GSA 2008 Conference:
The Nation in the Global Era:
Nationalism and Globalization in Conflict and Transition
Pace University, New York City, New York
June 6-8, 2008
THANK YOU to all of the keynote speakers, panelists, and staff who made the 7th Annual GSA Conference in New York a success! Details about next year's conference in Boca Raton, Florida will begin to appear on our website soon, so check back periodically for news and updates.
All papers presented at the GSA 2008 Conference are eligible for inclusion in the next GSA Book of Papers, published by the GSA. Papers must be complete and submitted for review by the following due dates:
- June 6-8, 2008: Papers presented at GSA Conference at Pace University.
- September 1, 2008: Completed papers submitted for review to GSA Secretary, Jerry Harris at gharris234@comcast.net.
- January 1, 2009: Authors whose papers are chosen will be informed and reviewed papers returned by this date.
- March 1, 2009: All final manuscript submissions due no later than this date.
Papers submitted for review can be in any format, but all final manuscripts must follow the submissions guidelines available here.
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PAST GSA NORTH AMERICA CONFERENCES
2008: Pace University, New York
The Nation in the Global Era: Nationalism and Globalization in Conflict and Transition
Date: June 6 - 8, 2008
Download the Conference Program.
Download the Conference Abstracts.
2007: University of California, Irvine
The Contested Terrains of Globalization
Date: May 17 - 20, 2007
Download the Conference Program.
Download the Conference Abstracts.
Download the conference poster (11"x17").
Download the conference poster (8.5"x13").
2006: DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
Alternative Globalizations
Date: May 12 - 14, 2006
Read the Alternative Globalizations Conference Abstracts
See the Alternative Globalizations Conference Schedule
2005: University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Crosscurrents of Global Social Justice: Class, Gender and Race
Date: May 13 - 15, 2005
Download this conference poster.(PDF:993kB)
2004: Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Globalization, Empire and Resistance
Date: April 23 - 25, 2004
In 2004 Brandeis University hosted the third North American GSA conference on Globalization, Empire and Resistance. It was a progressive conference embracing a variety of critical, and radical perspectives on globalization. Many leading scholars from all over the world explored the many effects of globalization-as well as alternative visions. Featured speakers included:
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Seymour Melman
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Leo Panitch
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Sam Gindin
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William Tabb
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Jose Maria Sison
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Leslie Sklair
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Edna Bonacich
One of America’s most respected scholars on capitalism and U.S. militarism from Columbia University spoke on “The Permanent War Economy”
Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy at York University, Toronto, co-editor of the Socialist Register, and co-author of Global Capitalism and American Empire spoke on “Global Capitalism and American Empire”
Packer visiting Chair in Social Justice at York University, Toronto, former head of research and assistant to the President, Canadian Auto Workers’ Union, and co-author of Global Capitalism and American Empire spoke on “Labor Resistance in the Era of Globalization"
Professor of economics at Queens College, New York, Monthly Review contributor and author of "The Amoral Elephant" spoke on "The Global State and Economic Institutions"
Former senior research fellow and professor at the University of the Philippines, co-founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines spoke via video satellite from Holland on “War, Imperialism, and Resistance from Below”
From the London School of Economics, and author of "The Transnational Capitalist Class" spoke on “Globalization, Imperialism and the International System”
Professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author of "Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry" spoke on “Labor, Immigration and Global Production”
2003: University of California - Santa Barbara
Towards a Critical Globalization Studies: Continued Debates, New Directions, and Neglected Topics
Date: May 1 - 4, 2003
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Some one hundred scholars, public intellectuals, and global justice activists from around the world gathered at UCSB on May 1 through 4, 2003 to discuss the future of globalization. Participants came from Armenia, Canada, Ecuador, France, Holland, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay, among other countries.
The "Towards a Critical Globalization Studies: Continued Debates, New Directions, and Neglected Topics" conference successfully examined the development of global studies in the academy and explored the bridges between global studies and the global justice movement.
2002: Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
Globalisation and Social Justice
Date: May 10 - 11, 2002
In May of 2002 the very first annual conference of the North American GSA was held at Loyola University in Chicago. Jointly sponsored by the GSA and the department of sociology at Loyola University, the conference theme was ‘Globalisation and Social Justice’. It proved to be a highly successful event with over fifty papers and workshops, covering a broad spectrum of themes concerning issues of global social justice. The keynote speakers were also excellent and included Leslie Sklair, one of GSA/UK’s vice presidents, who played a prominent role at the conference as a whole.
The quality of the papers was extremely high and they generated many hours of intensive and exciting discussion and argument. Academics from an impressively wide range of disciplines and research areas came from far and wide across the United States. However, there were also a number of speakers and participants who were political activists, such as current or former trade union organizers or people presently involved in various fair trade campaigns linked partly to student protests around the campuses of the US.
Despite the clearly focused sense of realism among the conference participants concerning the vast problems of social division, social exclusion and conflict that are currently only too evident in the world at the present time and the anxieties about the quality of world political – and especially American – leadership, an encouraging atmosphere of guarded optimism in relation to the real possibility of increasingly effective alliances and political struggles against global poverty was also quite evident.
It was gratifying to encounter quite a number of GSA members who managed to attend the Chicago conference including three from Britain, one from Canada and three from the USA. One of the key events scheduled at the conference was the inauguration of the North American chapter of the GSA. The first GSA branch or chapter to be established outside the UK. More than twenty people attended this special meeting and after some discussion the new branch was duly set-up. What was particularly encouraging was the number of postgraduate students who were prepared to become involved in helping to establish the new North American branch of the USA and, moreover, presence among these postgraduates and other participants who were people living in the USA but who had strong links with countries in Central America and South East Asia. They quite rightly insisted that right from the outset the new branch must concern itself as deeply as possible with the problems and themes of Southern peoples and countries if be a truly global association are to have any meaning.
From the Global Studies Association Newsletter, Issue 2, July 2002
Paul Kennedy, GSA Secretary