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    Bruno Bosteels and Norman Finkelstein speaking this week

         

    Bruno Bosteels and Norman Finkelstein will be speaking this week as part of the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series, a Free School University forum. Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University will be speaking on Tuesday, November 29 @5:00pm, on the “Actuality of Communism”. Norman Finkelstein, an expert on the Israel-Palestine conflict, will be speaking on Wednesday, November 30@5:00pm. In case you can’t make it, he will also be speaking again at Boston University later in the evening. You can find video from past lectures at the Zinn Lectures website.

    Michael Denning speaking today at 5pm

    Michael Denning is the William R Kenan Jr Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the Director of the Initiative on Labor and Culture.

    Among his publications are Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (Verso,2004), The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (Verso, 1997), Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working Class Culture in America (Verso, 1987), and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987).

    Professor Denning will be speaking today at 5 pm. He will discuss the “Culture of Debt.”

    Please check the Zinn Lecture website for videos of previous lectures including Noam Chomsky, Elaine Bernard, Rick Wolff, Rosanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Vijay Prashad, and many more.

    Richard Wolff and Paul LeBlanc speaking at Occupy Boston

    Renowned radical economist Richard Wolf and historian Paul LeBlanc will be speaking at Occupy Boston as part of the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture  and the Free School University.  Richard Wolff will be speaking Thursday at 6:00pm. His talk is entitled  ”Economic Crisis and System Change”. You can find more information of Richard Wolf’s work at his website. Paul LeBlanc will be speaking at 5:00pm on Friday. You can find information about him and his work here.

    Noel Ignatiev speaking tomorrow at 5:00pm

    Noel Ignatiev, professor of History at Massachusetts College of Art, will be speaking tomorrow, November 12 at 5:00pm  as part of the Howard Zinn Memorial Lectures and the Free School University. He is the author of  “How the Irish Became White”. His talk is entitled  “Race and Occupy”. For a complete schedule and videos of previous talks please visit the Zinn Lectures website.

     

     

     

    Elaine Bernard Speaking Tomorrow, November 9, at 6 pm

    Elaine Bernard, executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, will be speaking tomorrow, November 9, at 6 pm as part of the Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series. Professor Bernard is a prominent labor intellectual and activist and will be speaking about the attack on public sector workers. Her talk is entitled “From Heroes to Zeros: The War on Public Employees and Their Unions”.

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