Program

Roundtable: Creating Space for Utopian Thinking

October 23, 2022 from 1:45pm EDT to 3:15pm EDT

Location: Room Y324

 

Chair: Bryan Palmer

Abstract:

This roundtable will discuss the necessity of utopian thinking for the contemporary labour movement, the role labour historians’ critical evaluation of theories of transition to post-capitalism can play, how role plays and simulations can be used in the classroom to engage students and expose them to radical discourses, and methods of building capacity for self-organization on a micro-scale in the classroom.

Joseph Burton, PhD student SFU history

John-Henry Harter, lecturer SFU labour studies

Andrea Samoil, PhD student SFU history

Jim Selby, retired Alberta Union of Public Employees researcher

 

Speakers / Panelists