Please forward to interested parties ******************************************************************* The UF Marxist Reading Group would like to announce its second annual interdisciplinary conference:
THE FUTURE OF THOSE WHO MAKE IT: REVOLUTIONARY SPECULATIONS
March 30 -- April 1, 2000 at the University of Florida
Keynote Speakers will include Thomas Frank
Prospective panels include:
Utopian literatures Corporate Space Imagining "Japan" Ex(er)/(or)cising Heidegger Alternative Critique: Walter Benjamin and the ARCADES PROJECT Autobiography and the Politics of Identity (Post)Marxism/Politics/Deconstruction Marxism and the Political Economy of Globalization Corporate Cultural Production and Containment: The Infotainment Industry Social responsibility and Late Capitalism Secret Politics & Hidden Agendas: Esotericism in Literature and Philosophy Designer Subjectivities: Sciences of "Self" and Political Agency Labor Roundtable Materialist Feminisms Class Structure & the Labor Process History of Unions and the Labor Movement The WTO and Globalization WWW.Marx/ism Liberation Theology and Revolutionary Movements Greening Marx Public Art and Social Movements Queering Marx
Abstracts can be submitted via campus mail to the Marxist Reading Group mailbox, 4012 Turlington. Email submissions, questions, comments and critiques should be sent to: extinction at clas.ufl.edu. Further information can be found at http://web.english.ufl.edu/mrg/
The Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2000.