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The Encounter with America The Encounter with America A broad range of academics and social activists The conference opens with a Thursday evening will gather for a 2nd Socialist Scholars Conference plenary (see below). Because of space, we could on the Easter weekend, Thursday evening through not list all panels on Friday and Saturday. Saturday, April 19, 20, and 21 at the Boro of Man- hattan Community College, CUNY, in New York Thursday, 7:30-9:30 pm City. This year's conference on the theme of "The THE ENCOUNTER WITH AMERICA Encounter with America" has a dual focus-to Greetings: Joseph Murphy, explore the impact of Marxist and socialist thought Chancellor, CUNY American impact on on America and to examine Luciana Castellina, Independent left Marxism. member of Parliament, Italy The conference is sponsored by the CUNY John Conyers, Congressman, Michigan* Ph.D. Program in Sociology, the Institute for Democratic Socialism, the CUNY Democratic Barbara Ehrenreich, Co-chair, Socialists Clubs, and a number of journals, Democratic Socialists of America Against the Current, Dissent, Monthly Review, So- cial Policy, Social Text, Socialist Review, and Registration Form Telos. It continues the tradition of Socialist Schol- Make checks payable to "Socialist Scholars Conference and mail to: ars Conferences as occasions to assess the rele- ('UNY Democratic Socialist (lub 33 West 42nd St..R . 911 NY. NY 11)3(6 vance of classical marxism to socialists and social Pre-registration: thinkers today. $15 $10 (1day) $5 (student/low income) Last year's Marx Centennial conference brought Regular Registration: $17 $10(1 day) $7 (student/low income) more than 1500 participants together. This year the conference is being expanded to over fifty panels. NAME There will be panel sequences on feminist, labor, ADDRESS theoretical, economic, cultural, third world, and American political topics, as well as a special SCHOOL DEPARTMENT screening of the film, Seeing Red . Faculty __Student __hild (are For more information. call 212-7911-421 or 260-111)7. Sponsors/Participants (in formation): CUNY Ph.D. Program in Sociology, Against the Current, Dissent, Health PAC, Institute for Democratic Socialism, Le Conseil de la Langue Francaise du Quebec, Mid-Atlantic Radical Historians Organization, Monthly Review, Social Policy, Social Text, Socialist Review, Sociology Dept. - Univ. of Montreal, Telos, CUNY Democratic Socialist Faculty Club, and CUNY Democratic Socialist Graduate Student Club 2nd. Annual Socialist Scholars Conferer The Encounter With America April 19-20-21 Boro of Manhattan Community College, CUINY 199 Chambers St. (near Trade Center), New York City Friday, 10-12 am Friday, 1-3 pm Friday, 3-5 pm CRISIS OF THE SOCIALIST IDEAL WOMEN AND THE STATE THE COLD WAR AND THE AMERICAN Perry Anderson, New Left Review Zillah Eisenstein, Ithaca College EMPIRE Schlomo Avineri, Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, JeanAnyon, Rutgers Richard Barnet , Institute for Policy Studies Jean Cohen, New School for Soc. Res. Ronnie Steinberg, Center for Women & Gov Robert Engler, CUNY Michael Harrington, Queens College, CUNY Richard Falk, Princeton University LABOR TODAY Gabriel Kolko. LABOR AND PROTECTIONISM Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY David Bensman, Rutgers Tony Mazzochi, Workers Policy Project Sheamus O'Cleireacain, SUNY, Purchase Joyce Miller, Amalgamated Clothing and THE HOLE IN THE ELECTORATE Mike Parker, LaborNotes* Textile Workers Union * Michael Harrington, Queens College, CUNY Lee Price, International Affairs Dept., UAW Jan Pierce, Communications Workers Ira Katznelson, New School of America Frances Fox Piven, CUNY NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN RACIAL POLITICS AND THEORY REVIVAL OF LEFT ANTI-COMMUNISM PUBLIC HISTORY (Organized by SocialistReview) (organized by Socialist Review) (organized by MARHO) Michael Omi, Sr. editorial board, co-author, Bogdan Denitch, CUNY Jeremy Brecher, Brass Workers History Project "By the Rivers of Babylon, Race in the Barbara Epstein, UC Santa Cruz Lynn Johnson (on Ellis Island) United States" Jeffrey Escoffir, editor, Socialist Review Mike Wallace, John Jay College, CUNY Howard Winant, Sr. editorial board Victor Navasky, editor, The Nation Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary Ilene Phillipson, assist. ed., SocialistReview COMPARABLE WORTH: THE ISSUE OF THE 80s? WOMEN AND TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL CONTROL AND DESTABILIZATION Carol O'Cleireacain, economist, Deborah Bell, AFSCME IN THE THIRD WORLD DC 37, AFSCME Betina Burch, Barnard Sean Gervasi, Destabilization Project Barbara Rochman, president, NY NOW Joan Greenbaum, La Guardia Edward Herman, U. of Pennsylvania, author, Elaine Sorenson, U. Mass., Amherst Holly Sklar, Institute of New Communications "The Real Terror Network" Ruth Spitz, Empire State College Richard Leonard, author, "South Africa at War" MARXISM AND THE RELIGIOUS LEFT (organized by Monthly Review) THE IMMEDIATE SITUATION IN LATIN THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL