AFRICA
Exporting the Culture Wars: Who is Spreading Neocolonial Homophobia to Africa and Why
The Public Eye
Chair: Pam Chamberlain
Kapya Kaoma - Project Director Political Research Associates Episcopal Priest
Frank Mugisha - Leading member of Sexual Minorities of Uganda, SMUG
Africa's Oil Economies - A mixed blessing or a curse?
Global Information Network
Chair: Milton Allimadi
Susana Mendes - Angolan journalist, Editor in Chief of the Angolense newspaper, voted to the permanent committee of the Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR).
Prince Chima Williams - Head of Legal Resources/Democracy Outreach Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria. and National Focal Person, Green Alliance Nigeria (GAN)
Tutu Alicante - Executive Director of EG Justice, is a human rights lawyer from the island of Annobon, Equatorial Guinea. Worked as a research consultant for the Open Society Justice Initiative, a branch of the Open Society Institute, on issues related to transparency
Humanitarian Imperialism and Obama's Wars in Africa
Chair: Samar Al-Bulushi
Keith Harmon Snow
Yaa-Lengi Ngemi - Congo Coalition
Alternative Development Model for Sub-Saharan Africa
Chair:
Chika Onyeani - Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, African Sun Times
Mark Rego-Monteiro
Demba Ndiaye - Comengip
ART
Punk Rock: Cultural Space For Transformative Politics?
Chair: Ramsey Kanaan
Josh MacPhee - JustSeeds: Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative
Mark Andersen - Positive Force DC We Are Family
Anne Elizabeth Moore - Anti-Advertising Agency’s Foundation For Freedom
Creating Lasting Change Through Radical Theatre
Chair: Ashley Marinaccio
Mariah MacCarthy - Rapscallion Theatre Collective
Elizabeth Koke - Project Girl Performance Collective (Executive Director) Velvet Park Media (Editor)
Robert Gonyo - Co-Op Theatre East (Co-Founder/Artistic Director)
Redact This! Artists and Writers Against Torture - Art Activism
Chair: David Schwittek
Daniel Heyman - For the past four years, Daniel Heyman has concentrated his art on making images about the war in Iraq, specifically the abuse and torture of innocent Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. For this work, Heyman traveled to Jordan and Turkey where he has
Ann Messner
Frances Jetter
Playwrights Rekindle the Radical Imagination
Chair: Karen Malpede
Karen Malpede - Theater Three Collaborative, Inc.
Najla Said - Twilight Theater Company Theater Three Collaborative
Catherine Filloux - Watson Arts
Lydia Stryk
Art and Aesthetic Experience in the 21st Century: Learning from the Past
Chair: Julia Rothenberg
Gregory Sholette - Queens College
Laurel George - New York University
Micki Mcgee - Fordham University
China
Recent Transformations in Chinese Marxism
Chair: Norman Levine
Prof. Duan Zhongqiao - Marx's View of Fairness. (Professor of School of Philosophy, Remnin University of China)
Prof. Feng Ziyi - Department of Philosophy, Beijing University
Prof.WEI XIAOPING - The Director of the History of Marxist Philosophy at the Philosophy Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Prof.Yang Haifeng - Professor on the Department of Philosophy at Beijing University.
The Problems that Chinese Marxists and Leftists Discuss in Today’s China
Chair: Prof. Norman Levine
Duan Zhongqiao - School of philosophy, Renmin University of China
Feng Ziyi - Department of Philosophy, Peking University
Wei Xiaoping - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Yang Haifeng - Department of Philosophy, Peking University
Debunking the Myth of the “China Model”: Is a radical alternative possible?
Chair: Peter Kwong
Dr. Tong Xiaoxi nd rural-urban relations in China; - professor of sociology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China; currently visiting research fellow at the Department of Sociology of Binghamton University
Dr. Lu Aiguo - Senior Fellow, Institute of the World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
Michael Hudson
Li Minqi
Ben Mah
Han Dongping - Professor of History and Political Science, Warren Wilson College
The Chinese Proletariat and the State
Chair: Ellen Rosen, Research Associate, Center for Research on Women, Brandeis University
Dongping Han, Professor of History and Political Science, Woodrow Wilson College
Li Qiang, Director, China Labor Watch
Marc Blecher, Professor of History, Oberlin College
Culture and Everyday Life
Pro Sports Without Owners?
edgeofsports.com
Chair: Spring Super
Mark Naison - Mark Naison is a professor at Fordham University in New York and the author Communists in Harlem during the Depression.
Dr. Walter Beach - Amer-I-Can.
Dave Zirin - Sports Correspondent, Nation Magazine. Author, Haymarket Books and the New Press.
No Families, No Justice: Building a family-inclusive left movement
PM Press
Chair: Jennifer Silverman
same - editor, My Baby Rides the Short Bus: the Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities (PM Press, 2009); core member of m*a*m*a (mothers alliance for mutual aid).
Amanda Vender - IndyKids
Lauren Karchmer - Regeneracion
Ileana Mendez-Penate - Regeneracion - Board Chair of Sistas on the Rise, Inc, (SOTR); founder SoulSWEET Sanctuary
The Mass Psychology of Capitalism: Dialectical Contradictions in the Realm of the Psyche
Chair: Alan Weinerman
Harriet Fraad
Dr. Bryant Welch , J.D.,Ph.D
Professor Roger Salerno, Ph.D.
Alan Weinerman (also panel chair)
America's Two Depressions: One Economic, One Psychological
Chair: Harriet Fraad
Harriet Fraad - The Manifesto Group, The International Psychohistory Association
Andres Ramirez and Khalil Saucier - Dr Ramirez is an assistant professor of Education at Rhode Island College (RIC). He teaches both at RIC and in his native Columbia. Dr. Saucier is an assistant professor of Sociology and Africana studies at RIC.
Lauren Langman - Dr. Langman is a professor of Sociology at the U. of Loyola, Chicago. He is the president of RC 36, Alienation Research and Theory of the International Sociology Association. He is an organizer of Psychoanalysis and Sociology for the Global Studies Associ
Richard Greeman - Richard is a specialist in and the English translator of the novels of Victor Serge, the Franco Russian, anti-Stalinist revolutionary. We writes in journals in Central and South America, France, Russia, and the US.
