Karl Marx's Capital, Vol. 1

February 24-26, 2011

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Conference Program Flier

Conference Schedule

Thursday, February 24th BLTN 105	3:00-3:30	Welcome: Amy Wendling, Creighton University Daniel Conway and Lisa Ellis, Texas A&M University
	3:30-5:30	Nicole Pepperell, RMIT University – “The Higher Realms of Nonsense: Unpacking Capital’s ‘Greatest Difficulty’” Patrick Murray, Creighton University – “Reflections on Backhaus and Marx’s Value-Form Theory”
	6:30	Dinner at Atami Steak and Sushi
Friday, February 25th 9:00-12:00: BLTN 213 2:00-6:00: BLTN 105	9:00-12:00	Sarah Vitale, Villanova University – “Thinking Through Commodities: Material Ideology in Marx’s Capital” Devin Zane Shaw, University of Ottawa – "Equality and Differentiating Totality: Reading Marx after Rancière" Alex Anderson, McGill University – “On Teleological Explanation in Capital, Volume I”
	12:00-2:00	Lunch [12:30-1:30: “On Not Taking Arendt’s Account of Forgiveness à la vanille,” Karen Pagani, University of Texas at Austin, in 311 Glasscock Bldg.]
	2:00-4:00	Adam Moeller, Emory University – “Social Attraction and Repulsion: Two Logics of Civil Society and State” Christopher Ruth, Villanova University – “Materialist Dialectic and the Individual: Alienation in Capital”
	4:30-5:30	Ariane Fischer, Temple University – “Half the Marx We Used to Have: The New German Value Critique and the Commodity Fetish”
	6:00-7:00	Reception at the University Club
	7:30	Dinner at Abuelo's
Saturday, February 26th BLTN 105	9:30-11:30	Jessica Soester, Southern Illinois University – "Freedom and Capital: The Concept of 'Freedom' in Marx's Analyses of Political Economy" Douglas Hanes, McGill University – “Critique between Science and Rhetoric: Suffering in Marx’s Capital”
	11:30-1:00	Lunch
	1:00-3:00	Rafael Mota, SUNY Binghamton – "Biological and Cultural Effects of the Accumulation of Capital on Disparate Laboring Populations" Jamie Kelly, Vassar College – “Immigration and Illegality: Marx on Law and Egalitarianism”
	3:30-5:30	Keynote Address: Harry Cleaver, University of Texas at Austin – "What is a New Reading of Capital?"
	6:00	Dinner at Los Molcajetes

Campus map, Close-up, for Bolton Hall (BLTN)

List of Participants

Keynote:
Harry Cleaver, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin

Roundtable Presenters:
Alex Anderson, Ph. D. candidate in Philosophy, McGill University
Arianne Fischer, Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
Douglas Hanes, Ph. D. candidate in Political Science, McGill University
Jamie Kelly, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Vassar College
Adam Moeller, Ph. D. candidate in Philosophy, Emory University
Rafael Mota, Ph. D. candidate in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture, SUNY Binghamton
Patrick Murray, Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University
Nicole Pepperell, Program Director in Social Studies, RMIT University
Christopher Ruth, Ph. D. candidate in Philosophy, Villanova University
Devin Zane Shaw, Part-Time Professor of Philosophy, University of Ottawa
Jessica Soester, Ph. D. candidate in Philosophy, Southern Illinois University
Sarah Vitale, Ph. D. candidate in Philosophy, Villanova University

Discussants:
William Lewis, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Skidmore College
Jason Read, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine
William Clare Roberts, Faculty Lecturer in Philosophy and Political Science, McGill University
Hasana Sharp, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, McGill University
Amy Wendling, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University
Cory Wimberly, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas–Pan American

Preferred Texts

The preferred translation of Capital for the SSPP Roundtable is by Fowkes (Penguin, 1976), but the older version (Moore & Aveling, trans.) is more widely available, including online, and might be used without apology by attendees. The German text (from the Marx Engels Werke, vol. 23) is available on-line at: http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me23/me23_000.htm. Harry Cleaver's book, Reading Capital Politically, may be found at: http://libcom.org/library/reading-capital-politically-cleaver

Lodging

A block of rooms is reserved at the College Station Hilton Inn & Conference Center. Double or single rooms are available from Wednesday, February 23, 2011, through Friday, February 25, 2011, for a rate of $112 per room, per night. Reservations may be made at 1-800-445-8667 or at www.hiltoncs.com using the reservation code SSP.

The cutoff date for reserving rooms in this block is 5:00pm on February 2, 2011.

The check in time is 4:00pm and the check out time is 12:00pm.Complimentary on-site parking is available for overnight guests. Hotel shuttle service to and from the Texas A&M University campus will be provided.

Information regarding lodging alternatives can be found at the Bryan-College Station Convention and Visitors Bureau web site.

Parking

Parking available in the Northside Parking Garage

Exit the garage on Ashbury Street heading South; cross over Ross Street. Bolton Hall is located directly behind Heaton Hall.

Transportation

Area Airports

College Station Easterwood Airport is served by American Eagle (from Dallas) and Continental (from Houston IAH)

Shuttle service from Houston Bush (IAH) and Hobby airports is provided by Groundshuttle.com, which can be reached at: http://www.groundshuttle.com/

General Information about College Station

Bryan-College Station Convention & Visitors Bureau

Taxi Services

Rental Cars

College Station's Easterwood Airport rental car information.

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport rental car information.

Houston - Hobby Airport rental car information.

Houston - George Bush Intercontinental Airport rental car information.

This Roundtable is made possible through the generous support of the Department of Philosophy, the Interdisciplinary Program in Social, Cultural, and Political Theory, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, and the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.