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2005 program
Opening Plenary Friday 7:00pm
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