From Roman Gospels To Jewish Shakespeare: Rethinking Our Cultural Paradigms
Chair: Jenny Greeman
Jenny Greeman - Resident Director, Dark Lady Players Program Manager, New Perspectives Theater
Kathleen Potts - Deputy Chair, Theatre and Speech Department, CUNY City College, Playwright in residence Monarch Theater Company
John Hudson - Dramaturg, Dark Lady Players
Education
Conducting Critical Social Science Research
Critical Sociology
Chair: George Sanders
Ishay Landa - The Open University, Ra'anana, Israel
Paul Paolucci - Eastern Kentucky University
Richard Dello Buono - Manhattan College
Teaching About Palestine
Radical Teacher
Chair: Richard Ohmann
Ammiel Alcalay - Professor, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center
Anthony Alessandrini - Assistant Professor, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Ellen Cantarow - Journalist
Academic Repression (AK Press) Book Talk
Theory and Action
Chair: Anthony J. Nocella, II
Liat Ben-Moshe and Dr. Caroline Kaltefleiter - Syracuse University and Caroline Kaltefleiter, SUNY Cortland
Victoria Fontan - University of Peace, Costa Rica
Deric Shannon - University of Connecticut
Educating Youth in These Conservative Times: Cultural-Politics, Possibilities, and Strategies for Improving Urban Schooling
Chair: Biany Perez
Decoteau J. Irby - AAKT (Advocacy, Action, Knowledge, and Training) Concepts LLC
Emery Petchauer - Professor of Education, Lincoln University
Patrick Camangian - Professor of Teacher Ed., Urban Ed., and Social Justice, University of San Francisco English Teacher, Mandela High School (Oakland, CA)
N/A
Chair: John Cronan Jr.
John Cronan Jr. - Organization for a Free Society (OFS)
Ashley Marinaccio - Co-Op Theatre East, Project Girl Performance Collective
Faiza N. Ali - Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
The Fight for Public Higher Education in New York City
Chair: TBA
Larry Hales - Students for Educational Rights, CUNY Campaign to Defend Education
Claudia O'Brien - CUNY Campaign to Defend Education
Conor Reed - City College Student Union, International Socialist Organization
PSC-CUNY member, TBA -
Economics for the Rest of Us: Teaching Economics to Workers
Chair: Michael Merrill
Moshe Adler - Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies & Columbia University
Howard Harrington - Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies
Kate Spaulding - Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies
Michael Merrill
The Case of California: Coming Soon to Schools Near you
San Francisco Freedom School
Chair: Kathryn Johnson, Vampire Slayer
Kathy Emery - San Francisco Freedom School; San Francisco State, Political Science
Jerry Shapiro - School of Social Work, San Francisco State University
Bob Meister - UC Santa Cruz, Rethinking Capitalism
Politics of the Contemporary American Student Left
Chair: Pam Nogales
Ashley Weger - Platypus Affiliated Society (Depaul Chapter Head)
Hannah Rappleye - New School alumni, ex-Senior Editor of the NS Free Press
Easton Smith - Sarah Lawrence Student, Unite Here organizer
Rethinking Education
Chair: Brian Kelly
Pat Korte
Andrej Grubacic
Meaghan Linick-Loughley
Public Education: Privatization and Inequity
Chair: Donna Nevel
Center for Immigrant Families (Ujju Aggarwal and Perla Placencia)
Donna Nevel (Moderator) *listed above as chair
New York Collective of Radical Educators (Edwin Mayorga)
The Public Science Project (Michelle Fine)
Students Fighting for Equitable Admissions at Beacon High School (Antonia Perez)
The Fertile Grounds Project: Spaces for Youth To Be Youth/Education Over Indoctrination
Chair: co-founder/educational director
Jonah Canner -
Ileia Burgos - Movement In Motion Artists and Activists Collective.
Becky Raik
Academic Freedom under Attack
Chair: Snehal Shingavi
Margo Ramlal-Nankoe
Loretta Capeheart
Nagesh Rao
"Race to the Top"--Millions of Children Left Behind"
Radical Teacher
Chair: Susan O'Malley
Jean Anyon - Professor of Social and Educational Policy, Graduate School, City University of New York
Norm Fruchter - Annenberg Institute for Education and Social Policy, Brown University
Stan Karp - Editorial Board of and frequent contributor to RETHINKING SCHOOLS
Environment
Hydro/Petrol Federal-Corporatism Under Fire
Chair: Catherine Mulder, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Fabian Balardini - Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Enrique Lanz Oca - CUNY Graduate Center
Kenneth Levin - Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Nuclear Revival?
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Chair: Karen Charman
Mary Olson - Director, Southeast Office, Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Edwin Lyman - Senior scientist, global security, Union of Concerned Scientists.
Karen Charman - Managing Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism, and independent investigative environmental journalist.
Deb Katz - Executive Director, Citizens Awareness Network.
No Fracking Way! The Politics and Ecology of Drilling for Natural Gas in the Marcellus Shale
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Chair: Karen Charman
Walter Hang - Toxics Targeting
Julian Rodriguez-Drix - ShaleShock Alliance and Alliance for Climate Education
Wes Gillingham - Catskill Mountainkeeper
Irwin Sperber - Associate professor, Sociology, SUNY New Paltz
Is Climate Change Hot Enough to Rekindle the Imagination of the Left? (Part II of II)
New Politics
Chair: Jenny Greeman
Dr. Les Levidow - Open University, UK
Ted Glick - Climate Crisis Coalition; Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Victor Wallis - Berklee College of Music; "Socialism and Democracy"
R. Michael M'Gonigle
Dirty Gas, Oil, and Coal: The Fossil Fuel Problematic and Some Solutions
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Chair: Karen Charman
Julian Rodriguez-Drix - ShaleShock Alliance and Alliance for Climate Education
Mike Roselle - Climate Ground Zero
Terisa Turner - University of Guelph
Richard Grossman - Independent historian
Impacts of and Responses to Climate Change
Chair: Arun Gupta, The Indypendent and Alternet,
Moderator Christian Parenti - The Nation
Robert S. Eshelman - Free-lance journalist
Tina Gerhardt - Columbia University
Organizing for Climate Justice
Chair: Brian Tokar
Cecil Corbin-Mark - WEACT (West Harlem Environmental Action)
Julian Rodríguez-Drix - Rising Tide North America ShaleShock Alliance
Valeria Georghiu - National Lawyers' Guild Environmental Justice Committee Center for World Indigenous Studies
Patrick Bond - University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society (Durban, S. Africa) Durban Group for Climate Justice
Brian Tokar - Institute for Social Ecology
Climate SOS Speciesism, the Forgotten Oppression: Why Should the Left Care?
