I want to draw Kossacks' attention to an event that they might be interested in attending (especially if they find themselves in Texas):
Empire, Resistance, and the War in Iraq, a conference for historians and activists, sponsored by
Historians Against the War.
This is the first scholarly conference in the U.S. to examine the origins of and opposition to the war in Iraq in historical perspective. This conference is designed to bring historians and activists together and it is very much open to the public. Registration is now $40 (with a discounted price available for students and those with low incomes). You can register here. You can also register at the event, but you save $5 if you do so before February 10.
For a detailed schedule, look below the fold...
Here's the schedule for the conference:
Friday Evening, Feb. 17, Plenary, 7:00 pm
Keynote Speakers:
Howard Zinn, Boston University (retired), author and activist
Andrea Smith, University of Michigan
Saturday, February 18
NOTE: One panel is scheduled for each time slot.
Empire and Resistance, 8:30 - 10:15
Chair/commentator: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, California State University at Hayward
Ngocnga Nguyen, University of California San Diego, U.S. Wars as "Race Wars"
Colleen Woods, City University of New York Graduate Center, The Significance of Disloyalty: The American Imperial Project and the New York City Public Schools, 1916-1919
Alan Dawley, The College of New Jersey, Anti-Imperialism in the Wilson Era
John Mason Hart, University of Houston, The Rise of the American Empire
The U.S. in the Middle East, 10:30 - 12:15
Chair: Peter Dimock, Columbia University Press
Commentator: Irene Gendzier, Boston University
Magnus Bernhardsson, Williams College, A New War or an Old Battle: Interpreting and Teaching the War
Sara Dougherty, University of Rochester, The Munich Analogy and the Persian Gulf War
John Foran and Joe Conti, University of California Santa Barbara, Toward a Sociology of U.S. Foreign Policy
Rahul Mahajan, New York University (title not yet determined)
Nada Shabout, A `Liberated' Iraq: Simulation Through Cultural Destruction
Saturday Lunch, 12:30 - 1:30
Lunch will be provided. It is covered by the cost of registration for the conference.
Bush Policies: Change or Continuity, 1:30 - 3:15
Chair/commentator: Joan Hoff, Montana State University, Bozeman
Paul Atwood, University of Massachusetts Boston, War and Empire Are and Always Have Been the American Way of Life
James Carter, Texas A & M University, War Profiteering from Vietnam to Iraq
Anita Durkin, University of Rochester, Shift in Symbol: Metaphorical War-Mongering, or The Tale of Two Bushes
Walter Hixson, University of Akron, Might as Well Face It, We're Addicted to War
Defending Democracy and Civil Liberties, 3:30 - 5:15
Chair/Commentator: Ben Alpers, University of Oklahoma
Jana Lipman, Yale University, Guantánamo: Legal Debates, Human Rights, and Labor
Peter Kirstein, St. Xavier University, The Silencing of the Left in Wartime
Amee Chew, Why the War Is Sexist (and Why We Can't Ignore Gender Any More; Here's a Start for Organizing) (tentative title)
Jeffrey Kerr-Richie, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, The Empire Strikes Back: 7/7 and the British War in Iraq
Saturday Evening Plenary, 7 pm
Speakers:
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
Irene Gendzier, Boston University
Sunday, February 19
"What Activists and Historians Can Learn from Each Other," 9:30 - 12:15
Chair: Marc Becker, Truman State University
Commentator: Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Dan Berger, University of Pennsylvania, Anti-Imperialist Lessons and Legacies from the Weather Underground
Peter Dimock, Columbia University Press, The Iraq War as a Point of No Return in American History
Carolyn (Rusti) Eisenberg, Hofstra University, Nixon and Kissinger's Tips for the Peace Movement
Kenneth Long, St. Joseph College, No Good Wars: Teaching the History of Modern American Wars as a Means of Resisting Current Ones
Roger Peace, Florida State University, An Ideological Crusade: The Reagan Administration's War Against Nicaragua in the 1980s
Shanti Marie Singham, Williams College, Teaching about the French Algerian War during the US Iraq War