The Institute for Anarchist Studies will be at the Left Forum this weekend, tabling our newly published Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, and the first book in our book series, Cindy Milstein's Anarchism and its Aspirations. Several members of the board and the speakers bureau will be presenting as well.

THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD:
Rekindling the Radical Imagination

March 19-21
Pace University
One Pace Plaza
New York, NY 10038

Each spring in New York City, Left Forum gathers intellectuals and activists from around the world to address the burning issues of our times. The theme for 2010 is "The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination."

The ongoing capitalist crisis generated high hopes that the parties and social movements of the Left, both in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, would be re-energized. So far this has not happened. The Left remains fractured and confused, drifting away from its labor base, while the Right seems to have emerged as the stronger or at least the more strident force. The result is that unemployment remains high, wages low, and insecurity grows. In the U.S., the Obama administration negotiates from the center, and concedes more and more to business interests and political conservatives. Can this be turned around? Can the hardships and opportunities generated by the capitalist crisis yet become the trigger for the revival of a transformative Left?

Left Forum provides a unique space for the generation of ideas crucial to theorizing and building a resurgent Left. Last spring the Left Forum conference had over 200 panels, more than 600 speakers, 3,000 attendees, two international art shows, a film festival, and theater arts performances. This year the Forum will include participants from all corners of North America, as well as Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. It will truly be a rare opportunity for a global left dialogue. Join us at the 2010 conference, this March at Pace.

For more information see: http://www.leftforum.org

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Members of the IAS Speakers Bureau will be speaking on the following panels:

A Panel Discussion on Anarchism and Marxism
with Cindy Milstein, Andrej Grubacic, and Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

Critical Theory and Social Movements
with Todd May, Simon Critchley, and Boris Groys

Envisioning Self-Governance
with Cindy Milstein, Steven Shalom, and Peter Bohmer

How Things Change As They Stay The Same: Talking Through Racial Categories, Politics, and Organizing in the 21st Century
with Kazembe Balagun, Matthew Birkhold, Melanie Bush, and Jill Humphries

Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition
with Cindy Milstein, David Harvey, and Mike Menser

Punk Rock: Cultural Space For Transformative Politics?
with Josh Macphee, Ramsey Kanaan, Mark Anderson, Anne Elizabeth Moore, and Katy Otto

Radical Spaces, Radical City
with Kazembe Balagun, Denisse Andrade, Dara Greenwald, Rebel Diaz Collective, and Asere Bello

Ten Years Later: Organizers Reflect on the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests
with Andréa Schmidt, Chris Dixon, Rami Elamine, and Gabriel Sayegh