The U.S., the World, and the Next Four Years
Global Left Dialogue
Welcome
Frances Degen Horowitz, President
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Chair: Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center
Tariq Ali, New Left Review
Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University
Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center
Barbara Ehrenreich, author, Nickled and Dimed
Saturday, 10:00am
The Western Left and Iraq
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Julia C. Wrigley, CUNY Graduate Center
Tariq Ali, New Left Review
Stephen R. Shalom, William Paterson University 
Joanne Landy, New Politics 
Anthony Arnove, editor, Iraq Under Siege
The Daniel Singer Essay Prize: "The Soul of Socialism"
The Daniel Singer Foundation
Chair: Albert Ruben, Writer
Andrew Blackman, recipient, 2004 Daniel Singer Prize, Wall Street Journal
Barbara Ehrenreich, author, Nickled and Dimed
Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center
Staughton Lynd, Historians Against the War
Just Around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery - Author Meets Critics
Global Left Dialogue
Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center
William DiFazio, St. John's University,
Richard D. Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
New Strategies for Rebuilding Power in the Labor Movement
Working USA
Chair: Immanuel Ness, Working USA
Saru Jayaraman, HERE Workers Center
Bhairavi Desai, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
Aijen Poo, New York City Domestic Workers United
Benjamin Day, Cornell University
The Digital Commons as a Public Good
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Chair: Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University
Sabine Nuss, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Christoph Engemann, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Heather Johnson, Rutgers University, Newark
Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center
The Future of the Social Forum Movement in the U.S.
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Michael Menser, NYC Social Forum
Victor Rosado, Social Justice Alliance
Premila Dixit, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Suren Moodliar, North Atlantic Alliance for Fair Employment
Thomas Ponniah, Network Institute for Global Democratization
Fighting for Health Under Neoliberalism in South Korea and Venezuela
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Carles Muntaner, University of Toronto
Francisco Armada, Ministry of Health and Social Development, Venezuela
Haejoo Chung, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Mia Son, Kangwon National University, South Korea
Juhwan Oh, Seoul National University
Ecological Disasters: The Case of Bhopal
Council on International & Public Affairs
Chair: Ward Morehouse, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
Ryan Boldanyi, International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal
Carolyn Oppenheim, Public Purpose Communications
Rajan Sharma, lead counsel, class action against Union Carbide
Ilan Ziv, producer, Litigating Disaster
Social Insanity, Family Transformation, and Personal Neurosis
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Harriet Fraad, psychoanalyst and hypnotherapist
Richard Lichtman, The Wright Institute
Joel Kovel, Bard College
Racism and the Politics of Oil
Alliance of Radical Academic/Intellectual Organizations
Chair: Barbara Foley, Science & Society
Tony O'Brien, Queens College, PSC-CUNY
Jack Hammond, CUNY Graduate Center
Kanishka Choudhury, St. Thomas University, Minneapolis
George Caffentzis, University of Southern Maine
Dialectical Perspectives on Developing an Alternative to Capitalism
News & Letters Committees
Chair: Andrew Kliman, New SPACE
Peter Hudis, News & Letters Committees
Anne Pomeroy, Stockton College
Sam Friedman
Seth G. Weiss, May Day Books & Infoshop
Saturday, 12:00pm
Crisis of the Labor Movement
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Joseph Wilson, Brooklyn College
Steve Early, Communication Workers of America
Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center
Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum
Faryce Moore, SSEU, AFSCME Local 371
Marsha Niemeijer, Labor Notes
The Left and Ecology
Capitalism, Nature and Socialism
Chair: Lorraine C. Minnite, Barnard College
Joel Kovel, Bard College
Frieder Otto Wolf, "Sustainable Strategy" Freie Universität - Berlin
Ynestra King, co-editor, Dangerous Intersections
John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review
Iraq, Imperialism, and Post-Colonialism
Social Text
Chair: Randy Martin, New York University
Ashley Dawson, CUNY Graduate Center
Patrick Deer, New York University
Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
Josefina Saldana, Rutgers University
The Enlightenment
Logos
Chair: Gregory Zucker, Logos
Stephen Eric Bronner, Rutgers University
Frank Kirkland, Hunter College, CUNY
Tom DeZengotita, author of Mediated
Diana Judd, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Michael Thompson, Logos
Postmodernism and Democracy
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Patricia T. Clough, CUNY Graduate Center
Michael Denning, Yale University
Jan Rehmann, Union Theological Seminary
Gayatri Spivak, Columbia University
David Ruccio, Rethinking Marxism
