This past summer was spent planning a year-long (2009-2010) series of events on the MSU campus dedicated to a wide-ranging and in-depth discussion of "Economic Justice" (broadly conceived). Our ultimate aim was (and is) to put together a stimulating year of programming around the concept of Economic Justice. We expect that the various MSU-wide related activities will focus on topics, both local and global, such as poverty, social welfare, globalization, work and labor, social welfare, equity and financial disparity and uncertainty ... among other topics.
This website will be continuously updated so as to list all exhibits, concerts, plays, films, poetry and fiction readings, talks and other campus events associated with the concept of Economic Justice. Below is our Current Calendar of Events. Also, please forward to us any course listing related to Economic Justice that your unit will be offering this fall or spring so we can add it to the list.
If you are interested in joining with us and become part of the university-wide undertaking, please feel free to call or e-mail either of us ... and above all, send us your "events" and fall and spring course offerings.
John P. Beck
School of Labor and Industrial Relations
phone: (517) 432-3982
beckj@msu.edu
Nicholas Mercuro
Michigan State University College of Law
phone: (517) 432-6978
mercuro@law.msu.edu
_________________________________________________SEPTEMBER
Thursday, September 17 - "Performance and Protest: Gender and Labor in the1935 Detroit Housewives Strike"- Ann Folino White, MSU Residential College in the Arts and Humanities / Department of Theatre. Part of the – Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation (co-sponsored by the Center for Gender in Global Context and the Women’s Resource Center) - 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
Wednesday, September 23 - "When Lies Becomes History: The Seeberville Murders, the Press and the 1913 Michigan Copper Strike" - Steve Lehto, Author, Lawyer and Independent Scholar - Part of the – Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation - 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
OCTOBER____________________________________________________
Thursday, October 1 - Jack Duvall, founding director of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, presents "Power and Principle in Civil Resistance: Gandhi for the 21st Century" (the annual Kapur Lecture), Room 115, MSU International Center, 7pm.
Friday, October 2 - "A Feminist View of Women and Work in Anglo-American Traditional Songs" - Peggy Seeger, Folksinger . Part of the – Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation (co-sponsored by the Center for Gender in Global Context and the Women’s Resource Center) - noon to 3pm in Room 449W, MSU Main Library
Thursday, October 8 - "Faces from an American Dream: Photographing the Post-Industrial Landscape" - Martin Desht, Photographer. Part of the – Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation (in conjunction a photography exhibition at the MSU College of Law Building) - 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
Thursday, October 8 - Formal Opening of the exhibition: "Faces from an American Dream," by photographer Martin Desht. The exhibit will run from October 8th through Thanksgiving on the 4th Floor of the MSU College of Law Building. Opening reception, 4 - 7 pm, 4th Floor, MSU College of Law Building, Comments by Martin Desht at 4:30pm
Thursday, October 22 - Poet and activist Mark Nowak will read from the new book, COAL MOUNTAIN ELEMENTARY which looks at the human costs of coal mining in both China and the U.S. This reading is sponsored by Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives. Room 105 South Kedzie at 7:30pm
Thursday, October 29 - The MSU Library will show Barbara Kopple's Academy Award winning documentary, “American Dream” (1990, runs 102 minutes) at 7pm. This film follows the workers at the Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota, their families, and their communities as they take part in a monumental strike and nationwide campaign against wage cuts at concession bargaining. 7pm North Conference Room (449W in the Main Library).
____________________________________________NOVEMBER
Thursday, November 5th & 6th Filmmaker Almudena Carracedo brings her Emmy award-winning feature documentary, MADE IN LA, to the MSU Campus for two showings. The film follows three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from a trendy clothing retailer. The film will be shown at the following times and places:
Thursday, November 5th 6:15pm-8:00pm, B102 Wells Hall; &
Friday, November 6th 12:00pm-2:00pm, Communication Arts and Sciences Rm. 134 D.
Friday, November 13 - "‘Joe Hill Ain’t Dead!’: Wobbly Visual Culture and Its Impact on Contemporary Radical Graphics" - Dylan Miner, MSU Residential College in the Arts and Humanities. Part of the – Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation - 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
Friday, November 20 - "Becoming Someone Else: Jewish Name-changing, Employment and Class Mobility in Mid-Twentieth Century New York City"- Kirsten Fermaglich, MSU Department of History. Part of the – Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation (co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program) - 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
DECEMBER_______________________________________________
Thursday, December 3 - "American Lenses, Mexican Aliens: Photography of the Mexican Experience in the United States, 1930 - 1965"- Juan Javier Pescador, MSU Department of History. Part of the – Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation (co-sponsored by the Chicano Latino Studies Program and the Julian Samora Research Institute) - 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
__________________________________________________ JANUARY
Thursday, January 14 - "Working on the Imperial Farm: Convict Labor and Discipline on the Fernando de Noronha Island Penal Colony, Brazil 1830-1897" - Peter Beattie, MSU Department of History. Part of the – An Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation (co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies) - 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
Friday, January 22 - "Coming into Focus: Picturing Chinese American Workers in World War Two" - Anna Pegler Gordon, MSU’s James Madison College. Part of the – An Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation (co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Center and the Asian Pacific American Studies Program) - 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
FEBRUARY________________________________________________
Thursday, February 4 - "Images and Voices: 160 Years of Steel and Work" - Howard Bossen and Eric Freedman, MSU School of Journalism. Part of the – Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation- 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
Thursday, February 11 - "Pulling the Strings of Race: The Buffalo Historical Marionettes Project of the WPA" - Peter Rachleff, Department of History, Macalester College. Part of the – Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation (co-sponsored by the MSU African and African American Studies Program) - 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
____________________________________________________MARCH
Thursday, March 18 - "Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Post-Apartheid South Africa" - Franco Barchiesi, African American and African Studies, Ohio State University. Part of the – Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation(co-sponsored by the African Studies Center) - 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
Thursday, March 25 -"‘A Constant Menace to All Employed Therein’: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Fighting Workplace Smoking in Progressive Era New York City " - Gregory Wood, Department of History, Frostburg State University. Part of the – An Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation - 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
APRIL___________________________________________________
Friday, April 9 - "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti - a Musical Portrait" Charlie King and Karen Brandow, Folksingers. Part of the – An Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation - 12:15 - 1:30 at the MSU Library, Room 449W
Friday, April 16 - "The Unhallowed Many: God and Working Class Lives" - Robert Bruno, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois. Part of the – An Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bag series presentation (co-sponsored by the MSU Department of Religious Studies) - 12:15 - 1:30 in the MSU Museum Auditorium
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