“Cultures of Recession” at Duke This Friday and Saturday

Lots of work this week putting on the Cultures of Recession conference we’ve been planning all year. Here’s the schedule for anyone in the area who might be interested in attending:

FRIDAY
10:00 AM
Introduction (Sara Appel)

10:30 AM
Peripheral Voices: Confronting Economic Crisis through Communities of Resistance (Moderator: Sara Appel)

1:30 PM
Cultures of Speculation (Moderator: Ryan Vu)

3:00 PM
Stanley Aronowitz Keynote Address
“Where’s the Outrage? The New Culture of Economic Crisis”

4:30 PM
Global Identity in Crisis: New Economic Subjects (Moderator: Alex Greenberg)

SATURDAY
10:30 AM
Recession in the Classroom (Moderator: Gerry Canavan)

2:00 PM
Unraveling the Nation: Crisis as a Deregulation of Form (Moderator: Lisa Klarr)

4:00 PM
Wrap-Up / Roundtable

All panels are at the Franklin Humanities Center, Room 240, on Duke’s Central Campus. Expect salty tears if I don’t see you there.