Joseph Schwartz

A panel held on April 5, 2014 at the Sixth Annual Platypus International Convention at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Chris Cutrone (Platypus) Samir Gandesha (Simon Fraser University) Nikos Malliaris (Lieux Communs) Dimitrios Roussopoulos (Transnational Institute of Social Ecology) Joseph Schwartz (Temple University) Description No coarser insult, no baser defamation, can be thrown against the workers than the remark, ‘Theoretical controversies are for the intellectuals’ [Read More]

A workshop with the Democratic Socialists of America (Joseph Schwartz (Temple University) and Bill Barclay) held on April 5, 2014, at the Sixth Platypus International Convention. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Every year at the Platypus International Convention, speakers from various perspectives are asked to bring their experience of the Left’s recent history to bear on today’s political possibilities and challenges as part of the “Differing Perspectives on the Left” workshop series. [Read More]

A lecture by Joseph M. Schwartz, Professor of Political Science (Temple University), and author of The Future of Democratic Equality: Reconstructing Social Solidarity in a Fragmented United States (2009) - winner of the 2011 American Political Science Association’s David Easton Book Prize. Presented by the Platypus Affiliated Society at the University of Chicago on April 3, 2014. Co-sponsored by The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) and the University of Chicago Department of Political Science. [Read More]

A panel event held at the School for Visual Arts on February 25, 2014. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Alan Akrivos (Socialist Alternative) Dick Howard (Stony Brook) Alan Milchman (Internationalist Perspective) Joseph Schwartz (DSA) Description From the financial crisis and the bank bail-outs to the question of “sovereign debt”; from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street; from the struggle for a unified European-wide policy to the elections in Greece and Egypt that seem to have threatened so much and promised so little – the need to go beyond mere “protest” has asserted itself: political revolution is in the air, again. [Read More]