Michael Hardt, Duke University
The Left in Local Government: Tuscany, Brazil, Germany, and New York State
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Jessica Shearer, Democratic Socialists of America
Jason West, Mayor, Village of New Paltz
Mercedes Frias, Environmental Spokesperson, City Council of Empoli (Tuscany)
Cornelia Hildebrandt, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Luiz Fernando Mainardi, Mayor, Bagé, Brazil
After 1989: Marxism in Transition
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: TBA
Benedetto Fontana, Baruch College, CUNY
Richard D. Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Mary Boger, Brecht Forum
TBA
The Dialectic of Poverty
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Bill DiFazio, St. John's University
Rod Bush, St. John's University
David van Arsdale, Tompkins County Community College
Melanie Bush, Brooklyn College, CUNY 
Mohúàolú Olufunké Okome, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Fascism Then and Now
Science & Society
Chair: Barbara Foley, Science & Society
Gregory Meyerson, North Carolina State University
Michael Roberto, North Carolina State University
Michel Warschawski, Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem
Fighting for National Health Care in a Right-Wing Environment
Physicians for a National Health Program
Chair: Martha Livingston, SUNY College at Old Westbury
Len Rodberg, Queens College, CUNY
Marcia Bayne-Smith, Queens College
Oliver Fein, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Mark Hannay, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign
Saturday, 2:00pm
Hard Questions for the Peace Movement
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Hilary Rose, co-author, Alas, Poor Darwin
Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University
Frida Berrigan, War Resisters League
Vincenzo Striano, ARCI-Toscana
Media in the Context of Globalization
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Josh Breitbart, Michigan Indymedia Center, Clamor
Luciana Castellina, Il Manifesto
Scott Forsyth, York University
Antwuan Wallace, Media Justice Fund
Danny Schechter, Media Channel
Palestine: The Occupation and the Challenges Ahead
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Gilbert Achcar, University of Paris VIII
Michel Warschawski, Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem
Bashir Abu-Manneh, Barnard College
Charney V. Bromberg, Meretz USA
Aseel Sawalha, Pace University
History Matters: The Past, Public Memory, and Resistance
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Manning Marable, Columbia University
Lauren Langman, Loyola University of Chicago
Russell Rickford, Columbia University
Tiffany Patterson, Binghamton University
Renate Bridenthal, Brooklyn College, CUNY
TBA
What's Happening in the U.S. Economy?
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Nicole Shippin, Rutgers University
Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Richard D. Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
William K. Tabb, Queens College, CUNY
Anarchism and the Left: New Dialogues on Power and Social Change
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Heather Gautney, CUNY Graduate Center
Andrej Grubacic, ZNet
Chris Dixon, University of California, Santa Cruz
Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies
Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum
Stephen Duncombe, New York University
The Politics of the Neoliberal University
Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Yale University
Chair: Michael Denning, Yale University
Amanda Ciafone, Yale University
Daniel Gilbert, Yale University
Sumanth Gopinath, University of Minnesota
Myra Jones-Taylor, Yale University
Nazima Kadir, Yale University
Christina Moon, Yale University
A. Naomi Paik, Yale University
Refocusing Marxism on Class, Surplus, and Exploitation
AESA/ Rethinking Marxism
Chair: Stephen Resnick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Stephen Cullenberg, University of California, Riverside
Ceren Özselçuk, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Challenge of the Rightist Values Agenda to Secular and Religious Socialists
Religion and Socialism Commission, DSA
Chair: Roderick Ryon, Religion and Socialism Commission, DSA
Esther Kaplan, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Stephen Hart, SUNY Buffalo
Norman Faramelli, Boston University School of Theology
Capitalism and Collapse: A Symposium on Jared Diamond's New Book
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Richard Smith
Neil Smith, Center for Place, Culture & Politics, CUNY Graduate Center
John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review
Gendered Aspects of US Empire
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Hester Eisenstein, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center
Martha Gimenez, University of Colorado--Boulder
Johanna Brenner, Portland State University
Saturday, 4:00pm
Building Alliances: Parties, Movements, Left Strategies
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin, Brecht Forum, New York
Chair: Stephen Brier, CUNY Graduate Center
Michael Brie, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Luciana Castellina, Il Manifesto
Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center
Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum
