PROGRAM FOR
EMPIRE:
A RETROSPECTIVE
The Second Biannual Faculty and Graduate Students Colloquium
Organized by
The Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
Nov. 18-19 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Babcock Room, 40th floor, Cathedral of Learning
1:00-1:20 pm. Giuseppina Mecchia, Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh: Welcome and Introductory Remarks.
1:30-4:00 pm Empire and Historicity
Ken Surin, Duke University: “Empire: Ten Years After”.
Richard Jermain, University of Tampa : “The Dialectical Basis of Revolution”
Matt Gayetsky, University of Pittsburgh: “Partisans in Empire, or, Carl Schmitt as Revolutionary”
Chair and Respondent: Hermann Herlinghaus, University of Pittsburgh
4:00-4:30 pm: Coffee Break
4:30-7:00 pm Empire and Capital
Christian Marazzi, Università Italiana della Svizzera: “ Financial Entropy: The Struggle Within and Against Empire”
Stevphen Shukaitis, University of Essex/Autonomedia: “Beneath the Empire: History, Composition and Organization”
David Haeselin, Carnegie Mellon University: “The Emperors of Networks: Reclaiming Optimism for the Digital”
Chair and Respondent: Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh
Friday, November 19, 2010
5130 Posvar Hall
8:30-9:00 am: Continental Breakfast
9:00-11:30 am: Empire and Coloniality
Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University: “Beyond Empire’s Dialectics of (Colonial) Sovereignty: Speculative Anarchism and the Critique of Critique”
Juan Carlos Valencia, Macquarie University: “The Persistence of Coloniality in ‘Empire’”
Joshua Lund, University of Pittsburgh: “Misplaced Revolution: Internal colonialism and anti-primitivism in modern Mexico”.
Chair and Respondent, Roberto Ponce-Cordero , University of Pittsburgh
11:30-1:00 pm: Lunch break
1:00-3:30pm Empire and Opposition
Tim Murphy, University of Oklahoma: “Co-research, Collaboration, Commonwealth”
Carolina Gainza, University of Pittsburgh: “Processes of Appropriation of Technology
and Collective Practices in Literary Creation: Electronic Literature in Latin America”
Miriam Tola, Rutgers University : “Embodied Multitudes. Notes on Empire and Corporeal Feminism”.
Chair and Respondent, Lisa Brush, University of Pittsburgh
3:30-4:30 pm. Coffee break
121 David Lawrence Hall
4:30-6:30 pm, Keynote Address
Michael Hardt, Duke University
6:30-7:30 pm. Reception
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