Program
Satuday,
May 10
9:00
- 10:00am Registration/check-in
10:00 - 11:15am
Room 1: Orientalism and the writings of Edward Said –
Matt Jones
Room 2: Marxism and religion – Shawn Whitney
Room 3: Egypt: on the edge of the volcano – James Clark,
Ali Mallah
Room 4: The Communist International and national liberation
– Benoit Renaud
Room 5: Cops, crime and capitalism – Charlotte Ireland
11:30
- 12:45pm
Room 1: Are India and China a threat to the environment? –
Brian Champ
Room 2: Women’s and gay oppression: reality and myth in
Iran today – Faline Bobier
Room 3: Reform and revolution of Rosa Luxemburg – Abbie
Bakan, John Riddell
Room 4: Somalia and Darfur: new fronts on the war on terror
– Valerie Lannon, Faduma Mohammad
Room 5: The US election: what difference will it make? –
Virginia Rodino
12:45
- 2:00pm Lunch session: Introduction to the
International Socialists
2:00
- 3:15pm
Room 1: Pakistan in crisis: justice, democracy and the war on
terror – Sid Lacombe, Nauman Mir
Room 2: 1968: students and workers in the streets – Carolyn
Egan, Ali Awali
Room 3: Climate change and revolution – Michelle Robidoux
Room 4: Today’s struggle for Indigenous liberation –
Cheryl Bryce, Leslie Doucet
Room 5: The Enlightenment and the new atheism – Chantal
Sundaram
3:30
- 4:45pm
Room 1: Booms and busts: which way forward for the labour movement?
– John Cartwright, Ritch Whyman, Meredith Warren
Room 2: Capitalism, democracy and socialism – Paul Kellogg
Room 3: Women’s liberation in the age of Hillary Clinton
– Lindsey Fulford
Room 4: The student movement today – Shelley Melanson,
Kelly Holloway
Room 5: Quebec Solidaire two years on – Alexa Conradi,
Benoit Renaud
7:00
- 9:30pm Evening gala: Music
of the civil rights revolt – a tribute to John Coltrane
and Miles Davis
Food, performances, music and more
Dinner begins at 5:30pm (vegetarian buffet); Show begins at
7:00pm
International Student Centre, 33 St. George Street
Cost: $10 for dinner; $10 for show; (full conference registration
includes entry to show)
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