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OPENING
PLENARY
Friday, March 9, 7pm
Forging
a Radical Political Future
Liza Featherstone, The
Nation (Chair)
Cornel West, Princeton University
Adolfo Gilly, National Autonomous
University of Mexico
Hilary Wainwright, Red
Pepper
Stanley Aronowitz, Graduate
Center, CUNY
CLOSING
PLENARY
Sunday March 11, 5:30pm
Visions for the Future
Chair: Vivek Chibber, New
York University
Keynote Address:
Boaventura de Sousa Santos,
University of Wisconsin, Madison/COIMBRA, Lisbon
Respondents:
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Co-founder,
Center for Labor Renewal
Frances Fox Piven, Graduate
Center, CUNY
David Graeber, Yale University
The
Left And Conspiracy: Post 9/11 Dissent (LF)
Jack Bratich, Rutgers University
(Chair)
Peter Staudenmaier, Institute
for Social Ecology
Bill Weinberg, World War
4 Report/WBAI
Sander Hicks, 9/11 Truth
Movement
Frank Morales, St. Marks
Church
Today’s
Black Agenda: Fighting for Full Employment and Social Justice under the
impact of War and Globalization (Black Radical Congress)
Jarvis Tyner, Co-Chair,
Black Radical Congress (Chair)
Khalil Almustafa, Poet/Satirist,
Uptown Youth for Peace & Justice Harlem
Dorothy Benton Lewis, Co-Chair
of International Affairs, N'COBRA
Hank Williams, CUNY/Freedom
Road Socialist Organization
LeShane Lindsey, Labor Organizer,
Local 1199
Bill Perkins, NY State Senator
Dist. 30 representing Harlem and West Side
Politics
of Food (LF)
Harriet Fraad, Psychotherapist/Hypnotherapist,
New York City (Chair)
Marion Nestle, New York
University
Patty Lovera, Food and Water
Watch
Elizabeth Ramey, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, former Cattle Farmer
The
Trouble With Diversity:Challenging Multiculturalism (LF)
Alyson Cole, Queens College,
CUNY (Chair)
Walter Benn Michaels, University
of Illinois, Chicago
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, California
State University, East Bay
Jerry Watts, Graduate Center,
CUNY
CyberOrganizing—The Internet and Beyond (LF)
Bill
Friedheim, PSC-CUNY (Chair)
Zack Exley, New Organizing
Institute
Beka Economopoulos, Greenpeace
Elana Levin, Drum Major
Institute
Tate Hausman, DotOrganize
What
would a Serious Left Electoral Program Be? (LF)
Joanne Landy, Campaign for
Peace and Democracy (Chair)
Howie Hawkins, Green Party,
TDU
Zack Exley, New Organizing
Institute
Chris Gavreau, Co-Founder,
Labor Party
The Nuclear Threat,
Now more than Ever (Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy)
Peter Weiss, President,
Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (Chair), "Why Nukes are an Issue
for the Left"
Michael Spies, Lawyers Committee
on Nuclear Policy, "Nuclear Iran"
Jennifer Nordstrom, "Geneva
Games: How the US has Kept Nukes off the Disarmament Agenda"
An Agenda for America: Demands for this Congress, and the Next
(Democratic
Socialists of America Fund)
Trudy Goldberg, National
Jobs for All Coalition (Chair)
Michael Hirsch, Democratic Socialists of America
Mark Levinson, Economic
Policy Institute, Washington, DC,
Ruth Sidel, Hunter College,
CUNY
Bush and Co.'s War on Civil Liberties and What it Means For Our Future (Law and Disorder Radio, Center for Constitutional Rights )
Michael
Steven Smith, Attorney (Chair)
Dalia Hashad, Director,
American Program, Amnesty International
Vincent Warren, Executive
Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
John Ehrenberg, Long Island
University
New
Orleans: What's Left and Who's Left? (LF)
William H. Schaap, Attorney
(Chair)
John P. Clark, Loyola University,
New Orleans, "The Political Ecology of
Disaster"
Curtis Muhammed, New Orleans
Survivor Council
Gary Younge, The Guardian
