The Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at
the University of Pittsburgh presents:
PANEL SPEAKERS:
Carolina Gainza, University of Pittsburgh
Matt Gayetsky, University of Pittsburgh
EMPIRE
A R E T R O S P E C T I V E
David Haeselin, Carnegie Mellon University
Richard Jermain, University of Tampa
Joshua Lund, University of Pittsburgh
Christian Marazzi, Università Italiana
della Svizzera
Featuring a keynote address by
Tim Murphy, University of Oklahoma
Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University
Stevphen Shukaitis, University of
Essex/Autonomedia
Ken Surin, Duke University
Miriam Tola, Rutgers University
Juan Carlos Valencia, Macquarie University November
CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
The Graduate Program for Cultural Studies at
18-19, 2010
the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Campus
The University of Pittsburgh Humanities Center,
The School of Arts and Sciences.
For more information and a complete schedule,
visit our website at
www.pitt.edu/~cultural/EmpireConference.htm
or e-mail us at cultural@pitt.edu
EMPIRE
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Friday, November 19 2010
5130 Posvar Hall
Thursday, November 18 2010 8:30-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Babcock Room, 40th floor,
9:00-11:30 a.m. Empire and Coloniality
Cathedral of Learning
Nick Nesbitt, Princeton University: “Beyond Empire’s
1:00-1:20 p.m. Giuseppina Mecchia, Graduate Dialectics of (Colonial) Sovereignty: Speculative
Program for Cultural Studies at the University of Anarchism and the Critique of Critique”
This conference will address the 10th
Pittsburgh: Welcome and Introductory Remarks. Juan Carlos Valencia, Macquarie University:
anniversary of the publication of Michael Hardt “The Persistence of Coloniality in ‘Empire’”
1:30-4:00 p.m. Empire and Historicity Joshua Lund, University of Pittsburgh: “Misplaced
and Antonio Negri’s seminal book Empire, the Revolution: Internal colonialism and anti-primitivism
Ken Surin, Duke University: “Empire: Ten Years After”. in modern Mexico”.
first volume of a trilogy that saw its completion Richard Jermain, University of Tampa: “The Dialectical
Basis of Revolution” Chair and Respondent: Roberto Ponce-Cordero,
in October 2009 with the publication of the Matt Gayetsky, University of Pittsburgh: “Partisans University of Pittsburgh
in Empire, or, Carl Schmitt as Revolutionary”
third volume, Commonwealth. (The second 11:30-1:00 p.m. Lunch break
Chair and Respondent: Hermann Herlinghaus,
volume, Multitudes, came out in 2004). University of Pittsburgh 1:00-3:30 p.m. Empire and Opposition
The reception of the trilogy has been lively, 4:00-4:30 p.m. Coffee Break Tim Murphy, University of Oklahoma: “Co-research,
Collaboration, Commonwealth”
although controversial, and has generated much 4:30-7:00 p.m. Empire and Capital Carolina Gainza, University of Pittsburgh: “Processes of
Appropriation of Technology and Collective Practices in
political reflection and scholarship. As we face Christian Marazzi, Università Italiana della Svizzera: Literary Creation: Electronic Literature in Latin America”
“ Financial Entropy: The Struggle Within and Miriam Tola, Rutgers University: “Embodied Multitudes.
the political challenges of the current global Against Empire” Notes on Empire and Corporeal Feminism”.
Stevphen Shukaitis, University of Essex/Autonomedia:
arena, there is no better time to consider once “Beneath the Empire: History, Composition Chair and Respondent: Lisa Brush,
and Organization” University of Pittsburgh
again the present status of the form “empire”,
David Haeselin, Carnegie Mellon University:
and of the struggles that traverse it. “The Emperors of Networks: Reclaiming Optimism 3:30-4:30 p.m. Coffee break
for the Digital”
121 David Lawrence Hall
Chair and Respondent: Terry Smith,
University of Pittsburgh
4:30-6:30 p.m Keynote Address delivered
by Michael Hardt
A R E T R O S P E C T I V E 6:30-7:30 p.m. Reception