Vincenzo Striano, ARCI-Toscana
Race-ing Justice: Black Resistance and the Politics of Mass Incarceration
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Manning Marable, Columbia University
Keesha Middlemass, Vera Institute, University of Kansas
Adolphus G. Belk Jr., Winthrop University
Laurent Alfred, Columbia University
Angel Asale Ajani, New York University
The Global Geopolitics of Oil
Union for Radical Political Economics
Chair: Rina Garst, Union for Radical Political Economics
Michael Klare, Hampshire College
Michael Tanzer, Economic Consultant
Tom O'Donnell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Neoliberalism: Brazil, Venezuela, and Latin American Strategies of Resistance
Socialism and Democracy
Chair: Fred Rosen, NACLA
Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Vivario, Brazil
Steve Ellner, Duke University
Margarita López Maya, Columbia University
Repression and Resistance in Higher Education: Academic Freedom,
Corporatization and Organizing
New Political Science
Chair: Christine A. Kelly, William Paterson University
Preston Smith, Mt. Holyoke College, Free Higher Education
Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University
David Schultz, Hamline University
Melissa Mason, Grad. Student Organizer, Yale University
Susan O'Malley, Radical Teacher, Chair, CUNY Faculty Senate
Debtor Families - Debtor Nation
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Magalì Safatti Larson, Temple University
Max Fraad Wolff, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Piruz Alemi, economist
Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
THE NEW IMPERIALISM: STRATEGY, STRUCTURE, AND IDEOLOGY
Sunday, 10:00am
Roundtable: the Global Justice Movement
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Barbara Garson, author, Money Makes the World Go Around
Marina Sitrin, New York University
François Houtart, Centre Tricontinental, Louvain
Michael Brie, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange
Eddie Yuen, editor, Confronting Capitalism
Thomas Ponniah, Network Institute for Global Democratization
Imperial Contradictions at Home and Abroad: Empire Reloaded or Overloaded?
Socialist Register
Chair: Leo Panitch, York University
David Harvey, CUNY Graduate Center
Sam Gindin, Socialist Register
Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center
William K. Tabb, Queens College, CUNY
The Legacy of Bandung: Rebuilding a Third World Politics of Resistance
[cancelled]
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Manning Marable, Columbia University
Rabab Abdulhadi, University of Michigan at Dearborn
Michael West, Binghamton University
TBA
Gary Okihiro, Columbia University
The Political Impact of Digital Technologies
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Abigail Schoneboom, CUNY Graduate Center
Steve Pierce, New Media Alliance
Christoph Engemann, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Anthony Riddle, Alliance for Community Media
The Crisis of American Education
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Julia C. Wrigley, CUNY Graduate Center
Jean Anyon, CUNY Graduate Center
Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate Center
Patricia Krüger, CUNY Graduate Center
Gregory Anderson, College, Columbia University
Lois Weiner, New Jersey City University
The Marxist Theory of Class and Its Importance for Today
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Liz Mestres, Brecht Forum
Bertell Ollman, New York Unversity
Michael Zweig, SUNY Stony Brook
David McNally, York University
The Left and the Rich: Income Inequality and Democracy
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Sam Pizzigati, author, Greed and Good
Meizhu Lui, United for a Fair Economy
Ross Zucker, author, Democratic Distributive Justice
Sunday, 12:00pm
After the 2004 Elections: Progressive Responses
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Adrienne Maree Brown, League of Young Voters
Joel Rogers, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Joanne Landy, New Politics
Dan Cantor, Working Families Party
Joe Trippi, Trippi & Associates
Bill Resnick, Portland Alliance
Councilman Bill Perkins, NYC Council
Whither the Middle East?: Iraq, Lebanon and the Regional Reshuffle
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Wadood Hamad, physicist and writer
Gilbert Achcar, University of Paris VIII
Irene Gendzier, Boston University
Christian Parenti, CUNY Graduate Center
Fawwaz Trabulsi, American University, Beirut
Social Security "Crisis": Rolling Back the New Deal
Dollars & Sense
Chair: Amy Gluckman, Dollars & Sense
Ellen Frank, Poverty Institute
Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
Trudy Goldberg, Adelphi University
Chris Rude, York University
Resistance in the Military
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Barbara Garson, author, Money Makes the World Go Around
Tod Ensign, Citizen Soldier
Alex Rybov, Iraq Veterans Against the War
Victor Paredes, brother of Pablo Paredes
Kim Rosario, MFSO, mother of a G.I. currently serving in Iraq
Class or Multitude
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Rainer Rilling, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Germany
Ellen Meiksins Wood, author, Empire of Capital
Michael Hardt, Duke University
Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center
Michael Albert, Z Magazine
Euro-Imperialism?