What
Are Non-reformist Reforms Today? (LF)
Mike Menser, Brooklyn College,
PSC-CUNY(Chair)
Robin Hahnel, American University
Frances Fox Piven, Graduate
Center, CUNY
James Tracy, Community Housing
Organizing Project, San Francisco Community
Land Trust
Prisons, Prisoners and Political Prisoners (LF)
Michael
Steven Smith, Attorney (Chair)
Bernadine Dohrn, Northwestern
University School of Law
Randy Credico, Kunstler
Fund for Racial Justice
Soffiya Elijah, Harvard
Law School
Deborah Small, Executive
Director, Break The Chains
Thinking Beyond War
(Social Text)
Patrick
Deer, New York University (Chair), "The Limits of War Culture"
Jean Franco, Columbia University,
“Rape as a Weapon of War”
Randy Martin, New York University,
“War, By All Means”
Rosalind Morris, “The War
Drive: Image Files Corrupted”
Ashley
Dawson, College of Staten Island/CUNY, "Combat in Hell: Cities
as
the Achilles Heel of US Imperial Hegemony"
Black
American Politics (LF)
Joseph Wilson, Brooklyn
College (Chair)
Manning Marable, Columbia
University
Curtis Muhammed, New Orleans
Survivor Council
Cornel West, Princeton University
Amiri Baraka, Poet and Playwright
The
Cost of Privilege: Working Class Fragmentation (Camino Press)
Juliet Ucelli, Italian Americans
for A Multicultural U.S. (Chair)
Badili Jones, Freedom Road
Socialist Organization
Anamaría Flores, Queens
College, CUNY
Melanie E. L. Bush, Adelphi
University
Do
We Need Another Wave? An Intergenerational Dialogue on the Legacy of Feminist
Thought and Activism (LF)
Hester Eisenstein, Graduate
Center, CUNY (Chair)
Michael Kimmel, SUNY at
Stony Brook
Melody Berger, Temple University
Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn
College, CUNY
Andrea Smith, Co-founder
of INCITE!, Women of Color Against Violence
Reflections
on Feminism in a Global Era (LF)
Ananya Mukherjea, College
of Staten Island, CUNY (Chair)
Hester Eisenstein, Graduate
Center, CUNY
Marnia Lazreg, Hunter College,
CUNY
Ida Susser, Graduate Center,
CUNY
The
Politics of Victimhood (LF)
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz,
Queens College, CUNY (Chair)
Alyson Cole, Queens College,
CUNY
Judy Rohrer, Syracuse University
Saru Jayaraman, Restaurant
Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY)
Forging
a Radical Feminist Future: The Legacy of Ellen Willis (LF)
Ann Snitow, New School University
(Chair)
Alice Echols, University of Southern California
Laura
Kipnis, Northwestern University
Meredith Tax, Women's WORLD
Kristal Brent Zook, Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism
Nona Willis-Aronowitz, Freelance
Writer and Critic
Student
Activism Today: SDS Revived (LF)
Meaghan Linick, Pace University
(Chair)
Mike da Cruz, Brown University
Kim Egge, Pace University
Uruj Sheikh, Pace University
Coalition
Building in the US Social Forum Movement (LF)
Mike Menser, Brooklyn College,
PSC-CUNY(Chair)
Suren
Moodliar, North American Alliance for Fair Employment
Sung E. Bai, CAAAV Organizing
Asian Communities
Jennifer Flynn, NYC AIDS
Housing Network
Left Turn: A Dialogue
on Constructing Left Formations (LF)
Heather Gautney, Towson
State University (Chair)
Stanley
Aronowitz, Graduate Center, CUNY
Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-founder,
Center for Labor Renewal
Challenges
Facing the World Social Forum (LF)
Jack Hammond, Graduate Center,
CUNY (Chair)
Boaventura de Souza Santos,
University of Wisconsin, Madison/COIMBRA, Lisbon
Thomas Ponniah, Harvard
University
Heather Gautney, Towson
State University
Soldiers
in Revolt: Building Today's GI Movement (Citizen Soldier)
Tod Ensign, Director, Citizen
Soldier (Chair)
Jose Vasquez, Army Reservist
and Pres. NYC Iraq Vets Against the War.