Chair: Kamil Ghoshal
John Sonbonmatsu
Mickey Z
Post-Copenhagen Politics of Climate Change
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Chair: Joel Kovel Joel Kovel - Capitalism Nature Socialism, Editor-in-Chief
Leigh Brownhill - York University
David Schwartzman - Howard University
Why Green Capitalism Can't Solve the Climate Crisis
International Socialist Review
Chair: Heather Rogers - CUNY Grad Center
Fred Magdoff - Monthly Review
Chris Williams - International Socialist Review
The Urban Industrial Complex and Emergent Forms of Environmentalism
Chair: Judith Pajo - Department of Sociology/Anthropology & Institute for Environmental/Regional Studies, Pace University Lubomir Smilenov - Student, Pace University
Adam Reichardt - Student, Pace University
Brittney James - Student, Pace University
Jeffrey Wolpert - Student, Pace University
Brandon Schlueter - Student, Pace University
Is Climate Change Hot Enough to Rekindle the Imagination of the Left? (Part I of II)
New Politics
Chair: Jenny Greeman
Richard Greeman - Secretary, Victor Serge Foundation, Montpellier France Co-Founder, Praxis Research and Education Center, Moscow Russia
David Schwartzman - Geochemical Society American Geophysical Union
Brian Tokar - Institute for Social Ecology Climate SOS
What does food sovereignty look like? Imagining food sovereignty from a variety of perspectives
Chair: Brenda Biddle
Andrez Grubacic - Znet San Fransisco School of Art
Gregory Wilpert - Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Project Coordinator in Venezuela
Michael Menser - Brooklyn College Brooklyn Food Coalition
Brenda Biddle - Evergreen College Anthropology Department of the Graduate Center CUNY S
ilvia Frederici - Hofstra University emerita Committee for Academic Freedom Africa
Gender
Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World
Chair: Marnia Lazreg - Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Soniya Munshi - Graduate student, Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Johanna Brenner - Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
Hester Eisenstein - Professor of Sociology, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
AIDS, Sex and Culture:Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa -Author Meets Critics
Chair: Hylton White - New School for Social Research
Zolani Ngwane - Haverford College
Mandisa Mbali - Postdoctoral Scholar, Yale University
Ida Susser - Anthropology Department, Hunter College and the Graduate Center
Why the Left Should Care About Sex Offenders
National Center for Reason and Justice
Chair: judith levine
Debbie Nathan
Feminism and Lesbianism: Bringing Women Together
Chair: Lillian Lefkowitz
Dr. Karla Jay
Amy Rose Spiegel
Envisioning A Post-Sexist Society Chair: Chris Spanos Lydia Sargent
Uruj Sheikh
Meaghan Linick-Loughley
Cynthia Peters
Women, Militancy and Organizing
Chair: Christina Gerhardt
Laura Whitehorn - New York Taskforce on Political Prisoners; the Feminist Press
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Catalyst Project, adviser; Indigenous World Association, Co-Founder
Cleo Silvers - Mount Sinai Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental MedicineMaysles Film Institute in Harlem, Advisory Board
Revisiting the Legacy of Women's Liberation in Maoist China
Chair: Di Bai
Tao, Qingmei - Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Xurong Kong - Kean University
Xueping Zhong - Tufts University
Li Onesto - Revolution Newspaper
Di Bai - Drew University
Health
and Housing
"After the Health Reform Debacle: What Direction for Real Health Care Justice?"
Physicians for a National Health Program
Chair: Martha Livingston
Martha Livingston - SUNY College at Old Westbury; Physicians for a National Health Program, New York-Metro chapter
Oliver Fein - Weill-Cornell Medical College; Physicians for a National Health Program
Leonard Rodberg - Queens College; Physicians for a National Health Program
No More Affordable Housing Scams: Community Control of Land in New York City
Progressive Planning
Chair: Tom Angotti
Tom Angotti - Hunter College/CUNY, Planners Network
Frank Morales - <p>Picture the Homeless
Francesca Manning - <p>CUNY Graduate Center
India
Neo-Liberalism, State Repression and the Crisis of Indian Democracy
Chair: Preeti Sampat
Mohammed Junaid
Lalit Batra
Sangay Mishra
Developmental Terrorism in India Today
Sanhati
Chair: Panayiotis T. Manolakos
Svati Shah - University of Massachusetts Amherst: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sirisha C. Naidu - Sanhati; Wright State University, Department of Economics
Siddhartha Mitra - Sanhati
International
Revolution in Nepal
Chair: Fanshen Wong
Fanshen Wong - Kasama Project
Mike Ely - The Kasama Project
Eric Ribellarsi - The FIRE Collective
Crisis and Beyond: Re-evaluating Pakistan
Chair: Ellora Derenoncourt, South Asia Solidarity Initiative
Naveeda Khan - Dept of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Sadia Abbas - Dept of English and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, Newark
Veena Das - Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
US Imperialism and Oil Politics: The Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
Chair: Deepa Kumar
Michael Schwartz
Saadia Toor
Lee Wengraf
Deepa Kumar
After the Earthquake: Who's Killing Haiti?
International Socialist Review
Chair: Edna Bonhomme
Peter Hallward - Middlesex University
Roger Leduc - Haiti Liberte
Ashley Smith - International Socialist Review
Ray LaForest
Puerto Rico Can't Wait To Be Free
Chair: Professor Ana M. Lopez
Elma Beatriz Rosado
Aleida Centeno Rodriguez
Julio Rosado Ayala
International Relations: Urban Guerrilla Movements, Europe and Latin America
Chair: Immanuel Ness
Eduardo Sartelli - Universidad de Buenos Aires Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales (CEICS)
Christina Gerhardt - Columbia University
Dario Azzellini - Johannes Kepler University in Linz
Haiti's Future: A Grassroot's Perspective and Potential of Unified Action.
