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Thursday, June 18th
8:00pm - 9:30pm
| Sexuality and Socialism | Sherry Wolf | |
| Darwin and Marx | Ian Angus | |
| Class Traitor or Capitalism's Savior? Roosevelt and the New Deal | Lance Selfa | |
| Luxemburg's The Mass Strike | Elizabeth Wrigley-Field |
Friday, June 19th
9:30am - 11:00am
| Defending Academic Freedom Today | Loretta Capeheart, Margo Nankoe, and Nagesh Rao | |
| Lenin's State and Revolution | Brian Erway | |
| An Economic History of the Great Depression | Petrino DiLeo | |
| Live the Change You Want to See: Should the Means Prefigure the Ends? | Tristin Adie | |
| Lenin and Luxemburg | Paul LeBlanc and Helen Scott | |
| U.S. Imperialism Since 9-11 | Geoff Bailey | |
| Che Guevara | Stuart Easterling |
11:30am - 1:00pm
| The Origins of Class Society | Shaun Joseph | |
| Why the Antiwar Movement Should Be Anti-Imperialist | Arun Gupta | |
| Marxism, Nationalism, and Third Worldism | Nagesh Rao | |
| The Economic Crisis and the New Imperialism | Lee Sustar | |
| Mexico in Crisis | Dan La Botz | |
| The Heyday of American Trotskyism | Joe Allen | |
| The Sitdown Strikes and the Birth of Industrial Unionism | Dennis Kosuth | |
| Capitalism and Mental Health | David Thurston | |
| You Can't Stop Us Now: Hip-Hop in the New Political Era | Alex Billet | |
| How the Russian Revolution Was Won | Matt Swagler |
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 3:30pm
| When World Revolution Was On the Agenda: The International Impact of the Russian Revolution, 1917-23 | Ashley Smith | |
| Indonesia After Suharto | Max Lane | |
| Saudi Arabia and the U.S.: The History of a "Special" Relationship | Deepa Kumar | |
| The Future of Immigration Reform | Bridget Broderick, Jorge Mújica | |
| How Race Survived U.S. History | David Roediger | |
| Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopia | China Miéville Canceled | |
| The Real Lenin: Beyond Demonization and Mythmaking | Paul D'Amato | |
| A New Era For Labor? | Ken Riley, Megan Behrent, and Armando Robles | |
| The Global Food Crisis | Anuradha Mittal | |
| In Critical Condition: US Healthcare Today | Dr. Alan Jackson, Helen Redmond and Richard Berg (invited) |
4:00pm - 5:30pm
| Abortion Rights: Why We Need a New Movement | Jennifer Roesch | |
| Immigrants and Labor Struggles | Orlando Sepulveda, Margarita Klein and Martin Unzueta | |
| Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Toledo in 1934: The Strikes That Turned the Tide | Sharon Smith and Clarence Thomas | |
| Bolivia: Reaction or Revolution? | Tom Lewis | |
| The New Anticapitalist Party in France | Leon Cremieux | |
| Fighting the Death Penalty: Yes We Can Win Abolition! | Martina Correia, Darby Tillis, Marlene Martin, and a live call-in from death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal | |
| A History of the U.S. Communist Party | Amy Muldoon | |
| Can Socialism Liberate the Oppressed? | Rayyan Ghuma | |
| Occupation Rebranded: US Foreign Policy in the Age of Obama | Jeremy Scahill |
5:30pm - 7:30pm Dinner
7:30pm - 9:00pm
| Eugene Debs and Socialism in the U.S. | Elizabeth Schulte | |
| The Struggle for Palestine | Ahmed Shawki and Michael Letwin | |
| Clara Zetkin: Revolutionary Leader | John Riddell | |
| Who Was Leon Trotsky? | Shaun Harkin | |
| Standing Up to the Madness | Amy Goodman | |
| Hubert Harrison: Black Socialist Pioneer | Jeffrey R. Perry |
Saturday, June 20th
9:30am - 11:00am
| Marx's Capital | Brian Chidester | |
| Is Human Nature A Barrier to Socialism? | Kyle Brown | |
| Tom Paine and the American Revolution | Mike Corwin | |
| What's Wrong With Charter Schools? | Sarah Knopp | |
| Challenging the American Injustice System | Lee Wengraf, Rebekah Ward, Helen Redmond, and Jack Bryson | |
