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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Barbara Weinstein, barbara.weinstein@nyu.edu, is available to speak on Trump’s impact on Latin American politics. Professor of History, New York University. She is “Silver Professor of History and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working…
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Jon Wiener, wiener@uci.edu – major research interests, recent American history, Cold War culture. Professor Emertitus, University of California Irvine. “Jon Wiener . . . sued the FBI for their files on John Lennon . . . That story is told in his book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files. . . . He’s…
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Barbara Winslow, bwpurplewins@gmail.com, is available to speak on the historic struggle for the vote. Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College. She “is a historian of women’s activism as well as the founder and director emerita of the Shirley Chisholm Project. She is the author of Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change (2013) and a coeditor of Clio…
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Larry Wittner, larrywittner@gmail.com, is available to speak on nuclear weapons and war. Professor Emeritus, SUNY Albany. He “ is the author of nine books, the editor or co-editor of another four, and the writer of about 400 published articles and book reviews. His most ambitious scholarly project thus far has been his Struggle Against the Bomb…