(OPE-L) URPE Summer Conference

From: Gerald A. Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Mon Apr 12 2004 - 17:35:27 EDT


         URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE

"RIGHT-WING COUP, OR NEOLIBERALISM AS USUAL?"

at Camp Chinqueka, Bantam, Connecticut

Friday, June 4 - Monday, June 7, 2004

The URPE Summer Conference has traditionally been held in August, but this year it is in June.

So . . .

RESERVE THE DATE! 

See the attached flyer for rates and other information.

Contact the National Office to register: 
Gordon Hall, U Mass, 418 North Pleasant St., Amherst, MA 10112-1735
tel 413-577-0806; fax 413-577-0261; email URPE@labornet.org

We have special rates for graduate students, and a partial travel rebate for people travelling long distances.

ORGANIZE A WORKSHOP!

If you would like to organize or participate in a workshop, let Al Campbell know as soon as possible, at Al@economics.utah.edu.

Check the URPE website for updates to the program (http://urpe.org/sumprog04.html).

Here are the confirmed speakers for the plenaries -- more to come:

NEOLIBERALISM AT HOME - RIGHT WING ESCALATION?
Doug Henwood: "Neoliberalism: Circling the Drain?"
Nomi Prins: "America's Peculiar Brand of Justice: Corporate Corruption and Reform?"

GLOBAL NEOLIBERALISM - IS IT DIFFERENT UNDER BUSH AND POST 9/11?
Gérard Duménil: "Neoliberal Dynamics - Neoimperial Dynamics"
Ilene Grabel: "Reclaiming Development: Policies for a Post-Neoliberal World"
Greg Wilpert: Venezuela: "Participatory Democracy, State Socialism, or Capitalism as Usual?"

RESISTANCE TO NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM
Mike McGuire: "Neoliberalism's Last Stand? Victories and Challenges for the Global Justice Movement"
Cyndi Milstein: "Anarchism's Promise for Anti-Capitalist Resistance"
Ashanti Alston: title tba

DAVID GORDON LECTURE
Ann Markusen: "Communicating Political Economy"


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