Chair: Jerry Jeremie
Marie Rose Paul
Audelin Francois
War Crimes and "Change"
Chair: Stephanie Rugoff
Shayana Kadidal
Tina Monshipour Foster
Ray McGovern
Illusions and Interests: Perspectivew on American Foreign Policy
LOGOS:A Journal of Modern Society and Culture
Chair: Stephen Eric Bronner Rutgers University
Drucilla Cornell - Rutgers University and University of Capetown
Lawrence Davidson - West Chester University
John Ehrenberg - Long Island University
Stephen Eric Bronner - Rutgers University
Terrorism against Cuba and the Case of the Cuban 5
Socialism and Democracy
Chair: Michael Smith
Peter Roman - Hostos Community College/CUNY Graduate Center/CUNY Editorial Board, "Socialism and Democracy".
Keith Bolender - Journalist and course lecturer on Cuba at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies.
Leonard Weinglass - Attorney for Antonio Guerrero, one of the five Cuban prisoners
Jane Franklin - Contributing editor to CUBA Update, the journal of the Center for Cuban Studies
Rafael Anglada - Puerto Rican attorney.
Michael Smith - Center for Constitutional Rights
Nationalism, Anti-Imperialism, and International Solidarity Today
Chair:
Ryan Hardy - Platypus Affiliated Society
Spencer Leonard - Platypus Affiliated Society
Andrew Arato - Professor of Political and Social Theory at the New School
Beyond Walls and Cages: Abolitionist Perspectives on Migration & Mass Incarceration
Chair:
Manisha Vaze - Families for Freedom
Joe Nevins - Vassar College
Judy Greene - Justice Strategies
Seth Wessler - Applied Research Center
Labor
The Future of Labor in the U.S.
Chair: Frances Fox Piven and Manny Ness
Stanley Aronowitz
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
James Gray Pope
Sacket Soni
U.S. Trade Unions and the Global Economic Crisis
Chair: Josh Freeman
Stuart Acuff
Ron Blackwell
Elaine Bernard
Ruth Milkman
Struggles of an Indepedent Radical Union: The Case of The New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA)
Chair: Bhairavi Desai
Bhairavi Desai
Comparative Labor Movements - Strategies and Class Struggles
Working USA
Chair: Immanuel Ness
Dario Azzellini - Johann-Wolgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M. Universit of Linz - Austria
Anna Pollert - University of the West of England, Bristol
Eduardo Sartelli - University of Buenos Aires Razon y Revolucion
Jo Nakajima - Chiba University of Commerce
Alan Tuckman - Nottingham Business School
Antxon Mendizabal - Euskal Herriko Unibersitateko
Coen Hussein Pontoh - Brooklyn College/CUNY
Alternative Labor Organizations: Worker Councils and Rank-and-File Control
WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society
Chair: Immanuel Ness
Dario Azzellini - Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Germany Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
Maurizio Atzeni - Loughborough University, UK
Marina Kabat - Universidad de Buenos Aires National Research Council of Argentina (CEIS)
Peter Ranis - City University of New York (Emeritus)
Alan Tuckman - University of Nottingham
Victor Wallis - Socialism and Democracy Berklee College of Music
Eduardo Sartelli - University of Buenos Aires Razon y Revolucion
Building the Power of Immigrant Workers in NYC's Vast Food Industry
Chair: Daniel Gross
Sekou Siby - Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY) Former Restaurant Worker
Art Ramirez - Lead Organizer, Teamsters Local 805 Fresh Direct Campaign
Diana Robinson (tentative) - Organizer, UFCW Local 1500 Gourmet Grocer Campaign
Liberte Locke - Organizer, IWW Starbucks Workers Union
Telling The Story of Working Class Life, Work, and Organization--In Non-Fiction and Fiction
Monthly Review Press and Cornell ILR Press
Chair: Steve Early and Manny Ness
Suzanne Gordon - NWU/UAW member
Jane Latour - associate editor of AFSCME District Council 37’s Public Employee Press,
Michael Yates - associate editor of Monthly Review
Tim Sheard, - critical care nurse with 35-years of hospital work experience
Gregory A. Butler - Journeylevel interior systems carpenter and shop steward in local 608, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America. and webmaster of the GANGBOX: Construction Workers News Service
Transnational Labor Movements
Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society
Chair: Jamie McCallum
Beverly Silver - Johns Hopkins University
Verity Burgmann - University of Melbourne
Robyn Rodriguez - Rutgers University
Saket Soni - New Orleans Center for Racial Justice.
Eduardo Sartelli - University of Buenos Aires Razon y Revolucion
The Awesome Power of Union Democracy and its Implications for Dramatic Social Change
Chair: Daniel Gross
Kevin Harry Harrington - Vice President, TWU Local 100 Member, Take Back Our Union
Sandy Pope - President, Teamsters Local 805 Former International Rep, IBT, during legendary UPS Strike
Vance Hinton - Member, IWW Starbucks Workers Union Professor, Henry George School
Undermining Capitalism: Workers' Strikes, Committed Art, and Revolutionary Change
Chair: John Maerhofer
Greg Nuñez and Priscilla Aviles - Independent Filmmakers
Tony O’Brien - International Committee, Professional Staff Congress-CUNY. Paper title: “Finding Revolution in the Ruins of Reform: Winning and Losing in the Stella Strike.”
José-María Durán - Free University of Berlin. Paper title: “Labor and Art: A Fragment on William Morris's Utopian Socialism, and Beyond.”
John Maerhofer - Queens College, CUNY. Paper title: “Overcoming Subsumption: Revolutionary Value and the Kani Kosen ‘Boom.’”
Latin America
Venezuela’s Proposal to Launch a Fifth Socialist International
Venezuela Analysis
Chair: Clara Irrazabal
Vanessa Davies - United Socialist Party of Venezuela
Stanley Aronowitz -
Michael Albert - ZNet
Thomas Ponniah - World Social Forum
Lessons from Venezuela: Achievements and Failures
Venezuela Analysis
Chair: Gregory Wilpert
Daniel Hellinger - Webster University
Steve Ellner - Universidad del Oriente
Carlos Martinez - Author of Venezuela Speaks!
Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
Chair: Ana M. Lopez
Michael Reyes Benavides
Samuel Vega and Melissa Cintron - Youngest actors of the play and college student organizers.
