[URPE] URPE Summer Confernece, and presentations

[Al Campbell]

6/19/2006. Preliminary schedule for the plenaries and David 
Gordon Lecture at the URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat.  Please 
note: 1) the meetings are one week earlier than usual, to avoid the 
conflict we always have with some schools starting in late August, 2) 
we have a new camp, with improved lodging and continued great food, 
just up river from New York City, and 3) the camp wants a rough 
count of how many will come (for food preparation), so please get your 
reservations in to the National Office by July 28.  All information on 
the new camp - location, directions, facilities, rates, registration form 
etc, are on our web site, www.urpe.org.
Now is the time to get your ideas on workshops and panels on 
work that you are working on that you would like to share with people 
and get feedback on to Graham Cassano: graham at xrgb.com. Please 
put `summer conference´ in the subject line.
                     2006 URPE SUMMER CONFERENCE
                 Nationalism, Internationalism, and 
                               Nature
                  Friday, Aug. 11 - Monday, Aug 14.
                    Camp Deer Run, Pine Bush, NY

FRIDAY, AUGUST 11

3:00-4:00.  Steering Committee Meeting

4:00. REGISTRATION BEGINS AND CONTINUES ALL WEEKEND

5:00. RECEPTION/INTRODUCTION TO URPE

6:00-7:00. DINNER

7:00-9:00. PLENARY: LATIN AMERICA: BREAKING THE MOLD

Where does Mexico go from Here? David Barkin, Professor of Economics 
at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco. His most recent 
book (2006) is La Gestión de Agua Urbana en México. For those that do 
not read Spanish, a recent book that reflects some of the same ecological 
approach to issues, which is bilingual and can now be downloaded for free, 
is Wealth, Poverty and Sustainable Development.

Chávez, Chavismo and Latin America's Lefts.  Fred Rosen, a long time 
central figure in NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America).  
His most recent book is an edited collection, Latin America After 
Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide? (The New Press, 2006)

Financial Capitalism and the Economic State of Emergency in Brazil: 
Abandoning  the Developmental Perspective.  Leda Paulani, Professor of 
Economics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.  Current president of the 
SEP (URPE´s corresponding Political Economy organization in Brazil)

SATURDAY, AUGUST 12

7:45-8:45. BREAKFAST

9:00-11:50. Morning Workshops/Panels


12:00-1:00. LUNCH

12:00 Women´s Caucus meeting over lunch

1:00-1:50 RECREATION

2:00-3:00. Afternoon Workshops/Panels

3:10-4:15. Business Meeting

4:30-6:00. THE DAVID GORDON LECTURE

Changes in U.S. Capitalism Since the Reagan Era: Where Are We Now? 
Michael Reich, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley and Director, 
Institute of Industrial Relations.

6:00-7:00. DINNER

6:00. Graduate Student Meeting Over Dinner

7:00-9:00. PLENARY: WAR AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Resource Wars. William K. Tabb is Professor of Economics at the Queens 
College, City University of New York. His most recent books is  
Economic Governance in the Age of Globalization (Columbia University 
Press, 2004).

A War for Expensive Oil: What´s Itching the Bully in the China Shop? 
Wadi´h Halabi currently serves on the Economics Commission of the 
Communist Party USA. 

Metal Mining of the Long Twentieth Century: Excavating the link 
between war and capitalist industry. Salimah Valiani is a researcher in the 
Social and Economic Policy Unit of the Canadian Labour Congress.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 13

7:45-8:45. BREAKFAST

9:00-11:50. Morning Workshops/Panels

12:00-1:00. LUNCH

1:00-2:20. RECREATION

2:30-5:50. Afternoon Workshops/Panels

6:00-7:00. DINNER

7:00-9:00. PLENARY: KATRINA (details TBA)


MONDAY, AUGUST 14

7:45-8:45. BREAKFAST

9:00-11:50. Morning Workshops/Panels.

12:00-1:00. LUNCH. 

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