2006 URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE
Nationalism, Internationalism,
and Nature
Friday, Aug. 11 - Monday, Aug 14.
Camp Deer Run, Pine Bush, NY
7/11/2006. Preliminary schedule for the plenaries and David Gordon Lecture at the URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat. Please note: 1) the meetings are one week earlier than usual, to avoid the conflict we always have with some schools starting in late August, 2) we have a new camp, with improved lodging and continued great food, just up river from New York City, and 3) the camp wants a rough count of how many will come (for food preparation), so please get your reservations in to the National Office by July 28. All information on the new camp - location, directions, facilities, rates, registration form etc, are on our web site, www.urpe.org.
PLENARIES, DAVID GORDON LECTURE AND PRELIMINARY
WORKSHOPS,
URPE SUMMER CAMP, 2006
Friday August 11, 7 - 9 pm. Plenary 1. Latin
America: Breaking the Mold
Where Does Mexico Go from Here? David Barkin,
Professor of Economics at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco.
His most recent book (2006) is La Gestión de Agua Urbana en México.
For those who do not read Spanish, Wealth, Poverty and Sustainable Development
is a recent book that reflects a similar ecological approach. It is bilingual
and can now be downloaded free.
Chávez, Chavismo and Latin America's Lefts.
Fred Rosen, a long-time central figure in NACLA (North American Congress
on Latin America). His most recent book is an edited collection, Latin
America After Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide? (The New Press, 2006)
Financial Capitalism and the Economic State
of Emergency in Brazil: Abandoning the Developmental Perspective.
Leda Paulani, Professor of Economics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Current president of the SEP (URPE's corresponding Political Economy organization
in Brazil)
Saturday, August 12, 4:30 - 6 pm. DAVID GORDON
LECTURE.
Changes in U.S. Capitalism Since the Reagan
Era: Where Are We Now? Michael Reich, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
and Director, Institute of Industrial Relations.
Saturday, August 12, 7 - 9 pm. Plenary 2: Wars
and Natural Resources
Resource Wars. William K. Tabb is Professor of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York. His most recent book is Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization (Columbia University Press, 2004).
A War for Expensive Oil: What's Itching the Bully in the China Shop? Wadi'h Halabi currently serves on the Economics Commission of the Communist Party USA.
Resource Wars. William K. Tabb is Professor of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York. His most recent book is Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization (Columbia University Press, 2004).
A War for Expensive Oil: What's Itching the Bully in the China Shop? Wadi'h Halabi currently serves on the Economics Commission of the Communist Party USA.
Metal Mining of the Long Twentieth Century: Excavating the link between war and capitalist industry. Salimah Valiani is a researcher in the Social and Economic Policy Unit of the Canadian Labour Congress.
Sunday, August 13, 7 - 9 pm. Plenary 3. Katrina:
Race and Class
Alternative Policies for Rebuilding New Orleans.
Linwood Tauheed, Professor of Economics and Black Studies at the University
of Missouri, Kansas City.
The Political Economy of Neighborhood Planning
in Post Katrina New Orleans. Khalil Tian Shahyd, Doctoral Student in
Political Ecology at the University of Delaware.
One Additional Speaker, TBA.
Tentative Workshops (as of July 11: these will
be updated weekly until the Conference)
Ecological Economics as Theory and Practice (David Barkin)
Developments in Marxian Value-Theory (David Laibman and Gil Skillman)
Working for Ourselves: Household Production and Socialism (Paddy Quick)
Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in the US Labor Market (Marie Duggan)
Socialism and the
Political Economy of Contemporary China (Sidney Gluck)
Healthcare Finance
and Class: The Role of the American Corporation (Robert Kemp)
Guramylay: Growing
the Green Economy (Julie A. Matthaei, Germai Medhanie and Zaira Sherifova)
The Contradictory
Imperatives of New Deal Banking Reform (Ellen Russell)
Demand Side Policies
for Sustainable Development (Leanne Ussher, Laura Ebert and Margaret
Duncan)
Grassroots Labor
Organizing (Salimah Valiani, Brandynn Holgate, Patrice Mareshal and
Ethan Drozd)
Editors of Capitalism,
Nature, Socialism on Green Commerce, Nuclear Energy, the National
Guard and the World Bank (Heather Rogers, Karen Charmen, Tom Burgess,
and Irwin Sperber)
Resisting Corporate Dominance of
Local Political Economies; Lessons from the Front
Line of Struggle
(Ward Morehouse, Carolyn Toll Oppenheim)
The Future of Immigration:
A Light at the End of the Tunnel? (Alex Julca, Germai Medhanie)
URPE Reports on
the World Social Forum (Mathew Bradbury, Julie Matthaei, Germai Medhanie,
Dave Shukla)
Latin America:
Breaking the Mold (David Barkin, Leda Paulani, Fred Rosen)
Wars and Natural
Resources (Wadi'h Halabi, Bill Tabb, Salimah Valiani)
Katrina: Race and
Class (Khalil Tian Shahyd, Linwood Tauheed)
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