Cinthia Mercante, Coordinator,
Different Drummer GI Project, Ft Drum, NY
Jonathan Hutto, US Navy
Active Duty
Fernando Braga, Iraq war
vet, Army Reservist
Matt Hrutkey, Iraq war veteran
who served at Ft Drum, IVAW organizer.
The
Academy as an Arena for Organizing: An Intergenerational Dialogue (LF)
James Tracy, San Francisco
Housing Works (Chair)
Chris Dixon, University
of California, Santa Cruz
Cathy Wilkerson, Former
Weather Underground, NYC Public Schools
Harmony Goldberg, Graduate
Center, CUNY
Eric Tang, Union Semester
at Queens College, CUNY
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, California
State College, East Bay
What's
Missing from the Student Movement? (LF)
Lucas Shapiro, Young Democratic
Socialists (Chair)
Paul Collins, Antiracist
Coordinator, Young Democratic Socialists
Ramya Raghavan, The Center
for American Progress
Doug Viehmeyer, Students
for a Democratic Society
Genocide,
the Left, and Darfur (LF)
Joseph Wilson, Brooklyn College, CUNY (Chair)
Horace Campbell, Syracuse
University
Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia
University
Salah Hassan, Cornell University
Horn
of Africa, Somalia and the Gulf War (LF)
Horace Campbell, Syracuse
University (Chair)
Rose Brewer, University
of Minnesota
Kassahun Checole, Publisher,
Africa World Press, Red Sea Press
Beniam Awash, Binghamton
University
Revisiting South Africa’s
Transition: Contradiction and Possibilities (Amandla Publishers)
Amanda Alexander, Columbia
University (Chair)
Mazibuko Jara, South African
Communist Party
Brian Ashley, Co-founder,
Jubilee South, Amandla Publishers
Dennis Brutus, Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Revolution
In Nepal: Marxist Praxis (Monthly Review)
John Mage, Monthly Review
Foundation (Chair)
Steve Mikesell, Nepal Grassroots
Support
Mary Des Chene, Washington
University, St. Louis
Hisila Yami, aka Parvati, Member of the Interim Parliament of Nepal
Europe-China-USA:
Hegemonic Actors and Imperial Projects (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
Jörg Huffschmid, University
of Bremen (Chair)
Hans-Jürgen Krysmanski,
University of Münster
Peter Gowan, London Metropolitan
University
Satya Gabriel, Mt. Holyoke College
Progress
and Problems in the Development of a Socialist-market Economy in China
(Nature, Society, and Thought)
Erwin Marquit, University
of Minnesota (Chair)
Yang Jinhai, Central Compilation
and Translation Bureau, CPC
Deng Chenming, Institute
of Contemporary Marxism, Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, CPC
Zhuang Junju, Institute
of World Socialism, Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, CPC
Huang Xiaowu, Foreign Theoretical
Trends,Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, CPC, "China's
New-type Rural Cooperative Medical System"
Satya Gabriel, Mt. Holyoke
College (Respondent)
Latin
America's Left Turn (LF)
Gerardo Renique, City College,
CUNY (Chair)
Adolfo Gilly, National Autonomous
University of Mexico
Jack Hammond, Graduate Center,
CUNY
Sinclair Thomson, New York
University
Forrest Hylton, Journalist
Oaxaca
Democratic Insurgency (Socialism and Democracy)
Mario Murillo, Hofstra University,
Wake Up Call, WBAI (Chair)
Deborah Poole, Johns Hopkins
University
Tami Gold, Hunter College.
CUNY
Gerardo Renique, City College,
CUNY
Immigration
and Labor: Latin American Workers in the United States (North American
Congress on Latin America, NACLA)
Fred Rosen, NACLA (Chair)
Hector Figueroa, Vice President,
Local 32BJ, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Carlos Orellana, Civil Service
Employees Union (CSEA)
Judy Hellman, York University,
Toronto
Mercedes Frias, Deputy, Italian Chamber of Deputies
Puerto
Rico: Financial-colonial Crisis & Social Movement Response (2005-2006)
(LF)
Ana López, John Jay College
CUNY (Chair)
Antonio Carmona-Baez, University
of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.
