Gramsci Now: Cultural and Political Theory
An International Symposium
Speakers
Stanley Aronowitz has taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1983, where he is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He studies labor, social movements, science and technology, education, social theory, and cultural studies and is director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center. Aronowitz is author or editor of 23 books, including Just Around Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery (2005); How Class Works (2003); The Last Good Job in America (2001); The Knowledge Factory (2000); The Jobless Future: Sci-tech and the Dogma of Work (1994, with William DiFazio); False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness (1973, 1992); and the forthcoming Against Schooling. He is founding editor of the journal Social Text and a member of its advisory board. He has published more than 200 articles and reviews in publications such as Harvard Educational Review, Social Policy, The Nation, and The American Journal of Sociology.
Joseph A. Buttigieg, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, has been a Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies since its inception. A specialist in modern literature and critical theory, his recent work has focused on the relationship between culture and politics in twentieth-century Europe. In addition to numerous articles, Buttigieg has authored a book on James Joyce’s aesthetics, A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective (1987). He is also the editor and translator of the multivolume complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. Several of his articles on Gramsci have been translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese, and he has lectured widely in the United States and Europe as well as in Mexico, Brazil, Tunisia, South Africa, and Japan. He is a founding member and executive secretary of the International Gramsci Society. The Italian Minister of Culture appointed him to a commission of experts overseeing the preparation of the “edizione nazionale” of Gramsci's writings. Buttigieg serves on the editorial and advisory boards of various journals and is a member of the editorial collective boundary 2.
Kate Crehan is Professor at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is an anthropologist who has carried out fieldwork in Zambia and Britain. Her publications include The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia (1997) and Gramsci, Culture, and Anthropology (2002).
Roberto Dainotto is Associate Professor of Italian at Duke University. His publications include Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities (2000) and Europe (in Theory) (2007). He has edited Racconti Americani del ’900 and the forthcoming Mediterranean Studies (with Eric Zakim). His current research looks at representations of Italian Americans in Italian culture, where they consistently appear as allegories both of an uprooting modernity and of the unresolved “southern question” of Italy’s failed modernization. He is currently preparing articles on the philosophy of praxis and on Gramsci in the United States as well as editing contributions for Le Parole di Gramsci.
Michael Denning is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (1987); Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (1987); The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (1997); and Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (2004). His research interests include cultural theory, social movements, and twentieth-century cultural history.
Benedetto Fontana is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Baruch College of the City University of New York. His research interests include ancient, medieval, and modern political theory as well as contemporary political and social theory. He is the author of Hegemony and Power: On the Relation Between Gramsci and Machiavelli (1993) and the co-editor of Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy (2004). He is currently working on Antonio Gramsci and his notions of politics and the state, on Machiavelli and his Romans, and on rhetoric and democracy.
Stephen Gill, Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at Toronto’s York University and Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford, specializes in international relations and political economy. His publications include The Global Political Economy (1988, with David Law); American Hegemony and the Trilateral Commission (1991); Gramsci, Historical Materialism, and International Relations (1993); and Power, Production, and Social Reproduction (2004, with Isabella Bakker). His Power and Resistance in the New World Order (2002) was the winner of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Title Award. His current research interests include new forms of political agency, the political and juridical constitution of global capitalism, American strategy, and cultural and civilizational aspects of globalization.
Marcia Landy is Distinguished Service Professor of English/Film Studies and is on the faculty of the Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. She teaches courses on film history and theory, politics and film, national and transnational cinema, and classical and popular cinema. Her books include Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931–1943 (1986); Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film and Television Melodrama (1991); British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930–1960 (1991); Film, Politics, and Gramsci (1994); Queen Christina (1996, with Amy Villarejo); Cinematic Uses of the Past (1996); The Folklore of Consensus: Theatricality and Spectacle in Italian Cinema 1930–1943 (1998); Italian Film (2000); The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media (2000); Stars: The Film Reader (2004, co-edited with Lucy Fischer); and Monty Python’s Flying Circus (2005). Her articles on Gramsci have appeared in Rethinking Marxism, boundary 2, and Critical Studies.
Guido Liguori is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calabria and Vice President of the International Gramsci Society–Italia. The editor of Critica Marxista, Liguori has published numerous essays on twentieth-century political philosophy and on the Marxist tradition in Italy. He also enjoys an international reputation as one of the most widely cited Gramscian scholars. In addition to his seminal work Gramsci Conteso (1996), Liguori is the author of Sentieri Gramsciani (2006) and Gramsci: Guida alla Lettura (2005, with Chiara Meta). He co-edited Le Parole di Gramsci (2004, with Fabio Frosini).
Frank Rosengarten is Professor Emeritus of Italian and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York. He taught at Case Western Reserve University from 1962 to 1967 and at Queens College (CUNY) from 1967 to 1992. Among his publications are Vasco Pratolini: The Development of a Social Novelist (1965); The Italian Anti-Fascist Press, 1919–1945 (1968); Silvio Trentin: From Interventionism to the Resistance (1980); The Writings of the Young Marcel Proust, 1885–1900: An Ideological Critique (1980); and Urbane Revolutionary: C. L. R. James and the Struggle for a New Society (2007). He is editor of the English-language translation of Gramsci’s Letters from Prison (1993) and a co-founder (with Michael Brown) of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy. He was editor of the journal Socialism and Democracy from 1985 to 1992.
David F. Ruccio is Professor of Economics and Policy Studies and a Faculty Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Higgins Center for Labor Research Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His scholarly interests include economic methodology, Marxian theory, and international political economy. His most recent book is Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics (2003). The author of more than 50 journal articles and chapters in books, Ruccio has served as editor of Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture, and Society for the past ten years. He is currently working on three books: Economic Representations: Academic and Everyday; Planning, Development, and Globalization: Essays in Marxian Class Analysis; and Economics, the University, and the World.
Epifanio San Juan, Jr. is director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center and co-director of the board of Philippine Forum in New York City. He was recently a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center at Bellagio, Italy, and a Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Katholieke Universteit, Leuven, Belgium. San Juan’s works include the groundbreaking Racial Formations/Critical Transformations (1992), Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression (1995), Beyond Postcolonial Theory (1997), From Exile to Diaspora (1998), Racism and Cultural Studies (2002), Working Through the Contradictions: From Cultural Theory to Critical Practice (2004), and In the Wake of Terror: Class, Race, Nation, Ethnicity in the Postmodern World (2007).