The Center for the Study of Social Difference working group Unpayable Debt: Capital, Violence, and the New Global Economy presents its closing conference:

Unpayable Still: Debt in a Global Context

This day-long conference invites sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and artists, to investigate the global history of capitalism as a racialized and gendered formation.

Click here to watch the conference keynote lecture from Professor Silvia Federici (Hofstra University)

Schedule:

9:00-9:15AM
OPENING REMARKS
Sarah Muir and Frances Negrón-Muntaner, co-directors

9:15-10:30AM
DEBT AS GOVERNANCE
Andrew Ross, New York University | “Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay”
Miriam Muniz, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras | “Taken Island/Isla Tomada”
Caitlin Zaloom, New York University | “Priceless Poential: Middle Class Life and Student Debt in American Families”

10:45-12:00PM
REIMAGINING DEBT
Max Haiven , Lakehead University | “The Revenge of Debt or the Debt of Revenge? Artists Working with Wampum and Money”
Aleksandra Perisic, University of Miami | “Trans-Atlantic Indebtedness in the Literary Imagination”
Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Columbia University | “ Valor y Cambio Project: Art, Narrative, and Decolonial Joy”

12:15-1:30PM
NO MORE DEBT
Soo-Young Kim, Princeton University | “Austerity turns Debt into a Crisis”
Jerome Roos, London School of Economics | “A Very Brief History of Sovereign Default”
Sarah Muir, City University of New York | “Eternal Debt? Long-term Experiences of Debt and Default in Argentina”

1:30-2:30PM
LUNCH BREAK

3:00-4:30PM
CLOSING KEYNOTE | Rm 201 Casa Hispanica , 612 W 116th Street
Silvia Federici, Hofstra University | “Women, Microcredit, and Debt: A Feminist Perspective”

4:30-5:30PM
RECEPTION | Rm 201 Casa Hispanica , 612 W 116th Street

Special thanks to our cosponsor the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures (LAIC).