Rafael Bernabe, University
of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.
Michael González-Cruz, University
of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.
A
New Left in Latin America? (LF)
Jonah Gindin, Venezuelanalysis
(Chair)
Steve Ellner, Universidad
de Oriente, Venezuela
Adolfo Gilly, National Autonomous
University of Mexico
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, California
State College, East Bay
Popular
Power and Latin American Social Movements: Horizontalidad,
Autonomy
and Self-Management (LF)
Karen Lopez, Brooklyn Families
United for Racial and Economic Equality (FUREE) (Chair)
Ben Dangl, Editor, www.upsidedownworld.org
Edward Mercado, US/Venezuelan
Exchange (USVEN)
Marina Sitrin, New York
University Gallatin School
Canek Peña Vargas, Estacion
Libre
The
New Left in Europe - Crises and Prospects (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
Christoph Spehr, Rosa Luxemburg
Foundation (Chair)
Rainer Rilling, Rosa Luxemburg
Foundation
Michael Krätke, University
of Amsterdam
Frieder Otto Wolf, Coordinator,
Sustainability Strategy Network, Berlin
Issues of Global Immigration
(LF)
Aaron Hess, Columbia University
(Chair)
Gary Younge, The Guardian
Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn
College
Eleni Varikas, University of Paris VIII
Joseph Wilson, Brooklyn College, CUNY (respondent)
The "European
Social Model" and the USA (LF)
Christoph Hermann, Working
Life Research Institute, Vienna, Austria (Chair)
Frances Fox Piven, Graduate
Center, CUNY
Michael Krätke, University
of Amsterdam
Jörg Huffschmid, University
of Bremen
The
Left in the Arab World: History, Conditions, and Prospects (LF)
Hamid Dabashi, Columbia
University (Chair)
Younes Abouyoub, Columbia
University
Hussein Ibish, Senior Fellow,
American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP)
Hatem A. Bazian, University
of California, Berkeley
Real
Solutions for the Middle East (LF)
Steve Brier, Vice President, Graduate Center, CUNY (Chair)
Nir Rosen, New American
Foundation
Phyllis Bennis, Institute
for Policy Studies
Gilbert Achcar, University
of Paris VIII
Israel/Palestine:
One State or Two? (LF)
Bashir Abu-Manneh, Barnard
College (Chair)
Joel Kovel, Bard College
Uri Ram, New York University
Noura Erakat, US Campaign
to End the Israeli Occupation
Iraq:
What’s At Stake? (LF)
A.K. Gupta, NYC Indymedia/The
Indypendent (Chair)
Christian Parenti, The
Nation
Gilbert Achcar, University
of Paris VIII
Anthony Arnove, ISO, Haymarket
Books
Nir Rosen, New American
Foundation
Imperial
Debacle? Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine (Socialist Register)
Irene Gendzier, Boston University
(Chair)
Gilbert Achcar, University
of Paris VIII
Bashir Abu-Manneh, Barnard
College
Sabah Alnasseri, York University,
Toronto
The
Left, Islam and the War on Terror (International Socialist Review)
Monique Dols, International
Socialist Review (Chair)
A.K. Gupta, NYC Indymedia/The
Indypendent
Hamid Dabashi, Columbia
University
Irene Gendzier, Boston University
Ahmed Shawki, International
Socialist Review
US,
Iran and Israel: What's Ahead? (Union for Radical Political Economics,
URPE)
Leili Kashani, New York
University (Chair)
Tom
O'Donnell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Reza Ghorashi, Richard Stockton
College
Evan
Siegel, New Jersey City University
Seeking
Revolutionary Change Through Culture (Science & Society)
Dick Ohmann, Wesleyan University
(Chair)
Barbara
Foley, Rutgers University, “Red/Black Writing in the U.S. Between
the Two World Wars”
