15th Annual Conference of the
International Social Theory Consortium
Capitalism, Culture and Critique
Ames, Iowa, USA, June 9-10, 2016
Conference Program:
International Social Theory Consortium
Capitalism, Culture and Critique
Ames, Iowa, USA, June 9-10, 2016
Conference Program:
| istc-2016-program.pdf |
Our meetings will begin at 8:30 on Thursday, June 9 and run through 7:00 pm on June 10th. Most participants will want to arrive on Wednesday June 8 and depart on Saturday June 11. For those arriving by air, the nearest airport is Des Moines International Airport (DSM) which is located 42 miles from Iowa State University’s campus. If you will be staying at a hotel located away from campus, you will want to have a rental car for the period of your stay. If you are staying on campus (in the Memorial Union Hotel) or within walking distance of campus, you might wish to book a shuttle service through Executive Express that runs every 60-90 minutes between the Des Moines Airport and the University in Ames (schedule and pricing available at their website: https://www.executiveexpress.biz/reservations).
We suggest that you visit the Ames Convention and Visitor’s Bureau website (www.visitames.com) for detailed information about hotels, restaurants and transportation options. We have reserved room blocks at a special conference rate at several hotels on or near campus. Indicate to the reservation’s staff that you are associated with the International Social Theory Consortium when booking to obtain the conference rate.
Hotels on or very near campus:
Memorial Union Hotel (Queen Room $94; King Room $104): 515-296-6848;
Iowa House B&B (3 rooms available, call for rates) 515 292-2474
Hotels further away from Campus:
Country Inn and Suites (2 bed room $129; 1 bed suite $129; 2 bed suite $149) 515-233-3935
Gateway Hotel and Conference Center ($149) 515 292-8600
Microtel Inn and Suites (1 bed room $76; 2 bed room $86; 1 bed suite $96) 515-233-4444
Quality Inn and Suites(2 bed room $129) 515 232-9260
We suggest that you visit the Ames Convention and Visitor’s Bureau website (www.visitames.com) for detailed information about hotels, restaurants and transportation options. We have reserved room blocks at a special conference rate at several hotels on or near campus. Indicate to the reservation’s staff that you are associated with the International Social Theory Consortium when booking to obtain the conference rate.
Hotels on or very near campus:
Memorial Union Hotel (Queen Room $94; King Room $104): 515-296-6848;
Iowa House B&B (3 rooms available, call for rates) 515 292-2474
Hotels further away from Campus:
Country Inn and Suites (2 bed room $129; 1 bed suite $129; 2 bed suite $149) 515-233-3935
Gateway Hotel and Conference Center ($149) 515 292-8600
Microtel Inn and Suites (1 bed room $76; 2 bed room $86; 1 bed suite $96) 515-233-4444
Quality Inn and Suites(2 bed room $129) 515 232-9260
Sights around the campus of
Iowa State University in Ames
(May 2015)
Iowa State University in Ames
(May 2015)
Call for Papers
In the twenty-first century, as capitalism continues to consolidate power at the planetary level, culture has lost most vestiges of bounded autonomy. Music, art, literature, cinema, television and digital media are almost entirely subsumed as immaterial extensions of capital, simultaneously ideology and commodity. The significance of culture to contemporary capitalism has not gone unnoticed in social theory. A myriad of approaches have proliferated within and across disciplines.
For the 2016 annual conference, we especially encourage submissions that address the interrelationships between capitalism, culture and critique. Possible topics include:
Please email abstracts and/or proposals of sessions to krier@iastate.edu no later than 31 March 2016. The conference will be hosted by Dan Krier at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, USA. For more information contact either of the conference co-organizers:
Organizers:
Dan Krier (krier@iastate.edu)
Harry F. Dahms, Director, ISTC (hdahms@utk.edu)
In the twenty-first century, as capitalism continues to consolidate power at the planetary level, culture has lost most vestiges of bounded autonomy. Music, art, literature, cinema, television and digital media are almost entirely subsumed as immaterial extensions of capital, simultaneously ideology and commodity. The significance of culture to contemporary capitalism has not gone unnoticed in social theory. A myriad of approaches have proliferated within and across disciplines.
For the 2016 annual conference, we especially encourage submissions that address the interrelationships between capitalism, culture and critique. Possible topics include:
- The culture industry, consumptive alienation and capitalist culture
- New forms of ideology that employ novel strategies to captivate and capture consciousness, foreclose alternative visions of social change and future constellations of business, labor and government, and sustain and amplify the ongoing accumulation of capital
- Cultural relativism and the fragmentation and fracturing of the social
- Immaterial production, digital labor and working consumers: new modes of value extraction emerging in the culture-centric economy of the 21st century
- Cultural commodities (media, connectivity, tourism, travel, entertainment, high and low culture) that assume immaterial form and displace tangible commodities
- Ideology-critique in the age of cultural capitalism
- Culture in the field of tension between anthropology and sociology
- Emancipatory narratives, forms and modes of transmission in the age of cultural capitalism
- Cultural studies and/as/vs. critical theory
- Political Economies of Race
- Culture and circuits of capital: relationships between the credit system, productive system, distribution system, and consumption system under cultural capitalism
- Postcolonial Capitalism and Critique
- Identity politics and the disappearance of the self
- Race, Culture, and Critique
- Cultures and varieties of capitalism: prospects for resisting capital’s drive toward totally homogenous globalization
- Artifice and desire in cultural capitalism
- Massification of culture and the illusion of standards
- Strategies for survival in an age of cultural capitalism
- Posthumanism and the evolution of the nature-society link
- What is the future (if any) of the species?
Please email abstracts and/or proposals of sessions to krier@iastate.edu no later than 31 March 2016. The conference will be hosted by Dan Krier at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, USA. For more information contact either of the conference co-organizers:
Organizers:
Dan Krier (krier@iastate.edu)
Harry F. Dahms, Director, ISTC (hdahms@utk.edu)