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Thursday, February 2 at Corwin Pavilion

2:30 p.m. CONFERENCE WELCOME
Richard Flacks, Professor of Sociology emeritus, UCSB, “What Happened at Port Huron.”
Harrison Weber, President, UCSB Associated Students,”Why students should care about Port Huron.”

3:00 p.m.  KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Tom Hayden, principal drafter of the Port Huron Statement; co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society, "Fifty Years of Participatory Democracy, From Port Huron to Occupy Wall Street."

4:00 p.m.   PORT HURON AS AN EPISODE IN OUR LIVES: PARTICIPANTS REFLECT ON LEGACIES AND LESSONS
Chair: Richard Flacks, Professor of Sociology emeritus, UCSB.

Mickey Flacks, community leader.
Chuck McDew, founding chair of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). 
Bob Ross, professor of sociology, Clark University.
Michael Vester, Professor of Political Science, emeritus, University of Hanover, Germany.

6:00 p.m. RECEPTION AND DINNER AT THE FACULTY CLUB
             SPEAKER: Michael Kazin, Professor of History, Georgetown University; Co-Editor of Dissent,
            “Two Cheers for Utopia: Port Huron and the Fate of the Not-so-New Left.”

The dinner will feature informal opportunity for intergenerational dialog with current student organizers and activists

 

Friday February 3 at Miller McCune Conference Room, Humanities and Social Science Building

9:30 a.m.  THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Chair, Joshua Freeman,  Department of History, City University of New York.          

Nelson Lichtenstein, MacArthur Foundation Chair in History, UCSB, “Why were the Students for a Democratic Society Meeting at a United Auto Workers Summer Camp?”
Dan Geary, Senior Lecturer in History, Trinity College, Dublin, “How the New Left Transformed American Liberalism.”
Grace Hale, Professor of History and American Studies, University of Virginia, “The Romance of Rebellion.”
Lisa McGirr, Professor of History, Harvard University, “The Worldwide New Left in the Early 1960s.”

12:00-1:00 p.m. LUNCH

1:00 p.m. THE FATE OF PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY
Chair: Howard Winant, Professor of Sociology, UCSB.

James Miller, Professor of Politics and Liberal Studies, New School  for Social Research, “Is Democracy Still in the Streets?” 
Erik Olin Wright, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Envisioning Real Utopias.”
Jane Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, “Beyond Adversary Democracy.”
Michael Vester, University of Hanover, “Participatory Democracy: A Long Revolution: Looking Backward and Looking Forward from Port Huron.”

3:00 p.m. GENERATIONS OF ORGANIZERS: VETERAN ORGANIZERS IN DIALOG WITH A NEW GENERATION
Chair:  Alice O’Connor, Department of History, UCSB.

Steve Max, Midwest Academy
Ben Manski, Madison Wisconsin, Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution
Charles Payne, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Vivian Rothstein, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

4:00 p.m. PANELISTS WILL LEAD BREAKOUT CIRCLES WITH CURRENT STUDENTS

Breakout Session 1, HSSB 6056: Steve Max and Sophia Armen.
Breakout Session 2, HSSB 3201: Ben Manski and Miguel Albarran.
Breakout Session 3, HSSB 3202: Charles Payne and Yoel Haile.
Breakout Session 4, McCune Room: Vivian Rothstein and Harrison Weber.

5:30 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS

7:00 p.m. INFORMAL GET TOGETHER WITH FOOD AND DRINKS

Boris/Lichtenstein residence (see program for details).

Sponsored by Dissent, The Nation  and at UCSB the Dick Flacks Democracy Fund,
Associated Students, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the
Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.