Art, Praxis and Social Transformation

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The Eighth Biennial Radical Philosophy Association Conference
November 6‐9, 2008, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Art, Praxis and Social Transformation: Radical Dreams and Visions
http://www.sfsu.edu/~raza/rpa/

Four days of intelligent, informed discussion, illumination, and inspiration concerning the most complex and vital issues of our time.

Venue: Seven Hills Conference Center at San Francisco State University
Dates: Thursday 6 - Sunday November 9, 2008

The student/faculty/staff strike at SFSU literally began on November 6, 1968, and our conference begins forty years later on November 6, 2008. The strike at SFSU was unique among campus protests in the sixties in having active support from organized labor, various ethnic communities in the Bay Area and professional groups as well. It received national attention and by continuing for five months, it lasted longer than any other academic student/faculty/staff strike in American higher education history. As an ultimate result of the strike, SFSU established the only College of Ethnic Studies in the nation and contributed to what was then an on-going critique of the structure and content of higher education. The history of the strike at SFSU and some of the poster art that was made during the strike is available online: www.library.sfsu.edu/about/collections/strike

Plenary I. Herbert Marcuse on Art and Praxis
Thursday, November 6, 5:00—7:00 pm; Nob Hill Room, Seven Hills Center
Chairs: Anne Fairchild Pomeroy, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, and Richard Jones, Howard University
• Marcuse Today - Angela Davis, University of California at Santa Cruz
• Marcuse, the Aesthetic Dimension, and Cultural Politics - Douglas Kellner, University of California at Los Angeles
• Marcuse on Art and Technology - Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University

Plenary II. Bolivarism and the Future of Latin America
Friday, November 7, 5:00—7:00 pm; Location Nob Hill Room, Seven Hills Center
Chair: Darshan Campos, University of California at Santa Cruz
• Black Vernacular Philosophies and the New Politics of Decolonization in Cuba and Venezuela - Agustin Lao-Montes, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Building Dual Power in Venezuela - George Ciccariello-Maher, University of California at Berkeley
• Power, Politics, and Economics, (Bolivia and Venezuela) - Enrique Dussel, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Plenary III. Authors Meet Critics: Contract and Domination by Charles Mills and Carole Pateman
Saturday, November 8, 3:00—5:00 pm; Location Nob Hill Room, Seven Hills Center
Chair: Ann Ferguson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Comments: Tommy Lott, San Jose State University; Naomi Zack, University of Oregon at Eugene
Responding: Charles Mills, Northwestern University; Carole Pateman, University of California at Los Angeles

Plenary IV. Contemporary Radical Movements
Saturday, November 8, 5:30—7:30 pm; Location Nob Hill Room, Seven Hills Center
Chair: Milton Fisk, Indiana University
• Radical Movements Tackle a Multipolar World - Max Elbaum, Author and Activist
• Global Gender Solidarity and a Feminist Paradigm of Justice - Ann Ferguson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Radical Philosophers and Social Movements: Legacies and Prospects - Lucius Outlaw, Vanderbilt University
• Left Strategy and Messianic Time: Ecological Instability, Exterminationism, and the Collapse of the World Financial System - John Sanbonmatsu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

4 days of panels,workshops, screenings-- 70 in all.
Participants include: Mohammad Azadpur, Kostas Bagakis, Betsy Bowman,Sharon Cronin, Fred Evans, Candace Falk, Juan Flores, Brenda Flywithhawks, Lewis Gordon, Bruno Gulli, Nancy Holmstrom, Alison Jaggar, Keith Law, Mark Linenthal, Gabriel Vargas Lozano, James Marsh, James Martel, Sean Martin, Nancy Mirabal, Kurt Nutting, Kelly Oliver, Gail Presbey, Miriam Rainbird, Miriam Jimenez Roman, Elena Flores Ruiz-Aho, Joel Schechter, Richard Schmitt, Tony Smith, Ron Sundstrom, Danney Ursery, and many other innovative, engaged thinkers.

Banquet with John Carlos Perea and his Native American fusion quartet.
Saturday, 11/8/08, 7:30 to 9:30

For more details, please visit:

http://www.sfsu.edu/~raza/rpa/
http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp
http://www.radicalphilosophy.org/