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'''Left Out: Building Social Movements in a Culture of Isolation''' | '''Left Out: Building Social Movements in a Culture of Isolation''' | ||
*[[Jonathan Matas]], (Chair), - Painter/muralist, teaching artist | *[[Jonathan Matas]], (Chair), - Painter/muralist, teaching artist | ||
| − | Jason Farbman | + | *[[Jason Farbman]], NYU; former Green Party candidate for State Rep.; antiwar organizer |
| − | Karina Claudio | + | *[[Karina Claudio]], [[Make the Road NY’s LGBTQ Justice Project]]; poet and performance artist |
| − | World Social Forum Politics: Left or Post-Left? | + | '''World Social Forum Politics: Left or Post-Left?''' |
| − | + | *[[Thomas Ponniah]], (Chair), Harvard University; [[World Social Forum International Council]] | |
| − | Thomas Ponniah (Chair) | + | *[[Lauren Langman]], Loyola University of Chicago |
| − | Lauren Langman | + | *[[Walda Katz Fishman]], Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, [[Project South]] |
| − | Walda Katz Fishman | + | *[[Jerome Scott]], National Planning Committee, [[U.S. Social Forum]] |
| − | Jerome Scott | + | *[[Ana Margarida Esteves]], Sociology, Brown University |
| − | Ana Margarida Esteves | + | *[[Mark Frezzo]], Florida Atlantic University; Co-Editor, [[Sociologists Without Borders]] |
| − | Mark Frezzo | ||
| − | The Art & Politics of Spectacle – Creating Ethical Spectacles | + | '''The Art & Politics of Spectacle – Creating Ethical Spectacles''' |
| − | + | *[[Terry Marshall]], (Chair), [[Culture Clash]], [[Young Voices Nation]] | |
| − | Terry Marshall (Chair) | + | *[[Lenina Nadal]], [[New York Study Group]] |
| − | Lenina Nadal | + | *[[Luz Schreiber]], [[Hunter College Parent Union]] |
| − | Luz Schreiber | + | *[[Chong Kim]], [[Culture Clash]] |
| − | Chong Kim | ||
| − | Reimagining a New Economic System | + | '''Reimagining a New Economic System''' |
| − | + | *[[Meaghan Linick-Loughley]], (Chair), Anthropology, [[New School]]; [[Organization for a Free Society]] | |
| − | Meaghan Linick-Loughley (Chair) | + | *[[Gar Alperovitz]], Government, Univ. of Maryland |
| − | Gar Alperovitz | + | *[[Michael Albert]], Co-founder, [[Z Magazine]] and [[ZNet]] |
| − | Michael Albert | ||
| − | Envisioning Real Utopias | + | '''Envisioning Real Utopias''' |
| − | + | [[Verso Books]] | |
| − | Verso Books | + | *[[Erik Olin Wright]], (Chair), Director and Series Editor of [[Verso's Real Utopias Project]]; Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| − | Erik Olin Wright (Chair) | + | *[[David Ruccio]], Economics, University of Notre Dame |
| − | David Ruccio | + | *[[Peter Staudenmaier]], Cornell University |
| − | Peter Staudenmaier | ||
| − | Organizing against Budget Cuts and Austerity in New York City | + | '''Organizing against Budget Cuts and Austerity in New York City''' |
| − | + | (Chair) – [[Doug Singsen]], [[CUNY Campaign to Defend Education]], [[International Socialist Organization]] | |
| − | (Chair) – Doug Singsen, CUNY Campaign to Defend Education, International Socialist Organization | + | *[[Marvin Holland]], [[TWU 100]], Director of [[Political and Community Action Development]] |
| − | Marvin Holland, TWU 100, Director of Political and Community Action Development | + | *[[Tami Gold]], [[PSC-CUNY]], Chapter Chair, Hunter College |
| − | Tami Gold, PSC-CUNY, Chapter Chair, Hunter College | + | *[[Larry Hales]], CCNY student, [[Students for Educational Rights]], ([[CCNY]]), [[CUNY Campaign to Defend Education]] |
| − | Larry Hales | + | [[Grassroots Education]] Member, to be announced |
| − | Grassroots Education Member, to be announced | + | *[[John Lawhead]], [[GEM]] |
| − | John Lawhead | ||
| − | Social Movements And Everyday Life | + | '''Social Movements And Everyday Life''' |
| − | + | [[Critical Sociology]] | |
| − | Critical Sociology | + | *[[Ricardo Dello Buono]], (Chair), Manhattan College |
| − | Ricardo Dello Buono (Chair) | + | *[[George Sanders]], Oakland University |
| − | George Sanders | + | *[[James Russell]], Eastern Connecticut State University |
| − | James Russell | + | *[[Graham Cassano]], Oakland University |
| − | Graham Cassano | + | *[[Troy Rondinone]], Southern Connecticut State University |
| − | Troy Rondinone | ||
| − | Decline of the European Left and the rise of the Far Right | + | '''Decline of the European Left and the rise of the Far Right''' |
| − | Chair: Mark Seddon | + | Chair: [[Mark Seddon]] |
| − | Leo Pannitch | + | *[[Leo Pannitch]] |
| − | Johnathan Freedland | + | *[[Johnathan Freedland]] |
| − | What Does it Mean to be a Revolutionary in Our Times? | + | '''What Does it Mean to be a Revolutionary in Our Times?''' |
| − | + | *[[Walda Katz-Fishman]], (Chair), Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, [[Project South]] | |
| − | Walda Katz-Fishman (Chair) | + | *[[Jerome Scott]], [[League of Revolutionaries for a New America]]; [[U.S. Social Forum]] |
| − | Jerome Scott | + | *[[Lenina Nadal]], [[New York Study Group]] |
| − | Lenina Nadal | + | *[[Manju Rajendran]], [[Left Turn]] |
| − | Manju Rajendran | + | *Johanna Brenner]], Solidarity; Sociology, Portland State University |
| − | Johanna Brenner | ||
| − | Socialist Humanism, the Anti-Humanist Turn, and the Consequences for the Left | + | '''Socialist Humanism, the Anti-Humanist Turn, and the Consequences for the Left''' |
| − | + | *[[Barbara Epstein]], (Chair), [[Socialist Review]]; History, UC Santa Cruz. | |
| − | Barbara Epstein (Chair) | + | *[[John Sanbonmatsu]], [[Worcester Polytechnic Institute]] |
| − | John Sanbonmatsu | + | *[[Kevin B. Anderson]], University of California, Santa Barbara |
| − | Kevin B. Anderson | ||
| − | The US Social Forum and US Social Movements: The Road from Atlanta to Detroit 2010 | + | '''The US Social Forum and US Social Movements: The Road from Atlanta to Detroit 2010''' |
| − | + | *[[Walda Katz-Fishman]], (Chair), Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, [[Project South]] | |
| − | Walda Katz-Fishman (Chair) | ||
Jerome Scott - League of Revolutionaries for a New America; USSF National Planning Committee | Jerome Scott - League of Revolutionaries for a New America; USSF National Planning Committee | ||
Rose Brewer - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; USSF Gender Justice Working Group | Rose Brewer - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; USSF Gender Justice Working Group | ||
Revision as of 03:04, 22 May 2010
Left Forum 2010
Panels
Left Forum 2010 contained the following panels:
Africa
Exporting the Culture Wars: Who is Spreading Neocolonial Homophobia to Africa and Why The Public Eye
- Pam Chamberlain, (Chair) - Political Research Associates
- Kapya Kaoma - Project Director, Political Research Associates; Episcopal Priest
- Frank Mugisha - Leading member, Sexual Minorities of Uganda, SMUG
Africa's Oil Economies - A Mixed Blessing or a Curse?
- Milton Allimadi, (Chair)
- Susana Mendes - Angolan journalist, Editor-in-Chief of the Angolense newspaper, voted to the permanent committee of the Forum for African Investigative Reporters, (FAIR).
Prince *Chima Williams - Head of Legal Resources/Democracy Outreach Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria and National Focal Person, Green Alliance Nigeria, GAN
Humanitarian Imperialism and Obama's Wars in Africa
- Samar Al-Bulushi, (Chair) - Brecht Forum
- Keith Harmon Snow - War correspondent; photographer; independent investigator
- Yaa-Lengi Ngemi - Congo Coalition
Alternative Development Models for Sub-Saharan Africa
- Chudi Ikwueze, (Chair) - Founder, Mobile Economists; Pace University
- Chika Onyeani - Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, African Sun Times; Chairman/CEO, Celebrate Africa Foundation
- Mark Rego-Monteiro - Founder, WakeUpDemocracy.org
- Demba Ndiaye - Comengip, Solidarity Economy Network.
Art
Punk Rock: Cultural Space For Transformative Politics?
- Ramsey Kanaan, (Chair) - Founder, PM Press
- Josh MacPhee - JustSeeds: Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative
- Mark Andersen - Positive Force DC; We Are Family
- Anne Elizabeth Moore - Author, Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity
- Katy Otto - Exotic Fever Records
Creating Lasting Change Through Radical Theatre
- Ashley Marinaccio, (Chair) - Co-Op Theatre East; Project Girl Performance Collective
- Mariah MacCarthy - Rapscallion Theatre Collective
- Elizabeth Koke - Executive Director, Project Girl Performance Collective; Editor, Velvet Park Media
- Robert Gonyo - Co-Founder/Artistic Director, Co-Op Theatre East
Redact This! Artists and Writers Against Torture - Art Activism
- David Schwittek, (Chair) - Lehman College; designer and artist
- Stephen A. Fredericks - co-founder "Art of Demorcacy", National Coalition of Political Art Exhibitions
- Ann Messner, Pratt Institute
- Frances Jetter - School of Visual Arts
Playwrights Rekindle the Radical Imagination
- Karen Malpede, (Chair) - Theater Three Collaborative
- Najla Said - Twilight Theater Company, Theater Three Collaborative
- Catherine Filloux - Watson Arts
- Lydia Stryk - author of “American Tet”
Art and Aesthetic Experience in the 21st Century: Learning from the Past
- Julia Rothenberg, (Chair) - Sociology, St. Joseph's College, New York
- Gregory Sholette - Queens College
- Laurel George - New York University
- Micki Mcgee - Fordham University
- Jeffrey Halley - Director, Laboratory for the Sociology of the Arts, Culture, and Communications, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Isabel Alonso - St. Joseph's College; Encasa
Caribbean Basin
Terrorism Against Cuba and the Case of the Cuban 5
- Michael Smith, (Chair) - Center for Constitutional Rights
- Peter Roman - Hostos Community College; CUNY Graduate Center; CUNY Editorial Board, Socialism and Democracy
- Keith Bolender - Journalist; course lecturer on Cuba, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
- Leonard Weinglass - Attorney for Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cuban prisoners
- Jane Franklin - Contributing editor, CUBA Update, journal of the Center for Cuban Studies
- Rafael Anglada - Puerto Rican attorney
After the Earthquake: Who's Killing Haiti?
