The Future of the Lumpenproletariat: A Conference in Memory of Glyn Salton-Cox

This conference will explore the Marxist concept of the lumpenproletariat, which was initially translated into English as “social scum.”

Speakers include:

Maurizia Boscagli (UC Santa Barbara)
Stephen Ferguson II (North Carolina State University)
Catherine Liu (UC Irvine)
Colleen Lye (UC Berkeley)
Ben V. Olguín (UC Santa Barbara)
Robert Weide (California State University, Los Angeles)
Keynote: Cedric Johnson (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Cosponsored by the IHC’s Graduate Collaborative Award; Ben V. Olguín, Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English & UCSB Global Latinidades Center; Amazon and Economic Justice Research Project; the Department of English; the Graduate Division; the Center on Modern Culture, Materialism, and Aesthetics (COMMA); Medieval Literatures; Bishnupriya Ghosh; the Early Modern Center; the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts; the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies; the Carsey-Wolf Center; the Department of Global Studies; Literature and the Environment; the Department of Film and Media Studies; the Department of Feminist Studies; the Central Coast Labor Center; and the Hull Endowed Chair

Image credit: Riot In The Galleria (1910) by Umberto Boccioni