[lit-ideas] Fw: Call For Papers: Global Studies Assn: 2005 May 12-15 UT Knoxville TN
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From: "Jerry Harris" <gharris234@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Call For Papers: Global Studies Assn: 2005 May 12-15 UT Knoxville TN
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Global Studies Association
Annual Conference 2005
http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal
Crosscurrents of Global Social Justice:
Class, Gender, and Race
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
May 12 - 15, 2005
Speakers Include:
Tom Hayden
Tom Hayden has played an active role in American politics and history for over
three
decades, beginning with the student, civil rights and antiwar movements of the
1960s.
Wahu Kaara
Wahu Kaara is Director of the Kenya Debt Relief Network, an organization aiming
at the
cancellation of the debt of developing countries.
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Bill Fletcher, Jr., is the President and Chief Executive Officer of TransAfrica
Forum and
was formally the Vice President for International Trade Union Development
Programs for the
George Meany Center/National Labor College of the AFL-CIO. Prior to his service
at the Meany
Center, Bill served as Education Director, and later, Assistant to the
President of the
AFL-CIO.
Judith Blau
Judith Blau is a Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill and
co-founder and U.S. Chapter Coordinator for Sociologists Without Borders.
Michael Zweig
Michael Zweig is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for the
Study of Working
Class Life at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he has
received the
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Walda Katz-Fishman
Walda Katz-Fishman is a scholar activist and popular educator who combines her
research and
teaching interests in class, race/ethnicity/nationality, and gender inequality
and political
economy with political activism in bottom-up struggles for economic equality
and race and
gender justice.
Jerome W. Scott
Jerome Scott is a labor and community organizer and popular educator who brings
activists
and scholars together for popular economic and political education and action
research to
develop new leadership for building today's bottom-up movement for fundamental
social
change.
Graeme Chesters
Dr Graeme Chesters is Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Local Policy
Studies at Edge
Hill, UK. He is part of the editorial collective Notes from Nowhere who
edited/wrote: We Are
Everywhere: the irresistible rise of global anticapitalism (Verso: 2003) and
the co-author
(with Ian Welsh) of Complexity and Social Movements: Protest at the Edge of
Chaos
(Routledge: 2005 - forthcoming).
Jackie Smith
Jackie Smith has co-edited three books on transnational social movements
including
Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State
(1997),
Globalization and Resistance: Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements
(2002), and
Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and the Neoliberal Order
(2004). She has
published more than thirty articles in books and journals that include American
Sociological
Review, Social Forces, Sociological Inquiry, Human Rights Quarterly,
International
Sociology, Journal of World Systems Research, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
Quarterly.
To participate in the 2005 GSA/NA conference:
Please send a one-page abstract by March 15, 2005 to:
Jerry Harris
1250 North Wood Street
Chicago, Illinois 60622
gharris234@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject Line: GSA Conference Abstract
Register Now!
Non-members $60.00
GSA Members $48.00
Students, Retired, and Unemployed $20.00
Special Offer!
GSA Membership and Conference Registration $88.00
Checks should be made payable to:
“Networking for Democracy” with a memo on the bottom “For Global Studies
Association”.
Checks should be sent to:
Jerry Harris
GSA/North American Secretary
1250 North Wood Street
Chicago, Illinois 60622
USA
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