| From Degenerated Workers' State to A New Class Society: Theories of Stalin's Russia | Jason Yanowitz | |
| Anarchism in the 21st Century | Eric Kerl | |
| The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction | Behzad Ragdian | |
| What is Socialism? | Eric Ruder | |
| The Impact of the World Crisis on Latin America | Claudio Katz |
11:30am - 1:00pm
| How Capitalism Works—and How It Doesn't: The ABCs of Marxist Economics | Hadas Thier | |
| The Corporate and Government Assault On Education | Rank-and-file teacher activists Jessie Muldoon, Jesse Sharkey, and Sarah Knopp | |
| Just Say No to the Olympics | David Zirin, Bob Quellos and Chris Shaw | |
| Eyewitness From Iraq—The Real Story | Dahr Jamail | |
| Venezuela: The Bolivarian Revolution Under Siege | Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza and Lee Sustar | |
| Rebelling Against Racism: The Black Power Revolt of the 1960S | Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor | |
| What Would a Sustainable Society Look Like? | Chris Williams | |
| The Obama Administration: The View From Main Street | Laura Flanders | |
| Why Does Capitalism Need the Family? | Nancy Welch | |
| How Marx Became A Marxist | Anthony Arnove |
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 3:30pm
| Art for the People? The WPA Murals of the New Deal Era | Annie Zirin | |
| The Two Souls of Socialism | Sam Farber | |
| Marxism and Alienation | Phil Gasper | |
| Abraham Lincoln and the Abolitionists | Alan Maass | |
| The Radical Roots of the Civil Rights Movement | Brian Jones | |
| An Injury to All: The Wobblies | Adam Turl | |
| The Roots of the Current Crisis | Robert Brenner | |
| Women and Socialism | Sarah Macaraeg | |
| Leonard Peltier and the American Indian Fight For Freedom | Michelle Bollinger | |
| Introduction to the International Socialist Organization | Todd Chretien |
4:00pm - 5:30pm
| Washington's "Back Yard": A History of U.S. Imperialism in Latin America | Bill Linville | |
| How Are Revolutionary Parties Built? | Ahmed Shawki | |
| Why Class Matters | Kirstin Roberts | |
| The Roots of Racial Oppression | Khury Peterson-Smith | |
| Stonewall: Birth of Gay Power | Dana Cloud | |
| Afghanistan: Obama's Vietnam? | Anand Gopal | |
| Are Political Parties Necessary? | Bill Keach | |
| The Communist Manifesto | Jack Trudell | |
| The Economic Crisis: How Bad Will It Get? | Joel Geier |
5:30pm - 7:00pm Dinner
7:00pm - 8:00pm
| Debut of "Workers' Republic": A Documentary on the Republic Windows and Doors Occupation |
8:00pm - 9:30pm
| Evening Plenary: Building a New Left for a New Era | Joel Geier, Sherry Wolf and Sharon Smith |
10:00am - 11:15am
| The Seattle General Strike of 1919 | Leia Petty | |
| Crisis and Class Struggle in China | David Whitehouse | |
| How Capitalism Underdeveloped Africa | Brian Kwoba | |
| The End of Neoliberalism | David McNally | |
| In Defense of the Labor Theory of Value | Zach Zill | |
| Allende and the Failure of the "Chilean Road to Socialism" | Orlando Sepulveda | |
| Can Students Change Society? | John McDonald | |
| CLR James and African American Liberation | Scott McLemee |
11:45am - 1:00pm
| The Man in Black—Johnny Cash | Nicole Colson | |
| A Critique of Green Capitalism | Heather Rogers | |
| How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? | Neil Davidson | |
| The Role of Soldiers in Revolutionary Movements | Martin Smith | |
| The U.S. Empire: What It Is and Why We Must Oppose It | Ron Jacobs | |
| Socialism: You Mean Like Sweden? | Jonah Birch | |
| The Class Struggle in Puerto Rico Today | Rafael Feliciano Hernández and Katherine Adames |
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 3:00pm
| Final Plenary: Where Do We Go From Here? | Alan Maass and Ahmed Shawki |