ACTIVISM, IDEOLOGY AND RADICAL PHILOSOPHY
THE FIFTH BIANNUAL RPA CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 7-10, 2002
BROWN UNIVERSITY
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
(Updated 11.6.02)
 
THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE LISTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER :
Thursday 
Panel: I, 1: Arendt
Chair: Kristi Sweet
Dalia Nassar: Radical Philosophy, Identity Politics & Nationalism
Jane Drexler: Contestation and Public Space: Protest, Action & Solidarity in Arendtian Political Thought
Kathy Miriam: Toward a Feminist Theory of Action & Re-Theorizing the Political: A Comparison of Judith Butler & Hannah Arendt
Thursday 4-5:30 pm  
Panel: II, 1
Chair: Karsten Struhl
Tony Fluxman: The Mechanisms of False Consciousness
Kory Schaff: Disarming the Rhetoric of Gun Control: Cognitive Biases, Belief Formation & Social Policy
Manindra Nath Thakur: Religion, Culture & Left Politics
Thursday 4-5:30 pm  
Panel: VI, 1 Socialist Civil Society
Chair: Cliff DuRand
Miguel Limia David: State Construction From the Point of View of Civil Society
John Ehrenberg: State, Market, and Civil Society: Theoretical & Political Considerations
Olga Fernandez Rios: Education & Culture in Cuba Today
Thursday 4-5:30 pm  
Panel: IV, 1 The Answer to the Mind-Body Question
Chair: Peg O'Connor
Rene Talbot: The Answer on the Mind-Body Question as a Crucial Means for Social Control
Ekle Heitmueller: Sade's Psychiatrization
Gerburg Treusch-Dieter: Current consequences of Deviant Thinking: When the Human Body Meets Technology
Thursday 4-5:30 pm
Panel: XI, 1 Physical Perceptions: the Body in Today's Society
Chair: Melissa Burchard (pending)
Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves: Social Violence & the Body
Joanna Crosby: Racial Profiling
Janice McLane: Anorexia
Thursday 4-5:30 pm  
Panel: XI, 3 Radical Theories in Politics: From Anarchism to Pacifism
Chair: Nancy Holmstrom
Ami Bar On: Radical Theory & the Question of Violence
David Scott: Blaberon: On the Uses and Disadvantages of Anarchism in Political Thought
Anatole Anton: Pacifism & Just War Philosophies
Thursday 7:30 PM
Friday
Panel: I, 6 Thinking About Radical Historical Figures
Chair: Tony Smith
Bugaeva Lyubov: Radicalism & Russian History
Kristi Sweet: Lack of Public Intellectuals in the Contemporary U.S.: Result of McCarthyism or Anti-intellectualism
Nelson Lande: Trotsky's Brilliant Flame & Broken Reed
Friday 9-10:30 am
Panel: II, 2
Chair: Michael Hames-Garcia
Joseph Orosco: La Democracia Cosmica: Participatory Democracy in Rendon's Chicano Manifesto
Michael Christiana: Sentimental Cholos: Reflections on Gender Identity, Machismo & Violence in Latino Street Gangs
Greg Moses: Democratic State Studies: The Case of the Cooperative Extension Services
Friday 9-10:30 am  
Panel: III, 2
Chair: David S. Owen
Willard Enteman: Let's Get Real & Radical: A Philosophic Critique of Higher Education
Wes Rehberg: Direct Encounters: Learning in the 'Classrooms' of the Oppressed
Friday 9-10:30 am  
Panel: V, 2 Theories of World Development  
Chair: Joanie Lugtig
Christine Koggel: Equality Analysis in a Global Context
Harry Targ: Revisiting Globalization: Theory, Evidence & Practice
J.W. Smith: Pushing Neo-Liberalism Nonsense off the Table So We Can Create an Honest, Viable & Sustainable World Development Policy
Friday 9-10:30 am  
Panel: XI, 2 The Ethics of Terrorism, War, and Political Violence
Chair: Joanna Crosby
Omar Dahbour: The Difference between Moral & Ethical Evaluations of Terrorism
Carl Lesnor: World War II as the Paradigm of a "Good War"
Karsten Struhl: Is War a Morally Legitimate Response to Terrorism?
