As the world faces unprecedented challenges caused by financial and ecological crises, social movements have been advancing alternatives to the programs and policies of elites. Nevertheless, they remain plagued by persistent challenges to building global solidarity. This conference looks at emerging alternatives to the capitalist world-system and considers their strengths and limitations, uncovering the factors affecting their prospects for realization. The conference will be an international gathering of scholars and activists from a diverse range of disciplines sharing ideas, and generating new knowledge that can inform contemporary social movements, scholarship, and public policy.

Keynote Addresses:

"Dilemmas of Alter-Movements"
Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scholar, Yale University
Thursday, April 10, 4 - 5:30pm
Cathedral of Learning, Room 324
Reception to follow

"Feminism as Counter-Hegemonic"
Sylvia Walby, Professor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
& UNESCO Chair in Gender Research Group
Friday, April 11, 3:30 - 5pm
Cathedral of Learning, Room G24