Please find below an announcement of upcoming panels and a film screening I am helping to organize and will be participating in at the 2019 International Herbert Marcuse Society conference and the Left Coast Forum. Hope to see you at either conference, or both!
At the eighth biennial International Herbert Marcuse Society conference, “Critical Theory in Dark Times: The Prospects for Liberation in the Shadow of the Radical Right,” to be held at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB):
Syria, the Eros Effect, and Pseudo-Anti-Imperialism (Saturday, October 12, 2019, 8:30-10am)
Lara El Kateb, “Local Councils in Syria: Formations and Limitations”
Javier Sethness, “Eros and Thanatos in the Syrian Revolution”
Rohini Hensman, “Syria: Freedom and solidarity versus pseudo-anti-imperialism”
Terry Burke, “Syria Disinformation Targeting the Left”
Wagner, Bakunin, and Antisemitic Propaganda: Then and Now (Saturday, October 12, 2019, 2:45-4:15pm)
María Castro, “Feminism, Anti-Feminism, and Anti-Capitalism in Wagner’s Ring”
Javier Sethness, “Wagner and Bakunin’s ‘Dangerous Minds’ Amid Fascist Resurgence Today”
Bill Weinberg, “Ilhan Omar, Antisemitism and Propaganda”
Also, at the third annual Left Coast Forum, to be held at Occidental College in Los Angeles:
Sunday, 13 October 2019, 9:30 a.m.-12p.m. Film screening of No. 1 Chung Ying Street (2018).
This film compares the 1967 Hong Kong Leftist Riot with the ongoing the Mainland China-Hong Kong conflict. Discussion to follow with the director (to be confirmed)
And on Sunday, 13 October 2019, 1-2:15 p.m. Today’s Challenges for the Left: Stopping Fascism Globally and Standing against Authoritarian Regimes – Rocio Lopez and myself
Notes toward an International Libertarian Eco-Socialism 