Activities > Conferences > 2024 Grantees Conference

Neoliberalism’s Citadels and Chokepoints

December 13-14, 2024, Boston University

The conference will take place on December 13th and 14th at The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. We have very limited space for additional conference attendees; if you would like to attend, please fill out this RSVP form and we will send a confirmation. Please contact us if you have questions.

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