HM/IRI 2024 PROVISIONAL PROGRAM SCHEDULE


1	Friday (Registration begins at ~9AM)
2	Panel Session 1 12:00PM-1:45PM
3	Municipal Socialism and Police Abolition: Policing and Social Justice Project (H 302) Alex S. Vitale, David Brotherton, Jawanza Williams Chair: Kristin Lawler	Honoring Aronowitz: Live Theory: The Aronowitz Reader (LLC 116) Peter Bratsis, Kristin Lawler, Bruno Gulli, Michael Pelias	Climate Justice, Ecosocialism and Public Power (H 301) Michael Menser, Rebecca Lurie Moderator: Margaret Cuonzo
4	Ecological Destruction as Class War I: Refugees, Migration, Dispossession (LLC 122) Healing Haunting Matters: Material, eco-geopolitical wounding and extractions of afterlives and colonialism across the Atlantic Kim Darbouze Guatemalan farmworkers in the Ontario greenhouse-migrant labour complex, a Northern agro-extractive frontier Chris Little Sanctions Against Venezuela: How Economic Warfare Exacerbates the Bolivarian Revolution’s Oil Dependency Erica Jung	Marxism and the Capitalist State: Towards a New Debate (H 503) Rafael Khachaturian, Stephen Maher, Chris O'Kane Chair: Mike Tedesco	Critical Studies on Terrorism (H 502) Use of the criminal typology of terrorism in the Spanish state: Lawfare and politicization of justice Carme Vivancos-Sánchez Do Terrorists Make Markets? Daniel Shinbaum Marx and Terrorism John Gould	Black Men and Electoral Politics: Quo Vadis (H 501) Nicholas Powers, Anamaría Flores, Noble Bratton
5	Lunch 1:45PM-2:30PM
6	Panel Session 2 2:30PM – 4:15PM
7	Libidinal Displacement and Violence: Art and Everyday Disruption in War and Class War (H 503) Blake Stimson, Todd Cronan, Elise Archias, Leili Adibfar	Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries (LLC 116) Immanuel Ness, Paul Reynolds,	Orientalism, Feminism, Racism, Imperialism I (LLC 124) Lala Rukh’s Global Political and Artistic Practice: Military Dictatorship at the End of the Cold War, 1982-1987 Kristin Plys Armenians in the Ottoman Empire Provinces and the Role of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s Socialism Orhun Yalcin The Dialectics of Social Change and Global Capitalist Order: Evidence from the ‘Arab Spring’ Govand Khalid Azeez	African Anti-Imperialist Movements (H 502) Joseph Mullen, John Philpot, Hamadou Ibrahim, Gordon R. Barnes, Jr.
8	The American Left in the 1930s and the Contribution of Greek & Cypriot Americans in the Spanish Civil War (H 302) Nicholas Alexiou, Evmorfia Argyropoulou Discussant: Panagiotis Sotiris	Marxist Theories of Race and Class (H 501) Rethinking the Concept of Antisemitism in the Dialectic of Enlightenment within a Marxist Approach to Racism Charlie Ebert Between Determinism and Mediation Dave Beech Post-Industrial Inequality: Class, Race, Sex, and Extreme Income Thomas A. Hirschl Chair: Paul Reynolds	Marxism: The Antinomies of the Pro-War Left (H 301) American Empire and the Pro-War Left Arun Gupta War! What is it good for? Viesturs Adler There is No Paradox in a Pro-War Left—It is a Question of Politics Dan La Botz Chair: Peter Bratsis	Imperialism and Ecological Unequal Exchange (LLC 122) Pedro Freire, Paul Bartlett, Mariko Frame, Alejandro Pedregal, Nemanja Lukić, Christopher Chase-Dunn
9	Panel Session 3 4:45PM-6:30PM
10	Marxism, Bodies, Pleasures (H 301) Tony Iantosca, Paul Reynolds Chair: Kristin Lawler	Ecosocialism or Ecofascism? Contemporary Responses to One of the Late Capitalist Era's Defining Conundrums (H 502) Sonia Irvine, Chelsea Watson, Amy Breedlove, Sheelan Qader, Maya Ethridge Discusssant: Pratik Raghu	Identity, Imperialism, Subjectivities (H 302) Ideology, Imperialism and the Mass Self: A new old story Josh R. Klein The End of the Myth of America and the Liberation of Humanity Mark Wood And What is the Reason? I am a Jew Udi Aloni	Expanding NATO: Failed War in Ukraine & NATO 75th Anniversary in DC (LLC 122) Joe Lombardo, Dee Knight, Dan Kovalik, John Catalinotto
