The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) is sponsoring a one-day conference on the topic of "Economic Crisis: Radical Analysis and Radical Responses." The conference will take place at St. Francis College, Brooklyn. The day will be structured into two segments. The morning will focus on the economic and political roots of the current crisis in the capitalist system, while the afternoon will concentrate on the ways in which activists are responding to the crisis. (There is, of course, no firm line dividing the two.) Each segment will begin with a keynote speaker. Dr. David Harvey (Distinguished Professor, CUNY) will be the speaker in the morning, and Hon. Charles Barron (New York City Council) will introduce the afternoon segment. Following this, those attending the conference will be invited to participate in one of a set of workshops (workshops will be an hour and a half in length.)
The conference will include lunch and an end-of-day cocktail party to allow for and encourage informal discussions.
We are looking for people to act as workshop leaders. One possible format for a workshop would be the presentation of a formal paper, and graduate students in particular are invited to share their work with others. Alternatively, people could take on the responsibility of introducing and then structuring a discussion on one particular aspect of the crisis. Each segment of the conference would conclude with brief reports from each workshop to the conference as a whole. Proceedings of the conference will be posted on the URPE website.
Proposals or questions regarding the conference should be sent to the conference organizers, Paddy Quick and Julio Huato: paddyquick at aol.com and jhuato at gmail.com.
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