Environment, Governance, Temporality (9:20-10:50 AM)
- Hannah Gadbois (UIC): “Going Nowhere at Top Speed: Feudal and Capitalist Temporalities”
- Paul Forrester (Yale): “ESG and Asset Manager Capitalism”
- Ashima Mittal (UC): “Atmospheric Imperialism and the Reification of Nature”
2. Land, Rent, Financialization (11:00-12:30 PM)
- Jack Votava (Northwestern), “In Praise of Debt? Expectational Power and the Causes of Financial Crisis in Argentina”
- James Tierney (Kent): “Financialized Farmland”
- Adrián de León Arias (Guadalajara): “Tracking some Features of Neo-Feudalism in Thorstein Veblen’s Analytical Contributions”
12:30-1:30PM: Lunch break
3. Humanities Panel (1:30-3:20 PM)
- Adam Rensch (BGSU): “Monopoly University: On the Present and Future of Higher Education”
- Filippo Petricca (Indiana): TBA
- Catherine Liu (UCI): “Diversity and Decadence in the Court of Finance Capital"
4. Political Economy Panel (3:30-4:50 PM)
- Radhika Desai (Manitoba): TBA
- Michael Hudson (UMKC): “Is the West Regressing into Neofeudalism?”
5. Keynote (5:00-7:00 PM)
- Brett Christophers (Uppsala): TBA