Deborah Mutnick, Long Island
University, “Teaching Wars at Home, Wars Abroad”
Paul Mishler, Indiana University,
“Raising Radicals: Childrearing on the Left”
Marv Gettleman, Emeritus,
Brooklyn Polytechnic, “Training for the Class Struggle: Communist
Pedagogy”
Voices
From a Peoples History of the United States (LF)
Performance in the Great Hall on Saturday evening
Anthony Arnove, Haymarket
Books, Narration and introduction
Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow!, Narration and introduction
Staceyann Chin, Poet
Deepa Fernandes, WakeUp Call, WBAI
Brian
Jones, Actor
Erin Cherry, Actor
Najla Said, Actor and Playwright
Mario A. Murillo, WakeUp
Call, WBAI, Hofstra University
and other special guests
Karen
Finley performs "George and Martha"
Performance at NYU on Saturday evening
Political
Satire (LF)
Peter Werbe, The Fifth
Estate Magazine, NightCall Talk Radio Show (Chair)
Susie Day, Humorist
Jennifer Camper, Graphic
Artist
The Christmas Coup Comedy Players with Janet
Coleman, David Dozer,
John McDonagh, Marc
Kehoe, Moogy Klingman
The
Personal Meets the Political 2007 (LF)
Harriet
Fraad, Psychotherapist/Hypnotherapist, New York City “Emotional
Labor in America” (Chair)
Roger
Salerno, Pace University. “Marx Freud and the iPod Self”
Lauren Langman, Loyola University
of Chicago, “The Preacher, the Cowboy and American Character”
David Smith, University
of Kansas, Lawrence, "Ambivalence and the Dialectical Self: Denial,
Defense, and Change."
Socialism
and Social Critique in Science Fiction: A Roundtable Discussion (Socialism
and Democracy)
Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan,
Gordon College, Georgia (Co-Chair)
Victor Wallis, Socialism
and Democracy (Co-Chair)
Marleen S. Barr, Fordham
University
Michael G. Bennett, Michigan
Technological University
Robert P. Horstemeier, Independent
scholar
Yusuf Nuruddin, University
of Toledo
Sports:
Resistance and Culture in America (LF)
Jack McCallum, Sports
Illustrated (Chair)
Dave
Zirin, Editor, The Edge of Sports
Robert Turner, Graduate
Center, CUNY
William Rhoden, New
York Times
Hearts
of Darkness. Science Fiction, Horror and the Political Unconscious (LF)
Christoph Spehr, Rosa Luxemburg
Foundation (Chair)
Gregory Sholette, REPOhistory
Sheree R. Thomas, Author,
Dark Matters
Benjamin Moldenhauer, Rosa
Luxemburg Foundation
Andrea Hairston, Smith College
Ecosocialism;
What It Is And Why We Need It (Socialist Register )
Patty Lee Parmalee, Environmental
Activist, Author (Chair)
Michael Löwy, National Center
for Scientific Research, Paris. “Ecosocialism and Democratic Planning”
Joel Kovel, Bard College/CNS,
“The Necessity of Ecosocialism”
Heather Rogers, Author/Filmmaker/CNS:
“The Abolition of Waste”
Capitalism
And Climate Change (Capitalism Nature Socialism)
Karen Charman, Capitalism
Nature Socialism (Chair)
David Hookes, Liverpool
University, “A History of Two Futures”
Richard Smith, Capitalism
Nature Socialism, “Capitalism and Climate Change”
Peter Freund, Montclair
State University, “Car Consumption and its Ecological Impact”
Richard Greeman, Praxis Research and Education Center, Moscow, “Getting from Here to There”
Ecological
Struggles Around The World (Capitalism Nature Socialism)
Joel Kovel, Bard
College (Chair)
Michael Löwy, National Center
for Scientific Research, Paris, “Global Justice Movements”
Dale Jiajin Wen, IFG, China
“Grass Roots Struggles Against Eco-disaster in China”
Irwin Sperber, SUNY New
Paltz , "The Role of International Development Agencies and NGOs
in Obstructing the Environmental Movement."