11	Class Politics in the Face of Reaction (H 503) Extraordinary Governance Measures as Authoritarian Class Politics Attila Antal "Culture War" as Moral Panic/Moral Panic as Weapon of Class Domination: a critique of contemporary "red-brown alliance" politics Tom Buechele Conspiracy in the Age of Respiratory Distress AK Thompson	The Need for a Genuine Revolutionary Party of the Working Class (H 501) George Gruenthal, Nellie Bailey,	Book Discussion: Communist Ontologies: Thinking In and Against Our Times (LLC 116) Bruno Gulli, Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Michael Pelias
12	Opening Plenary 7:15PM– 9:00PM Is There A Left in the United States? (LLC 124)
13	Speakers: Richard D. Wolff, Malaika Jabali, Jared Ball, Brian Becker
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15	Saturday (Registration begins at ~9AM)
16	Panel Session 4 9:30AM-11:15AM
17	The Intimate Marriage of The Nuclear Family and Capitalism (LLC 124) Harriet Fraad, Tess Fraad Wolff, Shane Knight	Radical Reading, Radical Writing (H 302) Rules for the Creation of Have-Not Genre Fiction Jim Feast Cosmic imagery and the violence of war in the works of Blanqui, Benjamin, and Serge Matt Finck Knowing Novecento: An analysis of Bertolucci’s 1976 film as narrative and as product Daniel West	Dispossession and Struggle (H 301) Collective Liminal Action by the Worn Outs: Symbiotic Assembly at Tapgol Park Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Eugene Lim Accumulation by Dispossession: The case of herders and farmers conflicts in Middle-belt, Nigeria Afolabi Aribigbola The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution: Religious and Liberal Approaches in Bangladesh's Context Muhammad Ala Uddin
18	Labor, Struggle, and Modes of Resistance (H 503) Cultivating Effective Resistance to Energy Colonialism: Radical Imagination, Revolutionary Optimism, and Mass Organization in Puerto Rican Struggles Against Privatization Danilo Andres Rios Jiménez The Iron law of Oligarchy and Teacher Union Revitalization in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles 1960-2023 Hakan Yilmaz Slow Readings: A Critical Media Syllabus for the Radical Mind Kyubin Kim	War at Home (H 502) The Marxist Left and ‘Critical Military Support’ Daniel Egan Can the US Seize the Strategic Initiative? Steven Miller Discussant: Mark Wood	Warmonger: How Clinton's Malign Foreign Policy Launched the US Trajectory from Bush II to Biden (H 501) Jeremy Kuzmarov, Dan Kovalik, Tony Gronowicz	Latin America: Confronting U.S. Regime Change (LLC 116) Nicauragan Charges d'Affaires- Ambassador Lautaro Sandino William Camacaro William Sazalar, Mairead Gillis,
19	Panel Session 5 11:45AM – 1:30PM
20	Orientalism, Feminism, Racism, Imperialism II - Carceral Capitalism (H 501) Policing the Black Unruly: Caribbean (dis)ordering and Reverberations from Bwa Kayiman, Morant Bay, and Grenada Morgan DaCosta Penal Colonies and Political Exiles in the Chilean Sea of Islands Nathan Carlos Norris The Feminist Porn Wars and the Carceral State Aurora Laybourn-Candlish	Building an Authentic Global Labor Movement (HS 121) Noah Latkin, Frank Goldsmith, Ángel Martinez, Abdel Garcia, Immanuel Ness	Marxism and Law (H 503) Making the Ties that Bind: NAFTA, Legal Form and the Production of Logistics Space Gabriel Meier Jurisdiction in the Web of Life: International Law and Natural Law as Abstract Social Nature Javier Ezcurdia Internationalism and International Law in Times of Hegemonic Crisis Tyler Crown