- Edna Bonhomme, (Chair) -
- Peter Hallward, - Middlesex University
- Roger Leduc, - Haiti Liberte
- Ashley Smith - International Socialist Review
- Ray LaForest -American Federation of State, Country and and Municipal Employees, District Council 1707; WBAI Radio; Pacifica Radio Network
Haiti's Future: A Grassroots Perspective and Potential of Unified Action
- Jerry Jeremie, (Chair) - St. John's University
- Marie Rose Paul - Global Network for Progress
Dr. *Jemima Pierre - William S. Vaughn Visiting Fellow, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities; Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
China
Recent Transformations in Chinese Marxism
- Norman Levine, (Chair) - Executive Director, Institute for International Policy
- Duan Zhongqiao - School of Philosophy, Remnin University of China
- Feng Ziyi - Philosophy, Beijing University
- Wei Xiaoping - Director, History of Marxist Philosophy; Philosophy Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Yang Haifeng - Philosophy, Beijing University
Chinese Students & Workers Organize at the Grass-Roots
- Talking Union
- Marc Blecher, (Chair) - Politics and East Asian studies, Oberlin College
- Paul Garver - Co-editor, TalkingUnion blog; National Political Committee, DSA
- Manfred Elfstrom - Program Officer, International Labor Rights Forum
The Causes of Current Crises Breaking Out in China
- Zhou Zhi-qiang, (Chair) - Director, "Liberation daily"
- Ji Gui-bao - Director, "Wenhui Daily"
- Xu Ming - Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; chief editor, Social Science Weekly
The Problems that Chinese Marxists and Leftists Discuss in Today’s China
Chair: Prof. Norman Levine
- Duan Zhongqiao - School of philosophy, Renmin University of China
- Feng Ziyi - Department of Philosophy, Peking University
- Wei Xiaoping - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Yang Haifeng - Department of Philosophy, Peking University
Debunking the Myth of the “China Model”: Is a radical alternative possible?
- Peter Kwong, (Chair) - Hunter College
Dr. Tong Xiaoxi - Sociology, China Agricultural University; visiting research fellow, Sociology, Binghamton University
- Peng Zhaochang - Economics, University of Massechussets
- Michael Hudson - Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City
- Xu Zhun - Economics, University of Massechussets
- Ben Mah
- Xulin Dong - The China Study Group
The Influences of the Current Crisis on China and China's Feasible Countermeasures
- Xu Ming, (Chair) - Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; chief editor, Social Science Weekly
- Duan Gang - Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; associate editor, Social Science Weekly
- Liu Shi-jun - Director, Publicity Dept of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee
The Chinese Proletariat and the State
- Ellen Rosen, (Chair) - Research Associate, Center for Research on Women, Brandeis University
- Dongping Han - History and Political Science, Woodrow Wilson College
- Li Qiang - Director, China Labor Watch
- Marc Blecher - History, Oberlin College
Revisiting the Legacy of Women's Liberation in Maoist China
- Di Bai, (Chair) - Drew University
- Tao Qingmei - Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Xurong Kong - Kean University
- Xueping Zhong - Tufts University
- Li Onesto - Revolution newspaper
CULTURE AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Pro Sports Without Owners?
[www.edgeofsports.com]
- Spring Super, (Chair) - Queer Rising and International Socialist Organization
- Mark Naison - Fordham University; Author, Communists in Harlem During the Depression
Dr. Walter Beach - Former Cleveland Brown; Amer-I-Can.
- Dave Zirin - Sports Correspondent, The Nation; Author, A People's History of Sports in the United States
From Roman Gospels to Jewish Shakespeare: Rethinking Our Cultural Paradigms
- Jenny Greeman, (Chair) - Resident Director, Dark Lady Players; Program Manager, New Perspectives Theater
- Kathleen Potts - Theatre and Speech, CUNY City College; Playwright-in-residence, Monarch Theater Company
- John Hudson - Dramaturg, Dark Lady Players
No Families, No Justice: Building a Family-Inclusive Left Movement
- Jennifer Silverman, (Chair) - editor, My Baby Rides the Short Bus: the Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities (PM Press, 2009); core member, m*a*m*a (mothers alliance for mutual aid)
- Amanda Vender - IndyKids
- Lauren Karchmer - Regeneracion
- Ileana Mendez-Penate - Regeneracion
- Zera Priestess - Board Chair, Sistas on the Rise, Inc. (SOTR); founder, SoulSWEET Sanctuary
The Mass Psychology of Capitalism: Dialectical Contradictions in the Realm of the Psyche
- Alan Weinerman, (Chair) - Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; MindFreedom International
- Harriet Fraad - Founding Mother of the Women's Movement; Author, Class Struggle on the Home Front
- Bryant Welch, J.D., Ph.D - Author, State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind
- Roger Salerno, Ph.D. - Sociology/Anthropology, Pace University; Chair-elect, Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association
- Alan Weinerman - Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; MindFreedom International
America's Two Depressions: One Economic, One Psychological
- Harriet Fraad, (Chair) - Manifesto Group; International Psychohistory Association
- Andres Ramirez - Education, Rhode Island College
- Khalil Saucier - Sociology and Africana Studies, Rhode Island College
- Richard Greeman - English translator of Victor Serge
- Lauren Langman - Loyola University of Chicago, Global Studies Association
Education
Conducting Critical Social Science Research
- George Sanders, (Chair) - Oakland University
Ishay Landa - The Open University, Ra'anana, Israel Paul Paolucci - Eastern Kentucky University Ricardo Dello Buono - Manhattan College
Teaching About Palestine
- Richard Ohmann (Chair) - Wesleyan University (Emeritus); Author, English in America, Politics of Letters, and Making and Selling Culture
- Ammiel Alcalay - Queens College; CUNY Graduate Center
- Anthony Alessandrini - Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
- Ellen Cantarow - Independent journalist
From the Campus to the "Real World": Keeping the Student Activist Spirit Alive Post Graduation
- John Cronan Jr., (Chair) - Organization for a Free Society
- Ashley Marinaccio - Co-Op Theatre East; Project Girl Performance Collective
- Faiza N. Ali - Council on American Islamic Relations
Academic Repression: Book Talk
Theory and Action Chair: Anthony J. Nocella, II
Dr. Caroline Kaltefleiter - Syracuse University
- Caroline Kaltefleiter, SUNY Cortland
- Victoria Fontan - University of Peace, Costa Rica
- Deric Shannon - University of Connecticut
Educating Youth in These Conservative Times: Cultural-Politics, Possibilities, and Strategies for Improving Urban Schooling
- Biany Perez, (Chair) - Arts and Education Program Administrator, Art Sanctuary
Decoteau J. Irby - AAKT (Action, Advocacy, Knowledge, and Training), Concepts LLC Emery Petchauer - Education, Lincoln University Patrick Camangian - Teacher Education, Urban Ed., and Social Justice, University of San Francisco; English Teacher, Mandela High School, Oakland, California
From the Campus to the "Real World": Keeping the Student Activist Spirit Alive Post Graduation
Chair: John Cronan Jr.
- John Cronan Jr. - Organization for a Free Society (OFS)
- Ashley Marinaccio - Co-Op Theatre East, Project Girl Performance Collective
- Faiza N. Ali - Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
The Fight for Public Higher Education in New York City
- Larry Hales - Students for Educational Rights, CUNY Campaign to Defend Education
- Claudia O'Brien - CUNY Campaign to Defend Education
- Conor Reed - City College Student Union, International Socialist Organization
PSC-CUNY member, TBA -
Public Education: Privatization and Inequity
- Donna Nevel, (Chair) - community psychologist and popular educator
- Ujju Aggarwal - Center for Immigrant Families
- Perla Placencia - Center for Immigrant Families
- Edwin Mayorga - New York Collective of Radical Educators
- Michelle Fine - The Public Science Project, CUNY Gradudate Center
- Ali Haridopolos - Students Fighting for Equitable Admissions at Beacon High School
- Antonia Perez - Students Fighting for Equitable Admissions at Beacon High School
Economics for the Rest of Us: Teaching Economics to Workers
- Michael Merrill, (Chair) -
- Moshe Adler, - Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies; Columbia University
- Howard Harrington - Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies
- Kate Spaulding - Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies
The Case of California: Coming Soon to Schools Near you
- Kathryn Johnson, (Chair) - San Francisco State University; Vampire Slayer Project
- Kathy Emery - San Francisco Freedom School; San Francisco State, Political Science
- Jerry Shapiro - School of Social Work, San Francisco State University
- Robert Meister - UC Santa Cruz, Council of University of California Faculty; UC Santa Cruz, Politics
Politics of the Contemporary American Student Left
- Pam Nogales, (Chair) - Platypus Affiliated Society
- Ashley Weger, - Platypus Affiliated Society, (Depaul Chapter Head)
- Hannah Rappleye - New School alumni, former Senior Editor of the NS Free Press
- Easton Smith - Sarah Lawrence Student, Unite Here organizer
Rethinking Education
- Brian Kelly, (Chair) - ZNet
- Andrej Grubacic - San Francisco Art Institute, IWW
- Meaghan Linick-Loughley - Anthropology, New School; Organization for a Free Society
- Pat Korte - Radical Student Union, Organization for a Free Society
The Fertile Grounds Project: Spaces for Youth To Be Youth/Education Over Indoctrination
- Jonah Canner, (Chair) - Co-founder/Educational Director, Fertile Grounds Project
- Ileia Burgos - Movement In Motion Artists and Activists Collective
- Becky Raik - Co-founder/Executive Director, Fertile Grounds Project
Academic Freedom Under Attack
"Race to the Top" - Millions of Children Left Behind
- Susan O'Malley, (Chair) - English, Kingsborough, CUNY; Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
- Jean Anyon - Social and Educational Policy, CUNY Graduate School
- Tara Buhl - Annenberg Institute for School Reform
- Stan Karp - Editorial Board member and frequent contributor, Rethinking Schools
Environment
Capitalism and Toxics Pollution: The Fight for Public Health
- Karina Schaefer, (Chair) -Rutgers University,
- Lois Gibbs, Center for Health, Environment & Justice
- Joel Shufro, New York Committee for Occupational Health and Safety
Hydro/Petrol Federal-Corporatism Under Fire
- Catherine Mulder, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
- Fabian Balardini, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
- Enrique Lanz Oca, CUNY Graduate Center
- Kenneth Levin, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Nuclear Revival?
- Karen Charman, Managing Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Mary Olson, Director, Southeast Office, Nuclear Information and Resource Service
- Edwin Lyman, Sr. Scientist, Global Security, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Deb Katz, Executive Director, Citizens Awareness Network.
