From: glevy@pratt.edu
Date: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 18:36:23 EDT
Subject: registration update for How Class Works - 2008 conference From: mzweig@notes.cc.sunysb.edu Dear Friends and Colleagues - If you have not already registered for the June 5-7 How Class Works - 2008 conference at SUNY Stony Brook, I hope you will do so at your earliest convenience. Please note that discounted registration rates expire May 8, after which registration fees will increase. To register on line, or to download the registration form to submit by mail, and to see the full conference schedule and housing, travel, and other conference information, please go to the How Class Works - 2008 conference pages on the Website of the Center for Study of Working Class Life. I'm resending the original conference announcement below and ask that you circulate it to anyone who might be interested, with your encouragement to attend. I look forward to welcoming you to Stony Brook in June. best wishes Michael Michael Zweig Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life PLEASE POST AND FORWARD WIDELY Dear Friends and Colleagues - I am pleased to announce that the How Class Works- 2008 conference program, on-line registration, housing and other information are now available on the conference pages of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The How Class Works - 2008 conference will be at Stony Brook, Thursday - Saturday, June 5 - 7, 2008 Topics Include The color line in the 21st century and the legacy of Theodore W. Allen - single-payer health care - corporate practices in higher education - teaching class - white working class anger in the UK - lessons of the Charleston 5 - class and the legal system - class and religion – labor law and union strategy - plus many more in 54 sessions. Speakers Confirmedinclude Sam Anderson, Catherine-Mercedes Brillantes Judge, Pedro Caban, Fuat Ercan, Claudia Fegan, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Tami Gold, Elizabeth Hoffman, Sara Jarayaman, Stathis Kouvelakis, Sherry Linkon, Meizhu Lui, Manning Marable, Jack Metzgar, Nelson Motto, Manny Ness, Bertell Ollman, Jeff Perry, Catherine Pouzoulet, Dave Roediger, Andrew Ross, John Russo, Vinny Tirelli, Michelle Tokarczyk, Richard Trumka, Joe Wilson Plus over 180 presentationsin working class studies from graduate students, faculty, union and community activists -- from Australia, Canada, France, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, New Zealand, Nigeria, Turkey, UK, and US -- plus film, music, photography, and poetry See the conference program and register on-line. I look forward to welcoming you to Stony Brook in June. Michael Zweig Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life Department of Economics State University of New York Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384 631 632 7536 michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu www.workingclass.sunysb.edu 2 _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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