The Future of Capitalism: Neo-Feudalism?

May 2, 2024 | 9:00AM
Classics Building, room 110

The Future of Capitalism—Neo-Feudalism?

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May 2, 2024
Classics 110

Conference Schedule:

Welcome and Coffee (8:30-9:00 AM)
Introduction (9:00-9:20 AM)

1. Environment, Governance, Temporality (9:20-10:50 AM)

  • Hannah Gadbois (UIC): “Going Nowhere at Top Speed: Feudal and Capitalist Temporalities”
  • Paul Forrester (Yale): “ESG and Asset Manager Capitalism” 
  • Ashima Mittal (UC): “Atmospheric Imperialism and the Reification of Nature”

2. Land, Rent, Financialization (11:00-12:30 PM)

  • Jack Votava (Northwestern), “In Praise of Debt? Expectational Power and the Causes of Financial Crisis in Argentina”
  • James Tierney (Kent): “Financialized Farmland”
  • Adrián de León Arias (Guadalajara): “Tracking some Features of Neo-Feudalism in Thorstein Veblen’s Analytical Contributions”

12:30-1:30PM: Lunch break 

3. Humanities Panel (1:30-3:20 PM)

  • Adam Rensch (BGSU): “Monopoly University: On the Present and Future of Higher Education”
  • Filippo Petricca (Indiana): TBA
  • Catherine Liu (UCI): “Diversity and Decadence in the Court of Finance Capital"

4. Political Economy Panel (3:30-4:50 PM)

  • Radhika Desai (Manitoba): TBA
  • Michael Hudson (UMKC): “Is the West Regressing into Neofeudalism?”

5. Keynote (5:00-7:00 PM)

  • Brett Christophers (Uppsala): TBA