{"id":8117,"date":"2025-04-10T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?page_id=8117"},"modified":"2025-06-04T15:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T19:26:20","slug":"socialist-seminar-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/socialist-seminar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Seminar Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Socialist Seminar Series\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"socialist-seminar-series\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Socialist Seminar Series<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"323\">2024\u20132025 Academic Year Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, the Institute of Political Economy proudly hosts the <strong data-start=\"389\" data-end=\"417\">Socialist Seminar Series<\/strong>. This series brings together leading scholars, activists, and organizers to explore socialist thought and practice in the context of today\u2019s pressing political challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2024\u20132025 series continued this tradition with an outstanding lineup of speakers who examined the intersections of capitalism, colonialism, labor, and environmental crisis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong data-start=\"1089\" data-end=\"1110\">Sabrina Fernandes<\/strong> \u2013 <em data-start=\"1113\" data-end=\"1183\">Green Sacrifice Zones &amp; the Political Economy of Climate Catastrophe<\/em><br>December 11, 2024<br>An incisive analysis of ecological degradation, global inequality, and the failures of green capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Bryan D. Palmer<\/strong> \u2013 <em data-start=\"1567\" data-end=\"1653\">Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada&#8217;s Origins 1500-1890<\/em><br>January 22, 2025<br><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">He weaves together groundbreaking research to examine colonial practices that displaced Indigenous peoples and the rise of capitalism that shaped resource exploitation and wealth distribution. This compelling narrative challenges traditional accounts and reimagines the complex threads of Canada&#8217;s past.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">E<\/strong><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">ric Blanc<\/strong> \u2013 <em data-start=\"1567\" data-end=\"1653\">We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Transforming the Labor Movement<\/em><br>February 12, 2025<br>A deep dive into the lessons of recent teacher strikes and the resurgence of militant unionism in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong data-start=\"1790\" data-end=\"1808\">Charmaine Chua<\/strong> \u2013 <em data-start=\"1811\" data-end=\"1879\">Fast Circulation, Slow Violence, and the Transpacific Supply Chain<\/em><br>March 19, 2025<br>A powerful critique of logistics capitalism, imperial infrastructures, and the global geography of labor exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s series engaged with urgent political questions while fostering a space for intellectual solidarity and strategic imagination. 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