Friday 11am-12:30 pm
Panel: I, 3
Chair: Jeanne Schuler
Danic Parenteau: Hegel's Conception of Political Action
Marsh Feldman: Planning After Positivism
Friday 2-3:30 pm  
Panel: II, 3 Feminist Philosophy and Social Protest
Chair: Nancy Holmstrom
Marilea Bramer & Amy Hilden: Active Feminist Philosophical Theorizing
(with undergraduates)
Friday 2-3:30 pm  
Panel: III, 3 Teaching Philosophy to Working Class Students
Milton Fisk
Richard Schmitt: Facilitator
Friday 2-3:30 pm  
Panel: V, 1 Thinking About Global Justice  
Chair: Douglas Allen
Alison Jaggar: Canceling the Debt of the Global South
Abigail Gosselin: Power and Poverty: Why the Affluent Should Not 'Help' the Poor
Hye-Ryoung Kang: Beyond Cosmopolitanism & Nation Statism: Presuppositions of a Transnational Feminist Justice Perspective
Friday 2-3:30 pm  
Panel: I, 4
Chair: Sean Ferrier
Jeanne Schuler: The Bugaboo of Social Construction
Peter Amato: Sympathy for the Devil: On Peter Singer's Proposal for a Darwinian Left
Friday 4-5:30 pm  
 
Panel: II, 5 Democracy and Power
Chair: Michael Howard
Robert Ware: Democracy & the Necessity of Power
Len Krimerman: Democracy & "Education-Shaped" Forms of Citizenship & Authority
Thomas Wartenberg: comments on Ware & Krimerman presentations
Friday 4-5:30 pm
Panel: III, 4 Teaching About Diversity and Oppression: the Uses of Literature in the Philosophy Classroom
Chair: Salah Hassan
Kevin Graham: Getting Past the Privileged Perspective: Bebe Moore Campbell's Brothers & Sisters in the Ethics Classroom
Susan Babbit: TBA
Patrick Murray: Women & Wage Labor: de Beauvoir's The Second Sex & Peter Taylor's The Old Forest
Friday 4-5:30 pm  
Panel: V, 4 Philosophers Take On the World
Chair: JoAnne Myers
Kathryn Russell: RPAers and "anti-globalization: Case study and then discussion of challenges of participating in the moverment for global justice"
Friday 4-5:30 pm  
Panel: IV, 2 Desiring Agency: Ethical and Political Elements of Desire
Chair: Lisa Heldke
Melissa Burchard: I Want My MTV: Constructions of Moral Agency & Desire in Capitalist Culture
Brian Butler: Market Freedom & Constricted Desires
Abby Wilkerson: The Sick & the Queer: The Transformation of Perversions into Language & Action
Friday 4-5:30 PM
Panel: VII, 1 Examining Political and Religious Discourse
Chair: Will Miller
Barbara Ann Scott: Talking Terrorism: Denial & Doublespeak in U.S. Political Discourse
John Alan Cohan: Sedition & Religious Speech: Seditious Conspiracy, the Smith Act & Prosecution for Religious Speech Advocating the Violent Overthrow of Government
Friday 4-5:30 pm  
Dinner meeting on RPA anti-intervention work
Friday 5:30 to 7:30
Panel: II, 4 Philosophy and Activism
Michael Monahan: The Intersection between Philosophy & Activism
David Fryer: Queer Theory & Activism: On Campus & In The Community At Large
Sean Joe: Translational Research: A Model For Building an Interdisciplinary Social Change Research Agenda
Craig Matarrese: Living Wage Campaigns in the U.S. & How Activist-Philosophers Can Contribute
Cynthia Townley: The Role Of The Philosopher Outside of an Academic Institution: How to Incorporate These Experiences Back Into the World of Theory & Analysis
Friday 7:30 pm
Saturday
Panel: I, 5 After the Exhaustion of the Paradigm of Critical Theory
Chair: Jeffrey Paris, University of San Francisco
James Marsh, Fordham University
William S. Wilkerson, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Yoko Arisaka, University of San Francisco
Arnold Farr, Saint Joseph's University
Saturday 8:30-10 am  
Panel: III, 6
Chair: Jordan Alexander Stein
Fred Lembeck: Instructions for the Buckeye Game
Michael Rowley: Country Club Code: Performativity in a Critique of Academic Intellectual Language
Saturday 8:30 -10 am
Panel: III, 5 American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era (Time In The Ditch by John McCumber)
John Alan Cohen
Dianna Taylor: McCumber in Terms of Foucault's notion of Power/Knowledge: Augmentation of McCumber's Proposed Paradigm by Application of Foucault's Work
Jacqueline Gately: McCumber as a Contribution to the Attempt to Make the History of Western Philosophy a "Politicized Venture"
John McCumber: Response to Taylor & Gately
Saturday 8:30-10 am  
Panel: V, 5  
Chair: Rashad Shabazz
David Kaplan: From Critical Theory to Public Interest Philosophy