Michele Morales
The Honduran Coup and Its Aftermath
NACLA Report on the Americas
Chair: Greg Grandin (tentative); backup: Chris London
Alexander Main - Center for Economic and Policy Research
Adrienne Pine - American University
Rodolfo Pastor - Embassy of Honduras
Solidarity in Latin America: Solidarity Economy and Bolivarian Socialism in Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, and Venezuela
Chair: Mark Rego-Monteiro
Mark Rego-Monteiro - Mark Rego-Monteiro: Park Slope Food Coop, member, co-owner; New York University candidate M.S. International Community Sustainable Development
Ike Nahem - Coordinator Cuba Solidarity NY, Teamsters Union Member
William Camacaro - Chairperson Bolivarian Circle NY
Indigenous Mobilization and Resistance in the Andean Nations
World War 4 Report
Chair: Bill Weinberg
Bill Weinberg - WBAI Radio, World War 4 Report
Gerardo Renique - CUNY
Mario Murillo - WBAI Radio, Hofstra University
Obama's Militarized Status Quo in Latin America
NACLA Report on the Americas (nacla.org)
Chair: Christy Thornton
Mark Weisbrot - Center for Economic and Policy Research (cepr.net)
Suzanna Reiss - University of Hawaii, Manoa
Joseph Nevins - Vassar College
Latin America: Moving Beyond Neoliberalism
Chair: Hobart Spalding
Carlos Vilas - Universidad Nacional Lanus
Margarita Lopez Maya - Universidad Central de Venezuela
Gerardo Renique - City College of the City University of New York
Emelio Betances - Gettysburg College
U.S. Interventionism in Latin America
Venezuela Analysis
Chair: Clara Irrazabal
Mark Weisbrot - Center for Economic and Policy Research
Venezuelan Official TBA - Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the USA
TBA - Colombia
Marxism and Theory
Envisioning Self-Governance
Chair: Peter Bohmer
Cindy Milstein
Steve Shalom
Between the Old and New Left: an American post-war balance sheet
Chair: Ian Morrison
Ian Morrison - Platypus Affiliated Society
Benjamin Blumberg - Platypus Affiliated Society
Chris Mansour - Platypus Affiliated Society
Imagining Our Way from Here to There
Chair: Barbara Epstein
Leo Panitch
Stanley Aronowitz
Greg Wilpert
Rethinking Communism: Debating Badiou's Hypothesis
Verso Books
Chair: No Chair as yet
Antonino G. Callari
Maliha Safri
Boris Groys
Bruno Bosteels
Marxism and Theory
A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism
Chair: Andrej Grubacic
- San Francisco Art Institute, IWW
Cindy Milstein - Institute for Anarchist Studies
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz - Radical Historian and Writer
Reimagining Society: The Nature of the Task
Chair: Chris Spannos
Barbar Epstein
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Michael Albert
Marxism and Anarchism: The relevance of radical traditions today.
Chair: Blair Taylor
Ian Morrison - Platypus Affiliated Society
Annie Day - Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)
Peter Staudenmaier
Socialism in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Past
Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
Chair: Robert Capistrano
Fred Magdoff - Monthly Review
Barbara Garson - Board Member, Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
Leo Panitch - York University; Socialist Review
Salvador Aguilar Sole - University of Barcelona
Alain Badiou's `Politics of Emancipation': Controversies over the Framework and Future of the Communist Project
Chair: Raymond Lotta--had to rush this proposal, and can find another person to chair
Nayi Duniya -
Raymond Lotta - Revolution newspaper, Set the Record Straight Project
NOTE: Respondent: John Gerassi - Professor of Political Science, Queens College, CUNY.
The Future of World Capitalism book panel 2: concepts of transition
Future of World Capitalism book series
Chair: Radhika Desai
Alan Freeman - University of Manitoba Greater London Authority (personal capacity)
Henry Heller - Department of History, University of Manitoba
Jack Rasmus - Santa Clara University and St. Marys College Departments of Economics and Politics
Rethinking Historical Materialism:Scottish Origins and Engelsistic Revisions
Chair: Prof. Norman Levine
Frieder Otto Wolf - Professor at the Free University of Berlin.Since 1984 member of the European Parliament.
Danga Vileisis -
Norman Levine - Executive Director of the Institute for International Policy. Retired professor from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Recipient of two Fulbright Research Grants for study in Germany. Published 38 scholarly articles and six books on Marxism.Lec
New Perspectives on Marx’s Concept of Socialism
U. S. Marxist-Humanists
Chair: Kevin B. Anderson
Kevin B. Anderson - University of California, Santa Barbara
Paresh Chattopadhyay - Montreal, Canada
Peter Hudis - Oakton Community College, Illinois
Remembering Giovanni Arrighi
Verso Books
Chair: No Chair as yet
David Harvey
Beverly Silver
Leo Panitch
Critical Theory and Social Movements
Verso Books
Chair: No Chair as yet
Boris Groys
Todd May
Boris Groys
Serap Kayatekin
The Materiality of Nations
Chair: Neil Davidson
Neil Davidson - 1. Senior Research Fellow, Department of Geography and Sociology, University of Strathclyde
Radhika Desai - 1. Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba 2. Academic Visitor, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics
John Riddell
False Alternatives to Capitalism: Proudhonism and its Progeny
Chair: Mike Dola. Marxist-Humanist Initiative & student at Hunter College.
Anne Jaclard - Marxist-Humanist Initiative, the New SPACE
Andrew Kliman - Pace University
Greg Meyerson - North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Michael Joseph Roberto - North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Passive Revolution and Uneven and Combined Development, 'East' and 'West'
Chair:
Jamie Allinson - University of Edinburgh
Neil Davidson - University of Strathclyde
Neil Smith - Graduate Center, CUNY
Seeing Marx Anew Via the MEGA Project
None
Chair: TBA
Wei Xiaoping - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Amy E. Wendling - Creighton University
Kevin B. Anderson - University of California, Santa Barbara
Cooperatives, Class, and Value theory
Rethinking Marxism
Chair: Maliha Safri
David Kristjanson-Gural - Bucknell University Spilling Ink Writers' Collective
David Ruccio - Rethinking Marxism
Ian Seda - Western Massachusetts Copwatch and Association for Economic and Social Analysis.
Stephen Healy -
Bruce Roberts - University of Southern Maine
Class: A Dialogue
Rethinking Marxism
Chair: Maliha Safri
Erik Olin Wright - University of Wisconsin
Richard D. Wolff - University of Massachusetts
Media
Network Failure: The Crisis of America’s Telecommunications Infrastructure
Chair: David Rosen
Bruce Kushnick
Collaborative Democracy and the Internet: Humanity’s Revolutionary Initiative
Chair: n/a
Alfredo Lopez - May First/People Link
Jamie McClelland - May First/People Link
Mallory Knodel
Going Undercover: The Yes Men and others discuss subterfuge and satire in activism and investigative journalism
Chair: TBD
Andy Bichlbaum - -Co-founder The Yes Men (theyesmen.org) -Co-director, The Yes Men Fix the World (www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com)
Mike Bonanno - -Co-founder The Yes Men (theyesmen.org) -Co-director, The Yes Men Fix the World (www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com)
Ken Silverstein - -Investigative Reporter and DC editor, Harper's magazine -Author, 'Turkmeniscam: How Washington Lobbyists Fought to Flack for a Stalinist Dictatorship'
Mass Media, Islam, and the War on Terror
Chair: Anthony DiMaggio
Anthony DiMaggio - Illinois State University, Z Magazine
Deepa Kumar - Rutgers University and Critical Studies in Communication Journal
Adel Iskandar - Georgetown University and The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
ImMEDIAate Impact: Using Documentaries to organize for a New Progressive Imagination
Chair: Tami Gold
Tami Gold - Professor Film & Media Studies Hunter College PSC CUNY Hunter Chapter Chair
Kelly Anderson
Middle East
Of drones, warlords and the Taliban: Ending the U.S./NATO Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Canadian Peace Alliance & Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Chair:
Sonali Kolhatkar - Co-Director, Afghan Women's Mission Executive producer of Uprising, a syndicated radio show produced at KPFK Pacifica Radio
Derrick O'Keefe - Co-chair of the Canadian Peace Alliance; wrote the book "A Woman Among Warlords" with Afghan parliamentarian and activist Malalai Joya.
Adaner Usmani - Labor Party of Pakistan (LPP) and Action for a Progressive Pakistan
The Gaza Freedom March: Lessons and Challenges
Chair: Alan Goodman
- Revolution Newspaper, Gaza Freedom March
Diane Harriford
Felice Gelman
Why Are We in Afghanistan?
Chair: Michael Zweig
Chris Vongsawat - confirmed - Iraq Veterans Against the War
Mindy Gershon - confirmed - 1199 SEIU US Labor Against the War
Michael Zweig - Center for Study of Working Class Life SUNY Stony Brook
Confronting the "Museum of Tolerance" and the Mamilla Cemetery
(organization) Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism
Chair: Joel Kovel
Michael Steven Smith - Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism
Iran: Current State of Affairs
Chair: Reza Ghorashi, Stockton College
Hamideh Sedghi, Harvard
Thomas O'Donnell - New School
Reza Ghorashi - Stockton College
Hamid Zangeneh - Profesor of Economics, Widener University, Editor of JIRA
Afghanistan: Should We Stay or Should We Go? A Critical Conversation
Foreign Policy In Focus
Chair: Mark Engler
David Wildman -
Sunita Viswanath - Women for Afghan Women
Additional panelist TBA
The Left and prospects for democracy in the Middle East: Iraq
Platypus
Chair: Laura Lee Schmidt
Siyaves Azeri - Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI)
Kanan Makiya - Brandeis University
Christopher Cutrone - Platypus Affiliated Society
The Left and prospects for democracy in the Middle East: Iran
Platypus
Chair: Laura Lee Schmidt
Siyaves Azeri - Worker-communist Party of Iran
Hamid Debashi - Columbia University
Christopher Cutrone - Platypus Affiliated Society
Political and Social Movements
"World Social Forum Politics: Left or Post-Left?"
Chair: Thomas Ponniah
Lauren Langman - Loyola University of Chicago
Walda Katz Fishman - Howard University
Jerome Scott - National Planning Committee of the U.S. Social Forum
The Art & Politics of Spectacle – Creating Ethical Spectacles,
Chair: Terry Marshall
Lenina Nadal
Stephen Duncombe
Kazembe Balungun
Reimagining A New Economic System
Chair: Meaghan Linick-Loughley
Gar Alperovitz
Michael Albert
Envisioning Real Utopias
Verso Books
Chair: No Chair as yet
Erick Olin Wright
David Ruccio
Peter Staudenmaier
Organizing against Budget Cuts and Austerity in New York City
Chair:
Megan Behrent - Teachers for a Just Contract, International Socialist Organization
David Hoskins - Students for Educational Rights, CUNY Campaign to Defend Education
PSC-CUNY member, TBA
Take Back Our Union member, to be invited -
Social Movements and Everyday Life
Critical Sociology
Chair: Richard Dello Buono, Manhattan College
George Sanders - Oakland University
James Russell - Eastern Connecticut State University
Graham Cassano - Oakland University
Troy Rondinone (Discussant) - Southern Connecticut State University
Decline of the European Left and the rise of the Far Right
Chair: Mark Seddon
Tariq Ali
Leo Pannitch
Johnathan Freedland
What does it mean to be a revolutionary in our times?
Chair: Walda Katz-Fishman
Jerome Scott - League of Revolutionaries for a New America U.S. Social Forum National Planning Committee
Lenina Nadal - New York Study Group
Manju Rajendran - Left Turn
Johanna Brenner - Solidarity
Socialist Humanism, the Anti-Humanist Turn, and the Consequences for the Left
None
Chair: Barbara Epstein
John Sanbonmatsu - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Barbara Epstein - University of California, Santa Cruz
Kevin B. Anderson - University of California, Santa Barbara
The US Social Forum and US Social Movements: The Road from Atlanta to Detroit 2010
Chair: Walda Katz-Fishman
Jerome Scott - League of Revolutionaries for a New America & USSF National Planning Committee
Rose Brewer - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities & USSF Gender Justice Working Group
Harmony Goldberg - New York Study Group & Doctoral student, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century
Chair: Jeff Maskovsky
Peter Kwong - Hunter College
Peter and Jane Schneider - Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY
Jeff Maskovsky - Urban Studies, Queens College
Ida Susser -
Fernando Coronil - Anthropology Department, Graduate Center, CUNY
Horizontalism and Grassroots Democracy in the Americas
Chair: Joanna Maria Duarte Laudon
Oscar Dominguez - Movement for Justice in El Barrio
Marisa Franco - Right to the City Alliance
Hilary Klein -
Marina Sitrin -
Josh Lerner - The Participatory Budgeting Project, The New School for Social Research
Ten Years Later: Organizers Reflect on the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests
Left Turn magazine
Chair: Chris Dixon
Rami Elamine (confirmed) - Left Turn magazine
Gabriel Sayegh (confirmed) - Drug Policy Alliance
Andréa Schmidt (confirmed) - Researcher/Journalist
Beka Economopoulos (confirmed) - forthcoming
Thinking System From the Grassroots: The Intersection of Theory and Practice in Grassroots Organizing
Chair: Billy Wharton - Socialist Party USA Co-Chair
David McReynolds - Long time peace activist
Speaker from 15th Street Manifesto Group -
Kate Goff - G20 Resistance Project, New York City Anti-War Coalition
Amilcar Navarro - Crown Heights Organizing Committee, Socialist Party USA, NYC Local
Political and Social Movements
Getting from Here to There: Making Radical Visions Reality
Chair: Camilo Viveiros
Mireya Loza
Reg Flowers
Michael Pelias
Lesley Wood
Radical spaces, radical city
Chair: denisse andrade, dara greenwald
red roots collective representative -
rebel diaz collective -
dara greenwald -
crystal house representative - malcolm x grassroots movement
oya amikisi - us social forum, cultural committee
New Developments in Solidarity Economy Organizing in the U.S.