No Fracking Way! The Politics and Ecology of Drilling for Natural Gas in the Marcellus Shale
- Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Karen Charman, Managing Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Walter Hang, Toxics Targeting
- Julian Rodriguez-Drix, ShaleShock Alliance; Alliance for Climate Education
- Wes Gillingham, Catskill Mountainkeeper
- Irwin Sperber, Sociology, SUNY, New Paltz
Climate Change and the Global South: Upcoming World Climate Conference in Bolivia
- Alex van Schaick, (Chair)
Ambassador Pablo Solon, UN Mission of Bolivia
- Margreet Wewerinke, North South XXI
- Maggie Zhou, Climate Justice
Is Climate Change Hot Enough to Rekindle the Imagination of the Left? (Part I of II)
- Jenny Greeman, (Chair) - Resident Director, Dark Lady Players; Program Manager, New Perspectives Theater
- Richard Greeman, Secretary, Victor Serge Foundation; Co-Founder; Praxis Research and Education Center
- David Schwartzman, Howard University
- Brian Tokar - Institute for Social Ecology, Climate SOS
Dirty Gas, Oil, and Coal: The Fossil Fuel Problematic and Some Solutions
- Karen Charman, (Chair) - Managing Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Julian Rodriguez-Drix, ShaleShock Alliance and Alliance for Climate Education
- Mike Roselle, Climate Ground Zero
- Terisa Turner, University of Guelph
- Richard Grossman, Independent historian
Impacts of and Responses to Climate Change
- Arun Gupta, (Chair)- The Indypendent and Alternet, Moderator
- Christian Parenti, The Nation
- Robert S. Eshelman, Free-lance journalist
- Tina Gerhardt, Columbia University
Organizing for Climate Justice
- Brian Tokar, (Chair), Institute for Social Ecology; Climate SOS
- Cecil Corbin-Mark, WEACT, (West Harlem Environmental Action)
- Julian Rodríguez-Drix, Rising Tide North America, ShaleShock Alliance
- Valeria Georghiu, Environmental Justice Committee, National Lawyers' Guild; Center for World Indigenous Studies
- Patrick Bond, University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society (Durban, S. Africa); Durban Group for Climate Justice
- Rose Brewer, AfroEco, Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota
Speciesm: The Forgotten Oppression -- Why Should The Left Care?
- Kamil Ghoshal, (Chair), Philosophy In Action Network; Cantonese and Toisan Cultural Society
- John Sanbonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Mickey Z., mickeyz.net
- Gary Null, garynull.com
- Pamela Rice, VivaVegie Society
Post-Copenhagen Politics of Climate Change
- Joel Kovel, (Chair), Editor-in-Chief, Capitalism Nature Socialism
- Leigh Brownhill, York University
- David Schwartzman, Howard University
Why Green Capitalism Can't Solve the Climate Crisis
International Socialist Review
- Chris Williams, (Chair), International Socialist Review
- Heather Rogers, Author of Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
- Fred Magdoff, Monthly Review
The Urban Industrial Complex and Emergent Forms of Environmentalism
- Brandon Schlueter, (Chair), Pace
- Judith Pajo, Pace
- Lubomir Smilenov, Pace
- Adam Reichardt, Pace
Is Climate Change Hot Enough to Rekindle the Imagination of the Left? (Part II of II)
- Jenny Greeman, (Chair), Resident Director, Dark Lady Players; Program Manager, New Perspectives Theater
- Les Levidow, Open University, UK
- Ted Glick, Climate Crisis Coalition; Chesapeake Climate Action Network
- Victor Wallis, Berklee College of Music; Socialism and Democracy
- R. Michael M'Gonigle
Food
The Logic of Capitalism: Understanding Water, Food, and Environmental Crises
- Dr. Meghana V. Nayak, (Chair), Political Science, Pace
- Andrew Theori, Pace
- Kathleen O'Leary, Pace
- Fred Wolf, Pace
What Does Sustainable Agriculture Mean? How will we replace the corporate food supply? Can we have clean energy and clean agriculture?
- Nancy Romer, (Chair) - Psychology, Brooklyn College, General Coordinator, Brooklyn Food Coalition
- Arun Gupta, The Indypendent
- Tom Forster, New School
- Elizabeth Henderson, Peacework Farm, author, Sharing the Harvest
Parents, Teachers & Students Unite: Health, Sustainability and Social Justice Through the School Food movement
- Nancy Romer, (Chair), Psychology, Brooklyn College, General Coordinator, Brooklyn Food Coalition
- Jan Poppendieck, author, Free For All: Fixing School Food In America, Hunter College, Sociology
- Kristen Mancinelli - City Harvest policy analyst
- Roxanne Henry, Food Bank For New York City
- Kristen Schoonacker, Wellness in the Schools, parent PS 295 Brooklyn
- Jeralyn Beach, School Food Coordinator, Brooklyn
What does food sovereignty look like? Imagining food sovereignty from a variety of perspectives
Chair: Brenda Biddle
- Andrej Grubacic, Znet San Fransisco School of Art
- Gregory Wilpert, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Project Coordinator in Venezuela
- Michael Menser, Brooklyn College Brooklyn Food Coalition
- Brenda Biddle, Evergreen College Anthropology Department of the Graduate Center CUNY
- Silvia Frederici, Hofstra University emerita Committee for Academic Freedom Africa
Gender
Introductory Session Gender: Nancy Holmstrom
Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World
- Rupal Oza, (Chair), Director, Women and Gender Studies, CUNY
- Valerie Francisco, Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Soniya Munshi, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
- Johanna Brenner, Solidarity; Sociology, Portland State University
- Hester Eisenstein, Sociology, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
AIDS, Sex and Culture : Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa -Author Meets Critics
- Hylton White, (Chair), New School for Social Research
- Zolani Ngwane, Haverford College
- Mandisa Mbali, Yale University
- Ida Susser, Anthropology, Hunter College; CUNY Graduate Center
Feminism and Lesbianism: Bringing Women Together
- Amy Rose Spiegel, (Chair), Pace
- Lillian Lefkowitz, Pace
Envisioning a Post Sexist Society
- Chris Spannos, (Chair), Znet
- Lydia Sargent, Z Magazine
- Diana Carolina Sierra, Organization for a Free society
- Cynthia Peters, Writer, Z Magazine/ZNet
- Meaghan Linick-Loughley, Anthropology, New School; Organization for a Free Society
Women, Militancy and Organizing
- Christina Gerhardt, (Chair) - Columbia University
- Laura Whitehorn, New York Taskforce on Political Prisoners; the Feminist Press
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Advisor, Catalyst Project; Co-founder, Indigenous World Association
- Cleo Silvers, Mount Sinai Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Maysles Film Institute
Revisiting the Legacy of Women's Liberation in Maoist China Chair: Di Bai
- Tao Qingmei, Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Xurong Kong, Kean University
- Xueping Zhong, Tufts University
- Li Onesto, Revolution Newspaper
- Di Bai, Drew University
Health and housing
Direct Action, Self-Determination and the Housing Crisis
- Frank Morales, (Chair), Picture the Homeless
- DeBoRah Dickerson, Picture the Homeless
- Russell Pinsley
After the Health Reform Debacle: What Direction for Real Health Care Justice? Physicians for a National Health Program Chair: Martha Livingston
- Martha Livingston, SUNY College at Old Westbury; Physicians for a National Health Program, New York-Metro chapter
- Oliver Fein, Weill-Cornell Medical College; Physicians for a National Health Program
- Leonard Rodberg, Queens College; Physicians for a National Health Program
No More Affordable Housing Scams: Community Control of Land in New York City
- Tom Angotti, (Chair), Hunter College, CUNY; Planners Network
- Frank Morales, Picture the Homeless
- Francesca Manning, CUNY Graduate Center
Morbid Symptoms: Health Care Under Capitalism
- Vivek Chibber, (Chair), Sociology, New York University
- Kalman Applbaum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Julie Feinsilver, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
- Christoph Hermann, Working Life Research Centre, Vienna
- Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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India
Neo-Liberalism, State Repression and the Crisis of Indian Democracy
- Biju Mathew, (Chair), South Asia Solidarity Initiative
- Mohammed Junaid, CUNY Graduate Center
- Lalit Batra, CUNY Graduate Center
- Sangay Mishra, Drew University
- Preeti Sampat, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatan, Workers and Peasants Solidarity Forum
- Ahilan Kadirgamar, South Asian Solidarity Initiative
Developmental Terrorism in India Today
- Panayiotis T. Manolakos, (Chair), - Sanhati
- Svati Shah, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, UMass-Amherst
- Sirisha C. Naidu, Sanhati; Economics, Wright State University
- Siddhartha Mitra, Sanhati
International
Imperial Agenda: from Bush to Obama
- Vivek Chibber, (Chair), Sociology, New York University
- Michael Schwartz
- Nir Rosen
- Stephen Shalom
Illusions and Interests: Perspectives on American Foreign Policy
- Stephen Eric Bronner, (Chair), Rutgers University
- Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University; University of Capetown
- Lawrence Davidson, West Chester University
- John Ehrenberg, Long Island University
- Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University
Revolution in Nepal
- Fanshen Wong, (Chair), Kasama Project
- Mike Ely, The Kasama Project
- Eric Ribellarsi, The FIRE Collective
Social -Security Systems in Comparison: Europe and the US
- Robin Blackburn, (Chair)
- Lucy apRoberts, University of Paris-Nanterre, European Institute of Wage Workers
- Daniel Ankarloo, Malmö University, Sweden
- Ruurik Holm, coordinator, Left Forum, Finland
The Right to the City: Global Perspectives
Crisis and Beyond: Re-evaluating Pakistan
- Ahilan Kadirgamar, (Chair), South Asia Solidarity Initiative
- Naveeda Khan, Dept of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
- Sadia Abbas, Dept of English and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, Newark
- Veena Das, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
US Imperialism and Oil Politics: The Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
- Deepa Kumar, (Chair), Rutgers University
- Michael Schwartz, SUNY, Stony Brook
- Saadia Toor, College of Staten Island, CUNY; Action for a Progressive Pakistan
- Lee Wengraf, International Socialist Organization
- Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University
International Relations: Urban Guerrilla Movements, Europe and Latin America
- Immanuel Ness, (Chair), Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Christina Gerhardt, Columbia University
- Dario Azzellini, Johannes Kepler University in Linz
- Jeremy Varon, New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College
War Crimes and "Change"
- Debra Sweet, (Chair), national director of World Can't Wait
- Shayana Kadidal, Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative at Center for Constitutional Rights
- Erin Valentine, International Justice Network
- Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst; co-founder Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
- Laura Raymond, the Education and Outreach Associate for CCR’s International Human Rights docket
Nationalism, Anti-Imperialism, and International Solidarity Today
- Ryan Hardy, Platypus Affiliated Society
- Spencer Leonard, Platypus Affiliated Society
- Peter Hudis, U.S. Marxist-Humanists
Beyond Walls and Cages: Abolitionist Perspectives on Migration & Mass Incarceration
- Seth Wessler, (Chair), Applied Research Center
- Jenna Loyd, (co-Chair), Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center
- Manisha Vaze, Families for Freedom
- Joe Nevins, Vassar College
- Judy Greene, Justice Strategies
- Amy Gottlieb, American Friends Service Committee
Leading the Battle against the Present Global Economic Crisis: Greece, Iran, Nigeria
- Suzi Weissman, (Chair), Critique
- Yassamine Mather, Economic crisis in Iran
- Bob Arnot, Global Economic Crisis: The Context of Collapse?
- Michael Matsas, The December revolt in Greece: a message from the immediate future
Labor
The Future of Labor in the U.S.
- Schimmel
- Frances Fox Piven, (Chair) - The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Stanley Aronowitz, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
- Bill Fletcher, Jr., [BlackCommentator.com]; Co-author, Solidarity Divided
- James Gray Pope, Rutgers University School of Law
- Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
- Elaine Bernard, Director of the Harvard Trade Union Program.
