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RADICAL ALTERNATIVES ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM
1997 Socialist Scholars Conference
March 28, 29, 30
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Join Doug Henwood, Robert Heilbroner, Paul Sweezy, Harry Magdoff,
Bill Tabb, Frances Fox Piven, Bob Fitch, Jane Slaughter, and Ellen Meiksins
Wood as they debate changes in the labor movement, Marxist theory, the state of
the economy, market socialism, and other areas where theory and practice meet.
Listen to the United States' only independent and socialist congressman, Rep.
Bernie Sanders, dialogue with Joel Rogers of the New Party and In These Times'
Salim Muwakkil on independent politics.
Some of the more than one hundred plenaries, panels, and workshops will
include Ellen Meiksins Wood, Aijaz Ahmad, and David Harvey on "Universalism
and Difference"; Robert Heilbroner, Ros Bologh, and Robert Jay Lifton on "The
Limits of Conventional Wisdom"; Manning Marable, Joy James, Maulana
Karenga, Bill Sales, and Bill Fletcher on state of African-American intellectuals;
Stanley Aronowitz on his most recent book "The Death and Rebirth of American
Radicalism"; and Stephen Jay Gould, Meera Nanda, and Alan Sokal on "Science
and the Flight From Reason."
It all starts Friday evening March 28 @ 7:00 PM with opening plenary
speakers Luciana Castellina, Member of European Parliament from Italy, Bogdan
Denitch, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rep. Major Owens, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Mexican
detective novelist, historian and socialist, and Bob Wages, President of the Oil,
Chemical, and Atomic Workers, AFL-CIO. The theme, of course, is "Radical
Alternatives on the Eve of the Millennium." Panels run from 10:00 AM to 5:00
PM Saturday and Sunday. Vendors and representatives from more than fifty
publishers and organizations will be there on Saturday and Sunday.
Other speakers include: Mimi Abramovitz, Daniel Singer, Harry Magdoff, Istvan
Meszaros, Barbara Epstein, Ruth Sidel, Carlos Vilas, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, L. A.
Kauffman, Leo Panitch, Hector Figueroa, David Abdulah, Louise Merriweather,
Ngugi wa Thiongo, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Alexander Buzgalin, Leith
Mullins, Axel Queval, Pap Ndale, Jean-Pierre Page, and dozens more...
DETAILS:
When: Friday, March 28 7:00 to 9:30 PM
Saturday, March 29 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Sunday, March 30 10:00 AM to 6:30 PM
Where: Borough of Manhattan Community College
199 Chambers Street in downtown Manhattan
Cost: $45.00
30.00 (low income)
8.00 (undergrads & high school students)
20.00 (one day entrance)
For more information call (212) 642-2826 or email us at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or check out our web page at:
www.soc.qc.edu/ssc
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