Chair: Julie Matthaei
Carl Davidson - National Co-Chair, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; Board member, US Solidarity Economy Network
Lynn Benander - Dir. of Community Business Development for Co-op Power
Maliha Safri - Assistant Professor of Economics, Drew University; Associate Editor, RETHINKING MARXISM; Member of Center for Popular Economics
Djar Horn - Jersey Shore Neighborhood Cooperative; graduate student in Social Work at Monmouth University; former union organizer and union carpenter
Strategizing to Build Real Self-Governance
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Chair: Karen Charman
Robert Parry - Publisher and editor of Consortiumnews.com, an investigative web zine operated by The Consortium for Independent Journalism, Inc.
Richard Grossman - Independent historian.
Joel Kovel - Editor-in-chief of Capitalism Nature Socialism
Experiments in Popular Democracy: Is it really possible to Democratize the Capitalist State?
Chair: Johanna Brenner
Hilary Wainwright - Research Director of the Transnational Institute New Politics programme and Senior Research Associate at the International Centre for Participation Studies at the Department for Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK
Sujatha Fernandes - Sujatha Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Erik Olin Wright - Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin and Director of the Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change.
Lessons from Latin American Social Movements for a US in Crisis
Toward Freedom
Chair: Ben Dangl
Ben Dangl - Toward Freedom (TowardFreedom.com)
Marina Sitrin
Mario Murillo
The History of May Day and the 2010 New York May Day march
Chair: Larry Moskowitz, Left Labor Project
Ai Jen Poo - Ai Jen Poo, former Executive Director of Domestic Workers United
Chung-Wha Hong - Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition
Ed Ott - Ed Ott, former Executive Director of the New York City Central Labor Council
Bhairavi Desai - Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
Frances Liu - Frances Liu, Immigration Advocacy Field Coordinator, New York Immigration Coalition
Author meets critics: van der Walt and Schmidt's "Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism"
Chair:
Lucien van der Walt - University of the Witwatersrand
Mitch Miller - WSA-NYC
Wayne Price - NEFAC (Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists)
New Radical Parties and Experiments in Party Building
International Socialist Review
Chair: Geoff Bailey
Sebastian Budgeon - Historical Materialism
NPA Member - NPA
Ahmed Shawki - International Socialist Review; Haymarket Books
We Must Be Good at Learning: Brecht Forum at 35
Chair: Kazembe Balagun
Max Uhlenbeck - Left Turn, Brecht Forum
Liz Mestres - Brecht Forum
Lisa Maya Knauer
POLITICAL ECONOMY
Economic Democracy as an alternative to capitalism
Chair: Costas Panayotakis
Costas Panayotakis - New York City College of Technology (CUNY) and Capitalism Nature Socialism
David Schweickart - Loyola University
Cathy Mulder - John Jay College (CUNY)
Michael Menser - Brooklyn College (CUNY)
Future of World Capitalism book panel 1: new takes on old myths
Future of World Capitalism book series
Chair: Alan Freeman
Radhika Desai - Department of Politics, University of Manitoba Visiting Fellow, DESTIN, London School of Economics
Costas Panayiotakis - Associate Professor of Sociology, New York City College of Technology (City University of New York)
Andrew Kliman - Professor of Economics, Pace University
Anne Jaclard - National Secretary,Marxist-Humanist Initiative
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE CURRENT CRISIS
The Crisis and Capital Accumulation: Is the Role of the State Changing?
Union for Radical Political Economics
Chair: Rina Garst - URPE
Jerry Joffe - St. John's University, NY
Armagan Gezici - Keene State College
Terrence McDonough - Department of Economics, National University of Ireland Galway
Alternative Perspectives on Marxist Crisis Theory and the Current Economic Crisis
Union for Radical Political Economics; Science and Society
Chair: Paddy Quick, St. Francis College, Brooklyn
Julio Huato - St. Francis College, Brooklyn
David Kotz - Economics Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
David Laibman - Science and Society
Fred Magdoff - Monthly Review
The Logic of Capitalism: Understanding Water, Food, and Environmental Crises
Chair: Meghana Nayak, Associate Professor, Political Science
Andrew Theori - Pace University student
Kathleen O'Leary - Pace University student
Fred Wolf - Pace University student
The Current Economic Crisis and Its Possible Outcomes
Marxist Theory Colloquium at NYU
Chair: Bertell Ollman
Michael Hudson - Professor, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Kansas
Gar Alperovitz - Prof., Dept. of Government, Univ. of Maryland
Bertell Ollman - Prof., Dept. of Politics, NYU
The Fiscal Crises of the States
Democratic Left
Chair: Michael Hirsch
James Parrot - Associate director and chief economist, Fiscal Policy Institute
Katie Romich - Organizer, Communications Workers of America/Texas
John Cameron - Organizer, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees/Illinois
Michael Hirsch - Democratic Socialists of Amnerica; New Politics magazine
Economics and Politics of the Current Crisis: Causes and Prospects for the Future
Marxist-Humanist Initiative
Chair: Anne Jaclard
Brendan Cooney - Video producer of “kapitalism101”
Anne Jaclard - Marxist-Humanist Initiative
Andrew Kliman - Pace University, Dept. of Economics-Pleasantville
Prison-Industrial Complex
What Does the Left Need to Know about Prison?
