8/12/2005

 

Note: This is the tentative schedule as of August.  There will be a few changes. And if you have been thinking about presenting but have not got in touch with us yet, there is still some room for additions – contact Al Campbell at Al@economics.utah.edu

 

2005 URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat

 

Alternatives!

August 20-23, 2005

Camp Chinqueka

Bantam, CT

 

SATURDAY, AUGUST 20

 

3:00 – 4:00. Steering Committee Meeting

 

4:00. REGISTRATION BEGINS AND CONTINUES ALL WEEKEND

 

5:00. RECEPTION/INTRODUCTION TO URPE

 

6:00 – 7:00. DINNER

 

6:00. Graduate Students meeting for those already there (over dinner).

 

7:00 – 9:00. PLENARY 1: POLICY ALTERNATIVES

 

Policy Implications of No Child Left Behind. Susan Williams McElroy, Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Dallas.

 

Be Utopian. Demand the Realistic. Bob Pollin, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI).

 

Labor Policy: What are the Questions? Gil Skillman, Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University.  Author most recently with Joyce Jacobsen of Labor Markets and Employment Relationships.

 

9:15 – 11:00.  Contra Dancing

 

SUNDAY AUGUST 21

 

7:45 – 8:45. BREAKFAST

 

8:50 – 10:50. PLEANRY 2: RESTRUCTURING SOCIAL RELATIONS

 

The Transformative Moment: Personal Healing and the Restructuring of Economic Relations. Julie Matthaei, Professor of Economics, Wellesley College.

 

Commodity Fetishism: A Concept for Organizing Sweatshop Labor. John Miller, Professor of Economics, Wheaton College.

 

Re-embedding the Rural Economy: Social Capital, Economic Justice, and Environmental Stewardship. Hιctor Sαez, Professor of Economics, Community Development and Applied Economics Program and Environmental Program, University of Vermont.

 

11:00 – 12:00 Morning Workshops and Panels

            Site A: Reading the Business Press. Danny Luce and Paddy Quick

            Site B: From Edward Bellamy to the Computerized Job Market. Century-spanning Proposals for Full-employment and a Shorter Work-week.  Jenny Brown

            Site C: Economists' Perspectives on Poverty: Do the Poor Dig Their Own Holes? Laurie Johnson

 

 

12:00 – 1:00. LUNCH

 

12:00. Women’s Caucus meeting (over lunch)

 

1:00 – 1:50. RECREATION. Swim, boat, hike, relax with your friends, enjoy life and the beautiful camp.

 

2:00 – 3:00.  Afternoon Workshops and Panels

            Site A: A Monopoly Model of Accounting Fraud. Laura Ebert

            Site B: Agents for Socialism and Community: Flirting with Aristotle (co-organized with the AESA) Ted Burczak and Philip Kozel

            Site C: Overlooked Logical Problems in the Fundamental Economics of Macro 101 Create Unnecessary and Socially Damaging Pro-Wealth Biases. Sara Dustin

 

3:10 – 4:15. Business Meeting

 

4:30 – 6:00. The DAVID GORDON LECTURE

THE FUTURE WITHIN THE PRESENT: Seven Theses for a Robust 21st- Century Socialism. David Laibman, Professor of Economics, Brooklyn College and Graduate School CUNY, and Editor of Science & Society.

 

6:00 – 7:00. DINNER

 

6:00. Graduate Students meeting (over dinner).

 

7:00 – 9:00. PLENARY 3: ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM

 

How Do We Begin to Get Serious About an American Transitional Strategy?  Gar Alperovitz, Professor of Political Economy, University of Maryland. Author most recently of Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy

 

New Possibilities for a Democratic Planned Economy.  Allin Cottrell, Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University.

 

Participatory Economics.  Robin Hahnel, Professor of Economics, American University. Author most recently of Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation.

 

9:15 – 11:00.  Music, Entertainment

 

MONDAY, AUGUST 22

 

7:45 – 8:45. BREAKFAST

 

9:00 – 11:45. Morning Workshops and Panels

 

9:00 – 10:15.

Site A: A Class Analysis of Socialism and Communism: What was the USSR? (co-organized with the AESA). Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff

 

10:30 – 11:45.

Site A: A Student Centered/Constructivist/Contextual Learning Model Unemployment/Outsourcing/Globalization. Ed Ford and Dan Leclerc

Site B (goes to 12:00): Literature and Political Economy. Graham Cassano, Barbara Foley, Julian Markels and Patty Lee Parmalee

 

12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH

 

1:00 – 2:20. RECREATION. Swim, boat, hike, relax with your friends, enjoy life and the beautiful camp.

 

2:30 – 6:00. Afternoon Workshops and Panels

 

2:30 – 3:30.

            Site A: Conceptualizing the Working Class When it is Unemployed. Marie Duggan

            Site B: Rural Development and Neoliberalism in Central America. Michael Courville

 

3:45 – 4:45.

            Site A: Unions and Globalization. Stephan Edel

            Site B: Living Simple and Confronting Consumerism. Germai Medhanie

 

5:00 – 6:00

            Site A: Documentaries as an Agent for Social Change. Joan Sekler

            Site B: The Place of Class in Economics. Michael Zweig

 

6:00 – 7:00. DINNER

 

7:00 – 9:00. PLEANRY 4: GRADUATE STUDENTS AND HETERODOX ECONOMICS

 

9:15 - 11:00. Radical Folk Music.

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 23

 

7:45 – 8:45. BREAKFAST

 

8:50 – 12:00 Morning Workshops and Panels.

 

8:50 – 9:50.

            Site A: Bhopal After 20 years of Struggle, the 20th Anniversary of the World's Worst Industrial Disaster. Ward Morehouse

            Site B: Cuba Update. Al Campbell and Susan Metz

 

9:55 – 10:55

            Site A: The Media and the Fight Against Corporate Abuse of Power. Carolyn Toll Oppenheim

            Site B: The Job Market for Economists. Laurie Nisonoff and Paddy Quick

 

11:00 – 12:00.

Site A: Is undocumented migration generating larger flows of migrant remittances?  Alex Julca

Site B: Why Radical Political Economics Should be Marxist. Al Campbell and David Laibman

 

 

12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH

 

END OF CONFERENCE - SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR!