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1:00pm CDT

From Civil Rights to Black Power Grant Park A Trotsky on Fascism Clark C Toussaint L'Overture and the Haitian Revolution DuSable C After the Revolution: What Would Socialism Look Like? Grant Park B How Marx Became a Marxist Field B What Do Socialists Say about Violence? Adler A/B Introduction to Social Reproduction Theory Clark A/B

3:00pm CDT

The Communist Manifesto Clark C Capitalism 101 DuSable C Egypt's Counterrevolution Grant Park A Who's Afraid of BDS?: Israel's War on Palestinian rights Grant Park B What Do Socialists Say about Borders? Field B What Do Socialists Say about Capitalism, Socialism, and Human Nature? Clark A/B The History of Black Feminism Adler A/B

4:30pm CDT

Friday Dinner TBA

7:30pm CDT

Black Education Matters Adler A/B Toward Justice: The Case for Black/Palestine Solidarity Grant Park A 1903-17: The Rise of Bolshevism Clark A/B Democracy Now!: Twenty years of Covering the Movements Changing America Grant Park C/D Capitalism, Migration, and Refugees Today Clark C

9:30am CDT

What Do We Talk about When We Talk about 'Culture'?: Culture in the Marxist Tradition Grant Park C Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill Grant Park A The Politics of Afro-Pessimism Grant Park B Deporter-in-Chief: The Sorry Truth About 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' Adler A/B Bolshevism and National Liberation Revisited Field A Marx's Theory of Crisis Field C Israel: Apartheid State DuSable C Bases, Straits, and Islands: Imperialist Conflict in the Pacific Clark A/B Inside Putin's Russia Burnham A/B/C How the Russian Revolution Was Lost Clark C Seven Shocking Facts You Need to Know about Hillary Clinton DuSable A/B Have Women Always Been Oppressed? Field B

11:30am CDT

Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System Grant Park C Detroit and Capitalist Abandonment Grant Park A Empire Without Colonies?: The Emergence of the U.S. as a World Power Field C Marxism and Orientalism Field A Marxism, Determination, and Freedom DuSable C Reform or Revolution: Can Capitalism Evolve Toward Socialism? Burnham A/B/C Trotsky's Their Morals and Ours DuSable A/B Will the European Union Crack Up? Grant Park B Brazil at the Precipice: Crisis and Resistance in the Global South Clark C 1917: How the Bolsheviks Became a Revolutionary Party Field B The Origins of the Police in the U.S. Adler A/B Women and the Family in an Era of Capitalist Crisis Clark A/B

1:00pm CDT

Saturday Lunch TBA

2:00pm CDT

Sexuality and Socialism: The Theory and Politics of LGBTQ Liberation Adler A/B From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Burnham A/B/C Slave Rebellions from Stono to Nat Turner DuSable C The Enemy of My Enemy: Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism Today Grant Park A The Struggle to Rebuild a Fighing Labor Movement Clark A/B Marx and the 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' Clark C Lenin's Left Wing Communism Field B The Flight of Nez Perce DuSable A/B The Revolutionary Internationalism of Ricardo Flores-Magón Field C Eugene Debs and the U.S. Socialist Tradition Grant Park C Revolutionaries on Campus: The Student Movement in the 1930s Grant Park B Better Call Saul: The Political Legacy of Saul Alinsky on Labor and Community Organizing Field A

4:00pm CDT

Race craft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life Grant Park A Slavery and the Origins of Racism DuSable A/B Rank-and-File Trade Unionism DuSable C The Industrial Workers of the World, Syndicalism, and Marxism Field C Imperialism and the Rise of Political Islam Grant Park B Native Americans and Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation, Dispossession, and Wage Labor Adler A/B Land Grabs and Big Oil: The Looting of Africa Field B Is This Still China's Century? Grant Park C Broad Parties and the Revolutionary Left Burnham A/B/C Women and the Russian Revolution Clark A/B What Do Socialists Say about Class? Field A The "Work" of Life: Social Reproduction, Neoliberalism, and the Nonwestern World Clark C

5:30pm CDT

Saturday Dinner TBA

7:30pm CDT

The Fight for a Socialist Future Regency Ballroom

9:30am CDT

A People's Art History of the U.S. Clark A/B Disability and the Russian Revolution DuSable A/B The Making of Black Revolutionaries on Campus Grant Park C Europe in Revolt: Mapping the New European Left Grant Park B Unite and Fight: The politics of solidarity in the anti-racist struggle Clark C We Are All Precarious Now Adler A/B Ellen Meiksins Wood's Retreat from Class Field C The U.S., Iraq, and the Rise of ISIS Burnham A/B/C From Apartheid’s Fall to Marikana: Class Struggle in South Africa Today DuSable C Venezuela: The End of Pink Tide in Latin America? Field A James Connolly and the Easter Rising of 1916 Field B 'To the Masses': Lenin's Battle in the Comintern Grant Park A

