Summer School Schedule

Schedule | Program | Readings | Introduction | Registration | Logistics

9:00 AM-5:00 PM Registration

10:00 AM-Noon Welcome/Opening Plenary: Student Fightback

Noon-1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:00 PM Workshop Block I

  1. Anti-Racism: History of Race and Racism in the US
  2. 20th-21st Century Socialism: Revolutionaries in the 20th Century
  3. Capitalism: Introduction to Marxist Perspectives on the Economy

3:00 PM-4:00 PM Break

4:15 PM-5:45 PM Workshop Block II

  1. Socialist-Feminism: Theory and Politics
  2. Public Sector: Lessons from Madison and the Midwest
  3. Anti-Racism: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Communities of Color

9:00 AM-2:00 PM Registration

9:30 AM-11:00 AM Workshop Block III

  1. Socialist-Feminism: Reformist/Revolutionary Strategies for LGBT Liberation
  2. Anti-Racism: Fighting the New Nativism
  3. Public Sector: The Struggle for Public Education

11:00 AM-Noon Break

Noon-1:30 Workshop Block IV

  1. Socialist-Feminism: Women in the Crisis
  2. 20th-21st Century Socialism: Can We “Change the World Without Taking Power”? Anti-Capitalists and the State
  3. Capitalism: The Current Crisis: Its Roots, Social Costs and Resistance

1:30 PM-3:00 PM Lunch

3:00 PM-5:00 PM Activities

  1. Walking Tour of Philly Murals
  2. Movie and Discussion: The Take

5:00-6:30 PM Dinner

6:30 PM-8:00 PM Plenary: Uprisings in the Arab World

10 AM-Noon Morning Plenary: 21st Century Socialism and Latin America