The Global E. P. Thompson: Reflections on the Making of the English Working
Class after Fifty Years
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Thompson and his Times
Madeline Davis, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
“Edward Thompson's ethics and Activism 1956-1963: Reflections on the
political formation of The Making of the English Working Class”
Michael Merrill, Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies, SUNY, New
York
“What Makes Making Marxist? E. P. Thompson and the Theory of the English
Working Class”
Tim Shenk, Columbia University, New York
“The Ends of History: E. P. Thompson Writes the Apocalypse”
6:30 – 8:30 PM
Dinner
Keynote Address by Cal Winslow, University of California Berkeley,
California
“Tending the Liberty Tree: Experience, Politics and History from Below”
Friday, October 4th, 2013
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Breakfast
10:00 – 12:00 AM
Thompson and Theory
John Trumpboar, Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Trade Union Program,
Cambridge
“Edward P. Thompson, Perry Anderson, and the Antinomies of British Marxism
Revisited”
Jeffery Webber, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
“Reading E. P. Thompson in the Andes”
Jon Lawrence, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
“The Making and Unmaking of the English Working Class?”
Lisa Furchtgott, Yale, New Haven
“That on-rolling machine”: gender history and the eschatological E. P.
Thompson”
Noon – 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 PM
Thompson in the Global South
Jonathan Hyslop, Colgate University, New York
“The Practice and Politics of Thompsonian Social History in South Africa,
from the 1970s to the present”
Y. Doğan Çetinkaya, Panteion University, Athens Greece
“E. P. Thompson in the 'Orient': His Belated Impact on Young Scholars of
Turkey during the 1990's”
Lucas Martín Poy Piñeiro, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
“The Making of Labor History: Tracing the Influence of E. P. Thompson in
Argentina”
3:00 – 3:30 PM
Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:30 PM
Thompson in the Global North
Rudolf Kucera, Masaryk Institute and Archives, Czech Academy of Sciences,
Prague, Czech Republic
“Meeting the Hard Line: E. P. Thompson, The Making and the Communist
Historiographies of East Central Europe, 1963-1989”
Thomas Lindenberger, Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany
“Only of historical relevance? The German Reception of The Making and its
actuality reassessed from a (post) Cold War perspective”
Hideo Ichihashi, Saitama University, Tokyo, Japan
“The Making, E. P. Thompson and the Japanese Intellectual World”
Melvyn Dubofsky, SUNY Binghamton, New York
“E. P. Thompson and American Labor Historians”
7:00 – 8:30 PM
Dinner
Saturday, October 5th, 2013
8:00 – 8:30 AM
Breakfast
8:30 – 10:30 AM
Moral Economy
Gabrielle Clark, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
“'Humbug' or 'Human Good'?: E. P. Thompson, the Rule of Law, and Labor from
The Making to Neoliberal American Capitalism”
Kazuhiko Kondo, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan
“'Moral Economy' retried in digital archives”
Michael Ralph, NYU, New York
“Actuarial Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism; or, The Making
of the American Working Class”
Nikos Patamianos, University of Crete, Greece
“Moral Economy? Popular demands, liberalism and state intertervention in
the struggle over anti-profiteering laws in Greece, 1916-1925”
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Class Formation
Anna Hájková, University of Warwick, UK
“The Bright Young Things of the Holocaust: The Terezín ghetto as a society
of inequalities”
Joseph Fronczak, Yale, New Haven
“The Making of the Global Left: Thompsonian Political Formation and the
Worldwide Sitdown Strike Movement of 1936”
Cemil Boyraz, Istanbul Biligi University, Turkey
“Class in the Age of Global Capitalism: The Case of Post-1980 Privatization
in Turkey”
Parthasaraty, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
“The Poverty of (Marxist) Theory: Peasant Classes, Provincial Capital, and
the Crique of Globalization in India”
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch
[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Labor]