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Conference materials
| AHA = | = | American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 7–10, 2016. |
| OAH = | = | Organization of American Historians, Providence, Rhode Island, April 7–10, 2016 |
| LAWCHA = | = | Labor and Working-Class History Association. In 2016, LAWCHA sponsored a number of panels at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, but did not sponsor a conference of its own. |
| MLA = | = | Modern Language Association, Austin, Texas, January 7–10, 2016 |
| SAM = | = | Society for American Music, Boston, Massachusetts, March 9–13, 2016 |
| SSS = | = | Society for Socialist Studies, Calgary, May 28-Jun 3, 2016 |
| APA:P = | = | American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, Mar 30-Apr 3, 2016 |
Panels
Energizing inspiration: Radical women remembered and engaged
Sandra Rein, University of Alberta,“Graphic Rosa: Rosa Luxemburg's biography and political thought in Kate Evans' graphic biography” — Janet Wesselius, “Has the Personal Overshadowed the Political? Taking Emma Goldman seriously as philosopher” — Stacey Haugen, “You Don't Know Helen: the overlooked and forgotten contributions of Helen McFarlane” — Ottokar Luban, “Together with Rosa Luxemburg for peace, social justice, and revolution (August 1914 – November 1918): The female German Spartacus militants Clara Zetkin, Kaete Duncker, Mathilde Jacob, Fanny Jezierska, Berta Thalheimer” (SSS 2016).
“How did Shakespeare influence Karl Marx?”
Christian Smith, University of Warwick, Chair — Shakespeare's critique of capitalism in Timon of Athens,” Hugh Grady, Arcadia University — “The appearances of Henry IV in the Marx canon,” Jean Elizabeth Howard, Columbia University — “The role of Shakespeare in Karl Marx's radicalization of Hegel's philosophy,” Christian Smith, (MLA)
“New perspectives on American socialism.”
Panelists: Peter Cole, Western Illinois University — Greg Hall, Western Illinois University — Jeffrey Johnson, Providence College — Erik Loomis, University of Rhode Island — Verlaine McDonald, Berea College, (OAH)
“Possibilities and pitfalls in early interracial activism, 1930s–1960s.”
Chair and Commentator: John Enyeart, Bucknell University — Helping the Entire Nation: The International Workers Order, multiculturalism and civil rights among radical immigrants in Red Scare America/Robert Zecker, St. Francis Xavier University — Fighting anti-Semitism and Jim Crow: Negro-Jewish unity and Communist women's activism in 1950s Harlem/Jennifer Young, NYU — Revolution in rising expectations: Congressman Leonard Farbstein and Jewish interracial politics on the Lower East Side, 1956–1964/Barry Goldberg, CUNY Graduate Center — The American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born: Multiracial rights advocacy at mid-century.”/Rachel Ida Buff, UW-Milwaukee (OAH)
“Protest, politics, and ideas in the American century: The work of Alan Brinkley.”
Chair: Eric Foner, Columbia University — Commentator: Ira Katznelson, Columbia University — “Voices of protest”/Moshik Temkin, Harvard University — “The end of reform”/Mason Williams, Williams College — “Liberalism and its discontents”/David Greenberg, Rutgers University — “The publisher”: Henry Luce and his American Century/Nicole Hemmer, United States Studies Centre.
Re-energizing the dialectic
“Dialectic of Egypt's crisis movement”/Sean F. McMahon, American University in Cairo, — “Marx's Dialectics: reclaiming “the human” and “Hegel” for the new society”/Sandra Rein, University of Alberta, — “Dialectic Dynamics: Essential Explorations”/Adam Belton, University of Alberta, (SSS, 2016)
“Relations and legacies: Brecht, Benjamin, Adorno.”
Program arranged by the International Brecht Society and the forum TC Philosophy and Literature. Paula Hanssen, Webster University, chair — “Adorno's Bilderverbot and Brecht's gestural theater”/Astrid Oesmann, Rice University, “Collaboration, exile, and the quotidian: Brecht and Benjamin in community, 1933–39”/Katherine Hollander, Simmons College — “Brecht and Adorno on music: A comparative approach to their musical aesthetics,”/Carolin Sibilak, University of the Arts, Berlin — Responding: Robert George Kaufman, University of California, Berkeley (MLA)
“William Morris and the legacy of socialist aesthetics.”
Program arranged by the William Morris Society and the Marxist Literary Group. Mathias Nilges, Saint Francis Xavier University, chair — “Blurring boundaries: William Morris and the aesthetics of diffusion”/Alison G. Chapman, Harvard University — “Once and future anarchists: Biopolitical utopia in William Morris' News from Nowhere”/Ben Richardson, Duke University — “Artists, enemies, and the avant-garde transformation of the Craftsman Ideal”/ Jessica Wilton, Carnegie Mellon University. For abstracts, visit www.morrissociety.org, (MLA)