Gramsci Society (Asia-Pacific)
Events - 2009
Capital in Crisis: Implications for Labour and Society.
This workshop is for all those engaged in critical and emancipatory scholarship in political economy and the social sciences. The Program contains theoretical and empirical papers, particularly relevant to the labour and other progressive movements, that examine the regional, national and international transformations of capitalism and capitalist societies, in light of the Global Financial Crisis.
A session will consider ways of developing the work of the Australian Political Economy Movement, and a master class will be held for post-graduate students.
When:
July 9-10th, 2009
Attendance is free.
Where:
University of Wollongong, Building 20, Room 5 (opposite the Library and Coffee Shop).
Hosted by:
Gramsci Society (Asia-Pacific) and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong.
Sponsored by:
Work, Organisations and Welfare Centre and the Centre for Policy,
Culture and Ideas, Griffith University
Organisers:
Helen Masterman-Smith, hmasterman-smith@csu.edu.au
Georgina Murray, G.Murray@griffith.edu.au
Drew Cottle, d.cottle@uws.edu.au
Mike Donaldson, miked@uow.edu.au
Anthony Ashbolt, aashbolt@uow.edu.au
Di Kelly, di@uow.edu.au
Susan Engel, sengel@uow.edu.au
Workshop Program:
Thursday 9 July
| 9.00 |
Open |
| 9:20 |
Welcome |
| Keynotes - Chair: Mike Donaldson |
| 9:30 |
The Political Economy Challenge to Orthodoxy – Frank Stillwell, Sydney University |
| 10:00 |
The Social Dynamics of Crisis - Raewyn Connell, Sydney University |
| 10:30 |
Discussion |
| 11:00 |
Morning Tea |
| Global Financial Crisis - Chair: Georgina Murray |
| 11:15 |
Segmented Credit Markets and the Problem of Surplus‐Value – Salvatore Babones, Sydney University |
| 11:30 |
Labours’ Financial Crisis: Reframing Class Relations – Dick Bryan, Sydney University |
| 11:45 |
A Marxist Perspective on the Global Financial Crisis – Ross Morrow, Sydney University |
| 12:00 |
'Great Disorder Under Heaven' : The Global Crisis of Capital, Great Power Rivalry and Prospects for Structural Change – Oliver Villar, Charles Sturt University and Drew Cottle, University of Western Sydney |
| 12:15 |
Discussion |
| 12:45 |
Lunch & Book Launch: Living Low Paid: The Dark Side of Prosperous Australia by Helen Masterman‐Smith and Barbara Pocock, Launch by Georgina Murray |
| Class Analysis 1 - Chair: Anthony Ashbolt |
| 1:45 |
Global Capitalism: Australia’s Capitalist Class versus a Transnational Capitalist class – Georgina Murray, Griffith University |
| 2:00 |
Against the Theory of Transnational Capitalist Class – Dave Matters, Railway, Bus and Trams Union |
| 2:15 |
New Directions in Class Analysis – Mike Donaldson, University of Wollongong |
| 2:30 |
Dying to Eat: A Political Economy of the Global Food Crisis – Drew Cottle, University of Western Sydney |
| 2:45 |
Discussion |
| 3:15 |
Afternoon Tea |
| Ideology and Hegemony - Chair: Helen Masterman-Smith |
| 3:30 |
Hegemonic Blocs and Neo‐liberalism: 1992‐2008 – Joe Collins, Charles Sturt University |
| 3:45 |
Capitalist Crisis in Chile: Exit to the Left? Rene Leal, ARCIS, Santiago, Chile |
| 4:00 |
The End of Neo‐liberalism? – Damien Cahill, Sydney University |
| 4:15 |
In the Wake of Neo‐liberalism: Prospects for Organisation and Regulation – George Lafferty, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| 4:30 |
Discussion |
| 5:00 |
Political Economy Meeting: Convenors: Georgina Murray, Dick Bryan, Helen Masterman-Smith |
| 5:45 |
Close |
| 6:30 |
Conference Dinner |
Friday 10 July
| Political Economy and Repression - Chair: David Peetz |
| 9:00 |
Community Welfare Organisations, the Job Network and Service Capture within Neo‐liberal Policy Discourse – Marie Sheahan, Charles Sturt University |
| 9:15 |
Schwarzenegger/Reagan: The Right‐Wing Celebrity Politics Of Economic Crisis – Anthony van Fossen, Griffith University |
| 9:30 |
Capitalist Value, Violence and Crisis – Nick Southall, University of Wollongong |
| 9:45 |
Discussion |
| 10:15 |
Morning Tea |
| Industry and Labour - Chair: Drew Cottle |
| 10:30 |
“The final cost is the only real cost”: The 1986 De‐recognition of the ACWBLF in An Era of Financial Deregulation – Humphrey McQueen, Independent Scholar, Canberra |
| 10:45 |
The Inflation of Executive Remuneration – David Peetz, Griffith University |
| 11.00 |
Global Financial Crisis and Structural Youth Unemployment in the Illawarra – Scott Burrows, University of Wollongong |
| 11:15 |
Green Collaring a Capital Crisis? – Helen Masterman‐Smith, Charles Sturt University |
| 11:30 |
Discussion |
| 12:00 |
Lunch (Post-Graduate Master Class with Humphrey McQueen) |
| 1:00 |
Union and the Crisis - Chair: Mike Donaldson |
| |
Arthur Rorris, South Coast Labour Council
Dave Matters, Railway, Bus and Trams Union
Tim Ayres, Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union |
| 2:15 |
Afternoon Tea |
| Class Analysis 2 - Chair: Georgina Murray |
| 2:30 |
Do New Societies Make for New Classes? Comparing Veblen’s Analysis of Engineers with Đilas’ Analysis of Nomenklatura – Sam Russell, Sydney University |
| 2:45 |
General Intellect & The Law of Value: The Possibilities and Limits of the Communist Hope of the Multitude ‐ David Eden, Griffith University |
| 3:00 |
Unions and the Media: Di Kelly, University of Wollongong |
| 3:15 |
Mark Gawne, Sydney University |
| 3:30 |
Discussion |
| 4:00 |
Closing Comments and Farewell: Helen Masterman-Smith |
Details:
The Gramsci Society (Asia-Pacific) invites you to the launchings of:
John Rainford's Consuming Pleasures, Australia and the International Drug Business to be launched by Peter Cockcroft and Rod Noble's Of Human Right and Human Gain : A History of Peak Labour Organisation in the Hunter Valley to be launched by South Coast Labour Council Secretary, Arthur Rorris.
Where: Mike Donaldson's place, 63 Lachlan St, Thirroul
When:
Saturday 21 Feb at 5.30 pm.
Please RSVP to 0405335926 by 17 February.
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