REINTERPRETED Patrick Hughes, CUNY AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (organized by Telos) David Kalke, Andy Torres, New School for Soc. Res. Paul Breines, Boston College Harry Magdoff, editor, Monthly Review Maria Patricia Fernandez Kelly, University of Selya Habiv, Boston University Dorothe Solle, Union Theological Seminary California, San Diego Paul Piccone, editor, Telos Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary Fernando Gonzalez-Vigil, Columbia Joel Whitebrook, psychoanalyst Josia Heyman, CUNY THE NATIONAL QUESTION George Priestly, Queens College, CUNY CAPITALISM AND HEALTH CARE (organized by the Sociology Dept., Peter Freund, Montclair State College Univ. of Montreal) Sally Guttmacher, Rutgers Daniel Benedict, University Concordia DR. KING AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM Judith Lorber, CUNY Jacques Dofny, University of Montreal James Cone, Union Theological Seminary Barbara Katz Rothman, Baruch College Henry Milner, Vanier College David Garrow, U. of North Carolina Peter Schnall, MD * invited ice ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ROOTS OF THE PRESENT CRISIS Saturday, 10-12 am (organized by Against the Current) Charles Post, political scientist GRAMSCI AND THE CRISIS OF MARXISM Anwar Shaikh, New School for Social Research Perry Anderson, editor, New Left Review Temma Kaplan, Barnard College Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary HUMAN NATURE, CULTURE, AND POLITICS: IMPERATIVES FOR A REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST VIEWS ON SOCIAL CLASS THEORY IN AMERICA (organized by the New York Marxist School) Stanley Aronowitz, editorial bd., Social Text Martha Herbert, writer on biology, psychology Fred Block, U. of Pennsylvania and politics Jean Cohen, New School Julliet Ucelli, Educational Co-ordinator, Paul Montagna, CUNY NY Marxist School PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELI RACE, CLASS AND GENDER WHICH WAY TO PEACE? Nancy Hartsock, Johns Hopkins (arranged through New Jewish Agenda) Bell Hooks, author, "Ain't I a Woman" Mordechai Baron, Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem, Lucius Outlaw, Haverford College Peace Now Activist Reena Bernards, New Jewish Agenda SEEING RED: STORIES OF Mohammed Milhem, deposed AMERICAN COMMUNISTS Palestinian mayor special screening of Acadamy Award Friday, 7:30-9:30 pm Nominee followed by a panel (see below) PEACE MOVEMENT: PROSPECTS ECONOMIC CRISIS AND STRATEGIES Michael Beaud, University of Paris, VIII Saturday, 3-5 pm Fabrizia Baduel-Glorioso, independent left David Gordon, New School for Soc. Res. member of European Parliament AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND THE Carol O'Cleireacain, economist, Luciana Castellina, independent left PROSPECTS FOR SOCIALISM DC 37, AFSCME member of European Parliament Eric Foner, John Jay Paul Sweezy, editor, Monthly Review Dorothy Solle, Union Theological Seminary Irving Howe, CUNY William Tabb, Queens College Robert Stone, NY State Freeze Martin Sklar, Bucknell* Tony Watkins, Clergy and Laity Concerned SEXUALITY AND THE CURRENT STATE PROBLEMS OF SOCIALISTS IN GOVERNMENT OF THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FEMINISM Ruth Messinger, NYC Council Amber Hollibaugh, editorial bd., Muriel Dimen, Bernie Sanders, Mayor, Burlington, VT. Socialist Review Lehman Jennifer Hunt, Montclair State Rosalind Petchesky, Ramapo College* Marie Rudden, psychiatrist THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE Ellen Willis, Village Voice Diane de Mauro, Stony Brook Gordon Adams, Council on Economic Priorities THE POLITICS OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT Bogdan Denitch, CUNY Leslie Cagan, Mobilization for Survival AMERICAN WORKING CLASS HISTORY Barry Commoner, Queens College, CUNY PROJECT SLIDE PRESENTATION Richard Healey, Coalition for a New Foreign Jim Pearlstein with Herbert Gutman, Steve MARXISM AND ACADEMIC LIFE and Military Policy Brier, Bruce Levine, and Joshua Brown Bertell Ollman, NYU Christopher Hitchens, writer, The Nation* Mike Brown, CUNY Joanne Landy, Campaign for Peace and Patrick Hughes, Queens Democracy, East and West Saturday, 1-3 pm POLITICS FOR WHAT REPRODUCTION AND SEXUAL FREEDOM Michele Fine, U. of Pennsylvania Robert Engler, CUNY MATERIALISM AND MYSTIFICATION Carol Joffe, Bryn Mawr Lawrence Goodwyn, U. of North Carolina (organized by Social Text) Rosalind Petchesky, Ramapo College Ruth Messinger Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY, editor, Social Text Kate Ellis, Rutgers Michael Taussig, U. of Michigan Alan Wolfe, Queens College THE USSR IN THE 1980's A SOCIALIST ANALYSIS AND PROGRAM (organized by Monthly Review) ON VIOLENT CRIME Thompson Bradley, Swarthmore William Chambliss, U. of Delaware Alec Nove, U. of Glasglow* Edward Sagarin, John Jay, CUNY Teodor Shanin, U. of Manchester Herman Schwendinger, New Platz, SUNY Paul Sweezy, editor, Monthly Review Friday, 9:30-? SEEING RED: PERSPECTIVES SOCIALISM, JUSTICE, AND EQUALITY: Dorothy Healey PARTY Joseph Schwartz, Harvard Howard
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