21	Opportunities for International Solidarity in a Multipolar World: Latin American Perspectives (H 502) The Anti-Marxist Myth of Multipolarity: The fight for national liberation and workers’ revolution in Latin America Jacob A. Zumoff Class War and the Periphery. José Carlos Mariátegui’s Legacy for the 21st Century Eleonora Roldan Mendivil Marighella’s Lesson: Safatle’s Critique of the Politics of Conciliation on the Left in Brazil Marcelo Hoffman	Race, Class and Sport (H 302) Matt Glover, Lawrence Johnson, Noble Bratton	Populism and the Far Right in the U.S. (H 301) Dominic Wetzel, Alexander Scott, Adam Goebler, Nicodemus Nicoludis	The Politics of Covid-19 / COVID-19 is Not Over (LLC 124) Victor Wallis, Mitchel Cohen, Martha Herbert Pete Dolack, Alexis Baden-Mayer, Garrett Martinez, Jessica Coco Philena Farley
22	Kumble Theater: Book Talk: "Story of a Communist: A Memoir" By Antonio Negri (Forthcoming) Peter Bratsis, Matteo Polleri, Andrew Anastasi, Robyn Marasco
23	Lunch 1:45PM-2:30PM
24	Panel Session 6 2:30PM-4:15PM
25	Race and Colonialism: Primitive Accumulation, Value Production and the Sociogeny of Race (LLC 124) A Value-Theory of Labor Subjectivities: Theorizing Capital’s Production and Exploitation of Racial Difference Davide Ventrone Capitalism, Settler-Colonialism and the Articulation of Capitalist and Non-capitalist Modes of Production Wayne Wapeemukwa The Political Economy of Sociogeny: Bringing Fanon into Dialogue with Marx’s Theory of Value Peter Hudis	On a Jew and the Non European (LLC 116) Udi Aloni, Tamer Nafar, Khaled Barghouti	Palestine: History, Geography, Solidarity (H 501) Palestine, the Sixties, and Universality Cam West U.S. to Palestine – the Rising Global Working Class Movement Walda Katz-Fishman Abolition Geography and the Question of Palestine Brendan O’Connor	The Class Imperative Underlying Criminal U.S. Covert Operations Around the World (H 503) Jeremy Kuzmarov, John Kiriakou, Chris Agee, Kit Klarenberg Louis Wolf
26	Lenin’s Legacy For Socialist Organizing Today (H 301) Jackie DiSalvo, Brian Becker, Doug Ferrari, Timour Kamran	Marxism and Radical Theory (H 302) Class Struggle in the Late Althusser Thomas Carmichael Dictatorship of the Proletariat and/as Islet of Communism: Althusser and the politics of the encounter Panagiotis Sotiris So-called “Anti-Anti-Zionism” and the Critique of Value Jake Orbison Chair Paul Reynolds	Marxist Theory: Karl Marx had Today's Left's Number in his Critique of the Gotha Program (H 502) Campism is Killing International Solidarity Gabriel Donnally Marx’s Lower Phase of Communism in the Critique of the Gotha Program Francisco Palacios Is Capitalism Exploitative?: Why G.A. Cohen’s “Plain Argument” Fails (while Marx’s Theory Succeeds) Andrew Kliman The Continuing Significance of the 1943 Soviet Revision of the Law of Value Theresa Henry	The Dialectic at Work (HS 121) Richard D. Wolff, Shahram Azhar
27	Kumble Theater: Book Talk: The Fall and Rise of American Finance Sponsored by the Socialist Register Steve Maher, Samir Sonti, Anna Pick, Greg Albo Chair: Steve Maher
28	Panel Session 7 – 4:45PM-6:30PM