U.S. Trade Unions and the Global Economic Crisis
- Joshua Freeman, (Chair)
- Stewart Acuff, Utility Workers Union of America
- Ron Blackwell, AFL-CIO
- Elaine Bernard, Labor & Worklife Program, Harvard University
- Ruth Milkman, CUNY, Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies
Union Strategies, Poor People's Movements and Crisis
- Jan Rehmann, (Chair), Union Theological Seminary
- Willie Baptist, Poverty Initiative
- Janice Fine, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
- Saladin Muhammad, Black Workers for Justice, Electrical Workers
- Lian Hurst Mann, National School for Strategic Organizing
- Christina Kaindl, "We-Won't-Pay-for-Your-Crisis" Coalition, Germany
Clean Energy Transition: Decentralized Worker/Community Control vs. Centralized Corporate/State Control
- Bill Resnick, (Chair), KBOO Radio, 90.7fm; Portland Jobs with Justice
- Howie Hawkins, Green Party of New York, Teamsters for a Democratic Union
- Megan Finn, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 3 Solidarity
Rebel Rank and File
- Cal Winslow
- Aaron Brenner, Co-editor, Rebel Rank and File; Editor, The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History
- Sandy Pope, President, Teamsters Union Local 805; Founder, Hard Hatted Women and Teamsters for a Democratic Union
- Judith Stein, History, Graduate Center and City College of NY; Contributor to Rebel Rank and File
- Steve Early, Former Communications Workers of America organizer, Author, Embedded With Organized Labor
How Should Friends of Labor on the Left Respond To Conflicts Within and Between Unions?” WorkingUSA
- Manny Ness, (Chair), Editor, WorkingUSA; Political Science, Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Steve Early, (Chair), Former Communications Workers of America organizer, Author, Embedded With Organized Labor
- Sal Rosselli, Interim president, National Union of Health Care Workers
- Andrea van den Heever, UNITE HERE Local 34, Yale University
- Cal Winslow, Fellow, UC-Berkeley; Co-Director, Mendocino Institute
- Stephanie Luce, School of Professional Studies, The Murphy Institute, CUNY
TBA - Representative of SEIU/Workers United
- Godfrey Vincent, History, James Madison University
Struggles of an Independent Radical Union: The Case of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- Victor Salazar, (Chair), New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- Ed Ott, Former Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council; Distinguished Lecturer, Murphy Institute, CUNY
- Ron Blount, Taxi Workers Alliance of Pennsylvania
- Beresford Simmonds, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- Biju Mathew, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
How to Fight Disappearing Jobs and Falling Wages: Labor Strategies in the Epoch of Low-wage Capitalism
- Dee Knight, (Chair)
- Fred Goldstein, Workers World newspaper
- Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March
- Berna Ellorin, US Chapter of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, BAYAN USA
Union Reform from Below: US, Canada and Puerto Rico Against the Current
- Charles Post, (Chair), Professional Staff Congress-AFT 2334
- Rafael Feliciano, President, Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico
- Julia Barnett, Shop Steward, Canadian Union of Public Employees, 73
- Steve Downs, Chair, Train Operators Division, Transport Workers' Union, Local 100
Comparative Labor Movements - Strategies and Class Struggles
- Immanuel Ness, (Chair), Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Dario Azzellini, Johann-Wolgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M. Universit of Linz
- Anna Pollert, University of the West of England
- Eduardo Sartelli, University of Buenos Aires Razon y Revolucion
- Jo Nakajima, Chiba University of Commerce
- Alan Tuckman, Nottingham Business School
- Hae-Lin Choi, Freie Universität Berlin Communications Workers of America
- Coen Hussein Pontoh, Brooklyn College/CUNY
http://www.keywiki.org/skins/common/images/button_italic.png Alternative Labor Organizations: Worker Councils and Rank and File Control Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society
- Dario Azzellini, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Germany Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
- Maurizio Atzeni, Loughborough University
- Peter Ranis, Emeritus, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Alan Tuckman, University of Nottingham
- Victor Wallis, Socialism and Democracy, Berkley College of Music
Building the Power of Immigrant Workers in NYC's Vast Food Industry
- Daniel Gross, (Chair), Executive Director, Brandworkers; Executive Committee Member, National Lawyers Guild Labor & Employment Committee
- Sekou Siby, Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York; Former Restaurant Worker
- Art Ramirez, Lead Organizer, Teamsters Local 805, Fresh Direct Campaign
- Diana Robinson, Organizer, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 1500, Gourmet Grocer Campaign
- Liberte Locke, Organizer, Industrial Workers of the World, Starbucks Workers Union
Telling The Story of Working Class Life, Work, and Organization - In Non-Fiction and Fiction Monthly Review Press and Cornell ILR Press
- Steve Early, (Chair), Former Communications Workers of America organizer, Author, Embedded With Organized Labor
- Suzanne Gordon, National Writers Union, United Auto Workers
- Jane Latour, Associate Editor, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 37’s, Public Employee Press
- Michael Yates, Associate Editor, Monthly Review
- Tim Sheard, Critical Care Nurse
- Gregory A. Butler, Interior Systems Carpenter; Shop Steward in local 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America; GANG BOX: Construction Workers News Service
Transnational Labor Movements
- Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society
- Jamie McCallum, (Chair), CUNY Graduate Center
- Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University
- Verity Burgmann, University of Melbourne
- Robyn Rodriguez, Rutgers University
- Saket Soni, New Orleans Center for Racial Justice
The Awesome Power of Union Democracy and its Implications for Dramatic Social Change
- Daniel Gross, (Chair), - Executive Director, Brandworkers International Executive Committee Member, National Lawyers Guild, Labor & Employment Committee
(Kevin) Harry Harrington, Vice President, Transport Workers Union, Local 100 Member, Take Back Our Union
- Sandy Pope, President, Teamsters Local 805, Former International Rep, IBT, during legendary UPS Strike
- Vance Hinton, Member, Industrial Workers of the World, Starbucks Workers Union; Henry George School
Undermining Capitalism: The Stella D’oro Strike, Committed Art, and Revolutionary Change
- John Maerhofer, (Chair), English, Queens College, CUNY
- Greg Nuñez and Priscilla Aviles - Independent filmmakers
- Tony O’Brien, International Committee, Professional Staff Congress, CUNY
- Mike Filippou, Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, Shop Steward, Local 50
Worker Control: The End of Capitalism or Capitalism's Only Salvation
- Tylea Richard, (Chair), Operations Coordinator at Green Worker Cooperatives
- Michael Elsas, President of Cooperative Home Care Associates
- Flor de Maria Eilets is a Director at the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service
- Jacoby Ballard is a Co-Founder of Third Root Community Health Center
- Omar Freilla is Founder and Team Coordinator at Green Worker Cooperatives
Latin America
The Proposal to Launch a Fifth Socialist International Venezuela Analysis
- Gregory Wilpert, (Chair), Sociology, Brandeis University; ZNet; Editor, Venezuelanalysis.com
- Carmen Bohorquez, (requested), Vice-Minister for Culture, United Socialist Party of Venezuela
- Stanley Aronowitz, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
- Michael Albert, ZNet
- Thomas Ponniah, World Social Forum
Lessons from Venezuela: Achievements and Failures
- Venezuela Analysis
- Clara Irazabal, (Chair), Columbia University, Assistant Professor of International Urban Planning
- Dario Azzellini, Johan Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany
- Steve Ellner, Universidad del Oriente
- Carlos Martinez, Author, Venezuela Speaks!
- Gregory Wilpert, Editor, Venezuelanalysis.com; Sociology, Brandeis University
U.S. Interventionism and Stability in Latin America Venezuela Analysis TBA (Chair)
- Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Bernardo Alvarez, Ambassador, Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the USA
- Mario Murillo, Hofstra University
Obama's Militarized Status Quo in Latin America NACLA Report on the Americas
- Christy Thornton, (Chair), History, NYU
- Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Suzanna Reiss, University of Hawaii
- Joseph Nevins, Vassar College
Latin America: Moving Beyond Neoliberalism
- Hobart Spalding, (Chair), History, CUNY (Emeritus); Left Forum Board Member; Editorial Board Member, Socialism and Democracy
- Carlos Vilas, Universidad Nacional Lanus
- Margarita Lopez Maya, Universidad Central de Venezuela
- Gerardo Renique, City College, CUNY
- Emelio Betances, Gettysburg College
The Honduran Coup and Its Aftermath NACLA Report on the Americas
- Greg Grandin; Chris London (Chair)
- Alexander Main, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Adrienne Pine, American University
- Rodolfo Pastor, Embassy of Honduras
- Suyapa Portillo
Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
- Ana M. Lopez, (Chair), Humanities, Hostos Community College
- Michael Reyes Benavides, Director of Batey Urbano Theater Company, Chicago
- Samuel Vega and Melissa Cintron - actors of the play "Crimes Against Humanity"; college student organizers
- Melissa Montero, National Boricua Human Rights Network
Solidarity in Latin America: Solidarity Economy and Bolivarian Socialism in Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela
- Mark Rego-Monteiro, (Chair), Park Slope Food Co-op member/Co-owner; International Community Sustainable Development, NYU
- Ike Nahem, Coordinator, Cuba Solidarity NY; Teamsters Union Member
- William Camacaro, Chairperson, Bolivarian Circle NY
Indigenous Mobilization and Resistance in the Andean Nations World War 4 Report
- Bill Weinberg, (Chair) - WBAI Radio, World War 4 Report
- Gerardo Renique, CUNY
- Mario Murillo, WBAI Radio, Hofstra University
Puerto Rico Can't Wait To Be Free
- Ana M. Lopez, (Chair), Humanities, Hostos Community College
- Elma Beatriz Rosado, Native Puerto Rican and spouse of Filiberto Ojeda Rios
- Aleida Centeno Rodriguez, Attorney in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Director of Frente Arecibeno
- Thelma Ithier-Sterling, Performing Arts - Hostos Community College
- Ricardo Jimenez, former political prisoner pardoned by Clinton
Marxism and theory
Reimagining Society: The Nature of the Task Schimmel Z Communications
- Chris Spannos, (Chair), ZNet
- Barbara Epstein, Socialist Review; History, UC Santa Cruz.
- Bill Fletcher Jr., BlackCommentator.com; Co-Author, Solidarity Divided
- Michael Albert, Co-founder, Z Magazine and ZNet
Imagining Our Way from Here to There
- Barbara Epstein, (Chair), Socialist Review; History, UC Santa Cruz.
