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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Welcome and Coffee (8:30-9:00 AM)
Introduction (9:00-9:20 AM)

1. Environment, Governance, Temporality (9:20-10:50 AM)
Hannah Gadbois (UIC): “Going Nowhere at Top Speed: Feudal and Capitalist Temporalities”
Paul Forrester (Yale): “ESG and Asset Manager Capitalism” 
Ashima Mittal (UC): “Atmospheric Imperialism and the Reification of Nature”

2. Land, Rent, Financialization (11:00-12:30 PM)
Jack Votava (Northwestern), “In Praise of Debt? Expectational Power and the Causes of Financial Crisis in Argentina”
James Tierney (Kent): “Financialized Farmland”
Adrián de León Arias (Guadalajara): “Tracking some Features of Neo-Feudalism in Thorstein Veblen’s Analytical Contributions”

12:30-1:30PM: Lunch break

3. Humanities Panel (1:30-3:20 PM)
Adam Rensch (BGSU): “Monopoly University: On the Present and Future of Higher Education”
Filippo Petricca (Indiana): “The Old Story of Neo-Feudalism: A Perspective from Literary Studies”
Catherine Liu (UCI): “Diversity and Decadence in the Court of Finance Capital”

4. Political Economy Panel (3:30-4:50 PM)
Radhika Desai (Manitoba): “What’s in a Name? The Misuses of ‘Feudalism’ and ‘Capitalism’”
Michael Hudson (UMKC): “Is the West Regressing into Neofeudalism?”

5. Keynote (5:00-7:00 PM)
Brett Christophers (Uppsala): “Rentier Capitalism and Neoliberalism in the Age of Climate Change”