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SUMMARY:Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Session 2—Debating Revolutionary Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Alyssa Adamson\, Drucilla Cornell\, and Peter Hudis\nThis second session of the Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg series will critically revisit debates over the potential revolutionary value of nationalism through exploring different stages of the Global Southern reception of Rosa’s thoroughgoing internationalism. \nThe panel will consist of Alyssa Adamson of Malcolm X College\, Drucilla Cornell\, Rutgers University and Peter Hudis\, Oakton Community College. Their essays are “Against a Single History\, for a Revaluation of Power: Luxemburg\, James\, and a Decolonial Critique of Political Economy” by Alyssa Adamson; “The Contemporary Transnational Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg’s Socialist Critique of National Self-Determination”\, Drucilla Cornell; and\, “A Troubled Legacy: Rosa Luxemburg and the Non-Western World”\, Peter Hudis \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-session-2-debating-revolutionary-nationalism/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Ecosocialism,Emancipation,Extractivism,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Radical Literature,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Revolutions Study Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210410T140500
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SUMMARY:Introducing Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg with Drucilla Cornell and Jane Gordon
DESCRIPTION:“I Have A Thousand More Things I Want To Say To You.”\nAn introduction to Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg with\nDrucilla Cornell and Jane Anna Gordon\, moderated by Bernabe S. Mendoza\nSession One of a six part series.\nRosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist of the last century. Significantly\, for the purpose of creolizing the canon\, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location\, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed\, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours\, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles\, such as those in Poland and Russia\, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined\, to considerations of state sovereignty\, democracy\, feminism\, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that\, by creolizing Luxemburg\, we can open up new understanding of the complexities of revolution. \nDRUCILLA CORNELL Professor Emeritus\, Rutgers University; JANE ANNA GORDON\, University of Connecticut \nSessions Moderator: BERNABE S. MENDOZA\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Rutgers University
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/introducing-creolizing-rosa-luxemburg-with-drucilla-cornell-and-jane-gordon/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Antiquity,British Imperialism,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Globalization,historical materialism,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210329T130000
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-29/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210322T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210322T150000
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210315T130000
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/slaverySM.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210308T130000
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/slaverySM.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210307T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210307T163000
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SUMMARY:Empire’s Endgame with Gargi Bhattacharyya and co-authors including Adam Elliott-Cooper\, Sita Balani and others
DESCRIPTION:Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State \nby Gargi Bhattacharyya\, Adam Elliott-Cooper\, Sita Balani\, Kerem Nisancioglu\, Kojo Koram\, Dalia Gebrial\, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha \nModerated by Wilf Sullivan (Race Equality Officer\, Trades Union Congress\, London) \nEngaging with Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall movements\, Empire’s Endgame offers an original perspective on race\, media\, the state and criminalization\, and a political vision that includes — rather than expels — in the face of crisis. \n \nIn this moment of profound overlapping crises\, the landscape of politics and entitlement is rapidly remade. Several leading scholars powerfully intervene in debates on racial capitalism and political crisis in Britain. While the ‘hostile environment’ policy and Brexit referendum throw the centrality of race into sharp relief\, discussions of racism have too often focus on individual behaviours. Bringing to the fore broad political and economic contextss\, the authors trace ways in which empire’s legacies have been reshaped by global capitalism\, the digital environment and instability in the nation-state. \nGargi Bhattacharyya is Professor of Sociology\, University of East London and author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism(2018)\, Dangerous Brown Men (2008) and Traffick (2005). Adam Elliott-Cooper is Research Associate in Social Sciences at Greenwich University (UK) and author of Black Resistance to British Policing (2021). Sita Balani is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Culture at King’s College\, London and author of Deadly and Slick: How Sex Makes Race in Postcolonial Britain (2021). Kerem Nisancioglu is Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS\, University of London\, co-author of How the West Came to Rule (2015) and co-editor of Decolonising the University(2018). Kojo Koram is Lecturer at School of Law\, Birkbeck College\, University of London and editor of The War on Drugs and the Global Color Line (2019). Dalia Gebrial is editor of a Historical Materialism special issue on identity politics and co-editor of Decolonising the University (2017). Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha are co-authors too. \n  \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Please write to info@marxedproject.org to receive the URL for the zoom link for this or any other event or class you would like to be a part of.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/empires-endgame-with-gargi-bhattacharyya-and-co-authors-including-adam-elliott-cooper-sita-balani-and-others/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,British Imperialism,Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Labor History,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210301T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210301T150000
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-03-01/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/slaverySM.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210222T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210222T150000
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-02-22/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/slaverySM.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Capital Studies Group":MAILTO:info@marxedproject.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210217T210000
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SUMMARY:The Sinking Middle Class with David Roediger
DESCRIPTION:A presentation and discussion with author David Roediger\nIn the 2020 elections\, both major US political parties stressed their support for the “middle class.” David Roediger corrects this in his pointed and persuasive polemic The Sinking Middle Class. Roediger demonstrates that such an obsession is relatively new in US politics\, starting with Bill Clinton’s attempt to win back the so-called Reagan Democrats\, aided by legendary pollster Stanley Greenberg. Their efforts were marked by covert appeals to white racism and the avoidance of wealth redistribution — features that remain prominent to this day. \nDrawing on rich traditions of radical social thought\, Roediger debunks the thinly sourced idea that the United States was\, for much of its history\, a “middle-class” nation and the still more indefensible position that it is one now. The increasing immiseration of large swaths of middle-income America\, only accelerated by the current pandemic\, reveals the fallacy that is a major obstacle to progressive change. \nDAVID R. ROEDIGER teaches American Studies at the University of Kansas. His books include Seizing Freedom\, The Wages of Whiteness\, How Race Survived U.S. History\, and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness and Working toward Whiteness. His book The Production of Difference (with Elizabeth Esch) recently won the International Labor History Association Book Prize. \n“Brilliant and insightful… Explores the ways in which appeals to save the middle class in electoral politics harm the very constituencies they purport to help.”\n—George Lipsitz\, author of How Racism Takes Place
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-sinking-middle-class-a-new-book-from-david-roediger/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Anti-colonialism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Marxist Method,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Seminars and Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210215T130000
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-02-15/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210213T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210213T153000
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SUMMARY:Heterodox Socialism: Michael Brie\, Jean-Numa Ducange\, Kieran Durkin
DESCRIPTION:  \npresentations and discussion with MICHAEL BRIE\, JEAN-NUMA DUCANGE and KIERAN DURKIN \nThis presentation taking place in New York City at 1:30 to 3:30 PM is taking place at 6:30 to 9:30 PM (GMT) \nOn the basis of new publications of her Polish works and more\, in Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary Marxist at the Limits of Marxism\, Luxemburg’s strategic approaches are located in an Eastern European context. Michael Brie will present on how the authors discuss Luxemburg’s unique analyses of the first experiments in socialist participation in government\, of the first Russian revolution and of the forms of accumulation of capital to outline the foundations of her novel understanding of both democratic-socialist revolution and of a society that would point beyond social democracy as well as Bolshevism – a vision that will gain new significance in the twenty first century. \nJules Guesde represents the first book-length study of the French socialist