FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MAY 9 - 10, 2003
All events in Cowles Auditorium Hubert H. Humphrey Center / UMN 301 19th Avenue South / Minneapolis
Friday, May 9th
7:00pm: Keynote Address by Doug Henwood "Shareholder Democracy: One Dollar,One Vote"
Saturday, May 10th
10:00am-4:00pm: Conference at Cowles Auditorium: "After the 90's: A Conference on Finance and Fallout in the New Economy"
10:00-10:30am: coffee, bagels, etc.
10:30-11:00am: Karen Ho, (Department of Anthropology, UMN) "The Politics and Social Violence of Stock Market Values."
11:00-11:20am: John Karvel (Code for Corporate Responsibility) speaking on corporate law reform and shareholder value
11:20-11:55am: Randy Martin (Tisch School of the Arts, New York University) "When Finance Becomes You: Global Projections of an Uneven Experience."
11:55am-12:20pm: Q & A
12:20-12:30pm: short break
12:30-1:40pm: box lunches
1:40-2:15pm: Richard Walker (Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley) "The Boom and the Bombshell: The Financial Explosion's Impact on the San Francisco Bay Area, 1995-2005."
2:15-2:35pm: Barbara Kucera (Workday Minnesota) speaking on unions, pensions, and shareholder responsibility
2:35-2:55pm: Jordan Ash (ACORN) speaking on predatory lending
2:55-3:30pm: David Ranney (Center for Urban Economic Development, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) "Imposing the New World Order: The Role of Credit."
3:30-4:00pm: question and answer session with audience
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Finance, Capitalism, and Inequality Research Group, Humanities Institute, & Institute for Global Studies.