Speakers
List of speakers
Topics:
Civil Liberties and Policing
Conservatism
Democracy
Environmental Crises
Health Care and Reproductive Rights
Immigration
Labor Movements
Latin America and the Caribbean
Middle East
Militarism and the Arms Race
Public Protest
Race in the US
US Foreign Policy
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Irene Gendzier, gendzier@bu.edu, is available to speak on US relations in the Middle East). She is a Professor Emerita at Boston University, where she was a long time member of the faculty, serving in the Departments of Political Science and History, as well as being a member of the African Studies Center. “Among Professor Gendzier’s…
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Dan Georgakas, georgakas@hotmail.com, is available to speak on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and models for non-authoritarian radical organizing. Dan Georgakas is an American anarchist poet and historian who specializes in oral history and the American labor movement, best known for the publication Detroit: I Do Mind…
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Steven Hahn, steven.hahn@nyu.edu, is available to address political violence in American history, slavery and racism, the Confederacy and its legacies, American empire, the illiberal tradition in American history, the invention of the liberal tradition. Professor of History at New York University, he is a specialist on the international history of slavery, emancipation, and race, on…
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Rashi Khalidi, rik2101@columbia.edu, is available to speak on US Middle East Policy. He is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. “[His research covers primarily the history of the modern Middle East. He focuses on the countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, with an eye to the emergence of various…
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Michael Klare, mklare@armscontrol.org, is available to speak on climate change and on arms control. He is a Five College professor emeritus of peace and world security studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies. “Michael Klare is currently the secretary for the Arms Control Association board of directors and…
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Peter Kuznick, pkuznick@aol.com, is available to speak on nuclear weapons policy and contention. He is a Professor of History, American University. “In 1995, he founded American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute. . . . [He] is author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists As Political Activists in 1930s, co-author with Akira Kimura of Rethinking the Atomic Bombings…
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Zachary Lockman, zl1@nyu.edu, is available to talk about issues related to Israel/Palestine, US policy in the Middle East, repression/human rights in Egypt, efforts to suppress BDS advocacy and advocacy of Palestinian rights. He is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, and History. “The main focus of my research and teaching has been the…
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Stephen Miles, stephen@winwithoutwar.org, is available to speak on US foreign policy, war powers and use of force, Pentagon/defense spending, endless wars. Executive Director of Win Without War. “He previously worked for the global campaigning organization Avaaz, as well as on multiple federal, state, and local electoral campaigns, and as the Executive Director of the American…
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Wilbur Miller, wilbur.miller@stonybrook.edu, is available to speak on US social history, police and criminality, Civil War and Reconstruction. He is a Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. “I became interested in the history of policing when I was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, during the Free Speech…
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Molly Nolan, mn4@nyu.edu, is available to speak on trans-Atlantic relations Mary [Molly] Nolan was Professor of History at New York University from 1980 to 2018 and is now Professor Emeritus. She works on twentieth-century European-American relations, on German History, and most recently on social and economic human rights in the age of neoliberalism. She is…