Thursday, April 8, 2010 | University Center
6:00 PM Welcome
George Blumenthal, Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz
Stephen Bruce, Bruce Trust
6:30 PM Derivatives and the Capitalist Crisis: What’s New?
Robert Brenner, History, UC Los Angeles
Randy Martin, Art and Public Policy, New York University
Prabhat Patnaik, Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Discussant: Dick Bryan, Political Economy, University of Sydney
Discussant: Robert Meister, Social Sciences & Political Thought, UC Santa Cruz
9:00 PM Reception
Friday, April 9, 2010 | Colleges 9/10 Multi-Purpose Room
8:00 AM Registration & Light Breakfast
9:00 AM Welcome: Georges Van Den Abbeele, Dean of Humanities, UC Santa Cruz
9:15 AM Financialization and Political Theory: Economies as affective and material worlds
Philip Goodchild, Religion and Philosophy, University of Nottingham
Bill Maurer, Anthropology, UC Irvine
Robert Meister, Social and Political Thought, UC Santa Cruz
Discussant: Randy Martin, Art and Public Policy, New York University
Discussant: Tyrus Miller, Literature/Graduate Studies, UC Santa Cruz
11:30 AM Lunch
1:00 PM The Politics and Economics of Global Financialization
Panel 1: Neo-Liberalism and Governmentality
Andrew Barry, Geography, University of Oxford
Julia Elyachar, Anthropology, UC Irvine
Michael MacDonald, Political Science, Williams College
Darel Paul, Political Science, Williams College
Discussant: Wendy Brown, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Lisa Rofel, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM Panel 2: Ethics, Valuation and Accountability
Dick Bryan, Political Economy, University of Sydney
Prabhat Patnaik, Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Shyam Sunder, Accounting, Economics and Finance, Yale University
Discussant: Daniel Friedman, Economics, UC Santa Cruz
Discussant: Andrew Barry, Geography, University of Oxford
Discussant: Andrew Mathews, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
Saturday, April 10, 2010 | University Center
8:00 AM Light Breakfast
9:00 AM Welcome: Sheldon Kamieniecki, Dean of Social Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
9:15 AM Roundtable 1: Rethinking Capitalism by Rethinking Marxism
Robert Brenner, History, UC Los Angeles
Gopal Balakrishnan, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Dick Bryan, Political Economy, University of Sydney
Dai Jinhua, Comparative Literature and Culture, Beijing University
Michael MacDonald, Political Science, Williams College
Randy Martin, Art and Public Policy, New York University
Robert Meister, Sciences & Political Thought, UC Santa Cruz
Tyrus Miller, Literature/Graduate Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Richard Walker, Geography, UC Berkeley
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Roundtable 2: Financialization as Culture, Technology and Ritual
Andrew Barry, Geography, University of Oxford
Julia Elyachar, Anthropology, UC Irvine
Daniel Friedman, Economics, UC Santa Cruz
Philip Goodchild, Religion and Philosophy, University of Nottingham
Andrew Mathews, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
Bill Maurer, Anthropology, UC Irvine
Darel Paul, Political Science, Williams College
Lisa Rofel, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
Shyam Sunder, Accounting, Economics and Finance, Yale University
3:15 PM Closing Remarks