In the context of the 200th Anniversary of Karl Marx' birthday Goethe-Institut San Francisco and City Lights Booksellers and Publishers will pick up on the tradition of small group study focused on specific texts like Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. We will concentrate on a few brief passages, interpret and critically analyze them together with experts. The event will start as a moderated round table discussion with invited speakers and open up to the audience after.
Panelists:
Richard Walker, Professor of Geography UC Berkeley (Emeritus), Director, Living New Deal Project
Richard Walker is professor emeritus of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for almost 40 years. His latest book is: "Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area", just out from PM Press, Oakland
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Historian of Indigenous History, Teacher, Activist
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz holds a PhD in History from University of California Los Angeles. In addition to the doctorate, she completed the Diplôme of the International Law of Human Rights at the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg. She taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies.
Alan Black, Literary Bartender, Author, General Manager at the Edinburgh Castle Pub
Moderator: Frederick Young
Frederick Young received his PhD in English at the University of Florida, concentrating in Continental Philosophy and Conceptual Art. He has lectured in Sweden, the US and Nepal. Young has been involved in several avant-garde conceptual art projects including the Walter Benjamin installation and conference at SFAI.
In collaboration with City Lights Booksellers and Publishers
Free Admission,
https://www.goethe.de/sf/events
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Panelists:
Richard Walker, Professor of Geography UC Berkeley (Emeritus), Director, Living New Deal Project
Richard Walker is professor emeritus of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for almost 40 years. His latest book is: "Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area", just out from PM Press, Oakland
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Historian of Indigenous History, Teacher, Activist
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz holds a PhD in History from University of California Los Angeles. In addition to the doctorate, she completed the Diplôme of the International Law of Human Rights at the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg. She taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies.
Alan Black, Literary Bartender, Author, General Manager at the Edinburgh Castle Pub
Moderator: Frederick Young
Frederick Young received his PhD in English at the University of Florida, concentrating in Continental Philosophy and Conceptual Art. He has lectured in Sweden, the US and Nepal. Young has been involved in several avant-garde conceptual art projects including the Walter Benjamin installation and conference at SFAI.
In collaboration with City Lights Booksellers and Publishers
Free Admission,
https://www.goethe.de/sf/events
In the context of the 200th Anniversary of Karl Marx' birthday Goethe-Institut San Francisco and City Lights Booksellers and Publishers will pick up on the tradition of small group study focused on specific texts like Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. We will concentrate on a few brief passages, interpret and critically analyze them together with experts. The event will start as a moderated round table discussion with invited speakers and open up to the audience after.
Panelists:
Richard Walker, Professor of Geography UC Berkeley (Emeritus), Director, Living New Deal Project
Richard Walker is professor emeritus of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for almost 40 years. His latest book is: "Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area", just out from PM Press, Oakland
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Historian of Indigenous History, Teacher, Activist
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz holds a PhD in History from University of California Los Angeles. In addition to the doctorate, she completed the Diplôme of the International Law of Human Rights at the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg. She taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies.
Alan Black, Literary Bartender, Author, General Manager at the Edinburgh Castle Pub
Moderator: Frederick Young
Frederick Young received his PhD in English at the University of Florida, concentrating in Continental Philosophy and Conceptual Art. He has lectured in Sweden, the US and Nepal. Young has been involved in several avant-garde conceptual art projects including the Walter Benjamin installation and conference at SFAI.
In collaboration with City Lights Booksellers and Publishers
Free Admission,
https://www.goethe.de/sf/events
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Panelists:
Richard Walker, Professor of Geography UC Berkeley (Emeritus), Director, Living New Deal Project
Richard Walker is professor emeritus of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for almost 40 years. His latest book is: "Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area", just out from PM Press, Oakland
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, Historian of Indigenous History, Teacher, Activist
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz holds a PhD in History from University of California Los Angeles. In addition to the doctorate, she completed the Diplôme of the International Law of Human Rights at the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg. She taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies.
Alan Black, Literary Bartender, Author, General Manager at the Edinburgh Castle Pub
Moderator: Frederick Young
Frederick Young received his PhD in English at the University of Florida, concentrating in Continental Philosophy and Conceptual Art. He has lectured in Sweden, the US and Nepal. Young has been involved in several avant-garde conceptual art projects including the Walter Benjamin installation and conference at SFAI.
In collaboration with City Lights Booksellers and Publishers
Free Admission,
https://www.goethe.de/sf/events
show less
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