leader translated into the English language. Jean-Numa Ducange’s scholarly biography of Guesde seeks to put his record on proper historical footing\, closely analysing both archival sources and accounts by his contemporaries. The book begins with his early life and the mark left on him by the Paris Commune and exile. The book concludes with an examination of Guesde’s contested legacy. \nRaya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism brings to life her writings on state capitalism (part of her socio-economic critique of Stalinism\, fascism\, and the welfare state)\, to her writings on Rosa Luxemburg\, Black and women’s liberation\, and labor\, we are offered indispensable resources for navigating the perils of sexism\, racism\, capitalism\, and authoritarianism. This collection of essays\, from a diverse group of writers\, brings to life Dunayevskaya’s important contributions. Dunayevskaya’s Marxist-Humanism is recovered for the twenty-first century and turned\, as it was with Dunayevskaya herself\, to face the multiple alienations and de-humanizations of social life. \nMICHAEL BRIE is Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin\, Germany. Recent books include Rediscovering Lenin: Dialectics of Revolution and Metaphysics of Domination (2019) and Karl Polanyi in Dialogue: A Socialist Thinker of Our Times (2017). \nJEAN-NUMA DUCANGE is Professor at Rouen University and member of Institut Universitaire de France. He is the co-director of the French journal Actuel Marx (PUF) and Austriaca (PURH)\, and one of the best scholars about the history of socialism (France\, Germany\, Austria). \nKIERAN DURKIN is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at University of York\, UK and has been a Visiting Scholar at University of California Santa Barbara\, where he studied the Humanist Marxist tradition. He is author of The Radical Humanism of Erich Fromm (2014) and Erich Fromm’s Critical Theory (co-edited with Joan Braune\, 2020). \n \nThis is the Part One in a three part winter spring series on Marx\, Engels\, Marxisms\, a large collection of important works by Marxists from all over the world. \nMarx\, Engels\, Marxisms: The Marx renaissance is underway on a global scale. Wherever the critique of capitalism re-emerges\, there is an intellectual and political demand for new\, critical engagements with Marxism. MARX\, ENGELS\, AND MARXISMS (edited by Marcello Musto & Terrell Carver\, with Babak Amini\, Francesca Antonini\, Paula Rauhala & Kohei Saito as Assistant Editors) is a peer-reviewed series. It is broad — comprised of monographs\, edited volumes\, critical editions\, reprints of old texts\, as well as translations of books already published in other languages. These volumes come from a wide range of political perspectives\, subject matters\, academic disciplines and geographical areas\, producing an eclectic and informative collection that appeals to a diverse and international audience. Main areas of focus include: the oeuvre of Marx and Engels\, Marxist authors and traditions of the 19th and 20th centuries\, labor and social movements\, Marxist analyses of contemporary issues\, and the reception of Marxism in the world. \nfor information on the entire series: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14812 \nAll events are sliding scale. No one is denied admission for an inability to pay. If you are unable to make a contribution at this time\, simply write to info@marxedprojet.org to obtain the URL of the code to give you access to this or any other event or class.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/heterodox-socialism-michael-brie-jean-numa-ducange-kieran-durkin/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Intro to Marxism,Marx's Capital,Marxist Method,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Russian Revolution,Science and Method,Science and Technology,Seminars and Talks,Social Democracy,Socialism
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210208T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210208T150000
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-02-08/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210201T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210201T150000
DTSTAMP:20201111T171311Z
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-02-01/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210125T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210125T150000
DTSTAMP:20201111T171311Z
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SUMMARY:Blood and Money
DESCRIPTION:From Primitive Accumulation to Racial Capitalism\nA Reprise of the Fall of 2020 Sessions\nCapital Studies Group of The MEP is proud to repeat this class for another 10 week term\nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for zoom info if you are unable to pay. The stated fees are for all 10 sessions combined. \nThe birth and development of capitalism since its origins in the fifteenth century is entirely bound up with the subordination of racialized peoples. Even before capitalism arose – in a process Marx termed the “so-called primitive accumulation” – money and markets were implicated in the rise and fall of states and empires that conquered and enslaved vast numbers of human bodies. This group will address these histories and their persisting consequences. We will read and discuss David McNally’s Blood and Money: War\, Slavery\, Finance\, and Empire and Jairus Banaji’s The History of Commercial Capitalism\, both new works along with the now-classic text Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric Robinson. Additional readings will include chapters from Marx’s Capital; essays by Robin D.G. Kelley and Barbara Fields; and selections from the July-August 2020 Monthly Review devoted to Racial Capitalism. \nThe CAPITAL STUDIES GROUP has been meeting on Saturdays for nearly four years. We are a group of workers\, students\, activists and teachers who have nearly completed a chronological reading all three volumes of Marx’s Capital along with other important works such as these sessions will explore. Newcomers are always encouraged to join.