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H-PAD Issues Forums Announcement #2 Additional Speakers! |
 October 7, 2020 |
Last week, Historians for Peace and Justice (H-PAD) announced its Virtual Issues Forums, along with a list of twenty-seven leading historians, intellectuals, and activists who are willing to present, via Zoom or Skype, to campus or community gatherings around the country. Now we are adding five speakers to that list. All the speakers are available to speak, without honoraria, on a range of topics crucial to the upcoming November elections. We urged—and we again urge now–H-PAD members and supporters to contact speakers directly by email to set up forums in their locales during October. As we pointed out in the original announcement, these virtual events are much simpler and quicker to arrange than face-to-face sessions.
Times are difficult now, and the struggle is intense. To again repeat our first announcement, during the coming weeks, when our students and others are increasingly focused on the election, we have an opportunity to do valuable educational work around the critical issues of our time. Please consider scheduling an Issues Forum in your locale! Or–an additional idea–set up a speaker as part of a regular distance or hybrid class, and then invite others to join the class presentation.
Please contact us with questions or for more information,
Rusti Eisenberg (Carolyn.Eisenberg@hofstra.edu), Andor Skotnes (skotna@sage.edu)
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Here are the five additional speakers:
Leslie Cagan (climate change and relation to other issues: power of protest, organizing in a pandemic); coordinator of The Peoples Climate Movement, NY; former national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice; email: lesliecagan@igc.org
Desta Cantave (art, civil rights, civil liberties); Hampshire College; web: https://clpp.hampshire.edu/about-us/who-we-are/desta-cantave; email: dcantave@hampshire.edu
Joseph Gerson (dangers of Trump tyranny; urgent need to defend constitutional democracy); president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security; member of Mass. Peace Action’s board; Vice-President of the International Peace Bureau; web: https://www.afsc.org/media-kit/bios/joseph-gerson; email: jgerson80@gmail.com
Tiyi Morris (racial conflict); Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University; web: https://newark.osu.edu/directory/morris-tiyi.html; email: morris.730@osu.edu
Liz Theoharis (issues of democracy, poverty, racism, ecological devastation, militarism, and Christian nationalism); Union Theological Seminary; Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice; co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival; web: http://liztheoharis.org/about/; email: liz.theoharis@gmail.com
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Here, again, is the original list of twenty-seven speakers distributed earlier (also on the H-PAD web site here):
Ervand Abrahamian (US relations with Iran) Baruch College emeritus; web: https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/history/eabrahamian.htm; email: Ervand.Abrahamian@baruch.cuny.edu
Alexander Aviña (immigration/US-Latin America Relations) Arizona State University; web https://newsroom.asu.edu/expert/alexander-aviña; https://alexanderavina.com; email alexander.avina@asu.edu
Medea Benjamin (resisting US militarism and interventions) CODEPINK; web: https://www.codepink.org/medea_benjamin; email: medea@codepink.org
Dr.Oliver Fein (healthcare) Cornell Medical School; web: https://weillcornell.org/otfein; email: ofein@med.cornell.edu
Bill Fletcher, Jr (right-wing populism; labor; and foreign policy) syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator; web: http://billfletcherjr.com/; email: billfletcherjr@gmail.com
Irene Gendzier (US relations in the Middle East) Boston University; web: https://www.bu.edu/polisci/people/faculty-emeriti/gendzier/; email: gendzier@bu.edu
Josh Freeman (labor relations) CUNY Graduate Center; web: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/History/Faculty-Bios/Joshua-B-Freeman; email: jfreeman@gc.cuny.edu
Bill Hartung (military spending; budget priorities; arms trade; military-industrial complex) Center for International Policy; web: https://www.internationalpolicy.org/william-hartung; email: whartung@internationalpolicy.org
Kellie Carter Jackson (the racial crisis) Wellesley College; web: https://www.wellesley.edu/africana/faculty/carter-jackson; email: kjackso6@wellesley.edu
Namrata Jacob (reproductive justice) Civil Liberties and Public Policy, Hampshire College;
email: NamrataJacob14@gmail.com
Rashid Khalidi (US Middle East Policy) Columbia University; web: https://history.columbia.edu/person/khalidi-rashid/; email: rik2101@columbia.
Michael Klare (climate change; arms control) Arms Control Association; web: https://www.armscontrol.org/about/Michael_Klare; email: mklare@armscontrol.org
Peter Kuznick (nuclear weapons) American University; web: https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/kuznick.cfm; email: pkuznick@aol.com
Nelson Lichtenstein (From Old New Deal to Green New Deal) University of California, Santa Barbara; web: https://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/nelson-lichtenstein/; email: nelson@history.ucsb.edu
Wilbur Miller (police misconduct) Stony Brook emeritus; web: Annaliese Orleck https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/history/people/emeriti/miller.php; email: wilbur.miller@stonybrook.edu
Molly Nolan (trans-Atlantic relations, ) New York University emeritus; web: https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/individual-scholar-page/?pdb=1807; email: mn4@nyu.edu
Annaliese Orleck (global economy /low income workers) Dartmouth College; web: https://history.dartmouth.edu/people/annelise-orleck; email: Annelise.Orleck@Dartmouth.EDU
Kimberly K Phillips-Fein (The Fiscal Crisis of States and Cities; The State of the Right–The History of Conservatism and Its Lessons for the Present) New York University; web: https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/kpf2.html : email: kpf2@nyu.edu
Dr. Marjorie Rogers (healthcare) President-Elect of Physicians for a National Health Program; web: https://pnhp.org/about/speakers-bureau/susan-rogers/; email: rgrsssn@gmail.com
Loretta Ross (reproductive justice, women of color, White supremacy and hate groups, calling in the Cancel Culture.) Smith College; web: https://www.lorettaross.com/Biography.html; email: lorossta@gmail.com
Ellen Schrecker (civil liberties) Yeshiva-emeritus; web: https://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1380/ellen-schrecker/; email: ellen.schrecker@gmail.com
Alan Singer (crisis of democracy) Hofstra University; web: https://www.hofstra.edu/faculty/fac_profiles.cfm?id=1412, email: Alan.J.Singer@hofstra.edu
Dr. Paul Song (heathcare) President of California Chapter, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP); website: https://www.huffpost.com/author/paul-song; email: paulysong@gmail.com
Barbara Winslow (historic struggle for the vote); web: https://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1640/barbara-winslow/; email: bwpurplewins@gmail.com
Barbara Weinstein (Trump’s impact on Latin American politics) New York University; web: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/barbara-weinstein.html; email: barbara.weinstein@nyu.edu
Jon Wiener University of California Irvine; web: https://jonwiener.com/bio/; email: wiener@uci.edu
Larry Wittner (nuclear weapons) SUNY Albany emeritus; web: https://www.lawrenceswittner.com/; email: larrywittner@gmail.com