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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
International Herbert Marcuse Society Fifth Biennial Conference University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky USA November 7-9, 2013
9:00-10:40am
Student Center, Room 206
Panel 2: Wild Dark Times, or Liberating the End: An Exploration of Herbert Marcuse, the Apocalypse, and the Specters of Liberation
Thomas C. Was Stephen Bourque Andres Mesa The Unfreedom of Rationality and Technology: Starvation by Wall Street Our Blood is Thinning: Death, Destruction, and Residual Resistance Aesthetic Liberation: A Foundation For a New Critical Ecology
10:45am-12:25pm
Student Center, Room 206
Andrs Ortiz Lemos The Fata Morgana of Technology as Ideological Interpellator: The Case of the Citizen Revolution in Ecuador Student Center, Room 111
12:25-2:30pm
Lunch
2:30-5:00pm
2:30-2:45pm Arnold L. Farr 2:50-5:00pm
Richard Wolin
Distinguished Professor of History CUNY Graduate Center
Marcuse and the New Left: Emancipatory Violence as a Problem of Political Philosophy
5:00-7:00pm
Dinner
7:00-8:15pm
Jeremy Popkin
Plenary Session 1
Herbert Marcuses Years at UC San Diego: An Interview with Richard H. Popkin
8:45-10:15am
Plenary Session 2
William T. Young Library, Multipurpose Room Shelly Johnson, Charles Reitz, Peter Marcuse, Arnold L. Farr, and Andy Lamas A Discussion on Crisis and Commonwealth: Marx, Marcuse, McClaren and on Reitzs Proposal for the Crisis and Commonwealth Working Group
10:15-10:30am 10:30-11:30am
William T. Young Library, Multipurpose Room Douglas Kellner, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Charles Reitz, and Arnold L. Farr Recent Marcuse Research
11:30am-12:45pm
William T. Young Library, Multipurpose Room
12:45-2:15pm
Lunch
Note: If you are not attending the Business Meeting, then your lunch break is from 11:30am-2:15pm.
2:15pm-3:45pm
Student Center, Room 249
Panel 11: Marcuse in Conversation with Liberalism and Traditional Political Philosophy
Michael J. Thompson Christopher Holman Larry Udell Tyler Suggs Marcuse and the Critique of Liberal Political Philosophy Marcuse, Machiavelli, and the Concept of Political Sublimation Rawls and Neoclassical Economics Punishment, Alterity, and One Dimensionality
3:45-4:00pm 4:00-5:30pm
Panel 14: The Challenge of Social, Digital, and Mass Media, and the Problem of Political Discourse
Charles Joshua Horn Hope for Economic Liberation: Social Media and the New Capitalist Revolution Clint Jones Techno-Eroticism: Marcuse and The Politics of Friendship in the Age of Social Media
Deborah C. Antunes Are the Digital Media the Message? Analyzing the Cear Digital Belt Contradictions Elliott Buckland Tolerance and Objectivity in Contemporary Political Discourse
5:30-7:30pm
Dinner
7:30-9:00pm
Keynote Address
Cynthia Willett
Professor, Department of Philosophy Emory University
9:00-10:00pm
Reception
Meet and Greet / Coffee and Pastries Session 6: Concurrent Panels 16-19
9:00-10:30am
Student Center, Room 206
10:30-10:45am
Break
10:45am-12:15pm
Student Center, Room 206
Panel 21: Roundtable Workshop: Exploring Marcuses Eros: Animator of Selfhood and Sustainer of Community
James Block, Morgan Shipley, and Adnan Selimovi Student Center, Room 357
12:15-2:00pm
Lunch
2:00-3:45pm
Student Center, Room 206
3:45-4:00pm 4:00-6:00pm
Student Center,
Panel 26: Marcuse and the Frankfurt School on Rationality and Praxis
Richard Peterson Patrick Gamsby Andrew Feenberg Rationalitys Dependence on Historical Mediums: Rethinking Social Learning In a Box Marked Miscellaneous: Remembering Herbert Marcuse at Brandeis University Realizing Philosophy: Marx, Lukcs, and the Frankfurt School
6:00-6:30pm
Conference Wrap-Up
6:30pm-until