- Leo Panitch, Socialist Register; Canada Research Chair, Comparative Political Economy; Political Science, York University
- Gregory Wilpert, Sociology, Brandeis University; ZNet; Editor, [Venezuelanalysis.com]
- Stanley Aronowitz, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Introductory Session Dialectics: Bertell Ollman
Introductory Session Class: Richard Wolff
A Dialogue on Class Rethinking Marxism
- Cathy Mulder, (Chair), John Jay College, CUNY
- Richard Wolff, Economics, UMass (Emeritus); International Affairs, New School University; Rethinking Marxism
- Erik Olin Wright, Director and Series Editor of Verso's Real Utopias Project, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Post-Identity Politcs
- Todd May, (Chair), - Clemson, Philosophy and Religion
Harmony Goldberg - New York Study Group; Doctoral student, CUNY Graduate Center Linda Alcoff - Hunter College, Philosophy Kevin Alexander Gray - Author, Waiting for Lightning to Strike: the fundamental of Black Politics
Going Beyond the Crisis Means Overcoming Commodity Production and Wage Labor
- John Garvey, (Chair), NYC Taxi Rank and File Coalition; co-editors of Race Traitor
- Loren Goldner, NYC writer and activist
- Gifford Hartman, member of the Insane Dialectical Posse
A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism
- Andrej Grubacic, (Chair), San Francisco Art Institute, International Workers of the World
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies; Renewing the Anarchist Tradition
- Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Historian/writer
Revolution and Marxist-Humanism in the 21st Century: On the centenary of Raya Dunayevskaya News & Letters
- Terry Moon, (Chair), Women's Liberation writer and activist
- Susan Van Gelder, News & Letters
- Fred Lavallasse, Independent homeless activist/thinker
The Fate of Socialism
- Martha Rosler, (Chair)
- Marshall Berman
- Kenneth Levin, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Envisioning Self-Governance Z Communications
- Peter Bohmer, (Chair), ZNet
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies; Renewing the Anarchist Tradition
- Stephen Shalom, New Politics/ZNet
- Between the Old and New Left: An American Post-war Balance Sheet
- Ian Morrison, (Chair), Platypus Affiliated Society
- Benjamin Blumberg, Platypus Affiliated Society
- Chris Mansour, Parsons, The New School For Design
Rethinking Communism: Debating Badiou's Communist Hypothesis Verso Books
- Maliha Safri, (Chair), Economics, Drew University, NJ
- Antonino G. Callari, Economics, Franklin & Marshall College, PA
- Boris Groys, Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory, Center for Art and Media Technology; Arts and Science, NYU
- Bruno Bosteels, Spanish Literature, Cornell University
A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism
- Andrej Grubacic, (Chair), San Francisco Art Institute, International Workers of the World
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies; Renewing the Anarchist Tradition
- Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Historian/writer
Marxism and Anarchism: The Relevance of Radical Traditions Today
- Blair Taylor, (Chair)
- Ian Morrison, Platypus Affiliated Society
- Annie Day, Revolutionary Communist Party RCP
- Peter Staudenmaier, Cornell University
Socialism in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Past Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
- Robert Capistrano, (Chair), Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
- Fred Magdoff, Monthly Review
- Barbara Garson, Board Member, Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
- Leo Panitch, York University; Socialist Register
- Salvador Aguilar Sole, University of Barcelona
Alain Badiou's “Politics of Emancipation”: Controversies over the Framework and Future of the Communist Project
- Alan Hausman, (Chair), Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY
- Nayi Duniya, Contributor, Demarcations: A Journal of Communist Theory and Polemic
- Raymond Lotta, Revolution newspaper; Set the Record Straight Project
Respondent: John Gerassi, Political Science, Queens College, CUNY
The Future of World Capitalism Book Panel 2: Concepts of Transition
- Radhika Desai, (Chair), Politics, University of Manitoba Visiting Fellow, DESTIN, London School of Economics
- Alan Freeman, University of Manitoba Greater London Authority (personal capacity)
- Henry Heller, History, University of Manitoba
- Jack Rasmus, Santa Clara University and Economics and Politics, St. Marys College
Rethinking Historical Materialism : Scottish Origins and Engelsistic Revisions
- Prof. Norman Levine, (Chair), Executive Director, Institute for International Policy
- Frieder Otto Wolf, Free University of Berlin; European Parliament member since 1984
- Danga Vileisis, Free University of Berlin
New Perspectives on Marx's Concept of Socialism
- Kevin B. Anderson, (Chair), University of California, Santa Barbara
- Paresh Chattopadhyay, Montreal, Canada
- Peter Hudis, Oakton Community College, Illinois
Remembering Giovanni Arrighi Verso Books
- David Harvey, (Chair), Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center; Author, A Companion to Marx's Capital
- Beverly Silver, Johns Hopkins University
- Leo Panitch, Socialist Register; Canada Research Chair, Comparative Political Economy; Political Science, York University
Critical Theory and Social Movements
- Simon Critchley, (Chair), Philosophy, New School
- Boris Groys, Aesthetics, Art History, and Media Theory, Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe; Arts and Science, NYU
- Todd May, Philosophy and Religion, Clemson University
The Materiality of Nations
- Neil Davidson, (Chair), Geography and Sociology, University of Strathclyde
- Radhika Desai, Politics, University of Manitoba Visiting Fellow, DESTIN, London School of Economics
- John Riddell, co-editor of Socialist Voice
False Alternatives to Capitalism: Proudhonism and its Progeny Marxist-Humanist Initiative
- Mike Dola, (Chair), Marxist-Humanist Initiative; student at Hunter College
- Anne Jaclard, Marxist-Humanist Initiative; the New SPACE
- Andrew Kliman, Pace University
- Greg Meyerson, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
- Michael Joseph Roberto, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Passive Revolution and Uneven and Combined Development, 'East' and 'West'
- Neil Smith, (Chair), Graduate Center, CUNY
- Jamie Allinson, University of Edinburgh
- Neil Davidson, University of Strathclyde
Seeing Marx Anew Via the MEGA Project
- Kevin B. Anderson, (Chair), University of California, Santa Barbara
- Wei Xiaoping, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Amy E. Wendling, Creighton University
Cooperatives, Class, and Value theory Rethinking Marxism
- Maliha Safri, (Chair), Economics, Drew University; Associate Editor, Rethinking Marxism; Center for Popular Economics
- David Kristjanson-Gural, Spilling Ink Writers' Collective, Bucknell University
- David Ruccio, Rethinking Marxism
- Ian Seda-Irizarry, University of Massachusetts; Association for Economic and Social Analysis
- Stephen Healy, Physical and Earth Sciences, Worcester State College; Contributor, Rethinking Marxism
- Bruce Roberts, University of Southern Maine
Media
Going Undercover: The Yes Men and Gumshoe Journalists Discuss Subterfuge and Satire in Activism and Investigative Journalism Schimmel
- Joseph Huff-Hannon, (Chair), independent writer and producer; recipient, James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism
- Andy Bichlbaum, Co-founder, The Yes Men; Co-director, The Yes Men Fix the World
- Mike Bonanno, Co-founder, The Yes Men; Co-director, The Yes Men Fix the World
- Ken Silverstein, Investigative reporter and DC editor, Harper's magazine
'Why Communications and Media Creation Can Forward Social Change Making Contact, [www.radioproject.org]
- Lisa Rudman, (Chair), National Radio Project, [www.radioproject.org]
- Dee Dee Halleck, Deep Dish TV
- Rob Robinson, Peoples Production House; Picture The Homeless
- Victoria Maldonado, Deep Dish TV
- Lisa Rudman, Making Contact; National Radio Project
Network Failure: The Crisis of America’s Telecommunications Infrastructure
- David Rosen, (Chair), author, Off-Hollywood: The Making & Marketing of Independent Films
- Bruce Kushnick, telecommunications industry analyst
- Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause NY.
Online Organizing: The Missed Opportunities and Challenges to Come
- Charles Lenchner, (Chair) - Founder, Organizing 2.0
- Elana Levin, Communications Director, Writers Guild of America, East
- Libero Della Piana, Communications Director of Communist Party USA; IT director of [www.peoplesworld.org]
- Michael Whitney, Online organizer with [FireDogLake.org]
Collaborative Democracy and the Internet: Humanity's Revolutionary Initiative
- Alfredo Lopez, (Chair), May First/People Link
- Alfredo Lopez, May First/People Link
- Jamie McClelland, May First/People Link
- Mallory Knodel, May First/People Link
The State Of Our Foreign News
- Matt Pascarella, (Chair)
- Rachel Sterne, CEO, Ground Report, Love From Global Voices
- Nick Sabloff, World Editor, [HuffingtonPost.com]
- Ben Piven, web producer, Worldfocus
Mass Media, Islam and the War on Terror
- Anthony DiMaggio, (Chair), Illinois State University; Z Magazine
- Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University; Critical Studies in Communication Journal
- Adel Iskandar, Georgetown University; The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
- Danny Schechter, Editor [Mediachannel.org]; Latest film: Plunder: the crime of our time
ImMEDIAate Impact: Using Documentaries to organize for a New Progressive Imagination
- Tami Gold, (Chair), Film & Media Studies, Hunter College; Chapter Chair, PSC, CUNY Hunter
- Heidi J. Boisvert, BREAKTHROUGH
- Natasha Florentino, documentary filmmaker
- Priscila Néri, WITNESS
MIDDLE EAST
Afghanistan/Pakistan/Yemen: Obama's New War
- Aaron Amaral, (Chair), International Socialist Review
- Richard Seymour, Lenin's Tomb
- Saadia Toor, Action for a Progressive Pakistan, College of Staten Island
- Ashley Smith, International Socialist Review
The Green Movement and the Left: Prospects for Democracy in Iran
- Laura Lee Schmidt, (Chair), Platypus Affiliated Society; History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture, MIT
- Siyaves Azeri, Worker-Communist Party of Iran
- Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University
- Christopher Cutrone, Platypus Affiliated Society; University of Chicago
- Saeed Rahnema, York University
'Of Drones, Warlords and the Taliban: Ending the U.S./NATO Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan Canadian Peace Alliance & Campaign for Peace and Democracy
- Thomas Harrison & Joanne Landy (Chairs), Co-Director, Campaign for Peace and Democracy; Editorial Board member, New Politics
- Sonali Kolhatkar, Co-Director, Afghan Women's Mission; Executive producer, "Uprising," syndicated KPFK Pacifica Radio show
- Derrick O'Keefe, Co-chair, Canadian Peace Alliance; author, A Woman Among Warlords
- Adaner Usmani, Labor Party of Pakistan (LPP); Action for a Progressive Pakistan
The Gaza Freedom March: Lessons and Challenges
- Alan Goodman, (Chair), Revolution Newspaper, "Gaza Freedom March"
- Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, cofounder of Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence
- Diane Harriford, co-author, When the Center is On Fire
- Felice Gelman, steering committee member of the Gaza Freedom March
- Fida Qishta, Palestinian journalist
Why Are We in Afghanistan?
