Schedule - 4th Annual North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference, New Orleans, LA, 4-6 January 2013
Friday Evening
Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center
5:00-6:00 | Registration at Zeitgeist | |
6:00-7:00 | Opening Plenary. Welcome from the NAASN and “Anarchy in the Big Easy: A Brief History” | |
7:00-8:00 | Poetry Reading with Dennis Formento, Bill Lavender, Alexis Murauskas, Izzy Oneiric, Andrew Hoyt reading Virgilia d’Andrea translations, and Nathan Jun reading Pietro Gori translations. | |
8:00-8:30 | A Tribute to filmmaker Helen Hill with a short film | |
8:30-10:00 | Radical comic book artist Seth Tobocman presents “Disaster & Resistance: A Political Comix Slide Show” | |
10:00-11:00 | LIVE, LOCAL MUSIC with the Sweet Street Symphony |
Saturday
Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center & Katz Furniture Warehouse
8:00-9:00 | Breakfast and Registration at Zeitgeist | |
9:00-10:20 | Panels 1 & 2 | |
10:30-11:50 | Panels 3 & 4 | |
11:50-2:00 | Lunch & Tours | |
2:00-3:20 | Panels 5 & 6 | |
3:30-4:50 | Panels 7 & 8 | |
5:00-6:00 | Workshops 1 & 2 | |
6:00-7:00 | Workshops 3 & 4 |
Sunday
Zeitgeist Multidisciplinary Arts Center & Katz Furniture Warehouse
8:00-9:00 | Breakfast | |
9:00-10:20 | Panels 9 &10 | |
10:30-11:50 | Panels 11 & 12 | |
11:50-2:00 | Lunch & Tours | |
2:00-3:20 | Panels 13 & 14 | |
3:30-4:50 | Panels 15 & 16 | |
5:00-6:00 | Closing Plenary at Zeitgeist |
SATURDAY, 9AM-10:20AM
Panel 1 (Zeitgeist)
- Barnet, Derek. “The Politics of Becoming Anarchism: Deleuze, Insurrection, and Resistance”
- Culp, Andrew. “Subverting the Metropolis: Empire, Escape, and Revolution”
- Wood, Alden. “Deserting Empire, Deserting Humanism: Anti-Humanist Critiques of the Individual, Absolute Knowledge, Rationality, and History in Tiqqun’s Introduction to Civil War”
Moderator: Michael Loadenthal
Panel 2 (Katz Furniture Warehouse)
- Amster, Randal. “Anarchism Goes to War”
- Thomson, Brad. “Our Dreams Will Never Fit in their Barracks: Anarchist Veterans of the U.S. Military”
Moderator: Ted Troxell
SATURDAY, 10:30AM-11:50AM
Panel 3 (Zeitgeist)
- Clark, John. “Objet Petit @: In Search of the Impossible Community”
- Jun, Nathan. “Rethinking the Anarchist Canon: History, Philosophy, and Interpretation”
- Krimerman, Len. “Extending the Anarchist Family, Eliminating Anarchist Marginality”
Moderator: Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Panel 4 (Katz Furniture Warehouse)
- Campbell, Michelle. “You Didn’t Build That: Post-Anarchist Feminism and the Construction of Subjectivity”
- Maypop, Marika. “The Politics of Pleasure: Transforming Personal & Social Sexual Relations”
Moderator: Candice Metrailer
SATURDAY, 2PM-3:20PM
Panel 5 (Zeitgeist)
- Engel-Di Mauro, Salvatore. “Anarchism and Environmental Degradation”
- Piser, Gabriel. “Frack and Friction: The Contested Futures of Development in Appalachia”
- Sethness-Castro, Javier. “For an Ecological Anarcho-Communism” (via SKYPE)
Moderator: John Clark
Panel 6 (Katz Furniture Warehouse)
- Birmingham, James. “St-Imier Then and Now”
- Knight, Ryan. “Returning to the Marx/Bakunin Debates: An Attempt to Extract an Anti-colonial or Post- colonial Anarchism”
- Applegarth, Lindsey. “Tolstoy on Anarchism and Buddhism”
Moderator: Michael Ristich
SATURDAY, 3:30PM-4:50PM
Panel 7 (Zeitgeist)
- Crow, Scott. “Solidarity Not Charity: A Story of the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans”
- Flaherty, Jordan. “Community Organizing Against the Prison Industrial Complex: Lessons from New Orleans to the NYPD to the Jena Six”
