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2007 panels
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politics
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