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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">At the next Critical Antiquities
Workshop, we are very excited to host <b>Prof. Sara Brill (Fairfield
University)</b> for her paper, “From the womb of capital itself:
Commodity Fetishism, Reproductive Fantasy, and the Use of Birth”.</span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">This event will be held in a hybrid
format in the Vere Gordon Childe Centre Boardroom at the University of Sydney and
on Zoom on <b>Wednesday, March 4, 09:00-11:00am (Sydney, Canberra,
Melbourne time)</b>. </span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Here is the time in other locations:</span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="disc">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Los Angeles/Vancouver: </span><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Tuesday, March 3,
     2:00-4:00pm</span></b><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Chicago/Mexico City: </span><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Tuesday, March 3,
     4:00-6:00pm</span></b><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">New York: </span><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Tuesday, March 3, 5:00-7:00pm</span></b><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Santiago/Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro: </span><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Tuesday, March 3,
     7:00-9:00pm</span></b><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Dublin/Belfast/London: <b>Tuesday,
     March 3, 10:00pm-12:00 midnight</b></span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Paris/Berlin/Rome: <b>Tuesday,
     March 3, 11:00pm-1:00am</b> </span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Johannesburg/Athens/Cairo: <b>Wednesday,
     March 4, 12:00 midnight- 2:00am</b></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Beijing/Singapore/Perth: </span><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Wednesday, March 4,
     6:00-8:00am</span></b><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Tokyo: </span><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Wednesday, March 4, 7:00-9:00am</span></b><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Darwin: </span><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Wednesday, March 4, 7:30-9:30am</span></b><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Brisbane:<b> </b></span><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Wednesday, March 4, 8:00-10:00am</span></b><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Adelaide: </span><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">Wednesday, March 4, 8:30-10:30am</span></b><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"></span></li>
</ul>

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sign up for the Critical Antiquities Network mailing list to receive Zoom links
and CAN announcements: </span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">Here is the abstract:</span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black">Near the end of the third volume
of Capital, Marx deploys a telling image to describe the fantasy-world
building of commodification, whereby productive powers and social relations are
transferred from labor to capital, “and seem to issue from the womb of capital
itself.” This trope, in which the womb is figured as both productive and
destructive, both natal and mortal, both natural and unnatural, was available
already to Aristotle, who used it to examine critically the nature of business
expertise and the accrual of interest through the figure of the <i>tokos</i>,
both ‘child’ and ‘interest.’ Their shared concern about the nature of money and
the psycho-political effects of limitless acquisition and exchange invites a
genealogical approach in assessing the possibilities of Marxist critique for a
variety of contemporary critical theories. In this paper, I take up the
invitation and explore the subterranean conceptual formations connecting an
alienated approach to the material conditions of human birth with the dictates
of neoliberal global capitalism.</span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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(USyd) </span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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