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/blood-and-money-reprised/2021-01-25/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:African American History,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Classes/Events,Immigration,Indigenous Peoples,Intro to Marxism,Labor History,Marxist Method,Multi-session Classes,Political Economy,Race and Class,Revolutions Study Group,Science and Method
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210104T003000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210104T233000
DTSTAMP:20210123T032405Z
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SUMMARY:4 Month Pass:
DESCRIPTION:Support the MEP and save $ for yourself. Four month pass now $50 less than new six month pass!\nFor a one-time sliding scale fee of $100\, $150\, or $200 attend any and all classes and events of The Marxist Education Project. For $50 or $75 more bring a guest as often as you would like to the classes and events between now and May 31\, 2021. We are hosting many new series including a new literature class\, MAD Lit 101: American Fiction and the Cold War  beginning on January 14\, a continuation of Capital\, Volume 1 class\, a repeat of the popular Blood and Money\, Considerations on Bolshevism before Stalinism\, a reading and discussion group of Hadas Thier’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism\, a multi-session series covering the Socialist Register 2021 annual\, Beyond Digital Capitalism: New Ways of Living\, and  the 4 new events related to the Pluto Press Fireworks Series which begins on January 23 with Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar on Pandemic Solidarity\, the first book to be presented. The way the calendar works within our WordPress based site may make this confusing. It is a one-time payment good from now through May 21. You may also use this course as a contribution button to help The MEP get through this challenging Covid-19 period where much of our constituency have lost income and will during the next months lose unemployment compensation without a lengthy extension. You can also attend the new series sponsored by Palsgrave on Marx\, Engels\, and Marxisms along with Rowan and Littlefield’s new Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg series of events.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/until-mid-winter-pass-now-through-january-31-2021/
LOCATION:All Venues
CATEGORIES:African American History,American Literature,automation,Bolshevism,Capital Studies,Caribbean Studies,Class,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Extractivism,Film Screenings,Literary Studies,Marx's Capital,Multi-session Classes
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20200125T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20200125T180000
DTSTAMP:20200125T040505Z
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SUMMARY:Hispaniola in Revolt
DESCRIPTION:Critical Perspectives on Haiti and Santo Domingo\nwith Mitch Abidor\, Virgilio Oscar Aràn\, France Francois\, Lionel Legros and Amaury Rodriguez\n  \nCome to participate with presentations and discussion on the revolutionary legacies of Hispaniola\, the island shared by both Haiti and Santo Domingo. \nPanelists: \nMITCH ABIDOR has translated many of the key documents and accounts of the Haitian Revolution. His latest book is Down With the Law\, an anthology of French individualist anarchist writings. He will discuss the contradictions of the Haitian revolution. \nVIRGILIO OSCAR ARÁN is the National Field Home Care Organizer with the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Arán has participated in different forums to talk about the inhumane conditions Haitian immigrants suffer under in his native country\, the Dominican Republic. He will discuss race and class in the Dominican Republic. \nFRANCE FRANCOIS is the Founder and CEO of In Cultured Company\, an organization that works on conflict resolution and reconciliation between Haitians and Dominicans. She is a multi-passionate writer\, activist\, and change agent transforming communities of color around the globe by redefining the way their stories are told and how we impact their lives. France will also reconsider the Haitian revolts of 1946 and 1986. \nLIONEL LEGROS is a longtime NYC-based activist and educator originally from Haiti. He fought the Duvalier dictatorship and founded L’Heure Haitienne Radio in New York City in the 1960s. He will discuss the current Haitian revolt. \nModerator: AMAURY RODRIGUEZ is a Dominican-born translator and independent researcher. He is a frequent contributor to the Marxists Internet Archives (MIA) and co-author\, with Raj Chetty\, of Dominican Black Studies\, a special issue of The Black Scholar journal. \nAll tickets are sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hispaniola-in-revolt/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191030T210000
