Thursday, April 13
1:15-2:15 Avery Auditorium: John Clark: \"Utopian Dreams and Nightmares\"
Utopian visions can be either a mode of liberation, creative imagination, and the striving toward a new reality, or a mode of escapism, reactivity, self-indulgence and denial of reality. The focus of the talk will be on the relation between utopianism and \"topianism\"--the rootedness in, appreciation of, and deep exploration of realities (and surrealities) of place, locality and region.
2:30-4:30 Session A, Avery Auditorium: Anarchist Theory
Alex Prichard on Proudhon Mitch Verter on Ricardo Flores Magon and Magonismo today
2:35-4:30 Session B, Fletcher 106 (Building 4): Politics in the Movement
Travis Tomchuk on \"Agitators of Alien Birth: Representations of Anarchists in Early Twentieth Century Canadian Print Media\" In this presentation I will argue that the portrayal of anarchists as violent foreigners was integral to the creation of political citizenship in Canada. Anarchists who found themselves on the margins of Canadian society helped to shape the centre by illuminating the limits of the status quo. Erik Andersen on \"Authority and Leadership\" The fundamental difference between authority and leadership hinges on the means or the reason by which a person comes into this coordinating position. Authority is a privilege of command accorded to a person or group based on some preexisting condition. On the other hand, leadership is a responsibility placed upon a person or group that shares the goals and the project of all involved.
5:00-6:00 WhirlMart demonstration: gather in Avery Auditorium
8:00-10:00 Film: Emma Goldman, an Exceedingly Dangerous Woman, Mel Bucklin, 2003. Broad Performance Space (Building 1)
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