I'm excitedly engrossed in organizing a major four-day conference March 9-12 at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago called The Past and Future(s) of Revolutions: A Global Exploration. Among the speakers will be Ron Aronson, author of After Marxism; John Foran, editor of The Future of Revolutions: Rethinking Radical Change in the Age of Globalization; Edward Friedman, author of Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China; Doris Garraway, editor of Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World; Karen Kampwirth, author of Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas; Friedrich Katz, author of The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution; Stephen Kinzer, author of Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua; James Le Sueur, editor of The Decolonization Reader; David Mason, author of Revolutionary Europe, 1789–1989: Liberty, Equality, Solidarity; Julie Mertus, author of Human Rights Matters: Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions; Val Moghadam, author of Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement; Misagh Parsa, author of States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines; Jonathan Schell, author of A Hole in the World: An Unfolding Story of War, Protest and the New American Order. I'll be chairing the keynote panels (7:00 PM) on Wednesday, March 11 and Thursday, March 12. Mark your calendars!
Posted by Danny at February 5, 2009 09:27 PM