Sexuality
and the Politics of Religion (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Graduate
Center, CUNY, and Situations)
Dominic Wetzel, Graduate
Center, CUNY (Chair)
Joe
Rollins, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY
Patricia Clough, Queens
College, CUNY
Rupal Oza, Director of Women's
Studies, Hunter College, CUNY
Europe
and Islam: An Intolerant Minority or An Intolerant Majority? (LF)
Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Queens
College, CUNY (Chair)
Eleni Varikas, University
of Paris VIII
Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia
University
Hilary Wainwright, Red
Pepper
Progressive
Realism: Neo-Conservatism & The American Empire (Religion & Socialism
Commission)
Rev. Judy Deutsch, Sudbury,
Massachusetts (Chair)
Rima Vesely-Flad, ICARE
Director, (Interfaith Coalition of Advocates for Reentry and Employment)
Harvey Cox, Harvard Divinity
School
Gary Dorrien, Union Theological
Seminary, New York City
Attacks
on Arabs & Muslims (International Socialist Review)
Deepa Kumar, Rutgers
University (Chair)
Deepa Fernandes, WakeUp
Call, WBAI
Mostafa Omar, Adalah - The
MidEast Justice Committee
Dalia Hashad, Director,
American Program, Amnesty International
Catching
Up or Dropping Further Behind? The First Five Years of No Child Left Behind
(Radical Teacher)
Richard Ohmann, Professor
Emeritus, Wesleyan University (Chair)
Jean Anyon, Graduate Center,
CUNY
Stan Karp, Director, Secondary
Reform Project for New Jersey’s Education Law Center,
Elizabeth Phillips, Principal,
P.S. 321, Brooklyn
Public
Health and the Left (LF)
Merlin Chowkwanyun, University
of Pennsylvania (Chair)
Richard Clapp, Boston University
School of Public Health
Stanley Aronowitz, Graduate
Center, CUNY
Robb Burlage, New York City
Health and Hospitals Corporation
Mindy Fullilove, Columbia
University, Mailman School of Public Health
Frances Fox Piven, Graduate
Center, CUNY
Radicalizing
Students: Teaching Politically in the Time of David Horowitz (Radical
Teacher)
Susan O'Malley, Kingsborough
College, CUNY (Chair)
Jacqueline Brady, Kingsborough
College, CUNY
Ira Shor, College of Staten
Island, CUNY
Barbara Foley, Rutgers University
Leonard Vogt, LaGuardia
College, CUNY
Schooling
in a Global Marketplace: Combating Neoliberalism's International Agenda
(New Politics)
Lois Weiner, New Jersey
City University (Chair), "Neoliberalism's Global Assault and Resistance
of Teachers Unions"
Delsa
Rosso, Martha Rodriguez,
Priscilla Gonzalez and Ujju
Aggarwal, Center for Immigrant Families, “Immigrant Women Organizing:
Gentrification, Privatization,
and Public Schools"
Gary Anderson, Steinhardt
School of Education, New York University
“Does No Child Left Behind Have an Equity Agenda?”
Janelle Scot, New York University,
Steinhardt School of Education)
“School Choice Policies, Privatization, and Race”
Agitating for a National Health Plan (Healthcare-NOW)
Marilyn Clement, National
Coordinator, Healthcare-NOW (Chair)
Dr. Mary O’Brien, NY Metro
Chapter, Physicians for a National Health Plan
Dr. Jaime Torres, Latinos
for National Health Insurance
Ajamu Sankofa, National
Organizer, Healthcare-NOW
The
Split in Organized Labor: What’s the Result? (LF)
Audra Makuch, SEIU (Chair)
Steve Early, Communication
Workers of America
Alberto Bernárdez, Recording
Secretary, District 10, SEIU 32BJ
Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-founder,
Center for Labor Renewal
Marsha Niemeijer, Labor
Notes
JoAnn Wypijewski, Independent Journalist
Immigrant
Women Workers Organizing (LF)
Jeanette Gabriel, Workers
Education Center (Chair)
Jeffrey Eichler, Head of
Oganizing, RWDSU New York
Sadatu Mamah-Trawill, Organizer,
RWDSU
Nieves Padilla, Head of
Workplace Organizing, Make the Road by Walking
Nilda Morales, Organizer,
Make the Road by Walking
Beyond Solidarity: Creating Global Labor Unions (LF)
Radhika
Lal, Brecht Forum (Chair)
Héctor Figueroa, Secretary-Treasurer,
32B-J, SEIU
Andy Banks, Campaigns Director,
