Activities > Conferences > 2022 Grantees Conference

The Many Births and Foretold Deaths of Neoliberalism

December 10–11, 2022, Johns Hopkins University

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Panel I: The Service Economy in Western Europe

  • Andrew Seaton: “Public Service, Private Contracts in Britain’s NHS”

  • Jonas Knatz: “Automation as an Intellectual Event: Automata, Work, and Politics in Cold War West Germany, 1969-1989”

    Respondents: Angus Burgin & Aaron Benanav

Panel II: Traveling Development Models

  • Eva-Maria Muschik: “‘Anger, Wit, and Resistance’: The 1988 Berlin Protests against the IMF and the World Bank”

  • Terrence Chen: “How is the Welfare State Possible under Neoliberalism? Uneven Neoliberalization in Taiwan and South Korea”

    Respondents: Ho-Fung Hung & Paul Adler

Keynote Address I

  • Fritz Bartel: “The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism”

Panel III:  Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism in Latin America

  • Matilde Ciolli: “The Political Conditions of the Market: Alsogaray, Hayek, and the Problem of Dictatorship in Argentine Neoliberalism”

  • César Jeanpierre Castillo-García: “Waves of Neoliberalism: Revisiting the Authoritarian Capitalism in South America”

    Respondents: Amy Offner & Jennifer Bair

Panel IV: Resource Politics in Southern Africa

  • Geoffrey Traugh: “Wealth is in the Soil: Decolonization and the Reinvention of International Development in Malawi”

  • Alex Peeples: “Financial Institutions and the Creation of Neoliberalism’s Networks under Tanzania's African Socialism”

  • Ntombizodwa Mpofu: “Legalized Scarcity: A History of the Political Economy of Power, Electricity, and Water in South Africa, 1910-2007”

    Respondents: Alden Young & Zophia Edwards

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Panel V: Post-Socialism and Transition

  • Kevin Axe: “A ‘Miraculous’ Debate: From Economic Self-Management to Political Independence in Late Perestroika Estonia”

  • Ia Eradze: “Making of the Central Bank of Georgia in the 1990s: Tracing the Roots of Neoliberalism in a Transition State”

    Respondents: Stefan Link & Alex Kentikelenis

Panel VI: U.S. Roads to Neoliberalism

  • Ibanca Anand: “Postwar American Economics and the Fate of Countervailing Power”

  • Conrad Jacober: “The Southern Route to Financialization: NationsBank and the End of the New Deal Financial Order”

    Respondents: Kristin Plys & Nicolas Jabko

Keynote Address II

  • Ravinder Kaur: “Dreamworlds and Disasters: Politics of Hope on the New Economic Frontiers”