Schedule

    • 12:00–1:00: Check-in

    • 1:00–1:25: Introduction | Michael Hardt

    • 1:25–1:40: Holberg Prize Opening Remarks | Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

    • 1:40-2:05: The Holberg Lecture 2008 | Fredric Jameson: “Foreign Relations In World Literature” (video-presentation)

    • 2:05–3:20: Conversation | Achille Mbembe & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

    • 3:20–3:45: Break

    • 3:45–5:15: Panel | Verso Reading Group: Jameson and Reperiodization | Chairs: Anthony Ballas & Jax Elwood 

      • Matthew Ellis, “What Is Re-periodization?”

      • Dennis Hogan, “Theorizing the Postuniversity”

      • Kate Wagner, “Periodization in the Age of Taxonomy”

    • 5:20–6:40: Keynote | Jane Gaines, “Sci Fi and Jameson’s Futurologies”

    • 8:00–9:00: Breakfast

    • 9:00–10:20: Keynote | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Reading Jameson”

    • 10:30–12:20: Panel | Technology & Totality | Chairs: Mathilde Hjertholm Nielsen & Alba Mas Sala

      • Ryan Healey, “Queries, Keys, and Value-Forms: Allegory at Hyperscale”

      • D. W. Kamish, “he Jamesonian Future of Critical Media Theory: hermeneutics, causality, and the “local validity” of technological determinism”

      • Chris Washington, “How (A)I Die Now: The Style of Collective Thought”

      • Hana Qugana, “The Jeepney in the Wormhole: Mapping the Decolonial Multiverse”

    • 12:20–1:30: Break for lunch

    • 1:30–3:00: Panel | Crisis: from Globalization to Fascism | Chairs: Yubeen Lim & Carson Welch

      • Ryan Kerr, “Specters of Jameson; or, Remarks on Remarxification in the Era of Late Fascism”

      • Suvij Sudershan, “From Globalization to Gramsci: Reading the Political in Jameson’s ‘Middle-Period’”

      • Jini Kim Watson, “Jameson’s Three Worlds and Allegories of Authoritarianism”

    • 3:00–3:30: Break

    • 3:30–5:00: Panel | Crisis: from Minneapolis to Türkiye to Palestine | Chairs: Jax Elwood & R Morris Levine 

      • Vishal Jammulapati, “Revolution in Form': Al-Hadaf, the PDF, and Imperialist Infrastructure in Palestine”

      • Burç Köstem, “The Consummative Mood and the Political Unconscious of Crisis” 

      • Kevin Rigby Jr., “The Negative Horizon: Riot, Totality, and Black Revolt”

    • 5:10–6:30: Keynote | Toril Moi, “Fred Jameson Teaches Us to Read: From Sartre to The Political Unconscious and Beyond”

    • 6:30: Dinner

    • 8:00–9:00: Breakfast

    • 9:00–10:20: Keynote | Michael Denning, “The Political Aporia: Jameson as Political Thinker” 

    • 10:30–12:20: Panel | Method: The Production of Theory | Chairs: R Morris Levine & Yuting Hu 

      • Nico Baumbach, “Marxism and Conspiracy Theory”

      • Veronica Davis, “Language and Modes of Production in Jameson’s Unpublished Works”

      • Nathan Singleton, “On Not Giving Ground Relative to the Desire Called Utopia: Toward a Jamesonian Psychoanalytic Theory”

      • Miles Taylor, “Scandal As Method”

    • 12:20–1:30: Break for lunch

    • 1:30–3:20: Panel | Utopia: Towards a Theorization of America | Chairs: Yuting Hu & Carson Welch

      • Ingrid Diran, “Militant Utopia”

      • John Modica, “Jameson and Pedagogy: The University as Utopia”

      • Ming Kit Wong, “Utopia Contra Theory: Rorty's Critique of Jameson”

      • Xinyu H. Zhang , “Utopian Envy?”

    • 3:20–4:00: Closing remarks | Ranjana Khanna & Michael Hardt