rom: rbatzell@gmail.com [rbatzell@gmail.com] on behalf of Rudi Batzell [rbatzell@fas.harvard.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:09 PM Friends, The Program on the Study of Capitalism and the Initiative on Global History at Harvard University are excited to announce an upcoming conference "The Global E. P. Thompson: Reflections on the Making of the English Working Class after Fifty Years".  The conference will be held at Harvard University from October 3-5, 2013. We invite you to join us, and to pass this announcement along to friends and colleagues who may be interested in attending. The full program can be found here: <http://studyofcapitalism.harvard.edu/global-thompson-program> Please register to attend the conference here: <http://register-global-thompson.eventbrite.com/> For those unable to attend in person, the conference will be streamed live online: <http://www.ustream.tv/channel/global-e-p-thompson-conference-harvard-university-october-3-5-2013> CONFERENCE PROGRAM 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” 6:30 – 8:30 PM Opening Keynote Address (please contact the organizers about attending this limited space dinner event) Cal Winslow, University of California Berkeley, California: “Tending the Liberty Tree: Experience, Politics and History from Below” 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” 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” 3:30 – 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” 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”  --