Program

Sunday, May 11

9:00 - 10:00am Registration/check-in

10:00 - 11:15am
Room 1: Tibet: China’s powderkeg – Jonathon Hodge
Room 2: Bertolt Brecht’s theatre to change the world – David Fennario
Room 3: Lenin and ‘Leninism’ in the 21st century – Brian Donnelly
Room 4: Capitalism and cancer: neoliberalism and the fight for the cure – Maureen Aslin, Jesse McLaren
Room 5: Stalinism, fascism and the united front – James Clark

11:30 - 12:45pm
Room 1: Politics of the Heart: a history of lesbian and gay rights in Quebec– Nancy Nicol (video screening)
Room 2: Racism and Canada's new "security state" – Saima Mohammad, Faisal Kutty, Jessica Squires
Room 3: Unbearable Lightness: 1968 the Prague spring – Michelle Robidoux
Room 4: Education under capitalism – Bradley Hughes
Room 5: Disability: ‘the last civil rights movement’ – Julie Devaney, Erin George

1:00 - 2:00pm Closing rally

Social to follow Regal Beagle, 333 Bloor Street West

Thursday, May 8
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