2009 Conference
Marcuse and the Frankfurt School for a New Generation
October 29-31, 2009
THIRD BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL HERBERT MARCUSE SOCIETY
York University, Toronto, ONTARIO, CANADA
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Morning Program
9:00am-9:15am Arnold L. Farr, University of Kentucky
Opening Remarks
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9:15am– 10:00am Anthony Giambusso, Southern Illinois University
11:00am–11:45am Saby Ghoshray, Independent Scholar
“Using Marcusean Framework to Understand Symmetry, One-Dimensionality, and Aggressiveness in Contemporary Society”
Afternoon Program
1:15pm– 2:00pm Mark Cobb, Bucks County Community College
“Theoretical Transmission and Creative Defiance: Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, and Intergenerational Politics”
2:00pm-2:45pm Andrew T. Lamas, University of Pennsylvania
"Counter-Cultural / Counter-Capital: Marcuse's Medusa and Possibilities for a Radical Praxis of Art and Alternative Economy"
3:00pm-3:45pm Maria Shuvalova, Tver State University [Russia]
3:45pm-4:30pm Robespierre de Oliveiria, Universidade Estadual de Maringá [Brasil]
“Marcuse and the Tip of the Iceberg”
4:30pm-5:00pm Meeting of Conference Participants International Herbert Marcuse Society
Evening Program
5:15pm-6:30pm Peter-Erwin Jansen, Frankfurt [Germany] Keynote Address:
Friday, October 30, 2009
Morning Program
9:00am– 9:45am Silvio Carneiro, Centro Universitário São Camilo [Brasil]
9:45am-10:30am Morgan Shipley, Michigan State University
“Embracing Eros: Herbert Marcuse and the 1960s Counterculture”
10:45am–11:30am John Abromeit, SUNY Buffalo State
“Left Heideggerianism or Phenomenological Marxism? Rediscovering Herbert Marcuse’s Critical Theory of Technology”
11:30am-12:15pm Russell Rockwell, Independent Scholar
Afternoon Program
1:30pm-2:15pm Isis Leslie, Texas Tech University
“Marcuse, Sexual Violence and Freedom” [Cancellation / paper not presented]
2:15pm-3:00pm Vanessa Walilko, Independent Scholar
“Beyond “Feminisms”: Refocusing the Women’s Movement through the Lens of Liberation”
3:00pm-3:45pm Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot, University of Pennsylvania
“Multiplicity: A Queer-Marxist Theory of the Body” [Cancellation / paper not presented]
4:00pm-4:45pm Joan Braune, University of Kentucky
"Hope and Catastrophe: Erich Fromm’s Prophetic Messianism and Herbert Marcuse’s Rupture and Refusal”
4:45pm-5:30pm Nick Braune, South Texas College
“Erich Fromm’s Organizing and the Revolutionary Character”
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Morning Program
9:00am–9:45am James McMahon, York University
“Marcuse on the Importance of Concepts”
9:45am-10:30am George Gondo
“Away form One-Dimensional Sociology: Marcuse, Sociology, and Social Justice”
10:30am-11:15am Lauren Langman, Loyola University Chicago
“Marcuse, Mobilization, and Global Justice”
11:30am-12:15pm Jim Block, DePaul University
“Playing Toward Selfhood: Rousseau and Marcuse on the Psycho-Erotics of Development”
Afternoon Program
1:30pm-2:15pm Christopher Holman, York University [Canada]
“The Politics of Non-Identity: Re-Thinking the Political Theory of Herbert Marcuse”
2:15pm-3:00pm Elliot Buckland, York University [Canada]
“Subjectivity, Nature and Non-Identity in the Works of Marcuse and the Frankfurt School”
3:15pm-4:00pm Charles Reitz, Kansas City Kansas Community College
4:00pm-4:45pm Richard Kahn, University of North Dakota
“Planetary Ecocrisis, Ecopedagogy”
4:45pm-5:15pm Stefan Gandler, Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro / Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico [University of California, Santa Cruz (Research Associate 2009-2010)]
"Marcuse's Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of State"
5:15pm-5:30pm Arnold L. Farr, University of Kentucky
“An Essay on Repressive Education: Marcuse, Adorno, and the Future of Thought”
Conference Convenors: Graduate Student Critical Theory Group, York University