Friday, April 14
9:00-10:00 Avery Auditorium: Alan Antliff on Porous Anarchy
Allan Antliff will discuss the anarchism of the early 20th century anti-colonial activist Ananda Coomaraswamy, who combined calls for an anti-industrial, anti-colonial revolution in India with a parallel revolution in the industrial West.
10:00-12:00 Session A, Avery Auditorium: Spreading the Word
Chuck Munson on Infoshops AK Press on Publishing Anarchist Works AK Press collective members present their relationship to the book trade and the anarchist movement as both a publisher and distributor. Questions that will be addressed include: What is the structure of AK Press and how does it reflect anarchist commitments? what is the role of an anarchist propagandist within capitalism? What problems/contradictions does that entail? How does AK Press respond to recent changes in the book industry? What is the importance of publishing (both self- and with ak press)? How does one go about doing that? Tommy Bigfinger and Ramie Becker on "The Efficacy of Culture Jamming" Dana Ward and John Clark on publishing collective proposal.
10:00-12:00 Session B, Founders Room, 2nd floor of McConnell: Theory and Practice
Matt Lucas on Nietzche Richard Day on Gramsci Taylor Smith on John Cage
12:00-1:15 Lunch Break
1:30-2:30 Avery Auditorium: Sharon Presley: Voltairine de Cleyre's Legacy: Her Relevance for Today"
Many of the issues that Voltairine de Cleyre struggled with are still being debated today. Her thought-provoking challenges to the conventional thinking of her day are no less radical now as then. Her insights into political, social, religious, and feminist controversies are still fresh and relevant, and remain unconventional and challenging for both anarchists and nonanarchists alike.
2:45-5:00 Session A, Avery Auditorium: Organizing
Ben Shepard on Play Annie Ross on "War is the Expletive": acts of war, nuclearism, gmo seeds, herbicides, pesticides, pollution, indifference to needs, and colonization as manufactured goods of the modern age. Saab Lofton, "Is the pen TRULY mightier than the sword (or the gun, bomb, etc.)?" Sarah Coffey on "Legal work in movement building and organizing." How can we make the legal system and the state respond to us instead of the other way around, how can we proactively insert ourselves in the legal process to keep people out of jail instead of supporting people once they're in, and how do we keep movements from shifting to primarily jail support once organizers are targeted by the state?
2:45-5:00 Session B Founders Room, 2nd floor of McConnell: Anarchist Research
Stevphen Shukaitas on Militant Research Louis F. Gaudet on Anarchists in Academia Bill Zoda on Anarchism in academia
8:00-10:00 Films: Fury over Spain, Louis Frank, Adrien Porchet, Spain, 1938. Land and Freedom, Tierra y libertad, Ken Loach, UK 1995. Broad Performance Space (Building 1)
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