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