Neo-Liberalism: From Above And From Below: Colloquium on Law, History & the Humanities

The University of Texas at Austin

Colloquium on Law, History & the Humanities

Spring 2008

Neo-Liberalism: From Above And From Below

Date	Speaker / Institution	Time / Location	Faculty Moderator/Coordinator
Jan 28 Monday	James K. Galbraith LBJ School of Public Affairs UT at Austin How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (forthcoming, Free Press 2008): Foreword, Chapters 6, 8, 11-13.	Sheffield Room, TNH 2.111 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.	William Forbath
Feb 18 Monday	Kerry Rittich University of Toronto "Socializing Neoliberalism: The Fate of Social Rights" "Social Rights and Social Policy: Transformations on the International Landscape" "The Future of Law and Development: Second-Generation Reforms and the Incorporation of the Social" OPTIONAL READING	Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.	William Forbath
March 3 Monday	David Harvey Dept of Anthropology City University of New York "From Capital Surplus to Accumulation by Dispossession"	Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.	William Forbath
March 24 Monday	Jonathan Simon School of Law UC, Berkeley “War on! Why a ‘War on Cancer’ should replace our ‘War on Crime’ (and Terror)”	Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.	William Forbath
April 7 Monday	Michael Conroy Colibri Consulting Certification for Sustainable Development "How civil society is striking back at neoliberal globalization: Tales from the 'certification revolution'"	Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.	William Forbath
April 21 Monday	Jean Comaroff Dept of Anthropology University of Chicago "NATIONS WITH/OUT BORDERS: neoliberalism and the problem of belonging in Africa, and beyond"	Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.	William Forbath