[PEN-L:32542] ?? Re World Social Forum Meetings

["Julie A. Matthaei" <jmatthaei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is anyone going to the World Social Forum Meetings in Porto Alegre from
Jan. 23-28 3002?  I am planning to, and would like to put together a panel
with like minded progressive economists.  So I"ve joined pen'l to put out
a call -- since proposals seem to be due by the end of November (!!!) (and
since I'm usually so behind on email that I haven't been able to stay on
pen'l even though I'd like to).

I'm a radical post-Marxist feminist anti-racist economist who is looking
at post racist-capitalist-patriarchal economics -- possible ways forward
for the U.S. and other advanced capitalist economies.  If you are
interested in looking at my recent research, I have a paper "Healing
Ourselves, Healing Our Economy" in the recent RRPE on Women's Political
Economy, and a working paper, "Beyond Gender, Race, and Class?  Thoughts
on a Possible Feminist Future", which I wrote with Barbara Brandt, which
is available at www.wellesley.edu/Economics/wkpapers/Index.html.

I'm also looking for someone to share a room with, and well as any info
Pen-Ler's who attended in the past might have about convenient hotels to
stay in.

In solidarity-

Julie Matthaei
very long-time URPE member and
Professor of Economics
Wellesley College

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