Moderator: Yasin Frank Southall
Panel 8 (Katz Furniture Warehouse)
- Bourne, Kyla. “Space, Surveillance and Security Culture: An Ethnography of Urban Struggle in Chicago”
- Pino, Carolina. “Shellhouse [living portable]“
- Tofano, Mario. “Mask of a Multitude: Staging Anarchy in the City”
Moderator: Erin Lierl
SATURDAY, 5PM-6PM
Workshop 1 (Zeitgeist)
- McHenry, Keith. “The Anarchist Response to Sandy, Katrina, and the Global Economic Crisis”
Moderator: Sean Walsh
Workshop 2 (Katz Furniture Warehouse)
- Crossland, Dave. “BLACK WHITE AND READ ALL OVER: A Poster Design Workshop”
Moderator: Duane Williams
SATURDAY, 6PM-7PM
Workshop 3 (Zeitgeist)
- Camille Daum-Lobko, “The Transition Towns Movement, a Path to Community/Local Empowerment, and Its Radical Implications”
Moderator: Max Cafard
Workshop 4 (Katz Furniture Warehouse)
- Panagioti, “No System but the Ecosystem: Earth First! and Anarchism”
Moderator: Jeff Brite
SUNDAY, 9AM-10:20AM
Panel 9 (Zeitgeist)
- Gordon, Uri. “Anarchism and the Future of Statecraft” (via SKYPE)
- Mujanović, Jasmin. “State Fetishism in Bosnia-Herzegovina: An Anarchist History”
- Torres, A.E. “On the Discourse of Comradeship in the Yiddish Anarchist Press, 1890-1991″ (via SKYPE)
Moderator: David Hamilton
Panel 10 (Katz Furniture Warehouse)
- Bidima, Jean-Godefroy. “Taxes and Societies in Proudhon and Sloderdijk”
- Hoyt, A.D. “Anarchist Historiography: Addressing Three Common Fallacies”
- Ristich, Michael. “Anarchist Sympathies: Benjamin Tucker, Rhetoric, and the End(s) of Anarchism”
Moderator: Kenyon Zimmer
SUNDAY, 10:30AM-11:50AM
Panel 11 (Zeitgeist)
- Bell, Tawd. “All gods, no masters! Toward a spiritual Anarchism”
- Karistai, Daniel. “The Dethronement of God: A theology of the Incarnation for Post-Christian Church”
- Troxell, Ted. “Christian Theory: John Howard Yoder and the Postanarchist Turn”
Moderator: Kezia Kamenetz
Panel 12 (Katz Furniture Warehouse)
- Brenn, Matt. “Precarity, Abandonment, and Play”
- Loadenthal, Michael. “Queerly Mutant & Ideologically Deviant: Faux Tolerance and the Neoliberal Masking of Violence”
- Stinard-Kiel, Sarah. “Carework & Collective Organizing: The political problems and possibilities of caring”
Moderator: Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
SUNDAY, 2PM-3:20PM
Panel 13 (Zeitgeist)
- Beck, Eric. “Beyond Coops and Currency Alternatives: Towards a Critical Anarchist Political Economy”
- Guldi, Jo. “Global Finance and the Rise of an International Squatter Culture, 1946-2012″
- Hayes, Ryan. “‘Nothing to show for it’: on archiving & amplifying social movement culture”
Moderator: Len Krimerman
Panel 14 (Katz Furniture Warehouse)
- Fortier, Craig. “Decolonization & Resurgence: Anti-Authoritarianism, Migrant Justice and Indigenous Solidarity”
- Myers, Michael. “Overcoming Political Atomization In a Digital Age”
- Olson, M.G. “Exploring Anarchist Approaches to ‘on-the-ground’ Transnational Solidarity”
Moderator: Emily Green
SUNDAY, 3:30PM-4:50PM
Panel 15 (Zeitgeist)
- Rosemont, Penelope. “Surrealism, Situationism and Anarchism”
- Sakolsky, Ron. “BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Flights of the Anarcho-Surrealist Imagination”
Moderator: Bill Lavender
Panel 16 (Katz Furniture Warehouse)
- Gordon, Hilary. “Visual Polemics of Food Shortage in Revolutionary Spain”
- Lee, Andrew H. “Resurrection: Anticlericalism and Gendered Anarchism in the Work of Federica Montseny”
- Zimmer, Kenyon. “The Forgotten Revolution: North American and European Anarchists in the 1911 Mexican Insurrection”
Moderator: James Birmingham