DAY ONE:
Thursday, October 3
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Thompson and his Times
Madeleine 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”
DAY TWO:
Friday, October 4
10:00 – 12:00 AM
Thompson and Theory
John Trumpbour, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School: “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 fashion-machine:' gender 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: 'Of historical relevance only? The German reception of The Making reassessed from a (post) Cold War perspective'
Hideo Ichihashi, Saitama University, Tokyo, Japan: "E. P. Thompson and Japanese Left Wing Intellectuals: Why Wasn’t His Major Work Translated for 40 Years?”
Melvyn Dubofsky, SUNY Binghamton, New York: “Edward Thompson: The Man, the Scholar, the Activist, Personal Recollections”
DAY THREE:
Saturday, October 5
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 Potamianos, 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”
D. Parthasarathy, 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