Strategic Research and Campaigns Department, International Brotherhood
of Teamsters
Nicola Nicolosi, Director,
European Secretariat, Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro
Andrea Montagni, Vice-President,
National Steering Committee, Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro
Organizing
Low Wage Workers (CityWatch-WBAI)
William DiFazio, St. John’s
University, CityWatch-WBAI (Chair)
Kate Bronfenbrenner, New
York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
Margaret Gray, Adelphi University
David G. Van Arsdale, SUNY
Tompkins Cortland Community College
Working
Class Politics, Historic Blocs, and Political Parties: A Dialogue (LF)
Radhika
Lal, Brecht Forum (Chair)
Bill
Fletcher, Jr., Co-founder, Center for Labor Renewal
Andrea Montagni, Vice-President,
National Steering Committee, Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro
Nicola Nicolosi, Director,
European Secretariat, Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro
Socialism’s
Future: Revisiting the Reform vs Revolution Controversy (LF)
Jennifer Klein, Yale University
(Chair)
Leo Panitch, York University,
Toronto
John Manley, Stanford University
Richard D. Wolff, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst
New
Interpretations of Marx’s Capital (LF)
David Laibman, Brooklyn
College, CUNY (Chair)
Norman Levine, Institute
of International Policy, “Marx's 1861-63 Foundational Outline for
Das Kapital”
Frieder Otto Wolf, Sustainability
Strategy Network, Berlin, “The ‘Order’ of Capital
- Dialectical Presentation and Historico-empirical Grounding”
Max Fraad-Wolff, New School
University, “Overdetermination and the Surplus Conception of Class:
Building on and transforming Althusser’s Interpretation of Capital”
Michael R. Krätke, University
of Amsterdam (Discussant)
Toward
a New Socialism (Radical Philosophy Association)
Karsten Struhl, New School
University (Chair)
Nancy
Holmstrom, Rutgers-Newark
Richard Smith, Capitalism
Nature Socialism
Anatole Anton, San Francisco
State University
Class, Postmodernism, and Marxism: An (un)Happy
Marriage? (Rethinking Marxism)
Seth Adler (Chair), "Bullying
Around in the Text: Unconscious Polemics, Deconstruction, and Dialogue
in the Marxist-Postmodern Class Divide"
David Laibman, Brooklyn
College, CUNY. "Class Theory and the USSR: A Critical Perspective
on the 'Surplus Approach'"
Richard D. Wolff, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst (Respondent)
Graham Cassano, University
of Connecticut
Race,
Fascism, and the Unknown History of the Frankfurt School (Critical Sociology)
Martin Oppenheimer, Professor
Emeritus, Rutgers University (Chair)
Mark P. Worrell, SUNY Cortland,
"The Hidden Political History of the Frankfurt School"
Graham Cassano, University
of Connecticut, “Race and the Garrison State”
David Smith, University
of Kansas, "Authoritarians of the World, Unite and Conquer: New Insights
into Authoritarian Personality and Political Legitimacy."
State
and Revolution in the 21st Century (LF)
Susan Weissman, Saint Mary's
College of California (Chair)
Norman Levine, Institute
of International Policy
Hillel Ticktin, University
of Glasgow, Scotland
Michael Löwy, National Center
for Scientific Research, Paris
Frieder Otto Wolf, Coordinator,
Sustainability Strategy Network, Berlin (Discussant)
Imperialism and the Nation-State (Socialist Register)
Vivek Chibber, New York University (Chair)
Peter Gowan, London Metropolitan University
David
Harvey, Graduate Center, CUNY
Leo Panitch, York University,
Toronto
Anarchism
and the Left: An Uneasy Relationship? (LF)
Jack Bratich, Rutgers University
(Chair)
David Graeber, Yale University
Chaia Heller, Mt. Holyoke
College
Peter Staudemaier, Institute
for Social Ecology
Peter Werbe, The Fifth
Estate, NightCall Talk Radio Progam
Marx
for Today: Alternatives to Capitalism (News and Letters)
Anne Jaclard, News and
Letters (Chair), "Women's Liberation and the Transcendence of
Value Production"
Seth
Weiss,The New SPACE, "Can a New Society Be Built Within the Old
One?"
