GSA Conference: “Globalization, Empire and Resistance”

["Lee, Frederic" <leefs@xxxxxxxx>]

 

To URPE Members  and other 
heterodox economists

Sent by Bill Tabb

See website 
for questions: 
http://www.globalstudiesassociation.org/conferences.html

Deadline 
for papers: March 1, 2004: 
http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal/call4papers.htm

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Global 
Studies Association
Third Annual North American Conference
Friday April 23 
– Sunday April 25, 2004

“Globalization, Empire and 
Resistance”
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

This spring 
Brandeis University will host a conference on Globalization, Empire and 
Resistance. This will be a progressive conference embracing a variety of 
critical, and radical perspectives on globalization.

You are cordially 
invited to join a number of leading scholars from all over the world in 
exploring the many effects of globalization-as well as alternative visions. 
There will be a number of plenary and panel sessions.

Featured 
Speakers:

Seymour Melman
One of America’s most respected scholars on 
capitalism and U.S. militarism from Columbia University
Speaking on “The 
Permanent War Economy”


The Authors of “Global Capitalism and American 
Empire”: 
> Leo Panitch
> Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political 
>   Economy at York University, Toronto
> Co-Editor of the Socialist 
>   Register
> Speaking on “Global Capitalism and American Empire”
>
> Sam 
>   Gindin
> Packer Visiting Chair in Social Justice at York University, 
>   Toronto
> Former Head of Research and Assistant to the President, Canadian 
>   Auto Workers’ Union
> Speaking on “Labor Resistance in the Era of 
>   Globalization"
William Tabb
Professor of Economics at Queens 
College, New York
Monthly Review contributor and author of "The Amoral 
Elephant"
Speaking on "The Global State and Economic 
Institutions"

Speaking via Video Satellite from Holland:
Jose Maria 
Sison
Former senior research fellow and Professor at the University of the 
Philippines
Co-Founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines
Speaking 
on “War, Imperialism, and Resistance from Below”

Leslie Sklair
London 
School of Economics
Author of "The Transnational Capitalist 
Class"
Speaking on “Globalization, Imperialism and the International 
System”

Edna Bonacich
Professor of Sociology at the University of 
California, San Diego
Co-Author of "Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los 
Angeles Apparel Industry"
Speaking on “Labor, Immigration and Global 
Production”