Rethinking the Territoral Dimension of Development in Light of the Arab Revolutions
by Alia Gana, Research Professor, Centre national de la recherche scientifique Université Paris I
Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 4:00 p.m.
UU 202
American Crisis/Global Crisis: The Declining or Indispensable American State
by Leo Panitch, Distinguished Research Professor & Senior Canada Research Chair, York University
Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 4:00 p.m.
UU W 324
The Binghamton Adventure: The Binghamton Challenge
by Immanuel Wallerstein
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
Casadesus Hall
Black and Gay Struggles in Cuba
by Tomás Fernández Robaina, Senior Researcher, National Library, Havana
Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 4:00 PM
LN 1324 (former PSPC Room C)
Indian Democracy in the Hall of Mirrors
by Peter Ronald deSouza, Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study
Friday, February 4, 2011
UU W 324
Replacing the Nation: Confronting Populism and Nationalism in South Africa and Beyond
by Gillian Hart
Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 4:00 PM
UU W 324
As Professor of Geography at University of California-Berkeley and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Gillian Hart’s work ‘is deeply informed by Gramsci’s challenge: how do we steer a course between the economism that “only one thing is possible” and the voluntarism that “anything is possible” so as to illuminate concrete possibilities for social change?’ She is the author of Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
China, Capitalist Accumulation, and the World Crisis
by Martin Hart-Landsberg, Economics Department, Lewis & Clark College
Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 4:00 PM
UU W 324
Labor on Demand: Dispatching the Urban Poor
by Gretchen Purser, Syracuse University
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 4:00 p.m.
LN 1324C
Deviance Labeling & The Vulnerability of Black Life
Mecke Nagel, SUNY Cortland
Monday, May 9, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
UU 111 (old Union)
Homeland Insecurity and Border Policing in New York
Ute-Ritz-Deutch, SUNY Cortland
Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
UU 202 (old Union)
Militarizing the University
Hugh Gusterson, George Mason University
Friday, November 12, 2010, 4:30 p.m.
Fine Arts 209
Hugh Gusterson is the author of Nuclear Rites (UC Press, 1996) and People of the Bomb (Minnesota, 2004) and co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity (Minnesota, 1999) and Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong (UC Press, 2005)
Chinatown Under Attack! Labor Exploitation to Gentrification
Peter Kwong, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Monday, November 1, 2010, 4:00 PM
UU W 324
Peter Kwong, a frequent contributor to The Nation and the International Herald Tribune, is the author of Chinese America: The Untold Story of America’s Oldest New Community; Forbidden Workers: Chinese Illegal Immigrants and American Labor; The New Chinatown; and Chinatown, New York: Labor and Politics 1930-1950.
Fostering Fear: Anti-Immigration Hysteria & Islamophobi
Friday, October 29, 2010, 7:00 PM
Binghamton City Council Chamber
38 Hawley Street
Downtown Binghamton
Welcoming Remarks: Mayor Matthew T. Ryan
Panelists:
Renan Salgado, Farmworker Legal Services of New York
Lubna Chaudhry, Binghamton University
Imam Kasim Kopuz, Johnson City
Mary Jo Dudley, Cornell Farmworker Program
Neoliberal Politics of Crime in Turkey
Zeynep Gönen
Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
FA 246
Vietnam and 'the Sixties': Tropes and Hegemony in History and Policy
Brendan Innis McQuade
Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
FA 246
Geometries of Social Power: Mapping the Indo-East Pakistani Borderlands
Anders Bjornberg
Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
FA 246
Doing For our Time What Marx Did For His: The Boggsian Challenge to Marxist Praxis
Matthew Birkhold
Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 4:00 p.m.
FA 242
April 2nd, 2011
Binghamton University, in Library North (LN) 1324C
Coordinated by Antoine Dolcerocca, Steven Knauss and James Parisot
8:30 – 9:00: Breakfast
9:00 – 10:30: Panel A (Discussant: Gökhan Terzioğlu)
Matt Birkhold, 'If you Don't Move Your Feet I Don't Eat': Hip Hop and the Demand for Black Labor
Antoine Dolcerocca, The ‘New’ Mercantilism: On Intellectual Property Monopolies and Political Capitalism
Steve Knauss, Is 'unequal exchange' still relevant in our post-globalized world?
10:30 – 10:45: Break
10:45 – 12:15: Panel B (Discussant: Steve Knauss)
James Parisot, Gramsci, Hegemony, and British Power: Were the British Hegemonic?
Cory Martin, Capital and Nonwage Labor: The Incorporation of the West Indies into the Nascent World System
Brendan McQuade, World Systems and Hegemony: Cox and Gramsci's Research Agendas
12:15 – 12:30: Break
12:30 – 2:00: Panel C (Discussant: James Parisot)
Latoya Lee, Reproductive Technologies in Transnational Context
Ryan Mead, The Historical Transformations of the Visual Perspective in the Modern World-System
Dellvin Williams, "New World Water": Ecology and the Scramble for Africa
2:00 – 3:30: Lunch
3:30 – 5:15: Panel D (Discussant: Antoine Dolcerocca)
Brian Zbriger, Migration Enforcement in the Neoliberal Politics of Production
Güllistan Yarkın, The Evolution of the Discourse of the Kurdish Movement on the Political Economy of the Kurdish Region in Turkey
Harun Ercan, Why armed struggle?: The Radicalization of the Kurdish Movement in Turkey
7:00 – 1:00: Party at Melih’s and Marcin’s at 10 ½ Highland Street.
