Forum For Critical Thought

“Praxis” Research and Educational Cent= er

XXI Century Center

International F= orum for Critical Thought

Social and Environ= mental Dimensions of the Global Economic Crisis

Problems of Social= Theory and History

Saturday, 18 July

9.30 - Registration begins

9.50 - Forum opens

Session 1. 10.00-12.00

“World Crisis: Economy and Ecology”

(Moderator: Dr.= B. Sklyarenko)

-&nb= sp;        Dr. R. Greeman (International Victor Serge Foundation, France)

The Crash of 2008: Capitalism’s ‘Final’ Crisis?

-         A. Lyovin (XXI Century Center for Ecological Education of ISEU, Zaporozhye)

The Global Economic Crisis as a Biospheric Evolutionary Process

-&nb= sp;        V. Iglin (Public Chamber, Togliatti= )

The role of cities, as complex self-organized syst= ems, in overcoming the world crisis at the beginning of the XXIst century

12.00-12.15 – Coffee break=

Session 2. 12.15-13.45

The Round Table= : “Social, economic, political, ecological situation in the post-Soviet countries: common and special features”

(Moderator: A. Subbotin)

13.45-16.15 Lunch break (Lunch at 14.00)

Session 3. 16.15-18.00

“Ecology = and political action”

(Moderator: Yu. Glushakov)

-&nb= sp;        Dr. D. Schwartz= man (Green Party, USA)

Global Climate Change: How far are we from catastrophe? What can be done to prevent it?

-&nb= sp;        Dr. V. Postniko= v (Kiev)<= /span>

Deep ecology and alternative political models=

-   &nb= sp;     B. Barucci (International Communist Current, Switzerland)

The Communist alternative to destruction of the environment

18.00-18.15 – Coffee break=

Session 4.18.15-19.45

“The international socialist movement: past and present”

(Moderator: P. Antonov)

-&nb= sp;        Dr. J. Ulrich (= Switzerland)

The 1912 Basel congress of Socialist International= . A comparison with the present day situation

-&nb= sp;        D. Blanchard (<= st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">France)=

The history of the Socialism or Barbarism group

-&nb= sp;        Yu. Glushakov (Green Party, Belarus)

The Left in Belarus in the XX-XXI centuries: the Belarusian take on global problems=

20.00 - Supper

Sunday, 19 July

10.00 Forum starts

Session 5: 10.00-12.00

“Internat= ional politics: the ambitions of states, and social interests”

(Moderator: Dr. B. Sklyarenko )

-&nb= sp;        B. Bowring (Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, England; European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights)

The right of peoples to self-determination: the revolutionary kernel of international law

-&nb= sp;        Dr. A. Gusev (<= st1:PlaceName w:st=3D"on">Praxis Center, Moscow)=

The Left and the Russian-Georgian war of 2008=

-&nb= sp;        J. Dupuis (International Communist Curre= nt, France)

Left communists: the history of their struggle for internationalism

12.00-12.15 – Coffee break=

Session 6. 12.15-13.45

“Resonanc= e of Vladimir Vernadsky’s ideas

in communication and information society of knowledge”

(Moderator: Dr.= J. Ulrich)

-&nb= sp;        Dr. V. Shirokov= (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine= , Simferopol)<= /o:p>

Information, knowledge, energy in the noospherical dimension

-&nb= sp;        Dr. A. Prikhodc= henko (Interregional Academy of Human Resources Management, Dneprodzerzhinsk)

A.    Prikhodchenko v= s. V. Vernadsky, or Fundamental Ecology vs. Ecologism

-&nb= sp;        Dr. S. Dikareva= (Taurida Vernadsky National University, Simferopol)

Vernadsky’s Universe in the information and education space of the Internet

13.45-16.15 Lunch break (Lunch at 14.00)

Session 7. 16.15-18.00

“The tota= litarian legacy, and its overcoming”

(Moderator: Dr.= A. Gusev)

-&nb= sp;        Dr. J. Ulrich (= Switzerland)

Natural Science under Stalin. The situation of Gen= etics

-&nb= sp;        A. Apaev (Moscow Helsinki Group, Grozny)

