8:30-9:10 a.m. Registration, Coffee, Opening remarks
McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Science Building

9:15-11:15 a.m. The Fate of Postwar Capitalism (McCune)

• David Engerman, Brandeis University, “After Ideology, What? The Rise and Fall of
  Ideas of Convergence” Read Paper
• Chris Mcauley, UC Santa Barbara, “Olivier Cox and the Elusive End of Capitalism" Read Paper
• Christopher Phelps, Ohio State University, “C. L. R. James and the Theory of State Capitalism”
• Robert Brenner, UCLA, Chair and Comment
  
  -----Liberalism and its Discontents (4020 HSSB)
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• Kevin Mattson, Ohio University, “Towards a Social Theory of Advanced Capitalism: John Kenneth Galbraith and the Nuances of Modern Liberalism” Read Paper
• Nils Gilman, “Peter Drucker and the Intellectual Origins of Management Theory” Read Paper
• Meg Jacobs, MIT, “Inflation: The Permanent Dilemma of Postwar American Economic Culture” Read Paper
• Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania, Chair and Comment
  
  11: 30 a.m.-1 p.m. Lunch/Keynote Presentation (Faculty Club)
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• Howard Brick, Washington University, “The Postcapitalist Vision in Twentieth-Century
  American Social Thought” Read Paper
  
  1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m Cultural Rebellions (McCune)
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• Casey Blake, Columbia, Chair
• Grace Hale, University of Virginia, “"How the Rebel Romance Swallowed the Left, or Why Even Allen Ginsberg Can't Change the World" Read Paper
• Michael Szalay, UC Irvine, “The White Oriental and the Rise of Global Cool." Read Paper
• Paula Rabinowitz, University of Minnesota, Feminism's Phantom's: A Modernist(ist) Host Story" Read Paper
• George Cotkin, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Chair and Comment
  

Economic Thought (4020 HSSB)d

• Michael Bernstein, UC San Diego, “American Economists and the ‘Marginalist Revolution:’ Some Notes on the Historical Roots of Contemporary Orthodoxy” Read Paper
• Jeffrey Sklansky, Oregon State University, “In Trusts We Trust: The Social Democratic Promise of Corporate Enterprise” Read Paper
• Mary Furner, UC Santa Barbara, Chair and Comment
  
  3:15-3:30 p.m. Break
  
  3:15-5:00 p.m. Feminism and the Family (McCune)
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• Daniel Horowitz, Smith College, “Feminism and American Social Criticism at Mid-Century” Read Paper
• Robert Genter, Columbia University, Norman O. Brown and the Cultural Politics of
  the Nuclear Family” Read Paper
• Judith Smith, University of Massachusetts, Boston, “Political Economy and Family Economy: Arthur Miller and Lorraine Hansberry” Read Paper
• Linda Nicholson, Washington University, Chair and Comment

Cultural Politics (4020 HSSB)d

• George Lipsitz, UC San Diego, “Self-Activity on the Shop Floor: the Cultural Contradictions of Business Unionism" Read Paper
• Alan Wald, University of Michigan, “Capitalism and its Counter Culture: Black Marxists and the Anti-Fascist Crusade”
• David Plotke, New School University, “Status Politics in the 1950s” Read Paper
• Adolph Reed, New School University, Chair and Comment
  
  5:49 p.m. Sunset at the Beach
  
  6:00 p.m. Reception at Faculty Club/Dinner
  
  Discussion Roundtable: From Class to Culture – and Back?
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• Nelson Lichtenstein, UCSB, Chair
• David Hollinger, UC Berkeley
• Adolph Reed, New School University
• Alan Wald, University of Michigan
• Alice O’Connor, UC Santa Barbara

Saturday, March 1

8:45-9:00 Coffee

9:00 –11:00 a.m. Funding the State of Knowledge (McCune)

• Jessica Wang, UCLA, Chair
• Alice O’Connor, UC Santa Barbara, “The Politics of Rich and Rich:
  The attack on Liberal Philantrophy and the Rise of the Philantrophic Right.” Read Paper
• Paddy Riley, UC Berkeley, “Clark Kerr: From the Industrial to the Knowledge Economy” Read Paper
• Casey Blake, Columbia University, “The National Endowment for the Arts”
• Ronald Schatz, Wesleyan University, Comment
  
  11:00-11:15 a.m. Break
  
  11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Rightwing Social Thought (McCune)
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• Jennifer Burns, UC Berkeley, “Skyscraper on a Hill: Ayn Rand and the Cultural Politics
  of American Capitalism” Read Paper
• Juliet Williams, UC Santa Barbara, “On the Road Again: Reconsidering the Political Writings of F.A. Hayek” Read Paper
• Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Columbia University, “Boulwarism: The First Stage of Reaganism” Read Paper
• Jon Wiener, UC Irvine, Chair and Comment
  
  -----Knowledge and the University (4020 HSSB)
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• Shannan Clark, Columbia University, “Making Progressive Designers:
  The Design Laboratory, 1935-1940” Read paper
• Andrew Jewett, UC Berkeley, "Retrenchment for Progress: Robert K. Merton's Early Sociology of
  >Science" Read Paper
• Christopher Newfield, UC Santa Barbara, “Early Post-Capitalism:
  Humanism and Craft Labor in Mid-Century Academic Work” Read Paper
• Eileen Boris, UC Santa Barbara, Chair and Comment
  
  1:15-2:00 p.m. Lunch (Faculty Club or University Center)