DTSTAMP:20190818T075833Z
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SUMMARY:Melancholia Africana
DESCRIPTION:The Caribbean Philosophy Association and The Marxist Education Project present \nMelancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition\nWith author Nathalie Etoke and conversation with fellow panelists Lewis R. Gordon and Souleymane Bachir Diagne\nThis year marks the publication of the English translation of Nathalie Etoke’s Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition. In richly poetic prose Etoke considers pain singing the happiness to come\, memories of forgetting\, and on va faire comment? She argues that Africana melancholy is distinct. Rooted in collective and historical experiences of enslavement\, colonization\, and neocolonialism marked by loss of land\, freedom\, language\, culture\, and self. Put differently\, expropriation of labor and of land also annihilated age-old cycles of life. Considering what to do in the wake of such annihilation\, Etoke explores how diasporic Africans reconcile that which has been destroyed with what is newly introduced\, framing this inherent tension as the character of Africana historical becoming. On October 30th\, Etoke will read from and speak about her newly translated work while Lewis R. Gordon\, who authored its new foreword\, and Souleymane Bachir Diagne will address the continued relevance of its searching diagnoses. \nNathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center\, CUNY. Her articles have appeared in Research in African Literatures\, French Politics and Culture\, Nouvelles Études Francophones\, Présence Francophone\, International Journal of Francophone Studies\, and Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy. She is the author of L’Écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l’Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara and of Melancholia Africana l’indispensable dépassement de la condition noire\, which won the 2012 Frantz Fanon Prize from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. In 2011\, she directed Afro Diasporic French Identities\, a documentary on race\, identity and citizenship in contemporary France. \nLewis R. Gordon co-edits Rowman & Littlefield International’s Global Critical Caribbean Thought series.  He is Professor of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; the 2018–2019 Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra\, Portugal; and Chair of Global Collaborations for the Caribbean Philosophical Association.  His public Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/LewisGordonPhilosopher/ and he is on Twitter @lewgord. \nSouleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor and Chair of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University and recipient of the Edouard Glissant Prize. He is the author of Boole\, l’oiseau de nuit en plein jour (a book on Boolean algebra); Islam and the Open Society: Fidelity and Movement in the Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal; African Art as Philosophy: Senghor\, Bergson\, and the Idea of Negritude; The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa; and Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with Western Tradition. An English version of his book\, Bergson postcolonial: L’élan vital dans la pensée de Senghor et de Mohamed Iqbal\, which was awarded the Dagnan-Bouveret prize by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for 2011\, is forthcoming with Fordham University Press. \nAll tickets are sliding scale
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/melancholia-africana/
LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,Classes/Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171012T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171012T213000
DTSTAMP:20170804T133657Z
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SUMMARY:Caribbean Literature: Breaking bonds before and after betrayed revolutions
DESCRIPTION:10 Weeks beginning October 12 through December 21 \nA reading and discussion group with the Indigenous People’s History and Literature Group \nDuring this term we will begin with Aimé Césaire’s cultural statement from the 30s\, issued from the Caribbean to all those colonized by the capitalist powers\, primarily of Europe. Following our discourse on his groundbreaking discourse we will consider three novels on the colonized Caribbean\, long engaged in revolutionary struggle with just as long gains towards liberation and the centuries long experiences of counter-revolution\, and the consequences of compromise and collaboration with former colonizers and the colossus US that treats the Caribbean like a backyard swimming pool and those of the islands\, whether local agent of capital or exploited worker\, as servants by that pool.  \n“I admit that it is a good thing to place different civilizations in contact with each other that it is an excellent thing to blend different worlds; that whatever its own particular genius may be\, a civilization that withdraws into itself atrophies; that for civilizations\, exchange is oxygen; that the great good fortune of Europe is to have been a crossroads\, and that because it was the locus of all ideas\, the receptacle of all philosophies\, the meeting place of all sentiments\, it was the best center for the redistribution of energy.