MR conference on May 3rd in Burlington, Vermont

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Mon Mar 24 08:14:08 PST 2003


On Saturday, May 3rd, Monthly Review is holding a one-day conference on "Imperialism Today" at the University of Vermont in Burlington, in honor of our co-editor Harry Magdoff's approaching 90th birthday. After the death last summer of his wife ("BD") after a marriage of sixty-nine years, Harry has moved in with his son Fred - who teaches at UVM. Harry continues actively to participate in the editing of MR via the internet.

Certainly the primary focus of the conference will be on the state of US imperialism six weeks after the war of aggression against Iraq began, but the focus will also be on the downward trajectory of freedom inside the US and the prospects for anti-imperialist resistance.

There will be four panels in succession, with some (sadly very limited) time for discussion. All the panelists listed below have confirmed and reconfirmed. Almost all write for MR, at least on occasion.

The cost of $75 includes lunch. There are relatively inexpensive hotel accommodations available if arranged before April 18th. Space is quite limited (we're using a single auditorium with seating for about 300 in the UVM student union building).

The annual walk to the grave of John Brown at his farm near Lake Placid (an hour+ away from Burlington across Lake Champlain) will take place this year on Sunday, May 4th, and many of us plan to do this.

We've never done anything quite like this before, and will do our best to make it worthwhile.

More details are available at <http://www.monthlyreview.org/tribute.htm>

john mage

Conference Schedule

Opening Remarks: Fred Magdoff Introduction: John Bellamy Foster

Panel 1 — U.S. Hegemony Chair: Leo Panitch, Peter Gowan, Samir Amin, and Immanuel Wallerstein

Panel 2 — How Imperialism Works Today Chair: Jane Knodell, William Tabb, Michael Klare, and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Panel 3 — “Homeland” Imperialism: Media and Repression in the United States Chair: John Mage, Robert W. McChesney, Bernardine Dohrn, and Eleanor Stein

Panel 4 — Anti-Imperialism Chair: Bill Fletcher, Jr., Amiya Bagchi, Barbara Epstein, and Sam Gindin



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