- Michael Zweig, (Chair), Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook
- Chris Vongsawat, Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Mindy Gershon, 1199 SEIU, US Labor Against the War
Confronting the "Museum of Tolerance" and the Mamilla Cemetery
- Joel Kovel, (Chair), Committee for the Open Discussion of Zionism
- Helen Schiff, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism
- Alaa Milbes, Columbia Univsersity, Middle Eastern, Asian, African Studies
- Michael Steven Smith, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism
Iran: Current State of Affairs
- Reza Ghorashi, (Chair), Richard Stockton College of NJ
- Thomas O'Donnell, The New School, Graduate International Affairs
- Hamid Zangeneh, Economics Widener University, Editor of JIRA
- Hamideh Sedghi, Harvard University
Afghanistan: Should We Stay or Should We Go? A Critical Conversation Foreign Policy In Focus
- Mark Engler, (Chair), Foreign Policy in Focus
- David Wildman, Co-author, Ending the US War in Afghanistan: A Primer
- Sunita Viswanath, Women for Afghan Women
- Lorelei Kelly, Director, New Strategic Security Initiative
The Left and Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East: Iraq Platypus
- Laura Lee Schmidt, (Chair), Platypus Affiliated Society; History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, MIT
- Issam Shukri, Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI)
- Kanan Makiya, Brandeis University
- Christopher Cutrone, Platypus Affiliated Society; University of Chicago
The Left and prospects for democracy in the Middle East: Iran Platypus
- Chair: Laura Lee Schmidt
- Siyaves Azeri, Worker-communist Party of Iran
- Hamid Debashi, Columbia University
- Christopher Cutrone, Platypus Affiliated Society
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
The History of May Day and the 2010 New York May Day March
- Larry Moskowitz, (Chair), Left Labor Project
- Ai Jen Poo, former Executive Director, Domestic Workers United
- Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition
- Ed Ott, former Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council
- Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
- Frances Liu, Immigration Advocacy Field Coordinator, New York Immigration Coalition
Understanding and Responding to the Crisis: The Left in Europe and the U.S. Transform!
- Walter Baier, (Chair), Coordinator, Transform Network
- William K. Tabb, Economics, Queens College
- Jeremy Brecher, Global Labor Strategies
- Rainer Rilling, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
- Joao Romao, Bloco de Esquerda and Cultra, Portugal
Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition
- David Harvey, (Chair), Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center; Author, A Companion to Marx's Capital
- Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies; Renewing the Anarchist Tradition
- Mike Menser, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Food Coalition
Power From Below Left Forum
- Frances Fox Piven, (Chair), The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Max Fraad Wolff, New School University Graduate Program, International Affairs
- Max Rameau, Take Back the Land
- Frank Morales, Picture the Homeless
- Robert Meister, UC Santa Cruz, Council of University of California Faculty Associations
Capitalism, Crisis and Alternative Possibilities Critical Theory and Global Studies Association
- Walda Katz-Fishman, (Chair), Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, Project South
- Lauren Langman, Global Studies Association, Loyola University of Chicago
- David Schweikert, Loyola University of Chicago
- Peter Hudis, U.S. Marxist-Humanists; Loyola University of Chicago
- Richard Wolff, Economics, UMass (Emeritus); International Affairs, New School University; Rethinking Marxism
Roundtable on Left Strategies in the Core Capitalist Countries Transform!
- Walter Baier, (Chair), Coordinator, Transform Network
- Patrice Cohen-Séat, French Communist Party, Espaces Marx
- Ruurik Holm, Left Forum Finland
- Sam Gindin, Socialist Project, Toronto
- Joao Romao, Bloco de Esquerda and Cultra, Portugal
- Greg Albo, Socialist Register
- Richard Wolff, Economics, UMass (Emeritus); International Affairs, New School University; Rethinking Marxism
- Cornelia Hildebrandt, Die LINKE; Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Movement Building Spaces and Rekindling the Imagination
- Suren Moodliar, (Chair), Massachusetts Global Action
- Liz Mestres, Brecht Forum
- Mallory Knodel, May First/People Link
Beyond Fair Trade and Micro-Finance: Gift and Solidarity Economies [www.otherworldsareposssible.org]
- Andy Lin, (Chair), Coordinating Committee Member and Artistic Coordinator, Other Worlds
- Cheyenna Weber, Organizing Director, Responsible Endowments Coalition
- Rachel Wallis, Media and Education Coordinator, Other Worlds
- Jessie Reilly, Co-Administrator, Time Interchange New York (T.I.N.Y.) Timebank
Intellectuals and the Radical Imagination
- Kanishka Chowdhury, (Chair), University of St. Thomas
- Padmaja Challakere, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN
- Rich Daniels, Oregon State University
- Joseph Ramsey, Quincy College
How to Make a Revolution in the US
- Michael Smith, (Chair), Director, Center for Constitutional Rights; Host "Law and Disorder," WBAI
- Paul LeBlanc, History and Political Science, LaRoche College
- Harmony Goldberg, New York Study Group; Doctoral student, CUNY Graduate Center
Capitalism, Crisis and Alternative Possibilities II
- Critical Theory and Global Studies Association
- Lauren Langman, (Chair), Global Studies Association, Loyola University of Chicago
- Carl Davidson, Global Studies Association, Progressives for Social Change
- Walda Katz Fishman, Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, Project South
- Graciela Monteagudo, UMass Amherst, Dartmouth College
- Ana Margarida Estaves, Brown University
"The Coming Insurrection": Manifestoes, Militancy, and Mobilization Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination
- Michael Pelias, (Chair), Philosophy, Long Island University, Brooklyn
- Jeremy Glick, English, Hunter College
- Richard Dienst, Literature and Theory, Rutgers University
- John Clark, Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans
- Rahel Aima, Anthropology, Columbia University
Left Out: Building Social Movements in a Culture of Isolation
- Jonathan Matas, (Chair), - Painter/muralist, teaching artist
- Jason Farbman, NYU; former Green Party candidate for State Rep.; antiwar organizer
- Karina Claudio, Make the Road NY’s LGBTQ Justice Project; poet and performance artist
World Social Forum Politics: Left or Post-Left?
- Thomas Ponniah, (Chair), Harvard University; World Social Forum International Council
- Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago
- Walda Katz Fishman, Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, Project South
- Jerome Scott, National Planning Committee, U.S. Social Forum
- Ana Margarida Esteves, Sociology, Brown University
- Mark Frezzo, Florida Atlantic University; Co-Editor, Sociologists Without Borders
The Art & Politics of Spectacle – Creating Ethical Spectacles
- Terry Marshall, (Chair), Culture Clash, Young Voices Nation
- Lenina Nadal, New York Study Group
- Luz Schreiber, Hunter College Parent Union
- Chong Kim, Culture Clash
Reimagining a New Economic System
- Meaghan Linick-Loughley, (Chair), Anthropology, New School; Organization for a Free Society
- Gar Alperovitz, Government, Univ. of Maryland
- Michael Albert, Co-founder, Z Magazine and ZNet
Envisioning Real Utopias Verso Books
- Erik Olin Wright, (Chair), Director and Series Editor of Verso's Real Utopias Project; Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- David Ruccio, Economics, University of Notre Dame
- Peter Staudenmaier, Cornell University
Organizing against Budget Cuts and Austerity in New York City (Chair) – Doug Singsen, CUNY Campaign to Defend Education, International Socialist Organization
- Marvin Holland, TWU 100, Director of Political and Community Action Development
- Tami Gold, PSC-CUNY, Chapter Chair, Hunter College
- Larry Hales, CCNY student, Students for Educational Rights, (CCNY), CUNY Campaign to Defend Education
Grassroots Education Member, to be announced
Social Movements And Everyday Life Critical Sociology
- Ricardo Dello Buono, (Chair), Manhattan College
- George Sanders, Oakland University
- James Russell, Eastern Connecticut State University
- Graham Cassano, Oakland University
- Troy Rondinone, Southern Connecticut State University
Decline of the European Left and the rise of the Far Right Chair: Mark Seddon
What Does it Mean to be a Revolutionary in Our Times?
- Walda Katz-Fishman, (Chair), Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, Project South
- Jerome Scott, League of Revolutionaries for a New America; U.S. Social Forum
- Lenina Nadal, New York Study Group
- Manju Rajendran, Left Turn
- Johanna Brenner]], Solidarity; Sociology, Portland State University
Socialist Humanism, the Anti-Humanist Turn, and the Consequences for the Left
- Barbara Epstein, (Chair), Socialist Review; History, UC Santa Cruz.
- John Sanbonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Kevin B. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
The US Social Forum and US Social Movements: The Road from Atlanta to Detroit 2010
- Walda Katz-Fishman, (Chair), Sociology and Anthropology, Howard University; US Social Forum; Board Chair, Project South
Jerome Scott - League of Revolutionaries for a New America; USSF National Planning Committee Rose Brewer - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; USSF Gender Justice Working Group Harmony Goldberg - New York Study Group; Graduate Center of the CUNY
Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century W511 - Session 6 Ida Susser (Chair) - Anthropology, Hunter College; CUNY Graduate Center Jeff Maskovsky (Chair) - Urban Studies, Queens College Peter Kwong - Hunter College Peter and Jane Schneider - Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY Fernando Coronil - Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY
Horizontalism and Grassroots Democracy in the Americas W503 - Session 4 Joanna Duarte Laudon (Chair) - York University, Barrio Nuevo Oscar Dominguez - Movement for Justice in El Barrio Marisa Franco - Right to the City Alliance Hilary Klein - community organizer, worked with Zapatista women's projects Marina Sitrin - Author, Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina Josh Lerner - The Participatory Budgeting Project, The New School for Social Research
Ten Years Later: Organizers Reflect on the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests W507 - Session 5 Left Turn Chris Dixon (Chair) - University of California Rami Elamine - Left Turn Gabriel Sayegh - Drug Policy Alliance Andréa Schmidt - Researcher/Journalist
Thinking System From the Grassroots: The Intersection of Theory and Practice in Grassroots Organizing W605 - Session 7 Billy Wharton (Chair) - Co-Chair, Socialist Party USA David McReynolds - Long time peace activist Speaker from 15th Street Manifesto Group - Kate Goff - G20 Resistance Project; New York City Anti-War Coalition Amilcar Navarro - Crown Heights Organizing Committee; Socialist Party USA, NYC Local Speaker from Picture the Homeless - Liberte Locke - Starbucks Workers Union, IWW
Getting from Here to There: Making Radical Visions Reality W606- Session 4 Camilo Vivieros (Chair) - Executive Director, Rhode Island Jobs with Justice Mireya Loza - American Studies, Brown University Reg Flowers - Founder and Artistic Director, Falconworks, Brooklyn NY Michael Pelias - Philosophy, Long Island University-Brooklyn Lesley Wood - Ontario Coalition Against Poverty Sociology, York University
Radical Spaces, Radical City W618 - Session 7 Denisse Andrade and Dara Greenwald (Chair) Rebel Diaz Collective Asere Bello - Crystal House Kazembe Balagun - The Brecht Forum
New Developments in Solidarity Economy Organizing in the U.S. W601- Session 4 Germai Medhanie (Chair) - Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy Carl Davidson - National Co-Chair, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; Board member, US Solidarity Economy Network Lynn Benander - Dir. of Community Business Development for Co-op Power Maliha Safri - Economics, Drew University; Associate Editor, Rethinking Marxism; Member of Center for Popular Economics Djar Horn - Jersey Shore Neighborhood Cooperative; Social Work graduate student, Monmouth University; former union organizer and union carpenter
Strategizing to Build Real Self-Governance W507 - Session 2 Capitalism Nature Socialism Karen Charman (Chair) - Managing Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism Robert Parry - Publisher and Editor, Consortiumnews.com Richard Grossman - Independent historian Joel Kovel - Editor in Chief, Capitalism Nature Socialism
