Ilan Pappé: "Squaring the Circle: The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process"

talfonsita — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:21:53 -0600

Ilan Pappe: "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, 1948-1967"

talfonsita — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:16:33 -0600

Guy Standing: "The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class"

talfonsita — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:31:08 -0600

Boaventura de Sousa Santos: "A Postcolonial Conception of Citizenship and Interpersonal Human Rights"

talfonsita — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:29:31 -0600

Boaventura de Sousa Santos: "Why and How to Take a Distance from the Western Critical Tradition"

talfonsita — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:27:33 -0600

Goran Therborn: "The New Political Dynamics of Ideology"

talfonsita — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:24:07 -0600

Goran Therborn: "States, Societie and the Rule of Capitalism"

talfonsita — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:36:12 -0600

Claus Offe: "Crisis and Innovation of Liberal Democracy: Can Deliberation be Institutuionalized?"

talfonsita — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 12:44:15 -0500

Claus Offe: "From Government to Governance - to State Failure?"

talfonsita — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:47:50 -0500

Vivek Chibber: "Cause or Effect? Socialism and Economic Development"

talfonsita — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:01:57 -0500

VIVEK CHIBBER (Ph.D. Sociology, UW-Madison) is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India (Princeton University Press, 2003), which has received numerous awards, including the 2006 Distinguished Publication Award of the American Sociological Association (honorable mention) and the 2005 Barrington Moore Jr. Prize of the ASA’s Comparative and Historical Sociology Section. He is completing a book titled, "Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capitalism," due out in Winter 2011 by Verso.

George Sanchez: "The Role of High School Tensions in Understanding Black-Latino Interaction in the 1960s and 1970s"

talfonsita — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:35:52 -0500

GEORGE J. SANCHEZ is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, and
History at the University of Southern California. He is the author of
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano
Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (Oxford, 1993), and co-editor of Los Angeles and
the Future of Urban Cultures (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005) and
Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (University of Michigan,
2009). Past President of the American Studies Association in 2001-02,
he currently serves as Director of the Center for Diversity and
Democracy, and Vice Dean for Diversity and Strategic Initiatives at USC
College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. In 2010, the American
Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Inc. selected him as the

George Sanchez: "Global Migrations into U.S. Multiracial Communities in the Early 20th Century"

talfonsita — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:02:59 -0500

Danielle McGuirre: "At the Dark End of the Street: Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization and the African American Freedom Stru

talfonsita — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 02:21:20 -0500

DANIELLE McGUIRE is the author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black
Women, Rape and Resistance-a New History of the Civil Rights Movement
from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Knopf, 2010). She is an
Assistant Professor in the History Department at Wayne State
University. Since receiving her PhD from Rutgers in 2007, she won
numerous teaching and research awards. Her dissertation on sexualized
racial violence and the African American freedom struggle received the
2008 Lerner Scott Prize for best dissertation in women’s history. It
was the runner-up for the Allen Nevins Prize, offered annually by the
Society of American Historians for best-written dissertation on an
American subject. McGuire is a Distinguished Lecturer for the

Dana Cloud: "Queer Theory, Socialism and the Demand for Equality"

talfonsita — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:35:27 -0500

DANA L. CLOUD (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1992) is an Associate
Professor in the Department of Communication Studies of the University
of Texas, Austin. Her widely-published research includes critique of
race, gender, and sexuality in popular culture, the development of
materialist theory and methods in communication studies, and the study
of social movements. Her most recent book, We ARE the Union: Democratic
Unionism and Dissent at Boeing is forthcoming next year from the
University of Illinois Press.

Nancy Folbre: "The Socialist Feminist Imaginary"

talfonsita — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:41:13 -0500

NANCY FOLBRE is Professor of Economics at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. Her research explores the interface between
political economy and feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on
the value of unpaid care work. In addition to numerous articles
published in academic journals, she is the author of Greed, Lust, and
Gender: A History of Economic Ideas (Oxford, 2009), Valuing Children:
Rethinking the Economics of the Family (Harvard, 2009), Who Pays for
the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint (Routledge, 1994)
and co-editor, with Michael Bittman, of Family Time: The Social
Organization of Care (Routledge, 2004). Books she has written for a
wider audience include Saving State U (New Press, 2010); The Field

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