Ken Yee Yip: Technology, Social Change & Postcrisis-ism
Derek Hrynyshyn: Activism, Ideology & Radical Philosophy
Saturday 8:30-10 am  
Panel: IV, 3 Ecofeminism
Chair:
Jason Kawall: On Warren, Ecofeminism & the Logic of Domination
Regina Cochrane: Ecofeminism & Enlightenment: Beyond Counter-Enlightenment Ecofeminisms to an Ecofeminist Dialectic of Enligtenment
Lisa Heldke: "Hush", said his Mama, "You're Gonna Be A Pig": A Pragmatist Examination of Pigs in Literature, Film & Song
Saturday 8:30-10 am
Panel: VII, 2 World Health
Chair: Abby Wilkerson
Antonio Armas Vazquez: The Medical Paradigms & The Western Culture: The Cuban Panorama
Phil Cox: 30 Million Down, 30 Million to Go: Generic Drug Licensing & the International AIDS Crisis
Saturday 8:30-10 am
Panel: VIII, 2 Working Out the Problems of Work
Chair:
Scott Michaelsen: Why Work on Rights? Schedules of Rights and the Problem of Laziness
Scott Shershow: the End(s) of Work: From Free-Market Futurism to Empire
Tim Deines: Signifying Praxis: The Freedom of C.L.R.: James & the New American Studies
Saturday 8:30-10 am  
Panel: VI, 4 Key Figures  
Chair:
David Gandolfo: Liberation Philosophy of Ignatio Ellacuria
Manuel Yang: Hiromatsu Wataru & the horizon of Marxism
Douglas Allen: What Radical Philosophers Can Learn From Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Saturday 8:30-10 am  
Panel: I, 2: Merleau-Ponty and Foucault
Chair: Kevin Graham
Nancy Holland: Rethinking the Already Rethought: A Feminist Reading of Merleau-Ponty's Political Philosophy
David Burbler: Merleau-Ponty and Modern Art: Flesh, Emptiness & Postmodern Painting
Jan Rehmann, Michel Foucault and the Construction of a Postmodern Nietzscheanism
Saturday 10:30 am -12:00 pm 
Panel: II, 6 Selfhood and Self-making
Chair: Kim Leighton
Jason Barret: Relational Autonomy, Collective Responsibility & Discourse: A Feminist Attempt to Rethink Selfhood
Cressida Heyes: Self-Making & Community Expectations
Kate Mehuron: Philosophical Counseling: A Radical Panacea for Mental Health Care?
Saturday 10:30 am-12  
Panel: III, 1 Education for Economic Democracy
Chairs: Len Krimmerman, Bob Stone
Jessica Nembhard:
Christina Clamp:
Chris Gunn:
Saturday 10:30 am-12 
Panel: V, 6 Globalization, Art & the New Solidarity  
Chair:
Tony Smith: Systematic & Historical Dialectics: Towards a Marxian Theory of Globalization
Barbara McCloskey: Labor Murals from the U.S. & Mexico
Fred Evans & McCloskey (joint paper): The New Solidarity: Cross-Border Labor Networks & Mural Art in Response to Globalization
Saturday 10:30 am-12
Panel: IV, 4 One Author & Two Readers in Search of Radical Activism: Discussing Julie M. Thompson's Mommy Queerest
Chair: Jack Green-Musselman
Julie Thompson: Characterizations of Lesbian Mothers
Claudia Card & Ann Ferguson: Discussion Leaders
Saturday 10:30 am-12  
Panel: VII, 5 Poverty & Fragility
Chair:
Michael Howard: Liberal and Marxist Justifications for the Basic Income
JoAnne Myers: Fragility of Identifiable Citizens
Saturday 10:30-12 pm 
Panel: VI, 5 Borders and National Identity
Chair: Salah Hassan
Salah Hassan: Return: Palestine & Right to Return Politics
Clark & Harry van der Linden: A Conservation on National Exclusion & Solidarity
Solomon Ling Kong Leong: Radical Philosophy in China: Empowering the Minorities- A Study on Racial representations in Hong Kong Television
Saturday 10:30 am-12:00 pm
Discussion over lunch:
"Education for Economic Justice and Anti-Sweatshop Production."
Interested parties should meet in the first floor lobby of Africana Studies,
Churchill House.
Panel: X, 1 Applications of Marxism
Chair: Ann Ferguson
Milton Fisk: Can the Radical Left Be Seduced by Liberalism?
Norman Fischer: Marxism & Civil Republicanism
Saturday 1:30-3 pm  
Panel: I, 7 The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
Chair: Jan Rehmann
Victor Wallis: Vital Questions of Marxist Theory in the 21st Century: The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
Saturday 1:30-3 pm  
Panel: III, 7
Chair: Willard Enteman
David Owen: Academic Praxis
Donald Judd: Radical Philosophy in the Writing Classroom: Assignment Design & Social Critique
Jason Mallory: Creating an Inclusive Classroom: Addressing Male Norms in Philosophy
Saturday 1:30-3 pm
Panel: IX, 1 Is It Edible?
