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SAIC

• Imperialism: What is it? Why should we be against it?, SAIC, 01.20.2007
• History of the Left: 1789 to 1930s, SAIC, 7.22.07
• History of the Left: The Bourgeois Revolutions, SAIC, 7.22.07
• History of the Left: 1917, SAIC, 8.12.07
• History of the Left: 1905 to 1917, SAIC, 8.19.07
• History of the Left: 1917 to 1939, SAIC, 8.19.07
• History of the Left: 1930s to 1940s, SAIC, 8.26.07
• Tariq Ali Interviewed by Chris Cutrone, SAIC, 10.15.07
• The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and "Resistance": The Problematic Forms of "Anticapitalism" Today, SAIC, 11.06.07

Other

• Pedagogical Factory: How We Learn – Building an Educated City, Chicago, 7.28.07

SAIC

• Immigrants Rights and the Labor Movement, SAIC, 4.23.08
• What is a Movement?: A discussion on the Meaning and Direction of Left Political “Movements” Historically and Today, SAIC, 10.16.08 

University of Chicago

• Naomi Klein: Disaster Capitalism: Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys, University of Chicago, 10.1.08

Other

• Andrew Kliman on his book Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital”, Chicago, 1.17.08
• Israel-Palestine and the One State Solution, Chicago, 3.08.08, 
• The Failure of Pakistan Chicago 2.2.08
• Israel-Palestine and the One State Solution, Chicago, 4.8.08
• Brother Outsider: A Platypus Film Screening and Discussion with John D' Emilio, Chicago, 4.21.08

SAIC

• Left Behind: The Working Class in Crisis, SAIC, 4.23.09
• Introducing Platypus, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2010), 6.12.09
• The Decline of the Left in the 21st Century: Towards a Theory of Historical Decline, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2010), 6.12.09
• An Unmet Challenge: Marxism and the Problem of Anti-Black Racism in the United States, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2010), 6.13.09
• Colonialism and Internationalism, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2010), 6.13.09
• The End of Ideology Thesis: The American Left's Turn Towards the Right From the 1930s to 1950s, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2010), 6.13.09
• The Israel Palestine Conflict and the Left in Historical Perspective, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2010), 6.13.09
• The Left Around the World: Canada, India/Pakistan, Germany, and Mexico, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2010), 6.13.09 Contemporary Art and Criticism: A Search for a Critical Standpoint, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2010), 6.13.09
• Politics of the Contemporary Student Left: Hopes and Failures, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2010), 6.13.09
• The Platypus Synthesis: History, Theory, and Practice, SAIC, 6.12.09-6.14.09
• The Crisis in Marxist Thought, SAIC, 7.25.08
• Contemporary Politics: The US Labor “Movement”, SAIC, 8.28.09

University of Chicago

• 30 Years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran : An interview with Ervand Abrahamian, University of Chicago (Radical Minds), 4.16.2009
• Up in the Air: The Legacy of the New Communist Movement: An Interview with Max Elbaum, University of Chicago (Radical Minds), 10.26.09, 11.9.09
• 30 Years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: The Tragedy of the Left, University of Chicago, 11.5.09
• What are Intellectuals Good For? A discussion with George Scialabba, University of Chicago (Radical Minds), 11.19.09
• Workers in a Time of War, University of Chicago, 12.6.09

Other

• Are We Liberated Yet?, Loyola University, 10.21.09

SAIC

• The Imperialism Question and the Twentieth Century, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.28.10
• Is the Bolivarian Revolution on the Left?, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.29.10
• Towards a Critique of Environmental Reason, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.29.10
• Capitalism and the Invention of Sexuality, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011),  5.29.10
• Electoral Politics and the US Left today, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.29.10
• The Challenges of a Middle East Labor Movement, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.29.10
• Adorno’s Leninism, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.29.10
• Literature & Regression, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.29.10
• Labor in the absence of the Left, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.29.10
• Specters of the Avant-Garde: Part 1 (2000s -1950s), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.29.10
• Specters of the Avant-Garde: Part 2 (1940s – 1840s), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.29.10
• The Anti-War Movement: Anti-Imperialist? Inclusive? Consequential?, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.29.10
• Haunted Screens: (the) Left at the Movies, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.29.10
• New Left Regress: The Militant Turn in the Late 1960s, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.29.10
• The Platypus Experience: Perspectives from three generations, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.30.10
• The origins of today’s Left in the 1970s New Left, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.30.10
• An Incomplete Project? Art and Politics After Postmodernism, SAIC, 10.26.10

University of Chicago

• You Don't Need to be a Marxist to Know Which Way the Wind Blows: An Interview with Mark Rudd, University of Chicago (Radical Minds), 3.11.10
• THE AGE DEMANDED Readings from the Modernist Project: Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, Louis Zukovsky, Wallace Stevens & More, University of Chicago (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.27.10
• Capitalism and Gay Identity–A Platypus Teach-in, University of Chicago, 10.21.10
• Poetry Unfulfilled: The Beats and the New Left, University of Chicago, 11.2.10
• What Was “New” in the New Left?, University of Chicago, 11.7.10
• Rethinking the New Left, University of Chicago, 11.9.10

