{"id":2073,"date":"2017-12-14T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/?page_id=2073"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:23:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:23:25","slug":"debt-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/c21\/debt-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"DEBT conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 29 &#8211; May 1, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, April 29<\/strong><br \/>\nMilwaukee Art Museum<\/p>\n<p>Welcomes<br \/>\nTour of\u00a0<strong>Chipstone Decorative Arts Galleries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Theaster Gates, Jr.<\/strong><br \/>\nPerformance and lecture related to the exhibition, &#8220;To Speculate Darkly&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, April 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Welcome, Dean Richard Meadows, Merry Wiesner-Hanks, and Peter Y. Paik<\/p>\n<p><em>The Economics of Debt<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Richard D.\u00a0Wolff<\/strong>, &#8220;Consumer Debt and the Economic Crisis&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Elaine Lewinnek<\/strong>, &#8220;The Cost of the American Dream: Historic Perspective on the Housing Crisis&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Joel Magnuson<\/strong>, &#8220;Looking Beyond the Recession&#8221;<br \/>\nJohn S. Heywood (Economics, UWM), moderator<\/p>\n<p><em>The Ecology of Debt<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Gerry Canavan<\/strong>, &#8220;Debt, Theft, Permaculture: Justice and Ecological Scale&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Genese Sodikoff<\/strong>, &#8220;Lazarus Effects: The Spectral Ecology and Political Economy<br \/>\nof Extinction Debt in Madagascar&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Julianne Lutz Warren<\/strong>, &#8220;Placing Debt&#8221;<br \/>\nErica Bornstein (Anthropology, UWM), moderator<\/p>\n<p>Keynote:\u00a0<strong>Michael A. Gillespie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, May 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Ethics of Debt<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Eleanor Courtemanche<\/strong>, &#8220;Unintended Consequences from Dickens to Hayek&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Kennan Ferguson<\/strong>, &#8220;Debt&#8217;s Moral&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Stephen Gardner<\/strong>, &#8220;How Debt Replaces Guilt: Social Order vs Sacred Order&#8221;<br \/>\nWilliam Bristow (Philosophy, UWM), moderator<\/p>\n<p><em>The Demons of Debt<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Morris Berman<\/strong>, &#8220;Is Debt the New Karma? Why America Finally Fell Apart&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Mary Poovey<\/strong>, &#8220;Demonizing Debt, Naturalizing Finance&#8221;<br \/>\nJason Puskar (English, UWM), moderator<\/p>\n<p><em>The Futures of Debt<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Michael Tratner<\/strong>, &#8220;The Resurrection of an Economic God: Keynes Becomes Postmodern&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Donald D. 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