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PLEASE DISTRIBUTE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** *CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY* CONFERENCE Monday, August 10 9:00am – 6:15pm The Stanford Court Hotel 905 California Street, San Francisco *9:00 - 9:15 * Welcome and Introductions David Fasenfest, Editor and Richard Dello Buono, Latin American and Caribbean Editor *Critical Sociology* *9:15 - 11:00 Plenary* SACRIFICING NEOLIBERALISM TO SAVE CAPITALISM? PROSPECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL GLOBAL CRISIS Ximena de la Barra International Development Consultant and Social Policy Analyst Former Public Policy Advisor, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Discussants: NEOLIBERALISM AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS AS A SOCIAL PROCESS Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney WOMEN, GENDER AND NEOLIBERALISM Joan Acker, University of Oregon *11:15 - 12:30 * *California Blue Room* Moderator: Victoria Carty, Chapman University Participatory planning in a rural Mexican village: Lessons for community development and professional education Mercedes Arce, la Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, Marie Kennedy, Chris Tilly, UCLA The Geography of the Family of Anti-systemic Movements: Activists at the World Social Forum Chris Chase-Dunn, Rick Niemeyer, Preeta Saxena, Matheu Kaneshiro, James Love and Amanda Spears, UC-Riverside *California Gold Room* Moderator: Vida Bajc, Queens University Exploitation, Capital’s Innovations, and the Obscuring of Social Class: Notes on an Intellectual History of the Labor Theory of Value Stephen Adair, Central Connecticut State University A Progressive Vision of Interpersonal Racial Inequality Theory Chavella T. Pittman Of Innovations and Fluctuations: A Critique of the Philippine Criminal Justice System and Restorative Justice Movement Diana Veloso Secularization and the Iranian Revolution Warren Goldstein *12:30 - 1:45 * Lunch Break *2:00 - 3:15 Plenary* RACE AND POLITICS IN THE OBAMA ERA Bob Newby, Central Michigan University Discussant Martha Gimenez, University of Colorado *3:30 - 5:00 * *California Blue Room* Moderator: Gregory Pratt, University of Illinois-Chicago: ‘Change We Can Believe In,’ You Better Not Believe It: Politics as Usual in a Different Style Johnny E. Williams, Trinity University Corporate Status, Neo-liberalism and the Obama Administration Christopher Doran, University of Newcastle The Changing of the Guard 2006-2009: The Rise of the Immigration Industrial Complex and the Prospects for Progressive Immigration Reform Under the Obama Administration Jesse Díaz, Jr., University of California, Riverside Luisa Heredia, University of California, Riverside Civil Rights after Obama Suzanne Goodney Lea, Trinity University *California Gold Room* Movements and Visions for the 21st Century: The US Social Forum and World Social Forum Walda Katz-Fishman, Howard University Thomas Ponniah, Harvard University Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota Jackie Smith, University of Notre Dame Lauren Langman, Loyola University Melanie L. Bush, Adelphi University Rod Bush, St. Johns University Jerome Scott, League of Revolutionaries for a New America *5:15 – 6:15 ** * * * * * SPECIAL LABOR WORKSHOP * * * * * * The Crisis in the Newspaper Industry: Possible Responses of Organized Labor Carl Hall, Local Representative California Media Workers Guild, Local 39521, TNG-CWA -- Prof. David Fasenfest Dept of Sociology Wayne State University Editor, Critical Sociology crs.sagepub.com Series Editor Studies in Critical Social Science www.brill.nl/scss