2006 URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE (Union for Radical Political Economics)
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Nature Friday, Aug. 11 - Monday, Aug 14. Camp Deer Run, Pine Bush, NY 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. "Globalists vs Nationalists Resource Strategies." Jerry Harris is Organizational Secretary of the Global Studies Association, Professor of History at DeVry University, Chicago, and author of a forthcoming book The Dialectics of Globalization. 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. "Abandoned Before the Storms: The Glaring Disaster of Gender, Race and Class Disparities in the Gulf." Avis Jones-DeWeever, Director of the Poverty, Education and Social Justice Program at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. ************************************* TENTATIVE WORKSHOPS (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, Jerry Harris) Katrina: Race and Class (Khalil Tian Shahyd, Linwood Tauheed, Avis Jones-DeWeever)
