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Beyond, are eligible for inclusion in the next GSA Book of Papers. Papers
must be complete and submitted for review by the following due dates:
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PAST GSA NORTH AMERICA CONFERENCES
2010: University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Global Crises and Beyond
Date: May 7 - 9, 2010
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Conference Program.
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Conference Abstracts.
2009: Florida
Atlantic University, Boca Raton

Globalization and the Struggle for Peace and Human Rights
Date: May 8 - 10, 2009
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2008:
Pace University, New York
The Nation in the Global Era: Nationalism and Globalization in Conflict
and Transition
Date: June 6 - 8, 2008
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Keynote Speakers
2007: University of
California, Irvine
The Contested Terrains of Globalization
Date: May 17 - 20, 2007
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Abstracts.
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(11"x17").
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(8.5"x13").
2006: DePaul University,
Chicago, Illinois
Alternative Globalizations
Date: May 12 - 14, 2006
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Alternative Globalizations Conference Abstracts
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Alternative Globalizations Conference Schedule
2005: University of
Tennessee - Knoxville
Crosscurrents of Global Social Justice: Class, Gender and Race
Date: May 13 - 15, 2005
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poster.(PDF:993kB)
2004: Brandeis University,
Waltham, Massachusetts
Globalization, Empire and Resistance
Date: April 23 - 25, 2004
In 2004 Brandeis University hosted the third North American GSA conference
on Globalization, Empire and Resistance. It was a progressive conference
embracing a variety of critical, and radical perspectives on globalization.
Many leading scholars from all over the world explored the many effects
of globalization-as well as alternative visions. Featured speakers included:
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Seymour Melman
One of America’s most respected scholars on capitalism and U.S. militarism
from Columbia University spoke on “The Permanent War Economy”
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Leo Panitch
Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy at York University,
Toronto, co-editor of the Socialist Register, and co-author of Global
Capitalism and American Empire spoke on “Global Capitalism and American
Empire”
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Sam Gindin
Packer visiting Chair in Social Justice at York University, Toronto, former
head of research and assistant to the President, Canadian Auto Workers’
Union, and co-author of Global Capitalism and American Empire spoke on
“Labor Resistance in the Era of Globalization"
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William Tabb
Professor of economics at Queens College, New York, Monthly Review contributor
and author of "The Amoral Elephant" spoke on "The Global State and Economic
Institutions"
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Jose Maria Sison
Former senior research fellow and professor at the University of the Philippines,
co-founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines spoke via video satellite
from Holland on “War, Imperialism, and Resistance from Below”
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Leslie Sklair
From the London School of Economics, and author of "The Transnational
Capitalist Class" spoke on “Globalization, Imperialism and the International
System”
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Edna Bonacich
Professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego,
and co-author of "Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel
Industry" spoke on “Labor, Immigration and Global Production”
2003: University of
California - Santa Barbara
Towards a Critical Globalization Studies: Continued Debates, New Directions,
and Neglected Topics
Date: May 1 - 4, 2003
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images from the conference.
Some one hundred scholars, public intellectuals, and global justice activists
from around the world gathered at UCSB on May 1 through 4, 2003 to discuss
the future of globalization. Participants came from Armenia, Canada, Ecuador,
France, Holland, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Turkey, United
Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay, among other countries.
The "Towards a Critical Globalization Studies: Continued Debates, New
Directions, and Neglected Topics" conference successfully examined the
development of global studies in the academy and explored the bridges
between global studies and the global justice movement.
2002: Loyola University,
Chicago, Illinois
Globalisation and Social Justice
Date: May 10 - 11, 2002
In May of 2002 the very first annual conference of the North American
GSA was held at Loyola University in Chicago. Jointly sponsored by the
GSA and the department of sociology at Loyola University, the conference
theme was ‘Globalisation and Social Justice’. It proved to be a highly
successful event with over fifty papers and workshops, covering a broad
spectrum of themes concerning issues of global social justice. The keynote
speakers were also excellent and included Leslie Sklair, one of GSA/UK’s
vice presidents, who played a prominent role at the conference as a whole.
The quality of the papers was extremely high and they generated many
hours of intensive and exciting discussion and argument. Academics from
an impressively wide range of disciplines and research areas came from
far and wide across the United States. However, there were also a number
of speakers and participants who were political activists, such as current
or former trade union organizers or people presently involved in various
fair trade campaigns linked partly to student protests around the campuses
of the US.
Despite the clearly focused sense of realism among the conference participants
concerning the vast problems of social division, social exclusion and
conflict that are currently only too evident in the world at the present
time and the anxieties about the quality of world political – and especially
American – leadership, an encouraging atmosphere of guarded optimism in
relation to the real possibility of increasingly effective alliances and
political struggles against global poverty was also quite evident.
It was gratifying to encounter quite a number of GSA members who managed
to attend the Chicago conference including three from Britain, one from
Canada and three from the USA. One of the key events scheduled at the
conference was the inauguration of the North American chapter of the
GSA. The first GSA branch or chapter to be established outside the
UK. More than twenty people attended this special meeting and after some
discussion the new branch was duly set-up. What was particularly encouraging
was the number of postgraduate students who were prepared to become involved
in helping to establish the new North American branch of the USA and,
moreover, presence among these postgraduates and other participants who
were people living in the USA but who had strong links with countries
in Central America and South East Asia. They quite rightly insisted that
right from the outset the new branch must concern itself as deeply as
possible with the problems and themes of Southern peoples and countries
if be a truly global association are to have any meaning.
From the Global Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 2, July 2002
Paul Kennedy, GSA Secretary
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