Greg Gabrellas

Panel held at the Marxist Literary Group Summer 2011 Institute on Culture and Society at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago on June 22, 2011 Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Chris Cutrone, Lenin Greg Gabrellas, Luxemburg Ian Morrison, Trotsky Moderated by Spencer A. Leonard. Description The legacy of revolution 1917-19 in Russia, Germany, Hungary and Italy is concentrated above all in the historical figures Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg and Leon Trotsky, leaders of the Left in the Second International (1889-1914)—what they called “revolutionary social democracy” – in the period preceding the crisis of war, revolution, counterrevolution and civil war in World War I and its aftermath. [Read More]

Panel organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society given at the 2011 annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association in Chicago, IL on Thursday, March 24, 2011, at Columbia College, Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Benjamin Shepard - Independent Scholar (Los Angeles), Platypus Affiliated Society Jacob Cayia - University of Illinois - Chicago Omair Hussain - School of the Art Institute of Chicago [Read More]

A panel organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society, held on March 19, 2011, at Left Forum, Pace University. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element A version of Greg Gabrellas’ remarks are transcripted in Platypus Review #38 Panelists Ben Shepard - Platypus Affiliated Society Greg Gabrellas - University of Chicago Stephen Eric Bronner - Rutgers University Description Over 90 years ago, Rosa Luxemburg was killed in the failed German Revolution of 1918-19. [Read More]

A roundtable discussion hosted by Platypus NYU Monday, November 8, 2010 Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcripted in Platypus Review #32 Panelists Kenyon Farrow, Queers for Economic Justice Greg Gabrellas, Platypus Gary Mucciaroni, Political Science, Temple University Sherry Wolf, International Socialist Organization Moderated by Jeremy Cohan. Descriptipon With roots in earlier radical traditions, movements that sought to radically redefine the relationship of sex, politics, and freedom erupted onto the historical stage in the 60s. [Read More]

A panel discussion held on May 29, 2010 at the second Platypus International Convention at SAIC. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Greg Gabrellas Pam C. Nogales C. Spencer A. Leonard Description The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed the rise of a new militancy and sectarianism on the Left. Whether in the case of the Black Panthers, the Weather Underground, the Gay Liberation Front, or many other currents on the Left, developments from that time did much to shape the New Left’s legacy as it comes down to the present. [Read More]