29	What is Holding Back a Mass Movement Against the Imminent Danger of Trumpist Fascism? (H 502) The Destruction of the Judiciary and End of Democracy in the US has Already Happened Anne Jaclard Two World Camps or Two Worlds in Each Country? Theresa Henry “After Navalny, Our Turn”: Why “the Left” Totally Misjudged the MAGA Base Andrew Kliman Threats to American Liberal Democracy: Resisting Trumpist Reaction in 2024 Gabriel Donnelly	Book Launch: Socialist Register 2024: A New Global Geometry? (HS 121) A New Global Geometry? Greg Albo and Steve Maher The US and China’s Digital Tech War: A New Rivalry Within and Beyond the US Empire? Tanner Mirrlees US Capitalism: Too Big to Fail, Too Weak to Lead Ingo Schmidt Chair: Greg Albo	Labor for Palestine (H 503) Michael Letwin, Sultana Hossain, Adithya Gungi, Sophia Gurulé Chair Kristin Lawler
30	Wars and Capital (H 501) War as Distractive Capital: Reclaiming the Political Horizon in the Ideological Mist of Conflict Pierre Parouffe, Maja Kantar The permanent arms economy redux: Capitalist crises and the weight of war spending Hanna Goldberg Global Capitalism Theory in the Age of Militarized Accumulation and Geopolitical Rivalries: A Critical Overview M. Gürsan Şenalp	Ecological destruction as Class War I (H 302) Ecological Destruction as Class War in the Amazon Rainforest Eneida Jacobsen A Historical Materialist Consideration of Opioid Epidemics David C. Perlman & Ashly E Jordan Extending a Historical Materialist Theory of Epidemics David C. Perlman & Ashly E Jordan Anthropocene - a Neoliberal Counterrevolution Marija Radovanovic,	Recent Black Films, Black Writers, and Hollywood (H 301) Jared A. Ball, Mtume Gant, Noble Bratton,	Marxism: No Politics But Class Politics – A Book Discussion (LLC 116) Walter Benn Michaels, Adolph Reed Jr., Cody Campbell, Nick Reynolds Chair: Alex Stavrakas
31	Kumble Theater: Projects of Capital: Inflation and Austerity A dialgoue with Clara Mattei and Rick Wolff Chair: Michael Pelias
32	Plenary Session 3 (7:00PM-8:45PM) Palestine: Between Class War and Colonial Uprising
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34	Speakers: Andreas Malm, Siraj Ahmed, Helga Tawil-Souri
35	Sunday (Registration begins at ~9AM)
36	Session 8 – 10:00AM-11:45AM
37	Haiti: Intervention or Revolution (H 501) Kim Ives, Berthony Dupont, Jocelyne Gay, Mary Paule Floristal, Pierre Gedeon	Labor's Forgotten Fights: Struggles Over and Against Work Time (LLC 124) Nickel and Timed: Union Struggles Over the Hours of Work Jamie McCallum, Wilson Sherwin, Margaret Lee Chair: Kristin Lawler	Power and Productive Force (H 502) Marx's Model of the Social-Historical Universe Jonathan Ned Katz The Fetishism of Power: A Response to Søren Mau’s Theory of Capitalist Power Allan M. Hillani Service Labor and Post-Capitalist Transition: Evidence for Productive Forces? Peter Ikeler	Book Launch: Last Western Empire: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy (H 302) Anthony Gronowicz Discussant: Jeremy Kuzmarov
38	Moving the Money for Human Needs (H 503) Bill Meyer Tom Gogan Henry Lowendorf Bahman Azad Tara Currie	Lenin and Class Struggle (H 301) Lenin’s Legacy 100 Years Later: Dialectics of Revolution and National Liberation Lyndon Requena Class War and Wars of National Liberation: Views on National Self-Determination of Lenin, of Trotsky, and of the Classical Anarchists, Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Malatesta Wayne Price Class Struggle, Revolutions and the Making of the World Order Lorenzo Fusaro,	Global National Democracy: Philippine Resistance to U.S. Militarism & Counterinsurgency (LLC 116) Bernadette Ellorin Sarah Raymundo Patrick Nevada Discussant: Immanuel Ness	Dependency Theory Revisited (LLC 122) Pedro Freire, Yasin Al-Amin, Hilary Goodfriend, Sherley Cordova Chair: Alexander Scott
