Adam Dylan Hefty

Refereed Journal Articles

• 2014          “Cultivating a New Normal: Mood Disorders in the DSM-III to -5 Era.” PhaenEx 9, No. 2 (Fall 2014).

Other Publications

• 2015          Humanities/Work, a collaborative, online publication featuring scholarly, contemporary, and critical interventions from our 2013-14 research/working group at UC Humanities Research Institute, for which I served as managing editor and a contributor: https://humanitieswork.wordpress.com/
• 2012          “Progressive Third Parties in U.S. National Elections: a Review.” The North Star, December 2012.
• 2011          “After the Oakland General Strike, Tactical Debates Emerge: Let 99 Flowers Blossom.” Solidarity Webzine, November 9, 2011.
• 2010          “Public Education in California: What’s Next after March 4?” Reclamations 2, April 2010.
• 2010          “Questions for a New Movement.” Against the Current 145, March-April 2010.

   

Conference Panel Organized

• 2014          “Humanities Labor in the Neoliberal University: Luxury, Crisis, and Changing Conceptions of Work,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, November 6-9, co-organized with Preeti Sharma (PhD Candidate, Gender Studies, UCLA) and Amy Lee (PhD Candidate, English, UC Berkeley).

Conference Presentations

• Adam Dylan Hefty, 18th May 2016,  "Alienation, Depression, Techniques of Self-Management", International Social Theory Consortium Conference.
• 2016          “Alienation, Depression, Techniques of Self-Management,” International Social Theory Consortium 2016, Iowa State University, 9 June.
• 2016          “Emotional Management and Mental Health in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University Research Day, Phase II, 14 May.
• 2015          “Subjective Labor and Alienation under Late Capitalism,” Historical Materialism Rome: Revolution and Restoration, 17-19 September.
• 2014          “Dialectics of Fulfillment and Dissociation in Hospital and University Labor,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA, November 6-9 (via video).
• 2014          “Precarious Labor, University Labor,” The Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work: Culminating Conference, UC Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Berkeley, May 9.
• 2013          “Humanism, Concern for the Non-Human, and Philosophies of Praxis Today,” Scholarship toward a Better World: A Symposium in honor of Barbara Epstein, Berkeley, CA, October 5.
• 2013          “The Mood Disorder: Emergence of a Problematic.” 2013 Annual Meeting of the California American Studies Association, San Diego State University, April 26-27.
• 2013          “Towards an Immanent Critique of the Theory of Immaterial Labor: Subjective Labor and Alienation as Dissociation.” The Laboring Body, University of California, Irvine, March 15.
• 2011          “The Mood Disorder: Social Function of a Therapeutic Category; Mood: A Problem to Be Managed.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting: Imagination, Reparation, Transformation, Baltimore, MD, October 20-23.
• 2011          “Valences of Discipline in the Times of Imperiled Institutions.” Between the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Work in a Time of Crisis, University of California, Santa Cruz, June 4.
• 2010          “Notes for an Intervention: Crisis Theory and Desire in the Student Movement.” System Crash: Risk, Crisis, Literature, Simon Fraser University, June 10-12.

Invited Symposium Participant

• 2016    Harvard Kennedy School-Human Resources Development Fund Symposium: Evidence-Based Policy Design for the Saudi Labor Market. Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, October 25.