APRIL 7-9, 2011 The second Rethinking Capitalism Conference is scheduled for April 7, 8, and 9 at UC Santa Cruz. Join us as we ask what it means to denaturalize capitalism itself, and stress instead its fragility and contingency.
Thursday, April 7, 2011 | University Center
5:30 PM Welcome
George Blumenthal, Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz
5:40 PM Framing the Crisis: Policy and Theory
Stephen Bruce, The Bruce Trust
Horace Brock, President, Strategic Economic Decisions
Robert Meister, Political Thought, UC Santa Cruz
7:00 PM Break
7:15 PM Keynote Panel: Telling the Story of 2008: Realistic, Utopian and Apocalyptic Narratives of What Could Have Happened
Kim Stanley Robinson, Science fiction author known for his Mars trilogy
Lynn Stout, Corporate and Securities Law, University of California Los Angeles
Graham Ward, Contextual Theology and Ethics, University of Manchester
Discussant: Andrew Barry, School of Geography, University of Oxford
Discussant: Dick Bryan, Political Economy, University of Sydney
9:15 PM Reception
Friday, April 8, 2011 | Colleges 9/10 Multi-Purpose Room
8:00 AM Registration & Light Breakfast
8:50 AM Welcome
Sheldon Kamieniecki, Dean of Social Sciences, UC Santa Cruz
9:00 AM PANEL 1: Valuation, Measurement and Knowledge
Dick Bryan, Political Economy, University of Sydney
Karin Knorr Cetina, Sociology, University of Constance, Germany
Paolo Quattrone, Accounting, IE Business School
Shyam Sunder, Accounting, Economics and Finance, Yale University
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM PANEL 2: Market Institutions, Government and Crisis
Andrew Barry, School of Geography, University of Oxford
Karen Ho, Anthropology, University of Minnesota
Nelson Lichtenstein, History, University of California Santa Barbara
Michael MacDonald, Political Science, Williams College
1:15 PM Lunch
2:00 PM ROUND TABLE 1: Eschatology, Visualization and Scenario Planning
Andrew Barry, School of Geography, University of Oxford
Karin Knorr Cetina, Sociology, University of Constance, Germany
Daniel Friedman, Economics, UC Santa Cruz
Dai Jinhua, Comparative Literature and Culture, Beijing University, Resident Fellow Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley
Andrew Mathews, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
Darel Paul, Political Science, Williams College
Paolo Quattrone, Accounting, IE Business School
Kim Stanley Robinson, Science fiction author known for his Mars trilogy
Shyam Sunder, Accounting, Economics and Finance, Yale University
Graham Ward, Contextual Theology and Ethics, University of Manchester
Saturday, April 9, 2011 | University Center
8:00 AM Light Breakfast
8:50 AM Welcome
TO BE DETERMINED
9:00 AM PANEL 3: Affective, Spatial and Material Flows of Value
Karin Knorr Cetina, Sociology, University of Constance, Germany
Randy Martin, Art and Public Policy, New York University
Paolo Quattrone, Accounting, IE Business School
Richard Walker, Geography, University of California Berkeley
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM PANEL 4: Social Risk, Human Capital and Financializing Inequality
Prabhat Patnaik, Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Darel Paul, Political Science, Williams College
Lynn Stout, Corporate and Securities Law, University of California Los Angeles
Shyam Sunder, Accounting, Economics and Finance, Yale University
1:15 PM Lunch
2:00 PM ROUND TABLE 2: Critique, Confession and Conversion in the Aftermath of 2008
Gopal Balakrishnan, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz
Rakesh Bhandari, Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
Karen Ho, Anthropology, University of Minnesota
Michael MacDonald, Political Science, Williams College
Robert Meister, Political Thought, UC Santa Cruz
Kristin Peterson, Anthropology, UC Irvine
Lisa Rofel, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
Lynn Stout, Corporate and Securities Law, University of California Los Angeles
Robert Wosnitzer, Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Please note: schedule subject to change
This event is made possible by the Bruce Initiative for Rethinking Capitalism and co-sponsored by the UCSC Division of Social Sciences, UCSC Institute for Humanities Research.
For further information or accommodations, contact the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, Michael Tassio, Program Coordinator, (831) 459-1274, mtassio@ucsc.edu
