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SATURDAY 20th

The Great Rehearsal?
The World Revolution of 1968

Saturday, Sept. 20, 8:30AM - 7:30PM
University of San Francisco (map)
Harney Science Building
8:30AM - 7:30PM

8:30 -- Coffee and bagels

9:15-11:15 -- Opening plenary (room 127)

11:30-1:00 -- Simultaneous morning sessions (geographical)

    1. Pan European world (Denis O'Hearn, Peter Linebaugh, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.  Barbara Epstein moderator)

    2. Socialist bloc (Marta Petrusewicz, Ziga Vodovnik, and Uldis Kruze.  Andrej Grubacic moderator)

    3. The South (Paco Ignacio Taibo, Robin Balliger.  Michael Stanfield moderator)

    4. Pan Asian world (Muto Ichiyo, Sabu Kohso, Vijaya Nagarajan, Estella Habal. Jay Gonzalez moderator)

    5. Bay Area (James Tracy, Chris Carlsson, Anne Weills. Sunny Angulo moderator)

1:15-2:15 -- Lunch break (cafeteria) 

2:30-3:30 -- San Francisco 8 special plenary and film, "The Legacy of Torture" With Richard Brown, one of the SF-8, and Claude Marks from the Freedom Archives

3:45-5:15 -- Simultaneous afternoon sessions (thematic)

  1. Feminism, sexual liberation (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Frances Beal, Laura Fantone, Barbara Esptein. Moderator TBA)

  2. Anti-racism and Forgotten Peoples (Ramon Grosfoguel, Robert Hillary King, Betita Martinez, Jimbo Simmons.  Andrew  Jolivette moderator)

  3. Liberation theology (Jorge Aquino, Lilian Dube, and President Father Stephen Privett.  Lois Lorentzen moderator)

  4. What new social movements? (Raj Patel, Mayo Fuster Morell, Eddie Yuen. Katharine Wallerstein moderator)

  5. Vietnam War (Tom Reifer, Mike Fisher, Anne Weills.  Moderator TBA) 

5:30-7:30 pm -- Closing plenary (room 127)


Organizers:


Katharine Wallerstein, Andrej Grubacic, and Immanuel Wallerstein, Global Commons Foundation
Ramsey Kanaan, PM Press
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Historians Against the War
Steve Zavestoski, University of San Francisco

The following University of San Francisco Departments and Centers are sponsors of this conference:

Center for Latino Studies in the Americas (CELASA)
The Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought at the University of San Francisco
Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good
USF Academic and International Activities
USF Center for the Pacific Rim
USF Department of History
USF Department of Sociology
USF Environmental Studies Program
USF Gender and Sexualities Studies Minor
USF International Studies Program
USF Offices of the Associate Dean for Social Sciences, Associate Dean for Arts & Humanities and Dean for Arts & Sciences
USF Department of Politics
USF Department of Philosophy