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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