[URPE] Summer Conference Schecule Update

[Al Campbell]

URPE members and fiends,
	Our Summer Conference schedule has filled up nicely, and the version below is almost complete. I will send out at least one more update before the conference. For those of you not already planning to do so, think about coming. For people presenting (or anyone), if you see any typo errors or any scheduling problems, please send me an email at Al at economics.utah.edu. In solidarity, Al
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Preliminary Schedule. July 25. Some talks will need to be shifted to different times to meet the needs of all the speakers. Later schedules will be posted on the Web Site and sent out to the listserve in early August. Check the Website at http://urpe.org/conferences/sumprog08.html


Poverty and Unemployment:
The Permanent Violence of Capitalism
August 15-18, 2008
Camp Deer Run, Pine Bush, NY

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE -- KEEP CHECKING BACK IN JULY AND EARLY AUGUST!

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15
2:00. People involved in set-up arrive

4:00. REGISTRATION BEGINS AND CONTINUES ALL WEEKEND

5:00. RECEPTION/INTRODUCTION TO URPE

6:00. DINNER

6:00. Graduate students who have already arrived meet over dinner.

7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY 1: POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT ABROAD AND AT HOME: HOW MUCH AND WHY?

A Global Analysis of Poverty, Unemployment and Inequality for the Current Period of Neoliberal Globalization. 
Paul Cooney, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil.

Poverty and Unemployment in Recent US History. 
Tom Masterson, Researcher at the Levy Institute.

Caste and Economic Inequality in India. 
Ajit Zacharias, Researcher at the Levy Institute.

9:15 - 11:00. Informal socializing: catching up with old friends, getting to know new ones.


SATURDAY, AUGUST 16

8:00 - 8:45. BREAKFAST

9:00 - 9:50

Site A: Public Policies for the Working Poor: Should Earned Income Tax Credit Programs Replace Minimum Wage Laws? (Jeannette Wicks-Lim)

Site B: Toward a New Macroeconomics: From Criticism and Avoidance to Doing It Right. Session I: Growth, Technical Change and Transformation. (David Laibman)

10:05 - 10:55

Site A: New Labor Market Intermediaries in the Secondary Labor Markets. (Matthias Thiemann)

Site B: Lessons of 1997 for 2008: The US Financial Crisis Compared to Emerging Markets. (Marie Duggan)

11:10 - 12:00

Site A: Organizational Slack in the Context of Douglas North's Analysis of Institutional Change: The Case of Underperformance in the South African Market for Low Income Productive Investment. (Laura Ebert)

Site B: Business as Theoretical Object versus Business as Master Signifier. (Ahmet Öncü)

12:00 - 1:00. LUNCH

1:00 - 2:15. RECREATION. Swim, relax with friends, and there are beautiful hiking trails.

2:30 - 4:00

Site A: Solidarity Economy in the U.S. and in the World: Theory and Practice. (Jenna Allard, Julie Matthaei, Germai Medhanie)

Site B: Coops. (Brent Kramer (Alienation and Worker Control: are Worker Cooperatives a Means? How do We Get There?), Eric Olsen (Class and Worker Owned Enterprises: The Thin Approach to Socialism) and Al Campbell (Strengths and Problems of the Yugoslavia Experience))

4:15 - 5:45. The DAVID GORDON LECTURE
Guns and Butter Once Again? 
William A. ("Sandy") Darity, Jr., Arts and Sciences Professor of Public Studies and Professor of African and African American Studies and Economics at Duke University.

6:00. DINNER

7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY 2: STRENGTHENING THE POWER OF THE WORKING CLASS: WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T?

Creating a Community Economy: The Alliance to Develop Power's model of Community Organizing and Cooperative Economic Development.
Frances Boyes, Organizer for The Alliance to Develop Power.

Building the 21st Century Movement for Economic Justice. 
Frank Joyce, RESIST Advisory Board member.

How the Current Immigration Reform Attacks US Workers: How Should Workers Organize?
Wing Lam, Executive Director, Chinese Staff and Workers' Association Manhattan Chinatown Center

9:15 - 12:00. ENTERTAINMENT. Back by popular demand (from us), dance and/or chill out to the phenomenal (it really is) sounds of Soul Purpose.

Here's what they say about their band:

DANCE MUSIC is what we play. Combining the impact of a solid rhythm section with dynamic horn lines and a powerful vocal presence, we've been hitting the party, club, festival and wedding scene with a "Soulful" punch since 1998. Our repertoire includes Soul, Motown, Rock, Swing, Blues and Jazz. We play tunes that are irresistible---fun for both dancers and listeners alike!


SUNDAY, AUGUST 17

8:00 - 8:45. BREAKFAST

9:00 - 9:50

Site A: The Long Wait at Gate E: Economic Human Rights Organizing at Baltimore's Baseball Stadium. (Mike McGuire) 

Site B: The Sophistry of Free Trade. (Ian Fletcher)

10:05 - 10:55

Site A: Teaching Radical Political Economy. What People Need to Learn and How to Keep Your Job (Paddy Quick, Doug Koritz)

Site B: Toward A Reconciliation of Economic Theory and Economic History. (Jim Case)

11:10 - 12:00

Site A: Why the Left Should Support Obama in Promoting the Elimination of Poverty and Unemployment as the Cancers of Capitalism. (Sidney Gluck)

Site B: Where is the Bolivarian Revolution Going? (Jenny Brown and Al Campbell)

12:00 - 1:00. LUNCH

12:00. Women's Caucus meets over lunch.

1:00 - 1:30. RECREATION. Swim, hike, relax with friends.

1:40 - 2:55

Site A: Organizing: The Chinese Staff and Workers' Association. (Wing Lam and co-members)

3:05 - 4:20

Site A: Immigration. (Alex Jucla (Global Inequalities and International Migration) and Germai Medhanie (Immigrants -- Where do We Go from Here? ))

Site B: CNS Discussion of Climate Change; Special Case: The Amazon. (Patty Lee Parmalee, chair, Paul Cooney (Development, the Environment and Public Policies in the Brazilian Amazon) and Karen Charman (False Solutions to Climate Change))

4:30 - 6:00
Site A: URPE Business Meeting, including the initiation of an URPE-wide discussion on where URPE should go and what sort of work we should be focusing on in today's world.

6:00. DINNER

7:00. Films
- Made in L.A. ("Labor protest is not dead. Nor is it futile .... An excellent documentary about human dignity." NY Times.) 70 minutes.
- TBA

9:30 - 11:00. ENTERTAINMENT. Radical Folk Music, led by David Laibman and Gil Skillman. Bring your instruments, and be prepared to sing along!
MONDAY, AUGUST 18

8:00 - 8:45. BREAKFAST

9:00 - 9:50
Site A: Income Distribution and Financial Integration: Possible Links. (Armağan Gezici)

10:00 - 10:50
Site A: Toward a New Macroeconomics: From Criticism and Avoidance to Doing It Right. Session II: Short-Run Income and Social Relations Determination. (David Laibman)

11:00 - 11:50
Site A: Cuba "under Raúl." (Al Campbell)
12:00. LUNCH

See you all next year!