Stalinism and the origin of conflicts in North Caucasus

-&nb= sp;        Dr. R. Greeman (International Victor Serge Foundation, France)

Ecology in Marxism and the anti-ecological legacy = of Stalinism

18.00-18.15 – Coffee break=

Session 8.= 18.15-19.45

The Round Table= : “= The present situation in the Caucasus and global civ= il society”

(Moderator: Yu. Guseva)

20.00 - Supper

Monday, 20 July

Excursions (optional):

-&nb= sp;        Bakhchisarai (t= he Palace of the Crimean Khans, Juft Kale cave town, Uspensky cave monastery)<= o:p>

-&nb= sp;        Sebastopol (anc= ient Khersones, the Panorama museum of the defence of Sebastopol in 1854-55)

-&nb= sp;        Bakla cave town

Tuesday, 21 July

10.00 Forum starts

Session 9: 10.00-12.00

“Socialist theory: potential, evolution, prospects”

(Moderator: D. Denisov)<= /span>

-&nb= sp;        Dr. B. Sklyaren= ko (Praxis Center, Moscow)

Dialectics in Marxism and Ecologism: from change to negation

-&nb= sp;        Dr. I. Rismukhamedov (Praxis Center, Moscow)

The political theory of Antonio Gramsci and contemporary times

-&nb= sp;        I. Paniuta (Organization of Marxists, Sebastopol)

The “pendulum” of social consciousness= in Russia and Ukraine: a Marxist interpreta= tion

-&nb= sp;        D. Vinogradov (Alternatives Movement, Tver)

A New Socialism for the XXIst century

12.00-12.15 – Coffee break=

Session 10. 12.15-13.45

The Round Table= : “= The social roots of fascism and = anti-fascist strategy today

in ex-Soviet sp= ace and the world”

(Moderator: I. Paniuta)

13.45-16.15 Lunch break (Lunch at 14.00)

Session 11. 16.15-18.00

“History = and theory of Anarchism”

(Moderator: Dr.= I. Rismukhamedov)

-&nb= sp;        D. Denisov (Organization of Marxists, Sebastopol)

The anarchist movement in C= rimea at the beginning of the XXth century

-&nb= sp;        Yu. Guseva (Praxis Center, Moscow)=

Anarchism and the question of revolutionary violen= ce

-&nb= sp;        P. Antonov (Moscow)

Ideas of Anarchism and Christianity

18.00-18.15 – Coffee break=

Session 12. 18.15-19.45

The Round Table= : “= Democracy and t= he rights of minorities”

(Moderator: B. Bowring)

20.00 - Supper

Wednesday, 22 July

9.30 – Excursion= to the Alma river valley (Battle of Alma Memo= rial, Alma archaeologic= al site)

14.00 – Lunch

Session 13. 16.00-17.30

The Round Table= : “The Concept of ‘limits to growth’ in the context of today’s world econom= ic crises (discussion on the book by D. Meadows et al. <= /p>
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(Moderator: A. Demidenko)

17.30-17.45 – Coffee break=

Session 14. 17.45-19.15

“The prac= tice of the ecological movement”

(Moderator: A. Tokhtamysh)

-&nb= sp;        Dr. A. Khvostov= (Institute of Social<= /st1:PlaceName> Education, Saratov= )

Ecological propaganda under the conditions of the contemporary city

-&nb= sp;        Yu. Shuklin (Pastiche Club, Perm)

The experience of ecological camps in Russia<= o:p>

-         A. Lyovin (XXI Century Center for Ecological Education of ISEU, Zaporozhye)

15^th anniversary of the tent camp of th= e XXI Century Center for Ecologic= al Education of ISEU – international “recreation facility” for ecologi= cal movement activists

19.15 - forum closes

The forum is held in the ecologically clean summer campgrounds on the Crimean shore of the Black Sea. The camping ground is situ= ated right on the beach in pine woods in the resort zone of Peschanoe Village (South-Western Crimea, Bakhchisarai District). Peschanoe is 55 Km from Simferopol, 30 Km from Sebastopol. The nearest airport is the International Airport «Simferopol» (http://www.airport.crimea.ua/en/home.htm). If you go by bus from the = bus terminal in Peschanoe, ask to stop between the youth camps Delphin and Mandarin.

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