“All of This is Temporary: A Conference on Class Consciousness and Popular Culture” is a two-day conference at Bowling Green State University that will focus on issues involving class in American culture.
The conference, scheduled for April 14-15 in the Pallister Conference Room at the Wm. T. Jerome Library, will address the structures and systems that uphold our modern class structure with the aim to make meaningful change both in and outside of academia.
Thirty presenters will cover politics, collective bargaining tenants’ rights and representations of popular culture. Walter Benn Michaels, professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago, will deliver the keynote address.
Additional conference highlights include talks by Candace Archer, policy director, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO), on unionization and collective Bargaining; Nino Brown, organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, on the need for socialist reconstruction and the need for a revolutionary party; Rodney A. Fleming, managing attorney at BGSU Student Legal Services, on tenants’ rights in Wood County; and Sara Kilpatrick, executive director, Ohio Conference-American Association of University Professors (AAUP), on unionization and collective bargaining.
The public is invited to attend the conference in person or via Zoom. A complete schedule and the Zoom link are available online.
