Collective Imaginations of Capitalism: A Graduate Student Symposium

Please join us for The Heilbroner Center’s annual graduate symposium, coming up on April 13th, 2018, in the Wolff Conference Room, 6 E. 16th Street. This year’s theme is Collective Imaginations of Capitalism.

The conference is organized and presented by the Heilbroner Center’s graduate fellows.

The schedule is as follows: 

11:00 AM: Breakfast

11:30 AM: Introduction by Heilbroner Center co-director Julia Ott

11:45 AM – 1:00 PM: “Surplus: Who Makes It, Who Takes It?” with Michael McHugh (Liberal Studies) and Ibrahim Shikaki (Economics)

Discussant: Ying Chen (Economics, NSSR)

1:00 PM to 1:15 PM: Coffee Break

1:15 PM- 2:30 PM: “Consciousness and Subjectivities”
with Guillermina Altomonte (Sociology) and Daniel Wagnon (Philosophy)

Discussant: Clara Mattei (Economics, NSSR)

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: Lunch

3:45 PM – 5:00 PM: “Imagining Intellectual Properties”
with Meredith Hall (Sociology) and Amanda Zadorian (Politics)

Discussant: Zed Adams (Philosophy, NSSR)

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Keynote by Professor Caitlin Zaloom (NYU)

7:00 PM- 8:30 PM: Reception