The Past and Future(s) of Revolutions
A Global Exploration
March 9 - 12, 2009
Conference Schedule
Calendar of Events
Monday, March 9, 2009
10:00 am - 12:00 noon___________________________________________SU 214
Film Screening: John Adams (92 min.)
Introduction:Mark Schmeller, Assistant Professor, History Department, NEIU
12:00 noon - 1:45 pm ________________________________________Alumni Hall
A Master Class: What is Revolution?
Introduction: Susan Stall, Chair, Sociology Dept, and African & African
American Studies, Latino & Latin American Studies and
Women's Studies Programs, NEIU
Presenter: John Foran, Professor, Sociology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Recommended Reading: John Foran, Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions (Chapters 1, 2, and 6)
2:50 pm - 4:30 pm _______________________________________________SU 214
Film Screening: A Place Called Chiapas, by Nettie Wild (89 min.)
Introduction: Cyndi Moran, Associate Professor, Communication, Media and Theatre, NEIU; Independent Filmmaker
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm ___________________________________________Alumni Hall
All Conference Panel - A New Route: Autonomy--EZLN of Mexico/Santa Anita Peace Community of Guatemala
Chair: Richard Grossman, Instructor, History Department, NEIU
Panelists: Maria-Lourdes Gomez, NEIU McNair Scholar
Ruben Muralles and Cesar Sanchez, Members, Casa
Guatemala
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm ___________________________________________Alumni Hall
Keynote Panel: What Is Revolution? A Retrospective and Prospective Exploration of Revolutions
Opening
Remarks: Hamid Akbari, Coordinator, Conference Organizing Committee; Chair and Professor, Management and Marketing, NEIU
Welcome: Lawrence P. Frank, Provost and Vice President, Academic
Affairs, NEIU
Introduction/
Moderator:Francesca Morgan, Assistant Professor, History Department, NEIU
Presenters:John Foran, Professor of Sociology, University of California,
Santa Barbara: “Revolutions Old and New”
Doris Garraway, Professor of French, Northwestern University:
“Avengers of the New World? Some Paradoxes of the Haitian
Revolution”
Friedrich Katz, Professor Emeritus of History, University of
Chicago: “The Mexican Revolution and its Legacy”
Discussant: Lawrence P. Frank, Provost and Vice President, Academic
Affairs, NEIU
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
10:00 am - 12:40 pm_____________________________________________SU 214
Film Screening: Lucía, by Humbert Solas (160 min.)
Introduction: Paul Schroeder Rodríguez, Chair, Foreign Languages and
Literatures Department, NEIU
10:50 am - 12:05 pm______________________________________Golden Eagles
Teaching Reform, Resistance and Revolution in Higher
Education
Introduction: Bruce Joleaud, NDCI Coordinator, NEIU
Presenters:June Terpstra, Lecturer, Justice Studies, NEIU
“Social Movements and Student Activism”
Brett Stockdill, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology,
NEIU
John K. Wilson, Editor, Illinois Academe: “Classroom Revolutions: Academic Freedom and the Attack on Politics in the Curriculum”
12:00 noon - 1:50 pm_________________________________________Auditorium
A Master Class: Marxism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries
Introduction: Wamucii Njogu, Associate Provost, Academic Affairs, NEIU
Presenter: Ronald Aronson, Distinguished Professor of History of Ideas, Wayne State University
Recommended Reading: Ronald Aronson, After Marxism, (Chapters 2 and 8); Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, Part I, “Bourgeois and Proletarians;” “The Impermanent Revolution” & “The Left Needs More Socialism”
(See website for links to some recommended readings)
2:50 pm - 4:05 pm________________________________________Golden Eagles
All Conference Presentation: Intellectuals, Oral Histories, and Violence in Contemporary Algeria: The Revolutionary Nature of the Artistic Critique of Radical Islam and the Military Junta
Introduction: Cris Toffolo, Chair, Justice Studies Department, NEIU
Presenter: James Le Sueur, Associate Professor of History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm________________________________________Golden Eagles
All Conference Panel: Cuba, Revolution and Cuban Revolutionary Influence in Southern Africa
Chair: Victor Ortiz, Program Head, Latino and Latin American Studies, NEIU
Panelists: Paul Schroeder Rodríguez, Chair, Foreign Languages and
Literatures Department, NEIU: “Lucía, or the Heresy of Cuban Cinema”
Cranston S. Knight, Professor of History, Chicago City Colleges: “Cuban Influence in the Revolutions in Southern Africa: Angola and Namibia, the Border Wars”
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm ___________________________________________Auditorium
Keynote Panel: The Marxian and Anti-Colonial Legacies: What Have We Learned from the Revolutions of the 20th Century?
