[URPE] [Fwd: Call for Panel Submissions for Left Forum 2010, March 19-21 at Pace]

[Ruth Indeck]

Reminder to URPE members:

URPE members can submit panels to the LF either independently or with 
URPE sponsorship. URPE will sponsor two panels this year.

*The URPE deadline for submissions of URPE-sponsored panels is Thursday, 
November 19.* That is because the fall steering committee meeting is the 
weekend of November 21-22, and a committee of the SC will review URPE at 
LF submissions that weekend, and make a decision on which panels will be 
sponsored by URPE. (Again, you can still submit panels independently, in 
which case you don't need to go through URPE.)

The Left Forum is a great place for URPE people to present their 
thoughts on what is going on in this turbulent economy, so we encourage 
you to submit a panel.

Please send us your ideas, and if you decided to submit a panel 
independently, please let us know that also.

Thanks!


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Call for Panel Submissions for Left Forum 2010, March 19-21 at 
Pace
Date: 	Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:31:36 -0500
From: 	Left Forum panels <panels at leftforum.org>
To: 	leftforumpanels at lists.people-link.net



Dear past Left Forum panel organizers, speakers, and friends,

I am pleased to be getting back in touch with you after you helped make 
last year’s conference the best attended Left Forum yet.  

We would like you to consider proposing a panel for the upcoming Left 
Forum conference at Pace University in New York City March 19-21, 2010, 
and we look forward to working with you in the panel and conference 
organizing process.  Consider starting this process right away by 
proposing a panel in any of the following ways: go to our website 
(www.leftforum.org <http://www.leftforum.org>) and follow the panel 
submission instructions (by clicking call for panels 
<http://leftforum.mayfirst.org/node/26> or panel instructions 
<http://leftforum.mayfirst.org/2010/instructions>), email us at 
panels at leftforum.org <mailto:panels at leftforum.org>, or call our office 
(212 817-2003)

The last conference marked one of the most diverse and engaged left 
dialogue experiences to date. This year, with "recovery" of capitalist 
crisis meaning bailouts for the banks and continued suffering for 
working people, a new stridency in right wing voices, and a conservative 
tilt in Washington politics as a backdrop, we offer the following 
conference theme as one point of collaborative reference.   The theme is 
“The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination” (for the 
2010 thematic statement click here <http://leftforum.mayfirst.org/node/13>).

This year we have an easier and more accessible online panel submission 
process that you will find on our website by clicking this link: call 
for panels <http://leftforum.mayfirst.org/node/26>. I am also happy to 
say that we will include bios and other panel information online and in 
the program, to ensure maximum turnout and awareness of the content of 
your panel.  Also, among many panel options, one that often draws large 
audiences is when panel organizers secure speakers with respectfully 
different perspectives on the same topic or politics; such dialogues 
also inspire spirited audience participation.

Your participation is vital if we are to continue to strengthen the Left 
Forum space for critical political dialogue. 

Feel free to call me or other conference organizers in the office if you 
have any questions.  Please note the panel submission deadline is 
December 1st and you must have a panel description proposed by then. We 
urge you to get started now. It takes a while to get ideas and people 
together for a strong proposal.

In Solidarity,

Seth Adler

Conference coordinator

212 817-2003

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