Past Events - New York

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2008

NYU

• Progress or Regress? The Future of the Left under Obama, 12.6.2008

2009

Left Forum

• Dialectics of Defeat: Towards a Theory of Historical Regression, 4.17.2009-4.19.2009
• Politics of the Contemporary Student Left: Hopes and Failures,  4.17.2009-4.19.2009

Other

• Tout Va Bien Screening, NYC, 4.6.09
• 30 Years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: The Tragedy of the Left, Brecht Forum, 9.13.2009

2010

NYU

• Forging a Left in Iran: Possibilities and Difficulties -- Iran Teach-In with Ervand Abrahamian, 5.2.2010
• Which Way Forward for Sexual Liberation?, 11.8.2010

New School

• Art, Autonomy, and Resistance: The relationship of art to politics today, 4.28.2010
• Engaging the Left in a Time of Crisis: What is to be Done- Richard Wolff Teach-In, 5.5.2010
• What is Critique? The Art Critique, Its History, Theory, and Practices, 11.20.2010
• What is Critique? The Relevance of Critical Theory to Art Today, 11.20.2010

Left Forum

• The American Left and the “Black Question”: From Politics to Protest to the Post-Political, 3.19.2010-3.21.2010
• Politics of the Contemporary American Student Left, 3.19.2010-3.21.2010
• Nationalism, Anti-Imperialism and International Solidarity Today, 3.19.2010-3.21.2010
• Marxism and Anarchism: The Relevance of Radical Traditions Today, 3.19.2010-3.21.2010
• The Left and Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East: Iraq, 3.19.2010-3.21.2010
• The Green Movement and the Left: Prospects for Democracy in Iran, 3.19.2010-3.21.2010
• Between the Old and New Left: An American Post-war Balance Sheet, 3.19.2010-3.21.2010

Other

• “Platypus on the airwaves”, aired on "Steal this Radio", WBAI, 4.2.2010
• Marxism and Israel: Left Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Hunter College, 11.15.2010

2011

NYU

• Immigration and the Left: A Public Interview with Jane Guskin and David Wilson, authors of The Politics of Immigration, 04.19.2011
• Rethinking Autonomy and Art, 4.25.2011
• History of Humanity: Pre-1750, 6.31.11
• History of Humanity, 1600-1763, 7.27.11
• The Contemporary German and American Lefts: A Transatlantic Dialogue, 09.14.2011
• Does Marxism Even Matter? (w/ Jeremy Cohan), 09.21.2011
• What is the Occupy Movement? I, 10.28.2011
• Crisis of the Left@NYU, 11.16.2011
• Antisemitism and the Left: A German-US Comparison, 11.29.2011
• What is the Occupy Movement? II, 12.09.2011

New School

• Does Marxism Even Matter? (Jeremy Cohan), 2.17.2011
• An Urgent Exchange: U.S. Empire, Islamic Fundamentalism, Is There Another Way? (with RCP), 4.27.2011
• Does Marxism Even Matter? (w/ Jamie Keesling), 10.06.2011

Left Forum

• The Bourgeois Revolution: from Marx’s point of view, 3.19.2011
• Lenin’s Marxism, 3.19.2011
• The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg, 3.19.2011
• Lukács’s Marxism, 3.19.2011
• Aesthetics in Protests, 3.19.2011
• Debating Alain Badiou’s “Politics of Emancipation”, 3.19.2011
• Trotsky’s Marxism, 3.19.2011
• Marx and Engels’s Marxism, 3.20.2011

2012

NYU

• Does Marxism Even Matter? (w/ Brian Hioe), 02.14.2012
• Prometheus in Drift, 3.12.12
• The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance@NYC, 04.26.2012
• The Day After: What is the Occupy Movement? III, 05.02.2012
• Book Chat with Richard Wolin: Author of the Wind from the East, 05.07.12
• Does Marxism Even Matter? w/ Pac Pobric, 9.20.12
• A Year, A Month, and a Day: Looking Back on Occupy, 10.18.12
• In Reflection Upon Fifty Issues: A Presentation at the Platypus Review Issue No. 50 Launch Party, 11.15.12
• The Future of the Status Quo: The Left after the Election, 12.6.12

New School

• Does Marxism Even Matter? (w/ Chris Mansour), 2.16.2012
• Trotsky and Trotskyism Lecture I, 6.16.12
• Trotsky and Trotskyism Lecture II, 6.23.12
• Trotsky and Trotskyism Lecture III, 6.30.12
• Trotsky and Trotskyism Lecture IV, 7.7.12
• Trotsky and Trotskyism Lecture V, 7.14.12
• Trotsky and Trotskyism Lecture VI, 7.21.12
• Trotsky and Trotskyism Lecture VII, 7.28.12
• Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis, 11.14.12

Left Forum

• Finance Capital and Occupy: Marxist Perspectives, 04.17.2012
• Impossible Occupations: Marxism and Psychoanalysis, 04.17.2012
• The Significance of Art in the Occupy Movement, 04.17.2012
• Arab Spring into Winter? Challenges to the Left one year on, 04.17.2012
• 1999, 1968 — and 2012? The history of the Left and #Occupy, 04.18.2012
• Technology, Un/Employment, and the Left: From Future Shock to OWS, 04.18.2012
• The Environmentalism of Occupy, 04.18.2012
• Third Parties and the Left: Problems and Prospects, 04.18.2012

Other

• Tim Hall "Justice and the Good Life in Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness", Pratt Institute, 3.21.2011
• Pam Nogales on Occupy Wall Street Radio, aired on WBAI, 5.04.2012
• Does Marxism Even Matter? w/ Brian Hioe, Stony Brook University, 10.9.12
• Platypus at Free Cooper Union, Cooper Union, 12.3.12

2013

NYU

• Ruins of Modernity: The Failure of Revolutionary Architecture in the Twentieth Century, 2.7.13
• Conversations on the Left: James Turley (CPGB), Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin), and Ben Blumberg (Platypus), 4.18.13

New School

• Aging in the Afterlife: The Many Deaths of Art, 2.13.13
• On the Occasion of the First Complete Translation of Victor Serge’s Memoirs of a Revolutionary: A Book Chat with Richard Greeman, 5.8.13

Left Forum

• Art and the Commodity Form, Left Forum 2013, 6.8.13
• Revolution without Marx? Rousseau and his followers for the Left, 6.9.13

2014

SVA

• Democracy and the Left, New York, 2.25.14

Stony Brook

• Marxism and Anarchism: Radical Ideologies Today, Stony Brook, 3.5.14

Left Forum

• Politics of Work, Left Forum 2014, 5.31.14
• Art And Class, Left Forum 2014, 5.31.14
• Revolutionary Thought and Politics, Left Forum 2014, 6.1.14
• Sexual Liberation, Left Forum 2014, 6.1.14