Schedule - 4th Annual North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference, New Orleans, LA, 4-6 January 2013

Friday Evening

Saturday

Sunday

SATURDAY, 9AM-10:20AM

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• McHenry, Keith. “The Anarchist Response to Sandy, Katrina, and the Global Economic Crisis”

Moderator: Sean Walsh

• Crossland, Dave. “BLACK WHITE AND READ ALL OVER: A Poster Design Workshop”

Moderator: Duane Williams

SATURDAY, 6PM-7PM

• Camille Daum-Lobko, “The Transition Towns Movement, a Path to Community/Local Empowerment, and Its Radical Implications”

Moderator: Max Cafard

• Panagioti, “No System but the Ecosystem: Earth First! and Anarchism”

Moderator: Jeff Brite

SUNDAY, 9AM-10:20AM

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Rosemont, Penelope. “Surrealism, Situationism and Anarchism”
• Sakolsky, Ron. “BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Flights of the Anarcho-Surrealist Imagination”

Moderator: Bill Lavender

• 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