Revolutionary Time Symposium
25th March, 2017
Victoria University in the University of Toronto
09:30 – 10:00 (Registration and Coffee)
10:00 – 11:15: Panel 1: Unsettling Colonial Temporality: Writing as Resistance
* Melissa Gniadek (English, U of T)
“Re-thinking Settler Colonial Temporalities in U.S. Contexts”
* Atreyee Majumder (Postdoc JHI/Anthropology, U of T)
“Hartaal: Capital Interrupted”
11:15 – 11:30 (Break)
11:30 – 1:00: Panel 2: Revolution Seen and Unseen: Mobilizing Capitalism’s Blindspots
* Kanishka Goonewardena (Geography and Planning, U of T)
“Space, Time, Totality: Uneven Development and Revolutionary Politics”
* Ken Kawashima (East Asian, U of T)
“Repeating Capital’s Impossible Beginning: Marx on the Origins of the Capitalist ‘Epoch'”
* Eric Cazdyn (CompLit/East Asian, U of T)
“The Blindspot Machine”
1:00 – 2:00 (Lunch)
2:00 – 3:15 Panel 3: Revolutionary Inheritance: Failures and Successions
* Rebecca Comay (CompLit/Philosophy, U of T)
“Testament of the Revolution (Walter Benjamin)”
* Ian Balfour (English, York)
Respondent
3:15 – 3:30 (Break)
3:30 – 5:00 Panel 4: Pasts and Futures: Reactivating Revolutionary History
* David McNally (Political Science, York)
* Joshua Moufawad-Paul (Philosophy, York)
“The Capitalist Imaginary and the Atrophy of Thought”
* Leo Panitch (Political Science, York)
“The Revolutionary Legacy: Rethinking and Reactivating”
5:00 onwards – Reception event