Chicago Platypus chapters at The School of the Art Institue of Chicago, University of Chicago, Loyola University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago
Left Forum
Dear Chicago Platypi,
Please join us on the weekend of March 19th at the 2010 Left Forum. Platypus members from Toronto, Chicago, Boston along with New York City members will be there both presenting and chairing these panels. Below are a list of Platypus organized panels along with their respective line-ups and time slots.
–Session 3: SATURDAY, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM The American Left and the “Black Question”: From Politics to Protest to the Post-Political Benjamin Blumberg (Chair) – Platypus Affiliated Society Tim Barker – Columbia University Student Pamela Nogales – Platypus Affiliated Society Christopher Cutrone – Platypus Affiliated Society – Session 4: SATURDAY, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Politics of the Contemporary American Student Left Pam Nogales (Chair) – Platypus Affiliated Society Ashley Weger – Platypus Affiliated Society (Depaul Chapter Head) Hannah Rappleye – New School alumnus, former Senior Editor of the NS Free Press Easton Smith – Sarah Lawrence student, Unite Here organizer –
Session 4: SATURDAY, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Nationalism, Anti-Imperialism and International Solidarity Today Jeremy Cohan (Chair) - Platypus Affiliated Society (New York University chapter) Ryan Hardy- Platypus Affiliated Society Spencer Leonard Platypus- Affiliated Society TBA (Writer for Revolution Newspaper) Peter Hudis (U.S. Marxist-Humanists) –
SESSION 5: SUNDAY, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Marxism and Anarchism: The Relevance of Radical Traditions Today Blair Taylor (Chair) - Ian Morrison – Platypus Affiliated Society Annie Day – Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) Peter Staudenmaier – Cornell University –
SESSION 5: SUNDAY, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM The Left and Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East: Iraq Laura Lee Schmidt (Chair) – Platypus Affiliated Society; History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, MIT Issam Shukri – Worker-communist Party of Iran (WPI) Kanan Makiya – Brandeis University Christopher Cutrone – Platypus Affiliated Society; University of Chicago –
SESSION 6: SUNDAY, 12:00 – 2:00 PM The Green Movement and the Left: Prospects for Democracy in Iran Laura Lee Schmidt (Chair) – Platypus Affiliated Society; History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture, MIT Siyaves Azeri – Worker-Communist Party of Iran Hamid Dabashi – Columbia University Christopher Cutrone – Platypus Affiliated Society; University of Chicago Saeed Rahnema – York University –
SESSION 7: SUNDAY, 3:00 – 5:00 PM Between the Old and New Left: An American Post-war Balance Sheet Ian Morrison (Chair) – Platypus Affiliated Society Benjamin Blumberg – Platypus Affiliated Society Chris Mansour – Parsons The New School For Design