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Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Archive: Summer Conference 2004: Speakers & Panelists ... Nicole Acosta is a student of political science and Latin American Studies at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and lives in Philadelphia. She is involved with several radical community organizing projects at school and in Philadelphia. She will be speaking on the panels Clarifying Dilemmas of Student Organizing, & Fashion & Anarchism Kazembe Balagoon is a cultural historian/educator in New York City. He has taught at the Brecht Forum, and is currently working on a collection of essays titled Queering the X, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, and the Third World. He will be speaking on Freedom Suites: Post-Bop Jazz, R&B, and the Anti-Authoritarian Imagination, - & will be on the panel Gender, Sex, & Power Bill Barrett has been involved in the Canadian worker co-op sector for over ten years, and has worked as an educator and facilitator on ecological and social justice issues for over fifteen years in Guelph, Ontario. He also has experience working with organized labor, and has participated in a number of local, provincial, national, and international nongovernmental organizations. He will be speaking on Is There an Anarchist Economics? Lauren Barthel is a student organizer at the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York. Having co-founded the first high school chapter of Students for a Free Tibet and the Northeast Mutual Aid network, she is currently opening a newly acquired community arts and activist convergence center. She will be speaking on the panel Clarifying Dilemmas of Student Organizing Hilton Bertalan is a first-year PhD student at York University with interests in sexuality, queer theory, global justice movements, poststructuralist theory, love, and the connections these areas have with, and may "learn" from, anarchism.. He will be speaking on Flagging, Fornicating, & Fourier: Emma Goldman's Glimpse into the Limitless World of Sexual Harmony, - & will be on the panel Gender, Sex, & Power Alexis (Lex) Bhagat writes about sound art, urbanism, and prisons, and since 2002 he has been collaborating with the Chronoplastics curatorial group on a collection of interviews with contemporary sound artists titled Sound Generation: Recording - Tradition - Politics, to be published by Autonomedia. His theoretical investigations on sound and liberation are periodically disseminated through his zine, Tactical Sound. He will be speaking on the panel Art & Anarchism Erika Biddle is a writer, editor, and video artist living in New York City. She has been exploring the anti-aesthetic for a number of years, currently at the intersection of art and trauma. Her video work has been shown at venues including: White Box, Capsule Gallery, Artists Space, Diorama Arts Center, Cinema Nouvelle Generation Film Festival, Guestroom, and the DUMBO Short Film and Video Festival.. She will be speaking on The Relation of Art to Anarchism: From Dada through Anthropofferjism, - & will be on the panel Art & Anarchism Jack Z. Bratich is an assistant professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. He is co-editor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality (SUNY, 2003), and is currently writing a cultural study of secrecy and politics.. He will be speaking on A Renaissance of Specters: Autonomism & Anarchism, - & will be on the panel Poststructuralism & Anarchism Charlie Clements has studied in Central Vermont for a year now, and before that studied philosophy at some university in New York. He likes to play video games and talk about hope. He will be speaking on The Transubstantiation of Queer Identity in Postmodern Capitalism, or How Makeovers Do Not a Revolution Make Regina Cochrane has been actively involved in a number of social movements, including most recently the feminist and anti-globalization movements. She is presently teaching in the Women's Studies Program at the University of Calgary where she is working on a research project titled "Ecofeminism, Globalization, and Modernity." She will be speaking on The 2004 World Social Forum: A Left-Libertarian/ Ecological/ Feminist Critique, - & will be on the panel Poststructuralism & Anarchism Stacey Cordeiro is an organizer and technical assistance provider to worker, consumer, and producer cooperatives at the Cooperative Development Institute, along with its sister organization, Cooperative Life, the Northeast federation of cooperatives, in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Formerly, she was the cooperative organizer at Cooperative Economics for Women in Jamaica Plain. She has an MA in city planning, concentrating in economic development planning, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is currently a participant in the Jamaica Plain Mutual Aid Network.. She will be speaking on Are Cooperatives a Dual-Power Strategy? - & will be on the panel Toward a New Anarchist Theory of Economics Andrew Crawford has been involved with the indymedia network and various micro-radio or LPFM projects in Vermont and elsewhere. He produces some local news, documentary, and direct action coverage for Free Radio Burlington. He will be speaking on the panel Media & Anarchism Alejandro de Acosta teaches philosophy at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and lives in Austin. He is absorbed by the question of philosophy as radical self-fashioning, and his ongoing research takes place at the intersections of Latin American philosophy, anarchism, experimental therapeutic practices, and radical politics. He will be speaking on a Proposal for an Anarchism That Goes "All the Way Down", - & will be on the panel Poststructuralism & Anarchism S'ra DeSantis is an organic farmer with the Diggers' Mirth Collective Farm in Burlington. She has participated in international solidarity work in Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and