\nBut then I ask the following question: has colonization really placed civilizations in contact? Or\, if you prefer\, of all the ways of establishing contact\, was it the best?\n“I answer no.\n“And I say that between colonization and civilization there is an infinite distance; that out of all the colonial expeditions that have been undertaken\, out of all the colonial statutes that have been drawn up\, out of all the memoranda that have been dispatched by all the ministries\, there could not come a single human value.”\n`	—Aimé Césaire\, Discourse on Colonialism \nDiscourse on Colonialism\nAimé Fernand David Césaire\nThis classic work\, first published in France in 1955\, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa\, Latin America\, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later\, when published for the first time in English\, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights and Black Power and anti-war movements. \nAll Souls Rising \nMadison Smartt Bell \n1995\nThe slave uprising in Haiti was a momentous contribution to the tide of revolution that swept over the Western world at the end of the 1700s. A brutal rebellion that strove to overturn a vicious system of slavery\, the uprising successfully transformed Haiti from a European colony to the world’s first Black republic. From the center of this horrific maelstrom\, the heroic figure of Toussaint Louverture–a loyal\, literate slave and both a devout Catholic and Vodouisant–emerges as the man who will take the merciless fires of violence and vengeance and forge a revolutionary war fueled by liberty and equality.  \nA Small Place\nJamaica Kincaid\nAntigua\, 2000\nIn A Small Place\, Kincaid calls attention to the fact that in many ways\, conditions in Antigua worsened with the achievement of independence; she communicates her frustration with her people and capitalism. In a nation free from colonialism\, Antiguans “do to [themselves] the very things [colonists] used to do to [them]”. Through her critique of colonialism and the development of an exploitative tourist industry in A Small Place\, Kincaid addresses several other major themes which include the influence of homeland on identity\, culture\, and the desire for independence. \nA Brief History of Seven Killings \nMarlon James\nJamaica\, 2014\nWinner of the Man Booker Prize\nThe first part of the novel is set in Kingston\, Jamaica\, in the build-up to the Smile Jamaica Concert\, and describes politically motivated violence between gangs associated with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP)\, especially in the West Kingston neighborhoods of Tivoli Gardens and Mathews Lane (renamed in the novel as Copenhagen City and Eight Lanes)\, including involvement of the CIA in the Jamaican politics of the time. As well as Marley (who is referred to as “the Singer” throughout)\, other real life characters depicted or fictionalized in the book include Kingston gangsters Winston “Burry Boy” Blake and George “Feathermop” Spence\, Claude Massop and Lester Lloyd Coke (Jim Brown) of the JLP and Aston Thomson (Buckie Marshall) of the PNP. \nThe Indigenous Peoples’s Reading Group\, which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/caribbean-literature-breaking-bonds-before-and-after-betrayed-revolutions/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20160402T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20160402T170000
DTSTAMP:20160324T142848Z
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SUMMARY:Paget Henry’s 70th Year: A Symposium and Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Organized by The Caribbean Philosophical Association\nCo-sponsors: The Caribbean Philosophical Association and The Marxist Education Project \nSpecial tributes by:\nDonna Edmonds Mitchell\nFirst Nation activist\, community scholar\, poet and creative artist\nElaine Olaoye\nProfessor and poet \nParticipants Include:\nLinda Alcoff\, Philosophy\, Hunter College & CUNY\nKarida Brown\, Sociology\, Brown University\nDrucilla Cornell\, Political Science and WGSS\, Rutgers University\nJane Gordon\, Political Science and Africana Studies\, UCONN\nLewis Gordon\, Philosophy and Africana Studies\, UCONN\nAaron Kamugisha\, Cultural Studies\, UWI\, Cave Hill\, Barbados\nAshmita Khasnabish\, Writing\, Literature and Publishing\, Emerson College\nTeodros Kiros\, Liberal Arts\, Berklee College of Music\nNatasha Lightfoot\, History\, Columbia University\nSusan Lowes\, Teacher’s College\, Columbia University\nJames Manigault-Bryant\, Africana Studies\, Williams College\nRekha Menon\, Liberal Arts\, Berklee College of Music\nTracey Nicholls\, Philosophy\, Lewis University\nRowan Ricardo Phillips\, Stony Brook; New York Institute for the Arts\, NYU\nNeil Roberts\, Africana Studies and Political Science\, Williams College\nAmbassador Walton Watson \nAll are welcome. Attendance is free.\nFor more information contact info@marxedproject.org or Jane Gordon (janeannagordon@gmail.com)
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/paget-henrys-70th-year-a-symposium-and-celebration/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies
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