Other

• Which Way Forward for Palestinian Liberation?, Chicago, 2.23.10
• The Politics of The Culture Industry; Art Today, Chicago, 4.27.10
• Adorno's political relevance today: A Teach-in Led by Chris Cutrone, Chicago, 5.8.10
• Women the Longest Revolution: A Teach-In Led by Chris Cutrone, Chicago, 5.19.10
• A screening and discussion of Dziga Vertov’s (1929) Man With a Movie Camera, Chicago (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.26.10
• NOISE/NOTAGS, Chicago (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.28.10
• Socialism, Feminism and the New Left: A Platypus Teach-in, University of Illinois at Chicago, 9.22.10
• A Discussion with Tim Wohlforth, Loyola University, 11.10.10
• "A Black Man Speaks of Marx": The Sartre-Fanon Dialogue of the 1940s and 50s, University of Illinois at Chicago, 11.14.10

SAIC

• "On the Possibility of What Isn't": An Interview with Robert Pippin, SAIC, 3.14.11
• The Idea of Communism: Badiou, Althusser and Lacan, SAIC, 4.12.11
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: Democratic Socialists of America, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 4.29.11-5.1.11
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: Communist Party of Great Britain, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 4.29.11-5.1.11
• The Politics of Critical Theory, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 4.29.11
• Badiou and Post-Maoism: Marxism and Communism Today, University of Chicago, 4.30.11
• Art, Culture, and Politics: Marxist Approaches, SAIC, 4.30.11
• The Legacy of Trotskyism, SAIC, 4.29.11-5.1.11
• Platypus 2011 President's report: The "Anti-Fascist" vs. "Anti-Imperialist" Left: Some Genealogies and Prospects, SAIC, 5.1.11
• What is the Platypus Critique?, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2011), 5.1.11
• The Marxist Turn: The New Left in the 1970s, SAIC, 5.19.11
• Communist Manifesto Teach-in, SAIC, 9.28.11
• The Relevance of Lenin Today, SAIC, 12.17.2011

University of Chicago

• Overcoming Bourgeois Right: An Interview with Mel Rothenberg, University of Chicago (Radical Minds), 1.31.11
• The Onslaught Against Trade Unions: Anti-Union Laws and Judicial Bias: A Lecture by Mike MacNair, University of Chicago, 4.28.11
• “Thirty years of counter-revolution”: An interview with Clyde Young, University of Chicago (Radical Minds), 6.31.11
• Black nationalism and the legacy of Malcolm X: An interview with Michael Dawson, University of Chicago (Radical Minds), 9.30.11
• Crisis of the Left: Chicago, University of Chicago, 11.15.11

Other

• Cultural Studies in the Academy: Towards a Critique of the Present Moment, Columbia College, Chicago, 3.24.11
• Critical Theory Against the Grain, Columbia College, Chicago, 3.25.11
• Platypus Discussion of Mike Macnair's Critique, Chicago, 6.4.11
• Marxism and the Bourgeois Revolution, University of Illinois at Chicago, 6.20.11
• The Marxism of Second International Radicalism: Lenin, Luxemburg, and Trotsky, University of Illinois, 6.22.11
• The Idea of Communism: Badiou, Lacan, Althusser, University of Illinois at Chicago, 10.24.11

SAIC

• Workshops: Differing Perspectives on the Left: Inclusive Democracy Collective, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• Workshops: Differing Perspectives on the Left: First of May Anarchist Alliance, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012 
• Workshops: Differing Perspectives on the Left: League of Revolutionaries for a New America, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• Workshops: Differing Perspectives on the Left: News and Letters, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• Workshops: Differing Perspectives on the Left: Revolutionary Communist Party (Canada) – Parti communiste revolutionnaire, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• Workshops: Differing Perspectives on the Left: The Communist Party of Great Britain, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• Workshops: Differing Perspectives on the Left: International Marxist Tendency, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012 
• Workshops: Differing Perspectives on the Left: Phase II, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• Workshops: Differing Perspectives on the Left: Occupy Chicago, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• Workshops: Differing Perspectives on the Left: CrimethInc, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 3.31.12
• Workshops: Differing Perspectives on the Left: International Bolshevik Tendency, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012 
• Whence Anarchism: The Historical Conjuncture of Occupy, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• Lenin and the Marxist Left After Occupy, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• Defining Democracy: The Labor Movement and Occupy, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• G8 and NATO: Rulers, Domination, and Emancipation, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• The 90s and 00s Left Today, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• Changes in Art and Society: A View from the Present, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 03.31.2012
• Why I Joined Platypus, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 4.1.12
• Platypus 2012 President's Report: 1873-1973: The Century of Marxism, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 4.1.12
• Responses to the Global Economic Downturn, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2012), 4.2.12
• Does Marxism Even Matter? w. Jacob Cayia, SAIC, 9.25.12
• The Party's Over: The Last Party 2000: A Platypus Film Screening, SAIC, 10.25.12
• Glory vs. Lincoln: A Platypus Film Screening and Discussion, SAIC, 11.29.12

