Saturday, May 1, 2010

Reflections on Connecting Academia with Progressive Social Change



REFLECTIONS ON CONNECTING ACADEMIA WITH PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL CHANGE

The Center for Place, Culture and Politics
Ten Year Anniversary Conference


Reflections on Connecting Academia with Progressive Social Change


Speakers:

LEO PANITCH
Professor of Political Science, York University
Editor, The Socialist Register

SUSAN BUCK-MORSS
Professor of Political Science, CUNY
Author of Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (W.W. Norton, 2003)

SUJATHA FERNANDES
Professor of Sociology, CUNY
Author of Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chavez’s Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2010)

TIM BRENNAN
Professor of English, University of Minnesota
Author of Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz (Verso, 2008)

GILLIAN HART
Professor of Development Studies, UC Berkeley
Author of Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa (University of California Press, 2002)

JOHN KRINSKY
Professor of Political Science, CUNY
Author of Free Labor: Workfare and the Contested Language of Neoliberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2007)

ROS PETCHESKY
Professor of Political Science, CUNY
Co-author of Sexuality, Health, and Human Rights (Routledge, 2008)

JOHN MORRISSEY
Professor of Geography, National University of Ireland
Author of Negotiating Colonialism (HGRG, Royal Geographical Society, London, 2003)

MIKE MENSER
Professor of Philosophy, CUNY
Co-founder, US Solidarity Economy Network

Please join us in celebrating a decade of critical inquiry, interdisciplinary scholarship, blood, sweat, and beer.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Panel discussions: 4-5.30 PM & 5.30 – 7 PM
Proshansky Auditorium
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave. @ 34th Street

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