The Howard Zinn Book Fair honors one of the great US people’s historians, Howard Zinn. This year, organizers invited TSJI to curate a series of Conjuncture panels.
Labor History and the Geography of Class Struggle
Dana Frank (UC Santa Cruz), “Audacious Militance: Striking Chicago Wet Nurses Occupy City Hall in 1937, Declaring `No Money, No Milk!’”
Michael Schulze-Oechtering Castañeda (Cal State East Bay), “Anti-Marcos Filipinos and the Coalition Politics of the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes”
Maga Miranda (UCLA), “Putting History in Domestic Workers’ Hands”
James Tracy (City College SF), “Dress Rehearsals: Chasing the General Strike.”
Organized and moderated by Christina Heatherton (Trinity)
Gramsci and the Global Conjuncture
A panel on Gramscian conjunctural analysis in Italy, India, Pakistan, South Africa, and the United States.
Marcus E. Green (Pasadena City College)
Gillian Hart (UC Berkeley)
Ayyaz Mallick (Univ. of Liverpool)
Organized and moderated by Jordan T. Camp (Trinity)
American Thanatocracy
Keynote conversation between famed people’s historians Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA) and Peter Linebaugh (University of Toledo), moderated by Christina Heatherton (Trinity).
This conversation was recorded for Conjuncture S3 Ep4. Watch here.