SPEP 2002
(Chicago)
"After Foucault: A New Form of Right," Roger Mourad (University of Michigan and Washtenaw Community College)
"Terror-Tubbies, Monsters, and Despots: Monstrosity in Discourses of Counter Terrorism," Amit S. Rai (New School University)
"From Confinement to Performance: Digital Networks and the Society of Control," Steven Shaviro (University of Washington at Seattle)
SPEP 2003
(Boston)
"The Present as Pre-History: Adorno, Balibar and the Transformation of Labor," Jason D. Read (University of Southern Maine)
"Hobbes' Logic of Force: The Logic of Liberal Capital," Richard A. Lee, Jr. (DePaul University)
"Laplanche and the Formation of Raced Unconscious: Towards a Psychoanalytically-Informed Critical Race Theory," Shannon W. Sullivan (Pennsylvania State University)
"Producing and Consuming Knowledge: The Relevance of the 'New Production of Knowledge Debate' for Disciplinary and Transdisciplinary Social Science," Mark J. Smith (The Open University, U.K.)
APA Eastern 2003
(Washington DC)
PANEL 1
"Memoirs of an Accidental Materialist: The 18th Brumaire of Karl Marx," Daniel W. Conway (Pennsylvania State University)
"The Philosophy of Multiplicity and Indeterminacy: Nietzsche, Castoriadis, and the Politics of the Real," Fouad Kalouche (Albright College)
"Banishment and the State of Exception: Giorgio Agamben at the Edge of Politics," Steven DeCaroli (Goucher College)
PANEL 2
"The Labor of Suffering: Liberalism, Materialism, and the Body," Asma Abbas (Pennsylvania State University)
"Black Bloc, Pink Bloc: Reflections on the Tactics of the 'Anti-Globalization' Movement," Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves (Morgan State University)
"Black Americans and Muslims: Statelessness and the New Pariahs and Parvenus," Falguni A. Sheth (Hampshire College)
SPEP 2004
(Memphis)
PANEL 1
"How Errors in Theories of Commensurability Lead to Universal Commodification of Law," Nick Smith (University of New Hampshire)
"Can Alain Badiou's Account of Time Account for Political Events?," Antonio Calcagno (University of Guelph, Canada)
"Levinasian Ethics and Feminist Ethics of Care," Chloe Taylor Merleau (University of Toronto, Canada)
PANEL 2 [CANCELLED]
Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Moderator: Hasana Sharp (Pennsylvania State University)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)
Jason Read (University of Southern Maine)
Asma Abbas (Pennsylvania State University)
APA Eastern 2004
(Boston)
PANEL 1
"The Sense of the Other: A Feminist and Critique of John Searle's Collective Intentionality," Wendy Lynne Lee (Bloomsburg University)
"Neocolonialism, Language, and Culture in Present Mexico," Graciela Lechuga Solis (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Mexico)
"The Evental Site of Resistance: Badiou as Supplement to Foucault," David Pekerow (DePaul University)
"Autonomy, Figuration, Embodiement: Meyers and Irigaray," Andrew Schwartz (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
"The Anti-Colonialist Potential of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (The American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)
PANEL 2
Conversation with Noam Chomsky
Moderator: Fouad Kalouche (Albright College)
Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alejandro DeAcosta (Southwestern University)
Falguni Sheth (Hampshire College)
SPEP 2005
(Salt Lake City)
PANEL 1
"The Leisure of Walking: A Philosophical Pastime," Zachary Davis (Keene State College)
"'The Problem of Leisure / What to do for Pleasure': A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Pop Music as Fetishized Commodity and Guilty Pleasure," Robin James (DePaul University)
"The Disposability of Place: The Ethics of Cultural Tourism," Mary Rawlinson (Stony Brooke University)
PANEL 2
"The Dignity of Labor?: A Marxist Challenge to Traditional Marxism," Amy Wendling (Penn State University)
"'Control and Expose: The Work of Neoliberalism," Trent H. Hamman (St. John's University)
"The Dean in a Gray Flannel Suit: Administrative Labor and the Corporate University," Jeffrey T. Nealon (Penn State University)
APA Eastern 2005
(New York City)
PANEL 1
"Care, Duty, and the Global Politics of Peace," Sarah Clark Miller, University of Memphis)
"Truth and Reconciliation: South Africa's Transition to a Multiracial Democracy," Leigh M. Johnson (Penn State University)
"Structural Violence, Moral Responsibility and the Role of Educators," Shari Stone-Mediatore (Ohio Wesleyan University)
PANEL 2
"How America Justifies its War: A Feminist Reading of 'Shock and Awe'," Bonnie Mann (University of Oregon)
"Foucault's Politics and Bellicosity as a Matrix for Power Relations," Marcelo Hoffman (University of Denver)
"The Case for Comparison between Nazism and the War on Terror: A Study in Biopolitics," Lissa Skitol (Luther College)
AFM 2005
(Morelia, Mexico)
"Aesthetics and Race in Eighteenth-Century Europe," Steven DeCaroli (Goucher College)
"Worker Consciousness and teh Shaping of Gender and Social Relations in the Apparel Industry," Piya Pangsapa (SUNY Buffalo)
"Max Stirner and Luis Cusicanqui: Two Styles of Anti-Statist Subjectivity," Alejandro De Acosta (Southwestern University)
APA Pacific 2006
(Portland)
PANEL 1
"Love Slavery: Notes towards a dialogue between Spinoza and Feminism," Hasana Sharp (McGill University)
"The History of Buddhist Philosophy Considered as a Struggle of Tendencies," Ted Stolze (Cerritos College)
"Civilization and Barbarism," Alejandro de Acosta (Southwestern University)
Conversation with Noam Chomsky
PANEL 2
"The Spatiality of Praxis," Manuel Chavez (Binghamton University and Saint Lawrence University)
"Benjamin and Marx on What is Material Practice: the Author as Producer," William Roberts (William and Jefferson College)
SPEP 2006
(Philadelphia)
"Rawls, Foucault, Michael Moore and 50 Cent on the Terms of Democratic Discourse," Michael Brownstein (Penn State)
"Althusser, Concrete Analysis, Democratic Decision Making," William S. Lewis (Skidmore College)
"Derrida and the Inventions of Democracy," Peter Gratton (Chicago State University)
APA Eastern 2006
(Washington D.C.)
