Financial Futures:
Higher Education and Reparative Public Goods
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Friday, February 7, 2020
COVID-19 Updates
Videos
View the livestreamed conference – filmed on February 7, 2020.
View the documentary – filmed on February 8, 2020.
Conference Highlights
- Read The End of the University via The New Republic
- Read Debtors of the World, Unite! via Boston Review
- Read 5 Young People on Why They’re Refusing to Pay Their Student Loans via Teen Vogue
- Read Why People with Student Debt are Refusing to Repay It via CNBC
- Read The Radical Possibilities of Not Paying Your Student Loans via The New Republic
- Read The Power of Debt via the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
- Learn how you can join the national student debt strike to win #CollegeforAll and cancel all $1.7 trillion of illegitimate student debt
- Search #FutureofFinance to view live tweets from the conference
Conference Program
10:00am – 10:20am Welcome & Land Acknowledgement
Hannah Appel (UCLA)
10:20am – 10:40am Opening Remarks
Members of the Debt Collective: Catrina Beverly, Sanders Fabares, Nathan Hornes, Pamela Hunt, Dawn Lueck, Makenzie Vasquez
10:45am – 11:45am Opening Keynote – But Can We Afford It? Overcoming the Deficit Myth
Stephanie Kelton (Stony Brook University, Senior Economic Advisor Bernie 2020)
Q&A with audience, moderated by Ananya Roy (UCLA)
11:45am – 12:00pm Break
12:00pm – 1:15pm Remaking the Public University: Colonialism, Austerity, Other Futures
Wendy Brown (UC Berkeley), Rima Brusi (CUNY Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies), Dylan Rodríguez (UC Riverside)
Q&A with panelists, moderated by Michael Meranze (UCLA)
1:15pm – 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm – 3:15pm Social Movements and the Fight for Reparative Public Goods
Nicolás Cruz (The Red Nation), Leigh Ann Naidoo (#FeesMustFall), Astra Taylor (Debt Collective)
Q&A with panelists, moderated by Andrew Ross (NYU)
3:15pm – 3:30pm Break
3:30pm – 4:40pm Closing Keynote – Race, Capitalism and the Neoliberal University: Reimagining Justice Out of Crisis
Barbara Ransby (University of Illinois at Chicago, Scholars for Social Justice)
Q&A with audience, moderated by Robin D.G. Kelley (UCLA)
4:45pm – 5:00pm Closing Ceremony
