Activities > Conferences > 2024 Grantees Conference

Neoliberalism’s Citadels and Chokepoints

December 13-14, 2024, Boston University

See the full program here.

Friday, December 13

9:00-9:10 Welcome

9:10-10:30 Panel I: What does the IMF do to and for Democracy?

  • Asensio Robles: “The Price of Democracy: The Global Energy Crisis, IMF Conditionality, and the Fall of the Franco Regime (1973-1978)”

  • Aila Trasi: “Sufficient for What? Tracing the Evolution of Thailand’s Sufficiency Economy between Austerity, Neoliberalism, and State Developmentalism”

    Respondents: Jamie Martin & Eric Helleiner

11:00-1:00 Panel II: Neoliberalism from Below?

  • Eve O'Connor: “Cooperation After Enclosure: Mutual Aid and Modernity in the United States”

  • Jeremy Goodwin: “Educating Entrepreneurs: Small Business Development Centers and the Making of Neoliberalism in the US, 1964-1980”

  • Roxanne S. Houman: “Agents of Decolonization: The European Commission, Parliament, and Civil Society Working towards a NIEO”

    Respondents: Gavin Benke & Paul Adlerstein

1:30-3:00 Keynote Address I

Dylan Gottlieb: “Yuppies: A Social History of Financialization”

3:30-5:30 Panel III: Bringing Banks and Business Back In

  • Conrad Jacober: “Much Ado about Regulation Q: Citibank, the Gray Panthers, and the Unravelling of the New Deal Financial Order”

  • José Antonio Galindo Domínguez: “The Business Republic: Debates, Arguments, and Projects for a Neo-Liberal Economic Governance Program in Mexico, 1945-1994”

  • Julián Gómez-Delgado: “The Rise and Fall of Public Banking in Colombia: State Credit Ideologies, Materialities, and Social Infrastructures”

    Respondents: Stefan Link, Amy Offner, & Sarah Babb

Saturday, December 14

9:00-10:20 Panel IV: The Limits of Sovereignty in Postcolonial Africa

  • Peter Vale: “Exile, Nationalization, and Finance: Challenging Mobutu in the Congolese Diaspora”

  • Joel van de Sande: “The Independence of Djibouti”

    Respondents: Priya Lal & Zachary Mondesire

10:40-12:00 Panel V: Logistics and Neoliberalism

  • Stefan Yong: “Floating Zones: Flags of Convenience and the Neoliberal Renovation of the Law of the Ship”

  • Eylem Taylan: “Imperialism and the Politics of Logistics: Transimperial Rivalry and Labor Militancy at the Ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki”

    Respondents: Megan Black & Ian Kumekawa

12:30-2:00 Keynote Address II

Charmaine Chua: “The Logistics Counter-revolution: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence, and the Transpacific Empire of Circulation”

2:00-2:30 Final Discussion & Departure