The Past and Future(s) of Revolutions
A Global Exploration
March 9 - 12, 2009
Confirmed Speakers
Professor of History, Purdue University; author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy & The Origins of Feminism (1996) and Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (2009), co-author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (2005)
Kevin Anderson
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara; author of Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study (1995), co-author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (2005), co-editor of The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (2004)
Professor of the History of Ideas, Wayne State University; author of Dialectics of Disaster (1983), “Stay Out of Politics”: A Philosopher Views South Africa (1990), After Marxism (1995), Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It (2004), and Living Without God (2008)
Professor of History, University of Connecticut; author of Iran: The Crisis of Democracy (1989) and The Quest for Democracy in Iran: A Century of Struggle against Authoritarian Rule (2008)
Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota; author of The Economics of the Oil Crisis (1985), co-editor of Modern Capitalism and Islamic Ideology in Iran (1992) and Beyond Survival: Wage Labor in the Late 20th Century (1996)
Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University; author of Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility (2006), co-editor of Dissensus Communis: Between Ethics and Politics (1995)
Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara; author of Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions (2005), editor of The Future of Revolutions: Rethinking Radical Change in the Age of Globalization (2003) and Theorizing Revolutions (1997), co-editor of Revolution in the Making of the Modern World (2007)
Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison; author of Backward Toward Revolution: The Chinese Revolutionary Party (1974), Chinese Village, Socialist State (1991), and National Identity and Democratic Prospects in Socialist China (1995), co-author of Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China (2005)
Professor of French, Northwestern University; editor of Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (2008), author of The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean (2005)
Professor of Political Science and chair of Latin American studies, Knox College; author of Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba (2002) and Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas (2004)
Professor Emeritus of History, University of Chicago; author of The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution (1981), The Life and Times of Pancho Villa (1998), editor of Riot, Rebellion, and Revolution: Rural Social Conflict in Mexico (1988)
Professor of International Affairs, Northwestern University; former correspondent, New York Times; author of Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua (1991), All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (2003), and A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It (2008)
Professor of History, University of Nebraska–Lincoln; editor of The Decolonization Reader (2003), author of Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria (2001) and Between Terrorism and Democracy: Algeria since 1989 (forthcoming)
Professor of American Studies, University of Oslo; author of Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning (1995) and The Unmaking of American Civilization (forthcoming)
Mike Lynn
Political activist; member of the group that produced Eye Wide Open, an exhibit on the human cost of the Iraq War; central in efforts to pass Chicago City Council resolutions in favor of troop withdrawal from Iraq (2005-successful) and to oppose a military strike on Iran (2008-unsuccessful); founder, The 1213 Group, a reading and discussion group that examines the converging crises of climate change, peak oil, and resource depletion.
Visiting Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University; co-editor of Iran: Political Culture in the Islamic Republic (1992) and author (in Persian) of Towards Democracy and a Secular Republic in Iran: Essays in Political Sociology (1997)
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Butler University; author of Revolutionary Europe, 1789–1989: Liberty, Equality, Solidarity (2005), Revolution in East-Central Europe: The Rise and Fall of Communism and the Cold War (1992, 1996), The End of the American Century (2008)
Co-Director of American University’s MA program in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs; author of Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy (2004) and Human Rights Matters: Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions (2009); co-author of Local Action, Global Change: A Handbook on Women’s Human Rights (2008)
Professor of Sociology and Director of Women’s Studies, Purdue University; author of Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks (2005), and Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement (2008)
Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago; author of Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity (2000)
Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College; author of States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines (2000) and Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution (1989)
Peace and Disarmament Correspondent, The Nation; author of The Unfinished Twentieth Century (2001), The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People (2003), A Hole in the World: An Unfolding Story of War, Protest and the New American Order (2004), and The Jonathan Schell Reader (2005)