11:30am CDT

Marx and Nature Field C Black Women and U.S. Communism: The Making of Black Left Feminism Clark A/B Families of Police Brutality Victims Speak Out Clark C The Return of Inter-Imperialist Rivalry: Are We Heading for a New World War? DuSable A/B Verizon on Strike: Taking a Stand Against Corporate Power Field B Why the Politics of the United Front Still Matter Grant Park D Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising Grant Park B Sanders, Social Democracy, and Socialism Grant Park C After Independence: Nationalism, Socialism, State Capitalism, and Neocolonialism Field A Europe: Crisis, Refugees, and Xenophobia—Devising a Left Response Burnham A/B/C Crisis and Resistance in Mexico DuSable C Can There Be a Third Party Challenge in the U.S.? Grant Park A

1:00pm CDT

Sunday Lunch TBA

2:00pm CDT

The Privatization of Care: From Childhood to the Elder Years DuSable A/B Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement Grant Park A Anybody but Trump? Burnham A/B/C Marxism and the Trade Unions Clark A/B Political Revolution and Social Revolution: What's the Difference? Grant Park B Burning Country: Disentangling the Syrian Crisis Grant Park D Hal Draper and Revolutionary Marxism Grant Park C The Return of World Economic Crisis DuSable C How to Start an International Socialist Organization Branch Field B Che Guevara Clark C Socialism...You Mean Like in Sweden? Field A Identity Politics, Intersectionality, and Class Adler A/B What Do Socialists Say about Imperialism? Field C

4:00pm CDT

Contested Hollywood: Race, Gender, and Class in Tinsel Town DuSable A/B Black Politics after Obama Burnham A/B/C It's Their Party: Can the Left Make Use of the Democrats? Grant Park B 1934 in Minneapolis, Toledo, and San Francisco—The Strikes That Paved the Way Field B The Changing Working Class: Do Workers Still Have Power? Grant Park C The Palestine Exception: The Assault on Free Speech Adler A/B The International Socialist Organization: Who We Are, Where We Stand, and What We Do Grant Park D Greece: The Left after Syriza Grant Park A From Mexico to Québec: The New Student Movements Clark C Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt Clark A/B The Social Crisis of the American City DuSable C Reproductive Rights and Wrongs Field A

6:00pm CDT

Sunday Dinner TBA

8:00pm CDT

From Ferguson to Football: Race and Rebellion in Missouri Burnham A/B/C The benefits of perfumed paper: A reading by Wallace Shawn DuSable A/B Teachers' Unions and the Fight Against Austerity Adler A/B Sex at Dawn: Sexuality Before Class Clark A/B The Uses and Abuses of Whiteness Theory Grant Park A Perspectives for Socialists Today Grant Park C Trump and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism Grant Park B

9:30am CDT

Islamophobia in the Age of Demagogues Grant Park A The New Deal and the Labor Upsurge of the 1930s Field A A Marx for Our Times Who Can Speak to Race, Class, and Colonialism Adler A/B The Hidden History of the Iranian Revolution Field B Native Americans and Self-Determination DuSable C Capitalism, Class, and the Tech Economy Clark C China on Strike: Narratives of Workers' Resistance Clark A/B The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Star: Trotsky's Struggle Against Stalinism DuSable A/B Socialism after Marx: The Second International Field C From Up All Night to Mass Strikes: France Today Grant Park B

11:30am CDT

It's Not Just Flint: The Political Economy of Water Adler A/B The Social Construction of Gender Clark A/B The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense Burnham A/B/C Althusser and Marxist Theory Today DuSable C Which Side Are They On?: Marxism and the Middle Class Grant Park A Anatomy of Marx's Capital Field B People Before Profit: The Fight Against Austerity in Ireland Grant Park B Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht Clark C Labor in the Digital Age: How New Is the New Capitalism? DuSable A/B Who Will Move the World?: Logistics and Workers' Power in the 21st Century Field A What Do Socialists Say about the State? Field C

1:00pm CDT

Monday Lunch TBA

2:00pm CDT

Final Rally Regency Ballroom