Presentation at Conference on Debt, Center for 21st Century Studies.  Schedule below.  For more details, please visit the conference website.

Center for 21st Century Studies      

DEBT, April 29-May 1, 2010      
Peter Y. Paik and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, conference organizers      

THURSDAY, APRIL 29      
Milwaukee Art Museum      
5:00 pm: Welcome / Registration      
Chipstone Galleries, Milwaukee Art Museum      

6:15 pm : Theaster Gates performance related to Potter Dave exhibition “To Speculate Darkly”      
Lubar Auditorium, Milwaukee Art Museum      
Sponsored by Chipstone Foundation      

FRIDAY, APRIL 30
Curtin 175, 3243 North Downer Avenue
11:30 – 12:30 pm: Lunch
C21 (Curtin 939)

12:30 pm: Welcomes
Peter Y Paik and ???

1:00 – 2:30 pm: Economics of Debt
Richard D. Wolff, “Consumer Debt and the Economic Crisis”
Elaine Lewinnek, “The Cost of the American Dream: Historic Perspective on the Housing Crisis”
Joel Magnuson, “Looking Beyond the Recession”

2:45 – 4:15 pm: Ecology of Debt
Susan Crate, “Investigating the Concept of ‘Debt’ in the Context of 21st Century Climate Change: The Case of Place-Based Peoples”
Genese Sodikoff, “Lazarus Effects: The Spectral Ecology and Political Economy of Extinction Debt in Madagascar”
Julianne Lutz Warren, “Placing Debt”

4:30 – 6:00 pm: Keynote
Michael A. Gillespie

6:15 pm: Dinner (UWM Fireside Lounge)
 

SATURDAY, MAY 1
Hefter Conference Center, 3271 North Lake Drive

10:30 am: Coffee & Continental Breakfast

11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Ethics of Debt Kennan Ferguson, “Debt’s Moral”
Stephen Gardner Eleanor Courtemanche, “Unintended Consequences from Dickens to Hayek”

12:30 – 1:30 pm: Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 pm: The Demons of Debt
Mary Poovey, “Demonizing Debt, Naturalizing Finance”
Morris Berman, “Is Debt the New Karma? Why America Finally Fell Apart”

3:15 – 4:45 pm: Debt and the Future
Steven Shaviro, “The `Bitter Necessity’ of Debt: Neoliberal Finance and the Society of Control”
Michael Tratner, “The Resurrection of an Economic God: Keynes Becomes Postmodern”
Donald D. Hester, “China and the United States: The Bonds of Debt”

5:00 – 6:00 pm: Closing Discussion
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6:15 - : Dinner
Paik Residence, 3259 North Summit