Chair: Susie Day
Laura Whitehorn - New York State Task Force for Political Prisoners
Asha Bandele - Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Drug Policy Alliance
Vikki Law - Books Through Bars
Cleo Silvers - Safiya Bukhari/Albert Nuh Washington Foundation
Susie Day - moderator
Criminology and Social Justice: Establishing a Strong Theoretical Foundation
Chair: Dr. William Calathes
Jason WIlliams - New Jersey City University
Chrsstine Bell - New Jersey City University
RACE
Rebuilding the Black Left/Rejuvenating Revolutionary Black Youth
Chair: Sam Anderson
Kali Akuno - Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Jerry Jeramie - St. John's University
Janessa Robinson - St. John's University
Can the White Left Organize Against Racism in the White Community
Chair: Rod Bush
Bok-Keem Nyerere -
John Garvey -
Geert Dhondt - John jay, CUNY
The American Left and the “Black Question”: From Politics to Protest to the Post-Political
Platypus
Chair: Benjamin Blumberg
Benjamin Blumberg - Platypus Affiliated Society
Tim Barker - Columbia University Student
Pamala Nogales - Platypus Affiliated Society
Christopher Cutrone - Platypus Affiliated Society
Black Nationalism in the United States
Chair: Rod Bush
Algernon Austin
Maulana Karenga
Eddie Glaude
Manning Marable
African Americans and Latinos and the Decolonization of the U.S. Empire in the 21st Century
Chair: Rod Bush
Agustin Lao-Montes - University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Denise Santiago - Pace University
Charles Pinderhughes
The Left in a Post-Racial United States
Chair: Sam Anderson
Fred Ho -
Eduardo Bonilla Silva - Duke University
Kali Akuno - Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Keith Griffler - SUNY Buffalo
The Recession: A Black Left Perspective
Chair: Rod Bush
Glen Ford - Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report
Algernon Austin - Economic Policy Institute. Director of the Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy program.
Dedrick Muhammad - Institute for Policy Studies, Senior Organizer and Research Associate for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good.
Andre Showell - Reporter, Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Slide Presentation/Talk on "Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918"
Chair:
Jeffrey B. Perry - Independent Scholar
The Black Internationale
Chair: Rod Bush
Komozi Woodard - Sarah Lawrence College
Charles Pinderhughes - Boston College
Michael Simanga
New perspectives from the Black Left
Chair: Rod Bush
Agustin Lao-Montes
Homberto Brown
Manning Marable
How Things Change As They Stay The Same: Talking Through Racial Categories, Politics, and Organizing in the 21st Century
Chair: Matthew Birkhold
Matthew Birkhold - heavy Thinkers, Inc,. Binghamton University
Kazembe Balagun - Heavy Thinkers, Inc., Brecht Forum
Melanie Bush - Adelphi University
Jill Humphries - Joseph S Murphy Institute for Worker Education, Queens College
Lynching Then, Lynching Now: Roots of Racism and the Death Penalty in the US
Chair: Lee Wengraf, Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Jackie Goldsby - Visiting Professor, NYU; Professor, Dept. of English, University of Chicago
Lawrence Hayes - Former NYS death row prisoner; Board Member, Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Yusef Salaam - Former NYS prisoner; Board Member, Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Brian Jones - Editorial Board: "International Socialist Review"
The Economic Crisis, the Crisis of the African American People, and a Strategy for Transition
Chair: Tony Montiero
Muhammad Ahmad - Temple University, Department of African-American Studies
Bill Fletcher, Jr. - Editor, Black Commentator
Henry Nicholas - 1199
The Crisis of Black Politics and Left Wing Opportunism
Chair: Nellie Bailey
Glen Ford - Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report
Dr. Anthony Monteiro
Author Meets Critic: Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell
Chair: Nikhil Singh
Jeanne Theoharis - Brooklyn College
Van Gosse -
Leith Mullings - CUNY Graduate Center
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
RELIGION
Progressive Religion and the Fight for Democracy
Relious Socialism, journal of DSA Religion and Socialism Commission
Chair: TBA
Rev. Peter Laarman - Executive director of Progressive Christians and a contributing editor to the online magazine Religion Dispatches.
Rev. Luis Barrios, Ph.D - Professor of psychology, criminology, Latina/o American Studies, and ethnic studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice-City University of New York and chair of the Department of Latin American & Latina/o Studies. Associate priest at St. Mary's Episco
Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou - Senior Minister of Lemuel Haynes Congregational Church (UCC) and a fellow-in-residence at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture
Tricia Sheffield , Ph.D. - Assistant Minister for Administration at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City.
Reading the Bible from the Left: The Book of Revelation
Chair: Brigitte Kahl
Brigitte Kahl - Union Theological Seminary
Charlene Sinclair - Union Theological Seminary, Poverty Initiative
Colleen Wessel-McCoy - Union Theological Seminary, Poverty Initiative
Renee Monrose - Union Theological Seminary
Organizing Strategies to Combat the Radical Right
Chair: David Sprintzen
David Sprintzen - Founder and officer of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, Citizen Action on Long Island President of Long Island Jobs with Justice
Alan Charney - Political Director of US Action
Ed Ott - Distinguished Lecturer Murphy Institute, School of Professional Studies CUNY
Peter Sikora - Communications Workers of America (CWA) Working Families Party (WFP)
Radicals and NYC Politics
Chair: Rod Bush
Charles Barron
Jumanne Williams
William Sales
Right-Wing Populism, Political Economy, & Radical Dissent
Public Eye
Chair: Chip Berlet
Chip Berlet - Senior Analyst at Political Research Associates and co-author of Right-Wing Populism in America.
Sue Udry - Executive Director, Defending Dissent Foundation
Tarso Luís Ramos - Executive Director, Political Research Associates
Fight the Right, Build the Left: Strategy and Tactics for the 2010 Elections
Dialogue and Initiative
Chair: Patricia Fry
Howie Hawkins -
Carl Davidson - Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
Randy Shannon - Progressive Democrats of America
Where's The Outrage?
Chair: Margaret Yard
Stanley Aronowitz - CUNY Sociology
Greg Palast -
Joel Kovel (invited) -
margaret Yard - CUNY, Lehman College and Grad Center NYU Dept of Medicine, Psychiatry