02 Feb The Port Huron Statement at 50
Keynote Speakers: Michael Kazin (History, Georgetown University)
Tom Hayden (principal author of the Port Huron Statement, political activist)
Thursday-Friday, February 2-3, 2012
Corwin Pavilion and McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
The 1962 Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the early New Left. This conference brings together a wide range of scholars and Port Huron veterans to generate a conversation designed to evaluate what is living, dead, and irrelevant in a document that has become a flashpoint for debates over the legacy of “The Sixties.” The idea of “participatory democracy” first popularized in the statement, will be among the key ideas and practices to face a twenty-first century reevaluation. Likewise, the dialectical relationship between liberalism and its presumptively radical antagonists remains a subject of much contestation, then and now.
Paul Booth Charles McDew
Joshua Freeman Lisa McGirr
Grace Hale James Miller
Howard Brick Alice O’Connor
Richard Flacks Charles Payne
Daniel Geary Bob Ross
Nelson Lichtenstein Vivian Rothstein
Ben Manski Michael Vester
Jane Mansbridge Howard Winant
Steve Max Eric Olin Wright
For a conference schedule please visit: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/labor/porthuron50-schedule.html
Sponsored by Dissent, The Nation, the Dick Flacks Democracy Fund, UCSB Associated Students, the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Public Goods series.
For more information please visit: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/labor/