Lisa Tessman
Saturday 1:30-3 pm  
Panel: VIII, 1 Situating Hardt's and Negri's Empire
Chair: Richard Schmitt
Pierre Lamarche: Empire & Post-Marxism
David Sherman: Empire & the Critical Theoretical Tradition
Max Rosencrantz: The Empire Has No Clothes·or, Marx Beyond Negri
Saturday 1:30-3 pm  
Panel: IV, 5 Sexing Institutions
Chair: Cressida Heyes
Rahne Alexander: Yet Another Effort, If You Would Become True Gender Outlaws: Sade, Sacher-Masoch & "Irrational Gender"
Erica Burleigh: Just the Three of Us: Uncoupling the Dyadic Communication
Jordan Stein: Toward an Ethics of Child Molesting
Saturday 1:30-3 pm
Panel: VII, 4 Intellectualism & Philosophy in Prisons
Chair: Jeff Paris (tentative)
Rashad Shabazz: Prison Intellectuals: Mumia Abu-Jamal & Djilas
Mecke Nagel: African Prison Intellectuals
Christopher Sturr: Philosophical Theories of Punishment & the History of Prison Reform
Saturday 1:30-3 pm  
Panel: VIII, 4
Chair: Diana Taylor (tentative)
Sarah Donovan, "Oppressive Categories: Redeployment or Rejection."
Leisa Schwab: Power, the Body & the Ideology of the Objectified Self
Saturday 1:30-3 pm  
 
Panel: VI, 2 Transitions  
Chair:
Elizabeth Kassab: For an Arab Radical Philosophy: Tasks, Challenges and Call for Cooperation
David Schweickart: Successor-system Theory as an Orienting Device: Trying to Understand China
Craig Webster: Revolutionary Pluralism, or, Organic Intellectual Amid Democratic Multitude
Saturday 3:30-5 pm
SATURDAY 5:30-6:30 PM
BUSINESS MEETING
SATURDAY 7:30 PM
BANQUET
* A RPA History by Cliff DuRand (with musical interludes by Mike McGuire)
* Poetry Reading by Bob Randolph, RPA House Poet
Sunday
Panel: I, 10
Chair: Peter Hudis
Angela Cotten: Reading Karl Marx and the Problem of Social Totality Through the Lens of Alice Walker's Meridian
Sunday 8:30-10 am  
Panel: X, 2
Chair:
Peg O'Connor: Getting a Feminist Metaethical House in Order
Matthew Nesvet: Reconstructing Personal and Political Agency: Toward a New Theory of the Individual
Lisa Tessman: A Radical Philosopher's Contribution to a Politics of Resistance
Sunday 8:30-10 am
Panel: I, 9 Race, Truth & Power: Ideas on Philosophic Racism
Chair: Anne Pomeroy
Richard Peterson: Does It Matter If Marx Was A Racialist?
Ogbo L.Ugwuanyi: Truth, Justice & the Cause of African Humanity: Radical Philosophy & the Challenge of Philosophic Racism
Sunday 10:30 am-12  
Panel: VIII, 3
Chair: Greg Moses
Gwendolyn Blue: Rocking the Foundations of the Articulation Theory
Melissa Clarke: Agency & Resistance: Bourdieu to Rosa Parks
Matthew Landis: Divine Agony: Ideology, Religion & Forgiveness
Sunday 10:30am-12:00 pm
Panel: IV, 6 Women and Children First: Feminism, Rhetoric & Public Policy
Chair:
Sharon Meagher: Countering 'Blame the Victim' Rhetoric on School Violence
Ellen Feder: Doctor's Orders: Gender Assignment in Intersexed Infants
Patrice DiQuinzio: Love & Reason in the Public Sphere: Maternalist Forms of Civic Engagement & the Dilemma of Difference
Sunday 10:30 am-12
Panel: I, 8 Dunayevskaya & Dialectics
Chair: Patrick Murray
Anne Pomeroy
Peter Hudis & Tom Jeannot: The New Dunayevskaya Collection on Dialectics: Editors Meet Critics
Sunday 12:30-2 pm  
 
Panel: IX, 3
Chair: Bill McBride
Gail Presbey: Somali Refugees & "Black Hawk Down": Somali & U.S. Perspectives on the "Day of the Rangers" (October 3, 1993)
Inez Hedges: Last Films: Film Testaments
Sunday 12:30-2 pm  
 
Panel: X, 3
Chair: Christine Koggel
Michael Minch: When Can Liberal Theory be Radical?
Abraham Schwab: Community & Principles of Justice in Reflective Equilibrium
Lisa Schwartzman: Abstraction, Oppression, and Radical Critique
Sunday 12:30-2 pm  
 
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