PANEL 1
"Levinas and the State of Palestine," Jason Caro (University of Houston, Downtown)
"Kierkegaard and Levinas on God and Neighbor," Aaron Fehir (Purdue University)
"Capitalism and the Forces of Islam," Fouad Kalouche (Albright College)"
PANEL 2
"Real Subsumption, the 'Faith-Based' Self, and Resistance: Notes Toward a Plebeian Religio-Politics," Christopher Fox (Newman University)
"Patriotic Dreams, Illicit Sex, and Divine Graces: The Intersection of Religion, Politics, and Sexual Normativity in Conservative Christian Discourse on Homosexuality," Ludger Viefhues-Bailey (Yale University)
"Between Passion and Politics: Kierkegaard, Benjamin, and Religious Ethics," Annika Thiem (University of California, Berkeley)
APA Pacific 2006
(San Francisco)
PANEL 1
Conversation with Wendy Brown
Wendy Brown (UC Berkeley)
Anna Carastathis (McGill University)
Hasana Sharp (McGill University)
PANEL 2
"Risky Recognitions: The Concept of Political Risk in Carl Schmitt," Michael Marder (The New School)
"Foucault as Democrat: A Rethinking of Democracy," Cory Wimberly (University of Texas Pan American)
SPEP 2007
(Chicago)
"Sovereign Violence, Racial Violence," Peter Gratton (University of San Diego)
"Whiteness and Taste: Paradoxes of Embodiment," Robin James (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
"The Prisonization of Race," Jeffrey Paris (San Francisco State University)
APA Eastern 2007
(Baltimore)
"The Evidence of Experience and the Problem of Subjectivity," Marianne Janack (Hamilton College)
"Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes," Chloé Taylor (McGill University)
"Public and Private in Feminism and Pragmatism," Colin Koopman (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Thinking of Bhopal: Women's Bodies as Waste-Sites," Jennifer Scurro (College of New Rochelle)
SPEP 2008
(Pittsburgh)
“Marx’s Philosophy of Love & Communism,” Nicholas Zettel (Marquette University)
“On Communist Lovesickness,” Robyn Marasco (Williams College)
“Justification, Legitimation, & Authenticity: Towards an Ethics of Revolutionary Violence,” William C. Roberts (McGill University)
APA Eastern 2008
(Philadelphia)
PANEL 1
“Queer Invisibility in the Transatlantic Reproduction of ‘Race’”, Kristin McCartney (DePaul University)
"Robot Rock: On the Race-Gender Politics of Contemporary Hip-Hop and R&B”, Robin James (University of North Caroline, Charlotte)
"La Vida Loca: Violence, Gender, and Homosociality”, Gabriel Soldatenko (Binghamton University)"
PANEL 2
"Philosophy Beyond Reason: A Sufi Response to the New World Order”, Monika
Brodnicka (Regis University)
”How is it Possible to Write Africa Without a Well Known Map? A Social-Political
Exigency”, Patrick Dikirr (SUNY Binghamton)
”The Politics of the Cosmic Sensuality of Hindu Aesthetic Philosophy”, Rekha Menon (SUNY, Buffalo)
SPEP 2009
(Washington D.C.)
"This Time I'm Serious: Critchley, Anarchism, and the Question of Violence," Peter Gratton, University of San Diego
"Demanding Impossible Justice: Thoughts on Post-Foundationalist Anarchism," Michael Larsen, Point Park University
"Anarchist Philosophy and Working Class Struggle: A Brief History and Commentary," Nathan Jun, Midwestern State University
"Anarchist Meditations," Alejandro de Acosta, Southwestern UniversityM
APA Eastern 2009
(New York)
“Creative Evolution, Today: Bergson and Contemporary Biology," Michael Vaughan, University of Warwark-United Kingdom
"Between Walzer and Levinas: Political Viability as a Regulative Constraint for Environmental Philosophy," J. Aaron Simmons, Hendrix College
"Reviving a Global Ecological Feminism: An Ecopolitics of Homeplace," Jennifer Scuro, College of New Rochelle
"Environmental Political Philosophy: On the Future of the Nation State," Julie Kuhlken, Misericordia University
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