Welcome:Janet P. Fredericks, Dean, Graduate College, International
Programs, NEIU
Moderator: David Leaman, Chair and Associate Professor, Political
Science, NEIU
Presenters:Edward Friedman, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison: “Rethinking Revolution”
Ronald Aronson, Distinguished Professor of History of Ideas, Wayne State University: “Marxist Revolution, Impossible but Still Necessary”
James Le Sueur, Associate Professor of History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln: “The Death of the Revolutionary Mystique: What Happened to Revolutionary Nationalism during the Carnage of the 1990s in Algeria?”
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
10:00 am - 11:15 am_____________________________________________SU 214
Film Screening: Battleship Potemkin, by Bliokh and Eisenstein (74 min.)
Introduction: Maria Moraites, Professor, Communication, Media and Theatre, NEIU
11:15 am - 12:30 pm_____________________________________________SU 214
Film Screening: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (aka Chavez: Inside the Coup), by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain (74 min.)
Introduction: Edie Rubinowitz, Assistant Professor, Communication, Media
and Theatre, NEIU
12:00 noon - 1:45 pm_________________________________________Auditorium
A Master Class: The Unraveling Revolution: The Collapse of U.S. Superpower
Introduction:Laurie Fuller, Professor and Coordinator, Women’s Studies, NEIU
Presenter: David Mason, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Butler
University
Recommended Reading: David Mason, The End of the
American Century (Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, and 10)
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm_______________________________________________SU 214
Contesting the Militarization of Everyday Life
Panelists: Cris Toffolo, Chair, Justice Studies, NEIU
Cassandra Cantu, Student, NEIU
Erica Meiners, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Women’s Studies, NEIU
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm___________________________________________Alumni Hall
All Conference Panel: Reaching a Planetary Crossroad: Global Oil, Climate Change, and the Worldwide Economic Crisis
Chair: Danny Postel, Contributing Editor, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture
Panelists: Cyrus Bina, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota - Morris
Mike Lynn, Antiwar Activist in Chicago
Mark Luccarelli, Professor of American Studies, University of
Oslo, Norway
4:05 pm - 5:30 pm___________________________________________Alumni Hall
All Conference Panel: Living for the Future: Modernity and the Logic of Revolution
Chair: David Rutschman, Acting Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, NEIU
Panelists:Anil Lal, Program In General Studies, Roosevelt University, Chicago: “Non-Violence, Revolution and Liberal Political Theory”
Roby Rajan, University of Wisconsin - Parkside: “The Subject of the Revolution”
Madhuri Deshmukh, Professor of English and Humanities,
Oakton Community College, Chicago: “On the Inadequacy of
Marxist Theory of Revolution”
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm____________________________________________Auditorium
Keynote Panel: New Forms of Revolution
Opening
Remarks:Dan Creely, Professor, HPERA; Peace Connection, NEIU
Welcome: Sharon K. Hahs, President, NEIU
Vocal
Presentation:Gerald Chaney, Soloist “The Imposible Dream (The Quest)”,
from the musical, Man of La Mancha, Lyrics by Joe Darien and Music by Mitch Leigh, Alumni, NEIU; Jane Kenas, Piano Accompanist, Music Department, NEIU
Moderator: Danny Postel, Contributing Editor, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture
Presenters:David Mason, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Butler University: “Systemic Revolutions and the End of the American Century”
Julie Mertus, Co-Director of American University’s Program in
Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs: “The Revolutionary Past and
Radical Future of Human Rights”
Jonathan Schell, Peace and Disarmament Correspondent, The Nation; “The Revolution in Nonviolence”
Thursday, March 12, 2009
10:00 am - 11:30 am_____________________________________________SU 214
Film Screening: Persepolis, by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
(96 min.)
