Friday, April 3
7:30 p.m.
“Does Capitalism Have a Race and a Gender?”
David Harvey, Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York (CUNY)
Jane Collins, Professor of Rural Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin in Madison
Room 216 of Bicentennial Hall, located on Bicentennial Way off College Street (Route 125)
Saturday, April 4
9:30 a.m.
Panel Discussion: “The Sex of Money”
Stephanie Seguino, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Vermont: “Towards a Unified Field Theory of Stratification: How Racial and Gender Inequality Stimulate Capitalist Growth”
Kamala Kempadoo, Professor of Anthropology, York University: “Transactional Sex”
Lisa Sun-Hee Park, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota: “Public Charge and the Logic of Late Capitalism: Pregnant Immigrant Women at the Border”
Robert A. Jones ’59 House, located on Hillcrest Road off College Street (Route 125)
1:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion: “The Cost of Money”
David Stoll, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Middlebury College: “Women in Trouble: Microcredit, Migration and Foreclosure in a Mayan Town in the Western Guatemalan Highlands”
Laurie Essig, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, Middlebury College: “American Plastic: A Cultural Economy of Cosmetic Surgery”
Jose Garcia, researcher, Demos Institute: “Demystifying the Democratization of Credit: The Role of Gender, Race and Ethnicity”
Robert A. Jones ’59 House, located on Hillcrest Road off College Street (Route 125)
4 p.m.
Panel Discussion: “The Color of Money”
Bob Prasch, Associate Professor of Economics, Middlebury College: “Race, Sex, Class and the Preconceptions of Neoclassical Economics”
Marcellus Andrews, Professor of Economics, Barnard College and Columbia University: “Capitalism and the Skin Game: An Economist’s Meditation on Math, Models and Racism”
Robert A. Jones ’59 House, located on Hillcrest Road off College Street (Route 125)