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9:30am

Prelude to Revolution: May '68 in France Grant Park A/BSherry Wolf No More “Stairs and Stares”: The Power of the Disability Rights Movement Grant Park C/DLorrie Beth Slonsky Reform or Revolution: Can Technology Solve the Climate Crisis? Dusable A/BLindsay Caesar • Sasha Scott Black Lives Matter at School Ballroom AJesse Hagopian Against All Hope: Resistance During the Holocaust Clark A/BJon Van Camp Housing Struggles and the Working Class Clark CAmelia Adams • Tim Adams "Right to Work": What It Is, Where It Came From and How to Defeat It Burnham CAlex Buckingham Marxism, Exploitation, and Oppression Ballroom BClaire Douglas Debating Marx’s Theory of Crisis Field CHadas Thier Socialism from Below Burnham A/BSean Larson China: From Colonial Subject to World Power Hyde Park ADennis Kosuth Iran's Unfinished Revolution Hyde Park BBehzad Tehrani

11:30am

How the '50s Became the '60s: The Making of a New Left Clark A/BAlan Maass "It Can't Happen Here": Dystopian Fiction and Alternate Histories in the Trump Era Grant Park C/DMegan Behrent Capitalism and the Gender Binary Grant Park A/BLichi D'Amelio The Rise of Red Power and the American Indian Movement Hyde Park BBrian Ward The Theory of the Trade Union Bureaucracy and the Rank-and-File Strategy Burnham A/BSean Petty Did Socialism Fail in Venezuela? Burnham CEva María Puerto Rico in the American Century Hyde Park CRafael Bernabe The Revolutionary Ideas of Leon Trotsky Dusable A/BPaul LeBlanc From Apathy to Rebellion: What Makes Workers Fight? Ballroom AJen Roesch Egypt: The Political Economy of Revolution and Counter-Revolution Clark CWael Gamal The Paris Commune: Reform or Revolution Dusable CAaron Amaral Neuroplasticity: Human Horizons and Capitalist Constraints Ballroom BBridget Broderick The Fire Last Time at the Bedside: The Explosion of Struggles for Health Care Justice in the 1960s and 70s Field CLider Restrepo

1:00pm

Digital Security for Activists 101 Clark A/BAnthony Arnove • Yusef Khalil • Jason Zirin

2:00pm

Cuba in 1968 Ballroom BSamuel Farber Artists Against War Grant Park A/BAnnie Zirin Malcolm X and the Making of Black Revolutionaries Hyde Park AMarlene Martin • Kevin Moore With Friends Like These: The Democrats and Social Movements Clark A/BAmy Gaidis • Dave Peters Gender and Disability Hyde Park BHannah Fleury Lessons from Global Mass Struggles: Quebec, Brazil, Greece Dusable CAntonis Davanellos • Alain Savard • Genilda Souza A Nation under the Gun: Gun Violence and Gun Control (Socialist Worker-Sponsored Meeting) Ballroom ADanny Katch Israel: Colonial-Settler State Grant Park C/DBill Mullen Revolutionary Rehearsals of the 21st Century Burnham A/BColin Barker Germany 1918-21: Lessons from the Lost Revolution Clark CAxel Fair-Schulz • Charles Peterson Year One of the Russian Revolution Dusable A/BElizabeth Terzakis Whose Clinics? Our Clinics! Defending Abortion rights Burnham CHayley Archer • Michelle Farber

4:00pm

Jim Brown: Last Man Standing Grant Park C/DBarbara Smith • Dave Zirin What Do Socialists Say About White Privilege? Grant Park A/Bbrian bean • Khury Petersen-Smith Before the Next Hurricane Hits: Socialist Solutions to Capitalist Climate Disaster Ballroom BMark Hannan • Zach Zill All Eleven Million: The Fight for Immigrant Rights Hyde Park ACarlos Enriquez • Kristen Kelly • Juan Miranda Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia: The Struggle for Self-Determination Dusable CNeil Davidson • Eva María • Benoit Renaud How to Build an ISO Branch Clark CDayna Long • Alex Macmillan • Scarlett Moore Ain't No Trick: U.S. Labor's Struggle to Survive (Jacobin-sponsored meeting) Burnham A/BJulian Guerrero • Sean Petty • Alex Press • Joe Richard Crisis and Resistance in Brazil Dusable A/BGenilda Souza • Glória Trogo Politics and Resistance After 2018: The Elections in Mexico Burnham CJosie Chávez • Luis Rangel • Héctor A. Rivera Democracy Now! Covering the Movements Changing America Ballroom AAmy Goodman From TrumpCare to Medicare For All: The Growing Movement for Single-Payer Health Care (Democratic Socialists of America-Sponsored Meeting) Hyde Park BDustin Guastella • Elizabeth Lalasz Socialism and Women's Liberation Clark A/BLillian Cicerchia • Ellie Hamrick

8:00pm

Friday Night Plenary: Striking Back: Voices of the Teachers' Rebellion Grand BallroomDana Blanchard • Eric Blanc • Matt Casella • Noah Karvellis • Mercedes Martinez • Nicole McCormick • Stephanie Price • Michelle Randolph • Gillian Russom • Jesse Sharkey

10:15pm

Queens of the Resistance: A Revolutionary Drag Show Ballroom C/D/E

11:30pm

DJ Sarah Mamo Ballroom C/D/E