15th Annual Platypus International Convention 2023: History and Class Consciousness
Wednesday March 29 – Northwestern University
4:30 - 6:00pm (555 Clark Street | Room B03): Marxism and Radical Republicanism
Speaker: Luke Pickrell (Marxist Unity Group)
Respondent: Benjamin Katz
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6:30 - 9:00pm: Social Event with food & beverages (paid à la carte)
Five & Dime 1026 Davis St, Evanston, IL 60201
Thursday March 30 – University of Chicago
9:30 - 11:00am (Ida Noyes Hall | Max Palevsky Theater): Reform and Revolution: A presentation by Johannes Regell (Socialisterna – Välfärdspartiet)
Speaker: Johannes Regell (Socialisterna Välfärdspartiet)
Respondent: Andreas Wintersperger
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11:00am - 12:00 pm: Lunch Break
12:00 - 2:00pm (Ida Noyes Hall | Max Palevsky Theater): Second International Marxism in America: Origins and Crisis
Speakers: Chris Cutrone, Ed Remus, Will Stratford, Spencer Leonard, Pamela C. Nogales C.
Respondent: David Faes
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3:00 - 4:30pm (Kent Lab | Room 120): Broadcasting & Publishing in Platypus
Speakers: Spencer Leonard, Louis Sterrett, Pamela C. Nogales C.
Respondent: Andreas Wintersperger
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5:00 - 6:30pm (Kent Lab | Room 120): The low point of labor resistance is behind us: The Socialist Workers Party looks forward
Speaker: Roy Landersen (Socialist Workers Party)
Respondent: Aaron Bao
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8:00 – 11:00pm (Tritriangle Art Gallery | Floor 3): Night of the Avant Garde ft. live music | Program ($10 suggested donation at door)
Friday March 31 – University of Chicago
11:45 - 1:45pm (The Study at University of Chicago | Winter Garden): Whither Maoism?
Speakers: Norman Finkelstein (author), CJ Hunt (UC Santa Cruz), Jerry Harris (Global Studies Association of North America), Mike Macnair (Communist Party of Great Britain)
Respondent: Spencer Leonard
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3:30 - 5:00 pm (The Oriental Institute | James Henry Breasted Hall): Andrew Feenberg on The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University)
Respondents: Ethan Linehan, Itsï Ramirez
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3:00 - 4:30pm (Kent Lab | Room 120): Norman Finkelstein on I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It
Speaker: Dr. Norman Finkelstein
Respondent: Edward Remus
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5:00 - 6:30pm (Kent Lab | Room 120): Revolutionary Strategy & Neo-Social Democracy: A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue
Speakers: Mike Macnair (Communist Party of Great Britain), Matthew Strupp (Marxist Unity Group)
Respondent: David Mountain
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8:00 - 10:00pm: Social Event with food and beverages ($40 paid in advance here: Paypal)
Exchequer Restaurant, 226 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60604
Saturday April 1 – University of Chicago
9:00 – 11:00am (Kent Lab | Room 120): The Politics of Critical Theory
Speakers: Mike Atkinson (University of Brighton), Nora Sprenger (University of Vienna), Ryan Mickler (Northeastern University), Miles Byrne (University of California, Santa Cruz), Bret Schneider (Caesura Magazine)
Respondent: Suzy Vogenthaler
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9:00 – 11:00am (Ida Noyes Hall | Max Palevsky Theater): Immigration and the Left
Speakers: Jule Hoffman (University of Leipzig), Tobias Kohlberger (University of Applied Sciences, BFI Vienna), Jakob Trescher (University of Leipzig), Leo Jank (University of Vienna), Barbara Utracka (Oxford University)
Respondent: Caleb Chen
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9:00 – 11:00am (Ida Noyes Hall | 2nd Floor, West Lounge): What Does Climate Change?
Speakers: Jonas Nestroy (Free University of Berlin), Allison Hewitt-Ward (School of Visual Arts), Noah Sonnenschein (University of Magdeburg), Michael McClelland (University of Otago)
Respondent: Andony Melathopoulos
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11:00am - 12:00pm: Lunch Break
12:00 - 2:00pm (Kent Lab | Room 120): Back to the 1970s? Socialism, Labor, and the Left
Speakers: Luke Pickrell (Marxist Unity Group), Naomi Craine (Socialist Workers Party), Richard de Vries (Teamsters), Jack Metzgar (Roosevelt University)
Respondent: C.D. Hardy
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2:30 - 4:30pm (Kent Lab | Room 107): The Politics of the Democratic Socialists of America
Speakers: Harold Meyerson (Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee; DSA), Jamal Abed-Rabbo (Class Unity), Matthew Strupp (Marxist Unity Group), D. L. Jacobs (Platypus Affiliated Society)
Respondent: Erin Hagood
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5:00 - 7:00pm (Kent Lab | Room 107): A Century of Critical Theory: The Legacy of Georg Lukács
Speakers: Mike Macnair (Communist Party of Great Britain), Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University), Chris Cutrone (Platypus Affiliated Society)
Moderator: Atiya Singh
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9:00pm - 12:00am (NOT NOT in Humboldt Park, 3950 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651): Social Event ft. live music