Experiments in Popular Democracy: Is it Really Possible to Democratize the Capitalist State? Student Union - Session 1 Johanna Brenner (Chair) - Solidarity; Sociology, Portland State University Hilary Wainwright - Research Director, Transnational Institute New Politics Program; Sr. Research Associate, International Centre for Participation Studies, University of Bradford Dept. of Peace Studies Sujatha Fernandes - Sociology, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Erik Olin Wright - Director, Series Editor of Verso's Real Utopias Project; Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lessons from Latin American Social Movements for a US in Crisis W612 - Session 1 Toward Freedom, Between The Lines Radio Scott Harris (Chair) - Between The Lines Radio Ben Dangl - Toward Freedom Marina Sitrin - Author, Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina Mario Murillo - Author, Voices of Resistance: Indigenous Radio and the Struggle for Social Justice in Colombia
Author meets critics: van der Walt and Schmidt's "Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism" Chair: Lucien van der Walt - University of the Witwatersrand Mitch Miller - WSA-NYC Wayne Price - NEFAC (Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists)
New Radical Parties and Experiments in Party Building W626 - Session 6 Geoff Bailey (Chair) - Sebastian Budgeon - Historical Materialism NPA Member - NPA Ahmed Shawki - International Socialist Review; Haymarket Books
We Must Be Good at Learning: Brecht Forum at 35 E326 - Session 3 Kazembe Balagun (Chair) -Brecht Forum Max Uhlenbeck - Left Turn, Brecht Forum Liz Mestres - Brecht Forum Lisa Maya Knauer - Sociology/Anthropology. UMass Dartmouth
POLITICAL ECONOMY [back to top]
Economic Democracy as an alternative to capitalism Multi Purpose Room - Session 2 Costas Panayotakis (Chair) - New York City College of Technology, CUNY; Capitalism Nature Socialism David Schweickart - Loyola University Cathy Mulder - John Jay College, CUNY Michael Menser - Brooklyn College, Brooklyn Food Coalition
A Radical Project in New Economics: theGiftEconomy.org W606 - Session A Hans Schoenburg (Chair) - Yale Brandon Jackson - Yale Leon Noel - Yale
The Case for a NO Growth Economy W610 - Session A Frederick Wolf (Chair) - Pace Josso Caleb - Pace Michelle Passalacqua - Pace Dr. Ghassan Karam - Economics, Pace
Future of World Capitalism Book Panel 1: New Takes On Old Myths W601 - Session 3 Future of World Capitalism book series Alan Freeman (Chair) - University of Manitoba Greater London Authority Radhika Desai - Politics, University of Manitoba Visiting Fellow, DESTIN, London School of Economics Costas Panayiotakis - Sociology, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Andrew Kliman - Economics, Pace University Anne Jaclard - National Secretary, Marxist-Humanist Initiative
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE CURRENT CRISIS [back to top]
The Current Economic Crisis and Its Possible Outcomes Student Union - Session 5 Marxist Theory Colloquium at NYU Bill Tabb (Chair) - Economics, Queens College Michael Hudson - Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City Gar Alperovitz - Government, Univ. of Maryland Bertell Ollman - Politics, NYU
The Fiscal Crises of the States Student Union - Session 2 Democratic Left Michael Hirsch (Chair) - Democratic Socialists of America; New Politics Magazine James Parrott - Associate Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute Katie Romich - Organizer, Communications Workers of America John Cameron - Organizer, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
The Economic Crisis and Its Impact on the Working Class Multipurpose- Session 4 International Socialist Review Ahmed Shawki (Chair) - International Socialist Review David McNally - University of Toronto Joel Geier - International Socialist Review Greg Albo - Socialist Register, The Bullet, Canadian Dimensions Amy Muldoon - Communications Workers of America
In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives LH - Session 7 Leo Panitch (Chair) - Socialist Register Sam Gindin - Packer Visiting Chair, Social Justice, York Greg Albo - Socialist Register
The Crisis this Time LHN - Session 6 Socialist Register vivek chibber (Chair) - Sociology, New York University Greg Albo - Socialist Register, The Bullet, Canadian Dimensions Anwar Shaikh - New School University Johanna Brenner - Solidarity; Sociology, Portland State Universit
The Crisis and Capital Accumulation: Is the Role of the State Changing? W602 - Session 1 Union for Radical Political Economics Rina Garst (Chair) - Union for Radical Political Economics Jerry Joffe - St. John's University Armagan Gezici - Keene State College Terrence McDonough - Economics, National University of Ireland Galway
The 'PIIGS,' Baltics, and Hungary: Economic Crisis on the EU’s Internal Periphery W613 - Session 3 Left Business Observer Doug Henwood (Chair) - Editor, Left Business Observer; Contributing Editor, The Nation Jeffrey Sommers - Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (Faculty and Curator of the Andre Gunder Frank Memorial Library) Mark Weisbrot - Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro - Geography, SUNY New Paltz; Co-Editor, Human Geography Michael Hudson (discussant)
The Crisis That Gives the Capitalist Class Nightmares
W511 - Session 1
Critique
Suzi Weisman (Chair)- Politics, Saint Mary's College Of California
Michael Hudson- Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Hillel Ticktin- Emeritus Professor Marxist Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Lea Haro- Politics, University of Stirling
Jack Rasmus- Politics and Economics, Saint Mary's College of Claifornia
Alternative Perspectives on Marxist Crisis Theory and the Current Economic Crisis W602 - Session 2 Union for Radical Political Economics; Science and Society Paddy Quick (Chair) - St. Francis College, Brooklyn Julio Huato - St. Francis College, Brooklyn David Kotz - Economics, UMass-Amherst David Laibman - Science and Society Fred Magdoff - Monthly Review
Economics and Politics of the Current Crisis: Causes and Prospects for the Future W617 - Session 6 Anne Jaclard (Chair) - National Secretary, Marxist-Humanist Initiative Brendan Cooney - Video producer, “kapitalism101” Andrew Kliman - Dept. of Economics-Pleasantville, Pace University
PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX [back to top]
What Does the Left Need to Know about Prison? W504 - Session 7 Susie Day (Chair) - Laura Whitehorn - New York State Task Force for Political Prisoners Asha Bandele - Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Drug Policy Alliance Vikki Law - Books Through Bars Cleo Silvers - Safiya Bukhari/Albert Nuh Washington Foundation
Criminology and Social Justice: Establishing a Strong Theoretical Foundation W504 - Session 1 Dr. William Calathes (Chair) - Criminal Justice, New Jersey City University; independent human rights attorney Jason WIlliams - New Jersey City University Christine Bell - New Jersey City University
RACE [back to top]
The Economic Crisis, How it Impacts African Americans and Labor LHN - Session 5 Tony Montiero (Chair) - Muhammad Ahmad - African-American Studies, Temple University Bill Fletcher, Jr. - BlackCommentator.com; co-author, Solidarity Divided Henry Nicholas - 1199
Race and Recession: Will a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? W626 - Session 1 Rod Bush (Chair) - Author, The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line Glen Ford - Co-founder and Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report Algernon Austin - Director, Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy program, Economic Policy Institute Dedrick Muhammad - Sr. OrganizRescuing the Concept of Internal er and Research Associate, Inequality and the Common Good program, Institute for Policy Studies
How Things Change As They Stay The Same: Talking Through Racial Categories, Politics, and Organizing in the 21st Century W621 - Session 1 Matthew Birkhold (Chair) - Heavy Thinkers, Binghamton University Kazembe Balagun - Heavy Thinkers, Brecht Forum Melanie Bush - Adelphi University Jill Humphries - Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education, Queens College
Introductory Session W608 - Session B Race: Rod Bush
Geography of Malcolm X W612 - Session 6 James Tyner (Chair) – Geography, Kent State Sam Anderson – Back Left Unity Network & Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence Komozi Woodard – History, Sarah Lawrence Michael Simanga - Author, In the Shadow of the Sun
Rebuilding the Black Left/Rejuvenating Revolutionary Black Youth W606 - Session 5 Sam Anderson (Chair) - Back Left Unity Network & Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence Jerry Jeremie - St. John's University Janessa Robinson - St. John's University Joan Gibbs - National Conference of Black Lawyers
Rescuing the Concept of Internal Colonialism from the Dustbin of History W602- Session 3 Charles Pinderhughes (Chair) - Boston College Davarian Baldwin - Trinity College Komozi Woodard - Sarah Lawrence College Michael Simanga - Author, In the Shadow of the Sun
Can the White Left Organize Against Racism in the White Community W619 - Session 2 Bok-Keem Nyerere (Chair)- National Association of Kawaida Organizations John Garvey - NYC Taxi Rank and File Coalition, Race Traitor Geert Dhondt - Political Economics/Economic History, John Jay College
The American Left and the “Black Question”: From Politics to Protest to the Post-Political W610 - Session 3 Platypus Benjamin Blumberg (Chair) - Platypus Affiliated Society Tim Barker - Columbia University Student Pamela Nogales - Platypus Affiliated Society Christopher Cutrone - Platypus Affiliated Society
Black Nationalism in the United States Chair: Rod Bush Algernon Austin Maulana Karenga Eddie Glaude Manning Marable
African Americans and Latinos and the Decolonization of the U.S. Empire in the 21st Century
W510 - Session 6
Mojubaolu Okome (Chair) - Political Science, Brooklyn College
Agustin Lao-Montes - Sociology, UMass at Amherst
Denise Santiago - Director, Multi-Cultural Affairs, Pace University
Charles Pinderhughes - Sociology, Boston College
The Left in a Post-Racial United States
E323 - Session 7
Sam Anderson (Chair) - Back Left Unity Network & Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence
Fred Ho - Afro Asian Music Ensemble
Eduardo Bonilla Silva - Duke University
Keith Griffler - SUNY Buffalo
Muntu Matsimela - John Jay College and the Black Left Unity Network
The Recession: A Black Left Perspective
Chair: Rod Bush
Glen Ford - Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report
Algernon Austin - Economic Policy Institute. Director of the Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy program.
Dedrick Muhammad - Institute for Policy Studies, Senior Organizer and Research Associate for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good.
Andre Showell - Reporter, Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Stand Alone Slide Presentation/Talk on "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918"
W623 - Session 2
Jeffrey B. Perry (Chair) - Independent scholar
The Black Internationale
E323 - Session 2
Rod Bush (Chair) - Sociology and Antropology, St. John's University
Komozi Woodard - Sarah Lawrence College
Charles Pinderhughes - Boston College
Michael Simanga - Author, In the Shadow of the Sun
New Perspectives from the Black Left
W605- Session 4
Rod Bush (Chair) - Sociology and Antropology, St. John's University
Agustin Lao-Montes - Sociology, UMass, Amherst
Humberto Brown - Black Radical Congress
Rose Brewer - University of Minnesota
How Things Change As They Stay The Same: Talking Through Racial Categories, Politics, and Organizing in the 21st Century
Chair: Matthew Birkhold
Matthew Birkhold - heavy Thinkers, Inc,. Binghamton University
Kazembe Balagun - Heavy Thinkers, Inc., Brecht Forum
Melanie Bush - Adelphi University
Jill Humphries - Joseph S Murphy Institute for Worker Education, Queens College
Lynching Then, Lynching Now: Roots of Racism and the Death Penalty in the US
W601 - Session 6
Lee Wengraf (Chair) - Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Brian Jones - Author, Fifty Years Since the Civil Rights Sit-Ins; Editorial Board, International Socialist Review
Lawrence Hayes - Former NYS death row prisoner; Board Member, Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Yusef Salaam - Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Radical Black Perspective Panel: Obama, the Crisis of Black Leadership and US Imperialism Running Amuck!
