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January 6, 2004 - 10:35pm -- jim
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"Resistance"

7th Annual Conference

Society for European Philosophy

London, Aug, 26-28, 2004

At the University of Greenwich, Maritime Campus

Conference web site: www.gre.ac.uk/~jk13/SEP2004

The greatest thinkers and movements of European philosophy have been
concerned to question and analyse the systems of thought, economies and
patterns of behaviour that constitute the dominant ideology of their time.
Modern European philosophy has attained its power by producing concepts
and questions that interrupt the presuppositions and techniques of that
order.


However, the specificity of contemporary forms of power seems to rest in
the fact that, far from being challenged by resistance, they thrive upon
it; many of the old forms of resistance have not simply passed away, but
have been effectively taken into the very economy they sought to break.
This is the reality confronting philosophical thinking today.

January 5, 2004 - 11:23am -- jim
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Library of Social Science Symposium on the Psychological Interpretation of War

January 14-17, 2004, New York City


Anthony Giddens has observed that the failure of scholars to come to terms with the meaning of violence and war constitutes “one of the most extraordinary blank spots in social theory in the twentieth century.”  This is an astonishing lacuna.  War is a central institution in the history of civilization. World War I and World War II were the defining events of the 20th century.  Just when it seemed that we were moving toward a globalized existence, we have been thrown once again into a world dominated by ideologies of violence.

January 5, 2004 - 11:03am -- jim
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"LIfe After Capitalism" Conference

New York City, August 20-22, 2004

As a new wave of activism in the US and abroad popularizes
opposition to global capitalism, it is essential that we continue to
develop alternative visions of a post-capitalist society. This
conference seeks to create a forum for people from diverse movements
to refine collectively our analysis of capitalism, to develop new
visions for directly democratic economic and political systems, and
to build effective organizing strategies for actualizing our
visions. This conference builds on the project initiated by ZNet at
the 2003 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

December 17, 2003 - 9:15am -- jim
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ReadMe Three

August 2004, Aarhus, Denmark

Dear all!

Below is the info on the conference we'll have as a part of the next READ_ME software art festival (last week of August 2004, Aarhus, Denmark).

December 15, 2003 - 8:53am -- jim
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savoir faire writes:

"Shock to the System"
Saturday Dec 20th, 2003, 9:30pm
CBGB's Gallery @ 315 Bowery btn 1st/2nd

An NYC Indymedia Video Collective fundraiser &
screening of Miami FTAA
protest and police brutality footage.

Performers:
David Rovics - Radical Folk Singer
Samoa - (formerly of Voluptuous Horror of Karen
Black)
Leftist Country Western
CEO - (the Chronic Electronic Orchestra) Trip-hop
with socially conscious lyrics
Dynamite Club - Avant garde kung fu punk rock
Seth Tobocman - radical slide projection and
spoken word
brad - anarchist love songs
Bat -spoken word
And Others

Featuring a new film from the streets of Miami
shot collectively by dozens of media activists.
Proceeds help replace thousands of dollars of
video equipment stolen by Miami police and to pay
for legal fees for Indymedia journalist.

December 9, 2003 - 9:06am -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes:

Culture and the Unconscious Conference

London, July 9-10, 2004


After our highly successful launch event in July this year, we are very
pleased to announce the second Culture and the Unconscious conference to be
held at SOAS, London on 9th and 10th July 2004. Bringing together,
psychoanalysts, artists and academics, this conference aims to bring the
clinically-based insights of psychoanalysts and the theoretical and critical
approaches of academics into dialogue with one another.

December 8, 2003 - 10:35am -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes:

"future/tense"

Time and Politics Conference

Graduate Conference in the Department of Anthropology,
Johns Hopkins University, February 28th, 2004

Risk, survival, trauma, globalization, technology, security -– each in its different way is tied to the contests and claims of an uncertain future, an embattled present or an un-mastered past. Anthropology, as a particular mode of engagement with the world, attempts to understand the ways in which these overarching phenomena fold into the weave of everyday life. The graduate students of the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University invite papers for future/tense, a student conference addressing notions of time and politics.

December 5, 2003 - 9:34am -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes:

"A Bridge to Africa"


A caravan of artists, media activists, scientists and technicians from all over the world is presently gathering in Andalucia in the south of Spain. The Euro-African project will cross the Straits of Gibraltar in December, and move south along the west-coast of Africa [map], reclaiming the Straits as a bridge, not a boundary. The Caravan describes itself as "a sound system, a circus, a mobile cinema and a stage for theatre and performance". It is constantly open for everyone who wants to participate.

November 30, 2003 - 12:18pm -- jim
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anonymous kumquat writes:

On Monday & Tuesday, December 8-9, 2003 in Washington DC, the
Religious Working Group on the IMF/ World Bank will hold an
extraordinary national conference on


"Faith in Practice:
Connecting the Dots for Global Economic Justice."

For anyone who wants to develop a deeper spiritual/ religious
understanding of "globalization" from the top-down and from
the bottom up, combining knowledge of the facts with wisdom
about the choices, this could be am important education.

Shalom, Arthur

November 30, 2003 - 12:14pm -- jim
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jim writes:

"Race and Labor Matters"
hosted by the Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education
Thursday, December 4th 6pm-10pm
Friday, December 5th 8am-6pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.), New York City

Historically, labor has played an important, if under analyzed, role in the struggle against racism. However, the U.S. labor movement has never fully addressed the complex and enduring issues of race and racism. Profound and ongoing structural, political, technological, and demographic transformations have fundamentally changed the dynamics of race and labor in America and in the globalized work force. What are the new problems, opportunities, and features of labor's 21st century color barrier?

Join leading labor scholars and trade union activists for a reframing of the relationship between race and labor in America. Through interdisciplinary approaches to the subject, panelists will consider significant economic, social, historical, and political conditions affecting racial stratification in union and non-union labor. Panels will discuss U.S. labor and race matters in relation to affirmative action, immigration, labor-community relations, diversity, globalization, anti-racist union efforts, union democracy, gender and possibilities for social change.

http://www.raceandlabor.org/index.htm"

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