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin
Chair: John Grouard Mason, William Paterson University
Frieder Otto Wolf, Sustainable Strategy - Freie Universität, Berlin
Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University
Tobias Pflüger, European Parliament
Philip G. Cerny, Rutgers University at Newark
Dieter Plehwe, Yale University
We Got Next: Youth Activism in Harlem
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Michael Tyner, Uptown for Peace and Justice
Que Alequin, Uptown for Peace and Justice
Jeanette Caceres, Uptown for Peace and Justice
Alcy Montas, Uptown for Peace and Justice
Estevan Nembhard, Uptown for Peace and Justice
Sex, Gender and Politics Today
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University
Ellen Willis, New York University
Richard Goldstein, Village Voice
Pamela Bridgewater, American University, Washington, DC
Martha Gimenez, University of Colorado--Boulder
Sunday, 2:00pm
Insurgency and the Limits of US Imperial Reach
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Eliyanna Kaiser, Democratic Socialists of America
Gilbert Achcar, University of Paris VIII
Leo Panitch, York University
Peter Gowan, University of North London
Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University
The Frame-up of Lynne Stewart: The Emerging Police State
National Lawyers Guild
Co-Sponsor: Center for Constitutional Rights
Chair: Michael Steven Smith, National Lawyers Guild
Lynne Stewart, Attorney
Adbeen Jabara, New York Civil Liberties Union
Michael Avery, National Lawyers Guild
Dalia Hashad, American Civil Liberties Union
John Gerassi, Queens College
Educators to Stop the War: Moving Forward
Educators to Stop the War (E.S.W)
Chair: Nancy Romer, USLAW, PSC-CUNY (AFT Local 2334)
Joan Beckerman, Clara Barton High School teacher
Lusmaia Díaz, S.A.N.I.T.Y., Beacon High School student
Jackie DiSalvo, Baruch College, CUNY
Tom Roderick, Educators for Social Responsibility
Justino Rodríguez, Campus Action Network, "CUNY 4"
Michael Zweig, USLAW, UUP-SUNY (AFT Local 2190)
China and the World
Global Left Dialogue
Chair:TBA
Satya Gabriel, Mount Holyoke College
Andrew Ross, New York University
Richard Smith
Freedom Dreamin': Imagining Socialism
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Manning Marable, Columbia University
Robin D. G. Kelley, Columbia University
Sam Webb, Communist Party USA
Michael Albert, Z Magazine
Amiri Baraka, poet
Youth Organizing and Politics in the US
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Malav Kanuga, Young Democratic Socialists
TBA
Crystal Yakacki, United Students Against Sweatshops
Jonathan Wilson, Critical Resistance
Steve Theberge, War Resisters League
Why Americans Fall for the Ownership Society
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Maria Svart, Democratic Socialists of America
Aaron Brenner, Rank & File Enterprises
Ellen Willis, New York University
Graham Cassano, Union of Radical Political Economics
Chris Rude, URPE and New School University
Closing Plenary
Sunday, 4:00pm
Future of the Left
Global Left Dialogue
Chair: Leith Mullings, CUNY Graduate Center
Bill Fletcher, Jr., TransAfrica Forum
Bogdan Denitch, Transition to Democracy
Ralph Nader, Democracy Rising
Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange
Ron Daniels, Center for Constitutional Rights