<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear KineJapaners,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you happen to be in and around the Santa Barbara/Los Angels areas this weekend, please join us for the conference “Lukács and the World: Rethinking the Global Circuits of Cultural Production” to be held on April 20 and 21, 2018, at UCSB.<b class=""> </b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Below is the conference program, and as you can see, Phil Rosen will present on the relationship between Lukács and Marxist Film Theory. I hope some of you on the list can make it to the event!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Naoki</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Naoki Yamamoto<br class="">Assistant Professor<br class="">Film and Media Studies<br class="">University of California, Santa Barbara<br class=""><a href="mailto:yamamoto@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu" class="">yamamoto@filmandmedia.ucsb.edu</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*******************************************************************************************************</div><div class="" style="text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Lukács and the World: Rethinking the Global Circuits of Cultural Production</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">April 20-21, 2018 @ </b><b class="">The Annenberg Conference Room, 4429 SSMS Building, UCSB</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><u class=""><b class="">Schedule</b></u></div><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Friday, April 20</b><br class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">Panel 1 (10:20 AM-12:50 PM): Decentering Lukács</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="">Naoki Yamamoto (University of California, Santa Barbara)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Lukács, Fukumoto Kazuo, and Marxist Theory in Prewar Japan”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Roy Chan (University of Oregon)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“…and China: Inclusivity, Reification, and the Terms of Cultural Exchange”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">James M. Robertson (Woodbury University)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“From Aesthetic Balkanism to European Realism: The Avant-Gardes, New </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Realism and the Horizons of Revolution in Interwar Yugoslavia”</div><div class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="">Panel 2 (1:50 PM-3:30 PM): Uneasy Bedfellows—Lukács, Queer Marxism, and the Digital Humanities</b><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Glyn Salton-Cox (University of Santa Barbara)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Typicality vs. Normativity”<br class=""><br class="">Sayan Bhattacharyya (University of Pennsylvania)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Textual Digital Humanities for Critique, with Lukács” <br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Keynote Lecture (4:00 PM-6:00 PM):</b><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tyrus Miller (University of Santa Cruz)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Theaters of History: Drama, Action, and Historical Agency in the Work of </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>György Lukács”</div><div class=""><br class=""><b class="">Saturday, April 21</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Panel 3 (10:20 AM-12:50 PM): Lukács and Alternative Genealogies of Marxist Aesthetics</b><br class=""><br class="">Ben Harker (University of Manchester)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'"Hiding Places for the Enemy": The Translation and Reception of Georg </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lukács' Work in Britain, 1950-1971'<br class=""><br class="">Erik M. Bachman (University of California, Santa Cruz)</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Lukács and the World of the Work of Art”<br class=""><br class="">Philip Rosen (Brown University) <br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Lukács, Marxist Film Theory, and the Spectacle of Cinema”<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Panel 4 (1:50 PM-4:20 PM): The Future of Lukács (Graduate Student Panel)</b><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Shuangting Xiong (University of Oregon)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Type, Concentrated Form, and Proleptic Temporality: Lukács and Zhou Yang</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>on Narrating the Essence of Reality”</div><div class=""><br class="">Nicholas Allen (University of Buenos Aires)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> “The Presence of Lukács in Brazilian Literary Theory”<br class=""><br class="">Ashwin Bajaj (University of California, Santa Barbara)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Considerations on the Politics of Lukacs’ Reading of Marx”<br class=""><br class="">Keita Moore (University of California, Santa Barbara)<br class=""></div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“An Aspiration to Organic Sociality: Between Marxism and Posthumanism”Naoki Yamamoto<br class="">
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