39	Session 9 – 12:15PM-2:00PM
40	Marxism and Strategy (H 501) The strategic question revisited: thoughts on defeat, rupture and the (im)possibility of left governments Panagiotis Sotiris Between the strategic limitations to reform parties and the strategic problems of transformative parties: An Exercise in Critical Thought Paul Reynolds The Problematics of Independence: Radicalism and the Jamaican Left 1962-1991. Gordon R. Barnes	Age of Extremes at Thirty: War, Revolution, Art (H 502) The Method of Materialism: Culture in Hobsbawm’s History Giacomo Bianchino No End in Sight: The End of History in Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes Souli Boutis Looking For A People: Hobsbawm and the Avant-Garde Yagiz Ay Chair: Alexander Soria-Terkin	Roundtable: Literature and Revolution in Our Time (LLC 124) Barbara Foley, Samirah Rhodes, Drew Stahl-David, Jason Frydman, Commentator: Margaret Stevens	Syria: Western Imperialism and Resilience (H 302) Dan Kovalic, Judy Bello, Linda Matar, Ali Kadri Johnny Achi
41	The Mediterranean Refugee Crisis: A Screening of the Documentary 142 Hours and Q&A with the Director (LLC 116) Director: Stelios Kouloglou Chair: Alex Stavrakas	Lessons from Radical Labor History (H 503) Peace Work with a Union Label Steve Thornton Prospects for Southern Labor Organizing in Historical Context Mike Goldfield Communist Party Labor History and Organizing at Amazon Justine Medina Chair: Kristin Lawler	Unequal Exchange: Capitalism and Global Economic Inequality (LLC 122) Torkil Lauesen, Nemanja Lukić, Immanuel Ness, Joseph Mullen Yasin Al-Amin	Bronx Anti War-Strategies for Combining Anti-Imperialism and Community Organizing (H 301) Richie Merino Anamaría Flores Brandy Gonzalez
42	Lunch 2:00PM-2:45PM
43	Session 10 2:45PM-4:30PM
44	History, Time, Politics (H 501) The Year 1914 and the Chronometer of War Hannah Gadbois The American Civil War as Communist Revolution Timour Kamran Neo-Feudalism and/at the End of History Benjamin E. Curtis	Labor, the General Intellect, and the Automation of War (H 502) Autonomy and Autopsy: “Feature Visualization“ as a Tactic of Cyberwarfare Ahwar Sultan Israeli Artificial Intelligence through Palestinian Labor Francisco Ramos Reading Ro'im Rachok: Instrumentalized Neurodiversity in the IDF Daniel West Artificial Intelligence & Class Struggle Hagen Blix Chair: Alexander Soria-Terkin	Literature, Method, Revolution (LLC 124) C.L.R. James's Unpublished Shakespeare's Manuscript Jeremy Matthew Glick Coup de Haiku: Amiri Baraka and Poetic Movement as poetic praxis Julia T. Bannon On Vocal Formalism and Military Intelligence in Carlos Bulosan’s Novel The Cry and the Dedication (On Hukbalahap 1942 Filipino Marxist Insurgency) Lilian Quijano Johnson Ante-Possession: Critiquing Dispossession without Possession David Kazanjian	Yugoslavia: 25 years of NATO War & Expansion (H 302) Barry Lituchy John Catalinotto Immanuel Ness
45	The Strange Marriage of Psychedelics and the Left (H 301) Dr. Nicholas Powers Colin Pugh Pammy Castro	Social Reproduction (H 503) Social Reproduction Theory and Disability Aaron Jaffe From Production to Social Reproduction and Back Again: Rehearsing an Argument Paul Reynolds	Free the Land: A Roundtable on Land and Anticolonial Struggles for a Just Climate (LLC 122) Kazembe Balagun, Ashley Dawson, Audrea Lim, Discussant: Malav Kanuga
46	Closing Plenary 5:15PM-7:00PM Palestine Solidarity in the Academy: Repression and Resistance
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