most recently Palestine, where she spent over two months in the West Bank working with International Solidarity Movement. She will be speaking on the panel Anarchy & International Solidarity Dara Greenwald is an artist, teacher, and cultural organizer. During the day she works at the Video Data Bank, an alternative media and video art distributor. At night, she goes to lots of meetings and dances in the street with her dance troupe, the Pink Bloque. He will be speaking on the panel Art & Anarchism Gavin Grindon is a PhD student at the University of Manchester, England, where he is studying the development of a concept of carnival as a form of radical activism. He will be speaking on Carnival against Capital: The Radical Subjectivity of Andre Breton & Georges Bataille Ben Grosscup is a former student at the Institute for Social Ecology and is now finishing his BA in political philosophy and cultural anthropology at Hampshire College. As member of the Free Society Collective and other radical organizing projects in Central Vermont, he has worked collaboratively to infuse oppositional movements with a vision for a directly democratic world beyond capitalism. He will be speaking on the panel Clarifying Dilemmas of Student Organizing Tara Jensen is a recent graduate of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, where she studied queer and feminist theory, along with installation art. Tara has given talks on gay and lesbian history, queerness, and movement logic most recently at the Institute for Social Ecology, as well as Bluestockings Books in New York and the National Conference on Organized Resistance, and in her spare time she likes to relive her teenage years by listening to Bikini Kill and drawing pictures of unicorns and hearts. Check out her ongoing interactive exhibit "The Museum of Gender." She will be speaking on the panel Fashion & Anarchism Sandra Jeppesen has been an anarchist activist since the early 1990s in Toronto, as part of several collectives, including Who's Emma, Resist, the random anarchist group, the Emma Goldman Memorial Combat Group, and the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair collective. She is completing a PhD in anarchist cultural theory at York University in Toronto by satellite from a remote cabin in Coast Salish Territory (aka BC, Canada). She will be speaking on the panel Poststructuralism & Anarchism Aaron Lakoff lives and works in Montreal, where he is a member of both the CKUT radio community news collective and the anarchist bookshop collective. He has produced numerous radio documentaries on topics including gender, anarchism, electoral politics, and is currently taking time off from studying sociology and womens studies at McGill University. He will be speaking on the panel Media & Anarchism Mark Lance is a professor of philosophy, and professor of justice and peace at Georgetown University. He is also occasional faculty member at the ISE. He has also been an activist and organizer on a range of issues for the last twenty years, and is currently working on a book on "constructive anarchism." He will be speaking on Consensus & Rational Community, - & will be on the panel Anarchy & International Solidarity Eric Laursen is an activist and a writer. He is presently writing a history of Social Security policymaking in the United States. He will be speaking on the panel Toward a New Anarchist Theory of Economics John Lawson is an artist of "found objects." Please visit his ongoing exhibit War of the Worldz.com. He will be presenting a documentary Mardi Gras: Made in China Bronwyn Lepore teaches English at the Community College of Philadelphia, has two kids, two cats, and two dogs, and is involved in several anarchist collectives as well as an antiwar group. She will be speaking on Self-Determination in the Context of War & Globalization Josh MacPhee is an artist and activist based in Chicago, whose work often revolves around themes of radical politics and public space. He published his first book, Stencil Pirates: A Global Survey of Street Stenciling, in July 2004 on Soft Skull Press. He will be presenting a documentary slideshow Stencil Pirates - & will be on the panel Art & Anarchism J.J. McMurtry is a professor in the Business and Society Program at York University in Toronto, and has a long history of involvement in social justice, cooperative, union, municipal, and political activism. He will be speaking on Is There an Anarchist Economics?, The Commodity Cul-de-Sac, - & will be on the panel Poststructuralism & Anarchism Ethan Miller, JED Center (Maine), is an activist and the author of "Solidarity Economics: Strategies for Building New Economies from the Bottom-Up and the Inside-Out." He will be speaking on the panel Toward a New Anarchist Theory of Economics Cindy Milstein is a RAT co-organizer, Institute for Anarchist Studies board member, and Free Society Collective member; she also teaches at the Institute for Social Ecology. Her written work appears in anti-authoritarian periodicals and several recent anthologies, including Globalize Liberation (City Lights, 2004) and Confronting Capitalism (Soft Skull, 2004). She will be speaking on the panel The State in the Global Economy Graciela Monteagudo is an Argentinean organizer and community artist, and spends time in both Vermont and Argentina. She coordinates the Argentina Autonomista Project, a partnership program between autonomist groups of Argentina and U.S. organizations and activists. She will be speaking on The Challenges of Horizontalism in Argentina, - & will be on the panel Marxism & Anarchism. She will also be performing Que se vayan tod@s!, a radical puppet piece. Wesley Morgan is currently a graduate student at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) and the host of Revolt Radio on CFMU 93.3FM. He will be speaking on We Must Advance Where They Retreat: Dual Power & Revolutionary Strategy Chuck Morse lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works with the Institute for Anarchist Studies. He will be speaking on The Life or Death of the Anti-Globalization Movement? Suresh Naidu is a dismal-scientist-in-training at the University of California, Berkeley. This future technocrat somehow preserves what little nonreactionary politics he has left by gazing wistfully at his MA degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He will be De/Constructing Parecon - & will be on the panel Toward a New Anarchist Theory of Economics Darini Nicholas is a faculty member of the ISE, where she co-teaches a course on Understanding Capitalism, and is on the board of IAS. She is presently a PhD student in sociology at the New School University, where she is looking at how the past informs the political and social profile of the present, particularly as it relates to changing ideas of race, class, gender, nation, and empire-with respect to global and local patterns of economic and political organization. She will be speaking on Imperialism & the Making of the Modern Civil Subject Alan O'Connor was one of the founder's of Who's Emma infoshop and is a member of the Anarchist Free University, both in Toronto. He will be speaking on Reflections on The Dispossessed Justin Park is often crammed into the professional label of "reporter and editor at the alternative weekly Syracuse New Times." When not working for a living, he farms organically, organizes potluck suppers, and teaches English to foreign folks. He will speaking on the panel Media & Anarchism John Petrovato spends six weeks every year in the Palestinian territories working as a human rights activist. He is also a board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies and co-organizer of the RAT conference. He will be speaking & presenting a documentary on Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land: U.S. Media and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Wayne Price has been an anarcho-pacifist, a Trotskyist, and is now a revolutionary anarchist. He is a member of the Northeastern Anarcho-Communist Federation, and has recently written a book, The Abolition of the State: Anarchist and Marxist Perspectives. He will be speaking on the panel Marxism & Anarchism David Redmon is an independent filmmaker. He will be presenting a documentary Mardi Gras: Made in China Eli Robinson ... will be speaking on the panel Gender, Sex, & Power Andréa Schmidt lives, works and organizes in Montréal, and is co-director of the Institute for Anarchist Studies. She visited occupied Iraq from February to May 2004 as a delegate of the Iraq Solidarity Project. She will be speaking on Toward an Anti-Authoritarian Commitment to International Solidarity (or, "Why are Anti-Authoritarians such Shoddy Anti-imperialists?") Stephen Shukaitis, PhD student at the University of Leicester (UK), studies the relationship between forms of globalization and cultural discourses around worker self-management. He is a member of the Ever Reviled Records Worker Collective and recently edited the Greenpepper magazine issue on "Life beyond the Market." He will be speaking on the panels The State in the Global Economy, & Toward a New Anarchist Theory of Economics Jaggi Singh has been actively involved with a variety of solidarity campaigns, including the East Timor Alert Network, the Ogoni Solidarity Network, the International of Hope (Chiapas solidarity), and the International Solidarity Movement (Palestine) as well as decolonization and indigenous solidarity efforts on Turtle Island. As part of his activism, he has traveled and reported from Palestine and India. He will be speaking on Confronting Borders, States, & Apartheid: The Practice of Anarchism, - & will be on the panel Anarchy & International Solidarity Marina Sitrin has worked with a number of global justice organizations, from helping to start the NYC Direct Action Network in 2000 to initiating and participating in various activist legal collectives over the past few years. She will be speaking on The Life or Death of the Anti-Globalization Movement? Peter Staudenmaier is an anarchist historian whose work focuses on modern European right-wing thought. He teaches at the Institute for Social Ecology. He will be speaking on The Anarchism of Fools: Conspiracy Theory as a Substitute for Social Critique Vanessa Stasse, originally from Quebec, has been living for two years with the JED Collective in Greene, Maine. She believes in bright colors and senseless acts of beauty. She will be speaking on the panel Fashion & Anarchism Spencer Sunshine lives in New York City and is the associate editor of the anthology I Am Not a Man, I Am Dynamite: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition (Autonomedia, forthcoming). He will be speaking on The Marxist Origins of Primitivism Will Weikart is an activist living in Brooklyn. He is a PhD candidate in sociology at CUNY Graduate Center, and was part of the organizing collective for the recent Life After Capitalism conference in New York. He will be speaking on the panel The State in the Global Economy Seth Weiss has worked at the radical New York City bookstore May Day Books and has been studying Marx's Capital. He will be speaking on the panel Marxism & Anarchism Andrew Willis is a solidarity activist, focusing primarily on Zapatista solidarity, a graduate student at American University in Washington, DC, and a researcher with SEIU. He has been involved with several DC anti-authoritarian collectives and campaigns in the last three years. He will be speaking on the panel Anarchy & Interntional Solidarity Kenyon Zimmer is a graduate student in history at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the Big Idea Bookstore collective and the Industrial Workers of the World. He will be speaking on American Anarchism & the Russian Revolution: A Page from Anarchist History   see the Complete Program of Summer Conference 2004

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