W621 - Session 2
Nellie Bailey (Chair), Co-founder of Harlem Tenants Council and HarlemAnti-War Coalition
Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, Senior Editor of Black Agenda Report
Jon Jeter, Journalist & former Bureau Chief for the Washington Post in southern Africa and South America. Author of Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People.
Author Meets Critic: Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell
W615 - Session 4
Nikhil Singh (Chair) - History, NYU
Jeanne Theoharis - Political Science, Brooklyn College
Van Gosse - History, Franklin and Marshall College
Black Youth Looking at the Left
E325 - Session 7
Fitzroy Searles (Chair) - History, St. John's University
Jerry Jeremie - St. John's University
Reginald Pressoir - Catholic Charities
Tara Perry - St. John's University
RELIGION [back to top]
Progressive Religion and the Fight for Democracy W626 - Session 2 Religious Socialism, Journal of DSA Religion and Socialism Commission Rev. Peter Laarman (Chair) - Executive Director, Progressive Christians; Contributing Editor, Religion Dispatches Rev. Luis Barrios - John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY; Associate Priest, St. Mary's Episcopal Church in West Harlem Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou - Sr. Minister, Lemuel Haynes Congregational Church; Fellow-in-residence, Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture Tricia Sheffield - Assistant Minister for Administration, Middle Collegiate Church
Reading the Bible from the Left: The Book of Revelation W623 - Session 4 Brigitte Kahl (Chair) - Union Theological Seminary Charlene Sinclair - Union Theological Seminary, Poverty Initiative Colleen Wessel-McCoy - Union Theological Seminary, Poverty Initiative Renee Monrose - Union Theological Seminary
Capitalism, Economy, and Religion: A Christian-Marxist Dialogue W605 - Session 2 Charlene Sinclair (Chair) - Union Theological Seminary, Poverty Initiative Brigitte Kahl - Union Theological Seminary Jan Rehmann - Union Theological Seminary, Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism Richard Wolff - Economics, UMass (Emeritus); International Affairs, New School University; Rethinking Marxism
U.S. POLITICS [back to top]
Where's the Outrage? Schimmel - Session 5 Left Forum Margaret Yard (Chair) - Stanley Aronowitz - Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center Greg Palast - Joel Kovel- Editor-in-Chief, Capitalism Nature Socialism Margaret Yard - CUNY, Lehman College; Grad Center NYU Dept of Medicine, Psychiatry
What is the Work of the People's Democratic Coalition That Elected Obama Schimmel - Session 6 Rod Bush (Chair) - St. John's University; Board member, Left Forum Amiri Baraka - Muhammad Ahmad - African American Studies, Temple University Peniel Joseph - History, Tufts University
Right-Wing Populism, Political Economy & Radical Dissent Multipurpose - Session 6 Public Eye Abby Scher (Chair) - Author, "Post-Palin Feminism;" former Editor, Public Eye Magazine Chip Berlet - Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates; Co-author, Right-Wing Populism in America Sue Udry - Executive Director, Defending Dissent Foundation Tarso Luís Ramos - Executive Director, Political Research Associates
The Historical Context of the Politics of WBAI 99.5FM W510- Session 5 Lisa Davis (Chair) - Local Station Board WBAI Russell Dale - Local Station Board WBAI Daniel Vila - Local Station Board WBAI Bernard White - Former Program Manager, WBAI
The Contours of the New Radical Right W617 - Session 5 John Mason (Chair) Joan Lara Amat y León, University of Barcelona, New School of Social Research Charles Laurence, Journalist, First Post, London, UK. Michael Thompson, Associate Professor of Politics, WPU, and Editor of Logos Journal. John Mason, Professor of Politics, WPU, Resource Person, Institute of European Studies, University of ParisVIII. France. (Discussant)
Whose Quality of Life? - Homeless People, the NYPD, and "Disorderly Conduct:" W61 - Session 7 Brandon King (Chair) - Indio - Picture the Homeless Street News Arvernetta Henry - Picture the Homeless
Can Progressives Transform the Democratic Party? Power, Class and Politics W6-Session 6 Joanne Landy (Chair) - Co-Director, Campaign for Peace and Democracy; Editorial Board member, New Politics Arun Gupta - Founding Editor, The Indypendent Lance Selfa - Author, The Democrats: A Critical History (Haymarket Books, 2008); columnist, Socialist Worker.org Jodie Evans - Co-Founder, CODEPINK: Women for Peace
The U.S. Right and the War on Terror W610 - Session 7 Ron Crenshaw (Chair) - Past member, Worker's World Party and December 12th Movement. Chip Berlet - Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates Terrell Armistead - History, St. John's University Jonathan Scott - Bronx Community College
Can Obama Be Moved? Movement Strategies to Pressure Party Politics E328 - Session 2 Margit Mayer (Chair) - Free University, Berlin Jenny Brown - Co-chair, Alachua County Labor Party, National Women's Liberation Pete Sikora - Working Families Party, Communication Workers of America Ethan Young - Portside, Brecht Forum Eric Mann - Labor/Community Strategy Center, Los Angeles
More than a Year into the Health Reform Debacle: What Direction for Real Health Care Justice? W626 - Session 3 Physicians for a National Health Program Martha Livingston (Chair) - SUNY College at Old Westbury; Vice-chair, Physicians for a National Health Program, New York-Metro chapter Oliver Fein - Dean, Weill-Cornell Medical College; National President and local Chair, Physicians for a National Health Program Leonard Rodberg - Urban Studies, Queens College; Research Director, New York-Metro chapter, Physicians for a National Health Program Katie Robbins - National Coordinator, Healthcare-NOW Laurie Wen - Healthcare-NOW, Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition Bill Henning - Communications Workers of America, Local 1180
Dying for Cool: Case Study on US Militarism and Marketing W618 Culture Clash Terry Marshall (Chair) - Culture Clash, Young Voices Nation Christine Peng - CAAAV, Global Action Project Terry Marshall - Culture Clash, Young Voices Nation Kiara Nagel - Design Studio 4 Social Intervention
Rejuvenating the Left Critique of the War on Terror W626 - Session 5 Sander Hicks (Chair) - Green Party of NY State Paul Zarembka - Economics Dept, State University of New York at Buffalo; Research in Political Economy Journal David MacGregor -
The Empire Strikes Back: Obama and the Teabaggers - (R)evolution and Counter(R)evolution W622 - Session 1 John Kim (Chair) - Culture Clash Vanessa Nisperos - Culture Clash Calvin Williams - Culture Clash
Bush 2.0: Obama’s War at Home and Abroad W610 - Session 5 Saadia Toor (Chair) - Action for a Progressive Pakistan & South Asia Solidarity Initiative Adaner Usmani - Action for a Progressive Pakistan & Labour Party, Pakistan Jawied Nawabi - Afghanistan Peace Association Jeanne Theoharis - Educators for Civil Liberties Leili Kashani - Center for Constitutional Rights
Jobs for All, Legalization for All, a Massive Public Works Program
E329 - Session 6
Eric Lerner (Chair) - NJ May 1 Coalition; International Luxemburgist Network
Jay Arena - Sociology, College of Staten Island
Diana Meija - NJ American Friends Service Committee
Coming to America, Running from Americas: Should the U.S. Owe Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants Coming from Countries Affected by the School of the Americas/WHINSEC? W608 - Session 6 Laura Schleifer (Chair) - Quisia Gonzalez, MD - Latin American Program Director, Earth Rights Institute, Henry George School Joe Dowling - School of the Americas Watch; Nassau Community College Adan Stevens-Diaz - Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Brooklyn College Udi Ofer - Advocacy Director, NYCLU
Rethinking the National Question in the United States W610- Session 4 Yusuf Nuruddin (Chair) - University of Toledo, Africana Studies Charles Pinderhughes - Sociology, Boston College Fred Ho - Afro Asian Music Ensemble Warren Neal Holmes
The Chickenhawk Syndrome: War, Sacrifice and Personal Responsibility W616 - Session 4 Radical Philosophy Review Chair: Anatole Anton Cheyney Ryan - University of Oregon, Oxford University Anatole Anton - Political Science, San Francisco State Harry van der Linden - Butler College Michael Brown - Michigan State
Jobs, Social Issues and Ways to Get Out of the Crisis in Europe and USA E323 - Session 6 Chrystel Le Moing (Chair) - International Relations, Gabriel Peri Foundation Daniel Cirera - Secretary of the scientific council, Gabriel Peri Foundation Alain Guinot - Director, La Nouvelle Vie Ouvrière, weekly newspaper of the Labour General Confédération (CGT) of France Ed Ott - Former Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council; Distinguished Lecturer, Murphy Institute, CUNY John Mason - Political Science, William Paterson University
Exonerate The Rosenbergs? Robert & Michael Meeropol React to Morton Sobell and Other New Developments W616 - Session 3 National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case Gerald Markowitz (Chair) - Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Grad Cente Robert Meeropol - Younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg; Founder/Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children; Board of Directors, NCRRC. Michael Meeropol - Older son of the Rosenbergs; John Jay College Interdisciplinary Studies Program Miriam Schneir - Co-author, Invitation to an Inquest David Alman - President of the NCRRC; Founding Member with Emily Alman of the original Rosenberg defense committee.
Toward a Second [Economic] Bill of Rights W503 - Session 3 Democratic Left Michael Hirsch (Chair) - New Politics; Democratic Left Bill Barclay - Chicago Political Economy Group Joseph Schwartz - Politics, Temple University; Vice-Chair, Democratic Socialists of America
Organizing Strategies to Combat the Radical Right W616 - Session 1 David Sprintzen (Chair) - Founder/Officer, Long Island Progressive Coalition, Citizen Action on Long Island; President of Long Island Jobs with Justice Alan Charney - Political Director, US Action Ed Ott - Former Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council; Distinguished Lecturer, Murphy Institute, CUNY Peter Sikora - Communications Workers of America, Working Families Party
Radicals and NYC Politics E329 - Session 1 Charles Barron (Chair) - Operation Power Paul Washington - Inez Barron - State Assemblywoman, New York's 40th District
Fight the Right, Build the Left: Strategy and Tactics for the 2010 Elections W613 - Session 6 Dialogue and Initiative Erica Carter, National Committee, CCDS (Chair) - Howie Hawkins - Green Party of New York, Teamsters for a Democratic Union Carl Davidson - National Co-Chair, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; Webmaster, Progressives for Obama Kevin Lynch - Organizer, Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Union; Member, Working Families Party Roger Green - Former NY State Assemblyman; Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY
Fashioning a Left Response to the Tea Party Propaganda Assault
Schimmel Auditorium - Lunch time panel: SATURDAY, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Frances Fox Piven (Chair)
Christian Parenti
Richard Kim
Dorthee Benz
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