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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