Worlds in Contention: Race, Neoliberalism, and Injustice
Organized by Benjamin McKean and Inés Valdez (Political Science)
Generously sponsored by the Area Studies Centers
May 7-8, 2021
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Tentative Schedule (subject to revision)
Friday, May 7
10am-12pm - Panel 1: Ethnicity, States, and Federations
· Amy Offner, “Claiming Resources, Claiming Concepts: Ethnic Formation and State Formation in Colombia’s Cauca Valley”
· Hilary Appel, “The Long Reach of the EU: Neoliberalism, Minority Rights, and Norm Promotion in Eastern Europe’s Accession Process”
12:30pm-2:30pm - Panel 2: Legal Subjection and Racial Capitalism
· Inés Valdez, “The Brown Family and Social Reproduction in U.S. Capitalism”
· Megan Ming Francis, “The Crimes of Freedom”
3-5pm - Panel 3: Communities, Peoples, and Refusal
· Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez, “Refusing the Violence of Resource Extraction in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec”
· Mary N. Taylor, “Of the people, peoples and solidarity. Is the nation necessary?”
Saturday, May 8
10am-12pm - Panel 1: Apocalypse, Disaster, and Capitalism
· Quinn Slobodian, “Apocalypse Economics: Moneydeath and Racial Purity on the Far Right”
· Hyun Ok Park, “The Desire for the Real: Disaster, Capitalism, and Fascism”
12:30pm-2:30pm - Panel 2: Violence at the Frontiers of Nature and the Domestic
· Thea Riofrancos, “The Endless Frontier: Green Technologies, Geopolitics, and Planetary Extraction”
· Jennifer Suchland, “Domesticating Trafficking and Relations of Domestic/Violence”
3pm-5pm - Panel 3: Food, Logistics, and the Visibility of Neoliberalism
· Charmaine Chua, “The Logistics Counter-revolution: Decolonial Struggle along the Transpacific Supply Chain.”
· Alyshia Gálvez “COVID Clarifies: How the pandemic revealed the neoliberal logic underlying our transnational food and health systems
