EXPLORATIONS IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. TROTSKYISM

A CONFERENCE AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 -- SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2000

Sponsored by the Tamiment Library, NYU

Special thanks to the Giunta-Lovell Trust, whose support has made this conference possible, and to the American Studies Program at NYU for its endorsement of this event.

Information: (212) 998-2639 / peter.filardo@nyu.edu
Registration: $15.00; Checks payable to:

Tamiment Library - NYU
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
attn: Peter Filardo, Please use the Registration Form below.

Directions: the 1/9 train to Christopher St. (7th Ave) and walk east on West 4th St. to LaGuardia Place; the A, B, C, D, E, F trains to West 4th St. (6th Avenue) and walk east to LaGuardia Place; the N/R trains to 8th St (Broadway), walk south to West 4thSt, then walk west (right turn) to LaGuardia Place; the 6 train to Astor Place (at Lafayette Street), walk south to East 4th Street, then walk west (right turn) to LaGuardia Place.

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY

5:30 - 6:45: Reception & Exhibit
at the Tamiment Library, Bobst Library (10th floor)
70 Washington Square South at LaGuardia Place

NOTE: All twelve panels will be in NYU's MAIN Building, Room 703, 100 Washington Square East [between Waverly Place & Washington Place]

7:00 - 9:30 [1] U.S. Trotskyism and Internationalism
Peter Filardo & Paul LeBlanc: Welcome
Esteban Volkov (Trotsky's grandson): Trotsky's Politics and His U.S. Comrades
Pierre Broue: American Trotskyism in the World Movement
Michael Smith: Vietnam-Era Antiwar Movement
Rafael Bernabe: Latin American Perspectives
Simi Ghandi: Fighting Globalization Today
Marilyn Vogt-Downey, Chair

SATURDAY

9:30 - 10:40 [2] New Perspectives on James P. Cannon and Max Shachtman
Bryan Palmer: James P. Cannon
Peter Drucker: Max Shachtman
Chair, TBA

10:45 - 12:15 [3] Trotskyism and African-Americans
Kwame Somburu: Malcolm X and American Trotskyism
Christopher Phelps: Black Trotskyists
Paul Lee: Contributions of George Breitman
Gladys Grauer: Reflections of a Veteran
Cynthia Young, Chair

12:15 - 1:20 LUNCH BREAK

1:20 - 3:05 [4] Trotskyism, Workers and Unions
Kim Moody: Communist and Trotskyist trade union work
Kathleen Brown: Engendering Minneapolis Unions after the Teamsters Strike: Images of Masculinity and Femininity in the Northwest Organizer
Victor Devinatz: Trotskyists in the Auto Industry
Jean Tussey: Trotskyist Perspectives on Union work
Ray Markey, Commentator
David Roediger, Chair

3:10 - 4:55 [5] Trotskyism and Intellectuals
Suzi Weissman: Victor Serge and U.S. intellectuals
Alan Johnson: Hal Draper and Third Camp Socialism
Maurice Isserman: Reflections on Irving Howe and Michael Harrington
Kevin J. Anderson: J. Burnham, G. Novack, C.L.R. James, R. Dunayevskaya
Michael Denning, Commentator
Paul Siegel, Chair

5:00 - 6:15 [6] Veterans Reminiscences
Bernard Goodman, Dorothea Breitman, Price Chatham, Theodore Edwards, Morris Slavin, Nat Weinstein
Chair, TBA

6:15 DINNER BREAK

7:30 - 9:30 [7] New Directions
Mike Davis: Trotsky's Comet: Revolutionary Marxism and Neo-Catastrophism
Alan Wald: Trotsky and the Angel of History: The Audacity of the 'American' Left
Grant Farred: C.L.R. James and U.S. Trotskyism - A Postcolonial Perspective
Robin D.G. Kelley, Response
Arlene Keizer, Chair

SUNDAY

9:30 - 10:30 [8] Preserving the Past
Esteban Volkov: The Leon Trotsky Museum, Mexico City
Peter Filardo: The Tamiment Library's Trotskyism collections
Emily Turnbull: The Prometheus Library's Trotskyism collections
Patrick Quinn, Chair

10:35 - 12:00 [9] Trotskyism and Others on the Left - Experiences
Dan Georgakas: The Detroiters & Others
Annette Rubenstein: Independent Socialist Party, Etc.
David McReynolds: The ISP, Vietnam, the Peace Movement, Etc.
Mark Solomon, Commentator
Betsy Esch, Chair

12:00 -1:00 LUNCH BREAK

1:00 - 2:25 [10] Trotskyism and Sexual Politics
Susan Williams: Contributions of Clara Fraser
Dianne Feeley: Women's Liberation in the 1960s and 1970s
Gary Kinsman: From Anti-Queer to Queers as 'Peripheral': The Socialist Workers' Party, Gay Liberation and North American Trotskyism, 1960-1980
Nancy Holmstrom: Revolutionary Marxism and Sexual Politics
Andrew Ross, Chair

2:30 - 3:45 [11] Legacy of the Johnson-Forrest and Cochran Tendencies
Martin Glaberman: C.L.R. James and the Johnson-Forest Tendency
Louis Proyect: Contributions of the Cochran Tendency
Michael Livingston: Harry Braverman - Marxist Activist and Theorist
Scott McLemee, Chair

3:50 - 5:00 [12] Making Sense of the Trotskyist Tradition for Today's and Tomorrow's Struggles
Matt Siegfried, Brad Duncan, and others -- A Youth Panel
Chair, TBA


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