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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 12:12:22 -0500 (EST)
From: ROBERT SAUTE <rsaute-AT-email.gc.cuny.edu>



            ***1998 SOCIALIST SCHOLARS CONFERENCE***

A World to Win:
 From the MANIFESTO 
to New Organizing for Socialist Change

***CALL FOR PANELS***

http://www.soc.qc.edu/ssc


Dear Friends, Scholars, Activists,


     The 1998 Socialist Scholars Conference will take place this
year from Friday March 20 to Sunday March 22, at Borough of
Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York City. 
This year's theme is "A World to Win: From the MANIFESTO to New
Organizing for Socialist Change," and we encourage panels to
address issues covered by it.  We are also eager to have panels
on any and all subjects of interest to socialists, radical
democrats, activists and intellectuals who want a better world.

     Last year 1800 activists, scholars, socialists, and radical
democrats from more than a dozen countries met for a weekend of
dialogue and debate about changes in the labor movement at the
top and bottom; independent politics; struggles for survival and
justice in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; bringing culture back
in; and dozens of others on race, ecology, gender, class, and the
struggle for liberation. At more than 120 panels speakers and
participants exchanged ideas, honed tactics, and discovered new
ways to look at old problems.

     This year the aim of the Conference is modest: we would like
to reintroduce organizing into the socialist project.  The recent
Teamster victory in the U.P.S. strike illustrates the efficacy of
rank and file organizing: educating, agitating, and persuading. 
Yet, in this increasingly fragmented and complex world where
virtual communities supplant face-to-face communication, where
membership implies no commitment, organizing is a radical act.

     Two anniversaries will be important components of this
year's Conference: the one hundred and fifty years since the
birth of the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, and the thirty years since the
events of 1968 -- the Prague Spring, Paris, Chicago, the
Tlatelolco Massacre. 

     We encourage wide-ranging discussion.  Debates are more
interesting for speakers and audience.  Diversity of opinion and
experience, as well as in race, class, and gender, give your
panel and the Conference strength.  We have participants organize
panels rather than submit papers because panels with coherent
themes are more interesting; they allow for meaningful debate and
encourage participation from the audience. 

     Panels are an hour and fifty minutes long and typically have
three to five speakers, sometimes including a moderator.  Talks
of less than twenty minutes per speaker work best.  They allow
for exchange among and between panelists and the audience. 
Videos, slide presentations, and/or overhead projections can be
accommodated with advance notification.

 
     **Deadline for panel submissions is February 27, 1998.**


     To submit a panel, please include a panel title, a list of
panelists with one -and only one- affiliation per panelist, an
address with email for each panelist, a sponsoring organization
(if applicable) and a contact person with address, phone number,
and email.  Panels take place on Saturday March 21 and Sunday
March 22, from 10:00 AM to 11:50 AM, 1:00 PM to 2:50 PM, and 3:00
PM to 5:00 PM.  Please let us know your preference, and, given
early notification, we will do everything possible to meet your
needs. 

     The cost of a panel is $100.  The fee includes admission for
each of the panelist for the entire three day conference.  There
are no additional charges for panelists.  Please make your checks
payable to:

               Socialist Scholars Conference
               c/o Dept. of Sociology/ CUNY Grad Center
               33 West 42nd Street
               New York, NY  10036-8099

     If you have further questions, please look for our web page
at:

                    http://www.soc.qc.edu/ssc

or contact us at the above address, phone us at (212) 642-2826,
or email us at:
     
socialist.conf-AT-usa.net




   

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