Andrew Kliman, Pace
University,"The Todayness of Marx in Light of Neo-Proudhonism"
Peter Hudis, Oakton Community
College,"State, Popular Power, and the Transformation of the Mode
of Production: On the Contemporary Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
Radical
Visions for the 21st Century (International Project for a Participatory
Society)
Andrej Grubacic, Fernand
Braudel Center, SUNY Binghamton (Chair)
Cynthia Peters, ZNet
Chris Spannos, Z Magazine
Steve Shalom, William Patterson
University
Ria Julien, Mondragon Parecon
Collective
Peter Bohmer, ZNet
The
Power of Money—The Money of Power (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
Michael Krätke, University
of Amsterdam (Chair)
Hans-Jürgen
Krysmanski, University of Münster
Doug Henwood, Left Business
Observer
William K. Tabb, Queens
College, CUNY
Jörg Huffschmid, Unversity
of Bremen
Henri
Lefebvre: Re(de)fining the Radical Imagination (The Situations Collective)
Michael Pelias, Long Island
University (Chair), "Introduction and Situating the Work of Henri
Lefebvre."
William DiFazio, St. John's University, "Foucault and Lefebvre: Different Strategies for Social Change."
Peter Bratsis, University of Salford, Manchester, U.K. "Martha Stewart as Critic of Henri Lefebvre."
Ivan
Zatz, Pratt Institute, "Politics of Space and Everyday Life:
A New Critique of Radicalism?”
Parecon and Movement
Building (ZNet)
Cynthia Peters, ZNet (Chair)
Michael Albert, ZNet
Ria Julien, Seven Stories
Press
Brian Kelly, Pace Unversity
SDS
The Next New World
Order (LF)
Thomas
Ponniah, Harvard University (Chair)
Phyllis Bennis, Institute
for Policy Studies
David Harvey, Graduate Center,
CUNY
John
Gulick, Akita International University, Japan
Doing Independent Reporting: A Tribute to Brad Will (LF)
A.K.
Gupta, NYC Indymedia/The Indypendent (Chair)
Chris Anderson, NYC
Indymedia and Columbia University
Sujatha Fernandes,
Queens College, CUNY
Abby Scher, Independent
Press Association-New York
Kat Aaron, Co-Director, People's Production House
Personal
Debt: Traps and Dynamics (LF)
Doug Henwood, Left Business
Observer (Chair)
Nomi Prins, Senior Fellow,
Demos
Eric Glynn, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Max Fraad-Wolff, New School
University
Wage Stagnation, Growing
Insecurity, and the Future of the US Working Class (LF)
Elizabeth
Ramey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Chair)
William K. Tabb, Queens
College, CUNY
Richard D. Wolff, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst
Nomi Prins, Senior Fellow,
Demos
Peak
Oil: Politics of the Debate (LF)
Josh Mason, www.globalmacroscope.com
(Chair)
Rich Rosen, Tellus Institute,
Boston
George Caffentzis, University of Southern Maine
The
Political Economy of the Escalating Pentagon Budget (Union for Radical
Political Economics, URPE)
Kate Bahn, URPE (Chair)
Frida Berrigan, World Policy
Institute
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, Drake
University
Chris Rude, URPE
More
Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States (Monthly Review)
Claude Misukiewicz, Monthly
Review (Chair)
Stephanie Luce, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst
Michael Zweig, SUNY Stony
Brook
William K. Tabb, Queens
College, CUNY
Are
the Barons of Finance Robbing the Store? Implications for Class and Political
Resistance (Union for Radical Political Economics, URPE)
Ruth Indeck, Economy Connection,
URPE (Chair)
John Bellamy Foster, Monthly
Review
Ozgur Orhangazi, Roosevelt
University
Chris Rude, URPE
Ramaa Vasudevan, Barnard
College