Introduction: Simin Hemmati-Rasmussen, Program Advisor, Teacher
Education Department, NEIU
10:50 am - 12:05 pm_________________________________________Alumni Hall
Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution Revisited
Moderator: Danny Postel, Contributing Editor, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture
Presenters: Peg Birmingham, Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University
Norma Moruzzi, Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Jonathan Schell, Peace and Disarmament Correspondent,
The Nation
12:00 noon - 2:15 pm_________________________________________Auditorium
A Master Class: Iranian and Nicaraguan Revolutions
Introduction: Hamid Akbari, Coordinator, Conference Organizing Committee; Chair & Professor, Management & Marketing, NEIU
Presenter: Fakhreddin Azimi, Professor, History, University of Connecticut
Introduction: Richard Grossman, Instructor, History Department, NEIU
Presenter: Karen Kampwirth, Professor, Political Science; Chair of
Latin American Studies, Knox College
Recommended Readings: Karen Kampwirth, Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution, (Chapters 1 and 2), Fakhreddin Azimi, The Quest for Democracy in Iran: A Century of Struggle against Authoritarian Rule, (Chapters 1 and 5)
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm___________________________________________Alumni Hall
All Conference Panel: The Iranian Revolution 30 Years Later
Chair: Jade Stanley, Chair and Associate Professor, Social Work, NEIU
Panelists:Cyrus Bina, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota - Morris: “Epoch of Globalization: The Fall of Pax Americana and the Iranian and Nicaraguan Revolutions”
Mehrdad Mashayekhi, Visiting Professor of Sociology,
Georgetown University: “From Islamic Revolutionism to Secular Refolutionism: The End of Islamic Hegemony?”
Jason Mohagegh, Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, NEIU: "The Poetic Outsider: New Wave Iranian Writers Before and After the Revolution"
Fariba Zarinebaf, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Riverside: “The Legacy of Constitutionalism in Iranian Movements for Democracy”
4:05 pm - 5:30 pm___________________________________________Alumni Hall
All Conference Panel: Foucault, Rodinson, de Beauvoir, and the Iranian Revolution
Chair: Shahrzad Mahootian, Professor, Linguistics Department, NEIU
Panelists: Janet Afary, Professor, History, Purdue University; Kedzie-Balzan Fellow, UCLA
Kevin B. Anderson, Professor, Sociology, University of
California, Santa Barbara
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm____________________________________________Auditorium
Keynote Panel: The End of Revolution? Iran, Nicaragua, and Beyond
Opening
Remarks:Murrell J. H. Duster, Dean, Academic Development,
Diversity/Multicultural Programs, NEIU
Moderator: Danny Postel, Contributing Editor, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture
Presenters:Karen Kampwirth, Professor of Political Science and Chair of
Latin American Studies, Knox College: “30 Years Later, the Revolution Continues? Tales from Sandinista Nicaragua”
Val Moghadam, Professor of Sociology and Director of
Women’s Studies, Purdue University: “From Islamic
Revolution to Feminist Transformation? The Past and Future of
Revolution in Iran”
Misagh Parsa, Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College;
“Seizing Power: Fundamentalists and Liberals in the
Iranian Revolution”
Stephen Kinzer, Professor of International Affairs, Northwestern University: “1979: A Tale of Two Revolutions”