University of Chicago

• Mary Gabriel interviewed by Spencer Leonard on "Love and Capital", University of Chicago (Radical Minds), 3.10.12
• No University is an Island: An Interview with Cary Nelson, University of Chicago (Radical Minds), 3.27.12
• Third Parties and the Left: Problems and Prospects (Radio Edit), University of Chicago (Radical Minds), 4.10.12
• Health Care Reform and American Politics: An interview with Helen Redmond, University of Chicago (Radical Minds), 4.24.12
• Cornel West and Carl Dix Debate, University of Chicago, 5.7.12
• Does Marxism Even Matter?, University of Chicago, 10.9.12
• Beyond Post-Industrial Society and Neo-Marxism: A Platypus Teach-in on the Current Economic Crisis, University of Chicago, 11.28.12
• Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis, Chicago, University of Chicago, 12.3.12

Other

• Does Marxism Even Matter? w/ Gabriel Gaster, University of Illinois at Chicago, 9.18.12
• Does Marxism Even Matter? w/ Gabriel Gaster, Loyola University, 9.26.12
• Chris Cutrone on Crosstalk: Global Rut, Chicago, 10.15.12
• Class Consciousness (From a Marxist Perspective Today), Chicago, 11.4.12

SAIC

• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: A Platypus Film Screening, SAIC, 3.7.13
• RoboCop: A Platypus Film Screening, SAIC, 3.28.13
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: EXIT! (Germany), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.5.13
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: The Green Party (US), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.5.13
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: New Compass and Demokratisk Alternativ (Norway), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.5.13 
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: Internationalist Perspective (US), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.5.13
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: Party for Socialism and Liberation (US), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.5.13
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: Québec solidaire (Canada), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.5.13
• 2013 Platypus International Convention Opening Plenary: The Left in Power?, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.5.13
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: International Marxist-Humanist Organization (US), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.6.13 
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: Revolutionary Communist Party (US), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.6.13
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: Solidarity Halifax (Canada), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.6.13
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: SYRIZA (Greece), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.6.13
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: International Marxist Tendency (Canada), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.6.13
• What is Imperialism? (What Now?), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.6.13
• The Labor Left After Politics and After Utopia, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.6.13
• Capital, History and Environmental Politics, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.6.13
• Marx and “Wertkritik”, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.6.13
• 2013 Platypus International Convention Closing Plenary: “Program” and “Utopia”, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.6.13
• 2013 Platypus International Convention: President’s Report, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.7.13
• 2013 Platypus International Convention: Platypus Plenary, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2013 ), 4.17.13
• Capital In History: A Platypus Teach-in, SAIC, 9.17.13
• The Politics of Work, SAIC, 11.5.13

University of Chicago

• Reds: A Platypus Film Screening and Discussion, University of Chicago, 1.16.13
• Rosa Luxemburg: A Platypus Film Screening and Discusion, University of Chicago, 1.22.13
• Kiss of the Spider Woman: A Platypus Film Screening, University of Chicago, 2.12.13
• Sexual Freedom and the History of the Left, University of Chicago, 2.14.13
• The Handmaid's Tale: A Platypus Film Screening, University of Chicago, 2.18.13
• Last Exit to Brooklyn: A Platypus Film Screening, University of Chicago, 2.25.13
• Capital in History: Does Marxism Even Matter?, University of Chicago, 2.26.13
• "White-Skin Privilege"?: A Platypus Teach-in with Mel Rothenberg, University of Chicago, 5.3.13
• Black Politics in the Age of Obama, University of Chicago, 5.6.13
• Lincoln: The American Revolution Film Series, University of Chicago, 5.7.13
• Democracy and the Left, 11.23.13

Other

• N.O.T.A.G. III, Chicago, 4.3.13
• Freedom in the Anthropocene, Loyola University, 11.19.13

SAIC

• CPGB Contra Lukacs, SAIC, 1.11.14
• Tony Cliff’s Legacy Today: International Socialism and the Tradition of Lenin and Trotsky, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2014), 4.4.14
• Marxism and Anarchism, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2014), 4.5.14
• 150 Years after the First International: A Critical History, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2014), 4.5.14
• The Concept of Left and Right, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2014), 4.5.14
• Europe, Its Crisis, And The Global Left, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2014), 4.5.14
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: Democratic Socialists of America, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2014), 4.5.14
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: Lieux Communs (France) / Political Group for Autonomy (Greece), SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2014), 4.5.14
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: TOP B3rlin, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2014), 4.5.14
• Differing Perspectives on the Left: Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, SAIC (Platypus International Convention 2014), 4.5.14
• Empire and social democracy: Summer 2014 Teach-in, 6.14.14

University of Chicago

• Is There A Future To Socialism Under Conditions of Neoliberal Hegemony?, University of Chicago, 4.3.14

University of Chicago at Illinois

• Radical Ideologies Today: Marxism and Anarchism, University of Illinois at Chicago, 3.21.14

 

Loyola University

• The Left After the Crisis, Loyola University, 4.7.14