April 29 – May 1, 2010
Thursday, April 29
Milwaukee Art Museum
Welcomes
Tour of Chipstone Decorative Arts Galleries
Theaster Gates, Jr.
Performance and lecture related to the exhibition, “To Speculate Darkly”
Friday, April 30
Welcome, Dean Richard Meadows, Merry Wiesner-Hanks, and Peter Y. Paik
The Economics of Debt
Richard D. Wolff, “Consumer Debt and the Economic Crisis”
Elaine Lewinnek, “The Cost of the American Dream: Historic Perspective on the Housing Crisis”
Joel Magnuson, “Looking Beyond the Recession”
John S. Heywood (Economics, UWM), moderator
The Ecology of Debt
Gerry Canavan, “Debt, Theft, Permaculture: Justice and Ecological Scale”
Genese Sodikoff, “Lazarus Effects: The Spectral Ecology and Political Economy
of Extinction Debt in Madagascar”
Julianne Lutz Warren, “Placing Debt”
Erica Bornstein (Anthropology, UWM), moderator
Keynote: Michael A. Gillespie
Saturday, May 1
The Ethics of Debt
Eleanor Courtemanche, “Unintended Consequences from Dickens to Hayek”
Kennan Ferguson, “Debt’s Moral”
Stephen Gardner, “How Debt Replaces Guilt: Social Order vs Sacred Order”
William Bristow (Philosophy, UWM), moderator
The Demons of Debt
Morris Berman, “Is Debt the New Karma? Why America Finally Fell Apart”
Mary Poovey, “Demonizing Debt, Naturalizing Finance”
Jason Puskar (English, UWM), moderator
The Futures of Debt
Michael Tratner, “The Resurrection of an Economic God: Keynes Becomes Postmodern”
Donald D. Hester, “China and the United States: The Bonds of Debt”
Steven Shaviro, “The ‘Bitter Necessity’ of Debt: Neoliberal Finance and the Society of Control”
Tracey Heatherington (Anthropology, UWM), moderator
Closing Discussion