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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