UF Marxist Conference -- please forward

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:40:39 -0500
From: laura sullivan <sullivan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: university of florida
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Subject: UF Marxist Conference -- please forward

hi all,  (apologies for cross posting)

the marxist reading group here at the university of florida has
finalized the plans for our next conference.  last year's conference
was a smashing success -- thanks especially to barbara foley's
participation.  like the mlg, this conference features one session at
a time, as well as intimate interaction between faculty and graduate
students.  plus, fun parties with loads of good food.  i encourage
everyone who can make it to submit an abstract and come on down to
florida in march...  (the weather's quite good that time of year,
too...)

your help in getting the word out about our conference will be much
appreciated (just copy the text below into a new message window).

btw, rosemary hennessy's new book -- which our reading group has just
begun to study -- is wonderful.  _profit and pleasure_ -- check it
out, and if you can, come hear her in march -- we're thrilled to have
her as one of our keynote speakers this year.

thanks,
laura sullivan

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Please forward to interested parties
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The UF Marxist Reading Group would like to announce its third annual
interdisciplinary conference:

ALMOST ALWAYS DECEIVED: REVOLUTIONARY PRAXIS AND REINVENTIONS OF NEED

March 29 - 31, 2001 at the University of Florida

Keynote speakers: Rosemary Hennessy and Peter McLaren

The conference seeks papers that focus on how need and desire are
produced in a late capitalist society and on possible revolutionary
strategies that might help us understand those needs that capitalism
attempts to prevent us from seeing.  What do human beings need as
citizens, workers, and lovers?   How do cultural and historical
processes determine our needs and desires?  Does class and
geographical region influence our expression of those needs and
desires?  Can capitalism's apparent satisfaction of needs be
countered by a politics based in revolutionary needs?

Rosemary Hennessy is a significant voice in contemporary materialist
feminist theory.  Her book Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in
Late Capitalism (Routledge) argues for an analysis of sexual identity
rooted in a rigorous understanding of the structures of late
capitalism, labor and commodification.  Hennessy has also written
Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse, and co-edited
Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's
Lives with Chrys Ingraham.  Her work has appeared in numerous
journals including Cultural Critique, Rethinking Marxism, Genders,
and Mediations.  She is an associate professor in the English
department at the University of Albany, SUNY where she teaches
classes in feminist theory, Marxist theory, postmodern critical and
cultural theory, lesbian and gay studies and queer theory.

Peter McLaren is one of the most influential advocates of critical
pedagogy, bothnationally and internationally.  A major proponent of
the work of the late Paulo Freire, McLaren covers a wide range of
topics, from film criticism, to cultural studies, to the pedagogy of
Che Guevara.  His books include Critical Pedagogy and Predatory
Culture, Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution,
and Life in Schools.  McLaren is Professor of Urban Schooling:
Curriculum, Teaching, Leadership & Policy Studies at the University
of California, Los Angeles.  His current research interests include
post-colonial and postmodern theories applied to curriculum
development and instruction; critical social theory and cultural
studies in the development of approaches to urban school reform; the
development of pedagogical theory and practice based on critical
multiculturalism, critical ethnography, and critical literacy.

Prospective panels include (but are not limited to) the following:

Critical and revolutionary pedagogies: Freire & Guevara
Radical and materialist feminisms
The need for a Marxist political philosophy
Commodity culture, advertising, and desire
Popular/working culture and aesthetics
Disability studies
Red love and the family
Capitalism and sexual identities
New structures of feeling
The politics of desire and pleasure
Acceleration of needs:  the colonization of lifestyle
Species being and needs
Needing to leave: travel literature and tourism
Capitalism, theft, and intellectual property
Urban landscapes: cities of need
Utopian literatures and philosophies
The need for a revolutionary future
Charity, hunger, and activist cultures
Ethics of need and the welfare state
Class and wage labor in the new economy
Gender and modernity
Cinema
Do we need literature?
Liberation theology
Revolutionary theater

Non-traditional or performative panels will be considered.
The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2001.

One page abstracts, questions, and comments should be submitted to
the Marxist Reading Group at extinction@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  Further
conference information can be found at http://web.english.ufl.edu/mrg