Jan. 27 HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE. Isaac Curtis, Moderator. Student representatives from the Maine Peace Action Committee, the Progressive Student Alliance, and other UMaine organization. (Part of Human Rights Week)
Feb. 3 UNDERSTANDING OCCUPATION: A SIX-MONTH
TRAVELOGUE THROUGH OCCUPIED GAZA. Noah Dudley Dillard, International
Solidarity Movement non-violence
trainer, lived and worked with impoverished Palestinian families struggling to
resist the illegal occupation of their land.
Feb. 10 LINGUISTIC POLITICS AND LANGUAGE WARS IN
EUROPE.
Professor Kathleen March, Spanish
Feb. 17 A SOCIALIST’S TAKE ON THE 2004 ELECTION AND
THE SITUATION NOW FACING THE WORKING
CLASS. Carl
Cooley, industrial worker, farmer, teacher, and Socialist Equality Party candidate for Congress in 2004
Feb. 24 A NATION DRUNK ON ILLUSIONS: THE AMERICAN
IMPERIAL PROJECT AND ITS INEVITABLE FAILURE. Professor Burt Hatlen, English
Mar. 17 SHOULD MARXISTS SUPPORT CAPITAL FLIGHT
(UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS)? Professor Michael Howard, Philosophy
Mar. 24 UNDERSTANDING THE U.S. INVASION AND
OCCUPATION OF IRAQ.
Professor Ngo Vinh Long, History, “Vietnam War and Iraq War”
Professor Doug Allen, Philosophy, “U.S. Empire and Iraq War”
Mar. 31 MILITARISM
IN THE SCHOOLS. Members of Veterans for Peace: Al Larson, Bob
McElwain, Jon Eddy, and Peter Phillips
Apr. 7 THE LAST SAMURAI MEETS W.W.II: THE ‘ZEN’ OF JAPANESE MILITARISM AND “HOLY
WAR” Dr. Brian Victoria, Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at Binghamton
University, specialist in Zen Buddhism, and author of Zen War Stories.
Apr. 14 HOW SHOULD THE LEFT THINK ABOUT TRADE?
Professor Darrel Moellendorf, Philosophy, Director of Institute
for Ethics and Public Affairs at San Diego State University, and author of Cosmopolitan Justice.
Sponsored
by Marxist-Socialist Studies Interdisciplinary Minor. Co-sponsored by Maine
Peace Action Comm. (MPAC) and Memorial Union and with generous support of the
Memorial Union and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Speakers do not necessarily present
socialist or Marxist viewpoints. For additional information, contact: Prof. Doug Allen, Coordinator,
Marxist-Socialist Studies, The Maples, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469.
Phone: 581-3860. E-mail: douglas.allen@umit.maine.edu.