Labour History News
Debs and the Politics of Dissent
Eugene V. Debs and the Politics of Dissent in Modern America
10-11 November 2000
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Indiana State University and the Eugene V. Debs Foundation invite the academics interested in socialism and American electoral politics to attend a conference in Terre Haute, Indiana on the campus of Indiana State University. The program is listed below. For more information please email me.
From: Rich Schneirov, Dept of History Indiana State University, Hischnei@ruby.indstate.edu
Friday, November 10
- 10:00-12:00am: I. New Perspectives on the Socialist Party
Chair: Jacob H. Dorn (Wright State University)
Presenters:
- Stephen Burwood (Southwestern Oklahoma State University): Debsian Socialism in Transnational Context
- Sally M. Miller (University of the Pacific): For White Men Only? The Party of Eugene V. Debs
- Todd Anthony Rosa (George Washington University): 'No Country to Fight For': The Socialist Party of America, the Neutrality Acts, and the Tradition of Eugene V. Debs
- Comment: James Barrett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- 12:00-2:00pm: Lunch
- 2:00-4:00pm: II. Dissenting Third Parties and the American Electoral System
Chair: Julie Walsh (St. Joseph College)
Presenters:
- Peter Argersinger (Southern Illinois University): Taubneck's Laws: Third Parties in American Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Gerald Friedman (University of Massachusetts): Success and Failure in Third Party Politics The Knights of Labor and the Union Labor Coalition in Massachusetts, 1884-88
- Mark Lause (University of Cincinnati): James B. Weaver's 1880 Greenback-Labor Campaign: the Post-Civil War Roots of the American Socialist Legacy
- Commenters: Julie Walsh (St Joseph's College)
- Tour of the Debs House following Final Session
- 7:00-9:00pm: Dinner
After Dinner Speaker: Jim Barrett (University of Illinois, Urbana) - Bringing the Personal into the Political: the Case of William Z. Foster and the Communist Personal Narrative
Saturday, November 11
- 9:00-10:30am: III. Christian Socialism in the Era of Debs
Chair: Bob Clouse (Indiana State University)
Presenters:
- Jacob H. Dorn (Wright State University): Eugene V. Debs and the Socialist Christians
- Kyle Wilkison (Collin County Community College): The Religious Left in the Lone Star State: Christian Dissenters in Early Twentieth Century Texas
- Comment: Bob Clouse (ISU), Don Richards (ISU)
- 10:45-12:15pm: IV. The Socialist Politics of Eugene Debs
Chair: Sally Miller (University of the Pacific)
Presenters:
- Jason Martinek (Carnegie Mellon University): Reading and (R)evolution: Educational Politics and Debs's Social Democracy of America, 1897-1898
- Bill Pelz (Institute of Working Class History): Eugene Debs and the Primacy of Class
- Comment: David Sterling (University of Cincinnati)
- 12:30-1:45pm: Lunch
- 2:00-3:30pm: V. Symposium: Maurice Isserman's new book: The Other American: The Untold Life of Michael Harrington (Public Affairs Press, 2000)
Chair:
Discussants: Paul Burkett (Indiana State University), Jim Livingston (Rutgers University)
Response: Maurice Isserman (Hamilton College)
- 3:30-4:45pm: VI. Evolutionary Socialism in the Progressive Era
Chair: Louis Ferleger (Boston University)
Presenters:
- Martin J. Sklar (Bucknell University): Capitalism and Socialism: Utopian and Realistic
- Jim Livingston (Rutgers University): John Dewey Was Right About World War I
- Richard Schneirov (Indiana State University): Revisionist Socialism as Interpreted by William English Walling
- Comment: The Audience
- 7:00pm: DEBS Award Banquet
Registration fee: with Friday dinner: $25; without dinner: $10
Accommodations are about a ten minute drive from the ISU campus: Days Inn (235-3333-this hotel, nearest to ISU's campus, has quoted us a conference rate of $49 per night); Holiday Inn (812-232-6081); Knights Inn (1-800-843-5644); Pear Tree Inn (812-234-42 ); Signature Inn (812-238-1461)
For registration and inquiries:
Eugene V. Debs Foundation
P.O. Box 846
Terre Haute, IN 47808
Posted: 18 September 2000
