Program

The Summer University is organised by the Party of the European left and Transform! Europe. It will take place in Trevi, near Perugia (Umbria)

The working languages will be English, French and Italian.

Summer University of the European Left 2011

 

“Let’s learn from each other and

Change Europe, Change the World”

Program

 

Tuesday 12 July

Ten years after Genoa, the struggle continues in Europe and the world

Morning

Arrival and Registration

 

17.00 – 17.30

Welcome

Welcome and greetings by local authorities

Fabio Amato, EL Executive Board and Rifondazione comunista

Barbara Steiner, transform!europe

 

17.30 – 18.30

Short Inputs

Paolo Ferrero, Secretary of Rifondazione Comunista

Pierre Laurent, President of the European Left Party, National Secretary of Parti Communiste Francais

Natasa Theodorakopoulou, EL Executive Board Secretariat, Synaspismos

 

18.30 – 19.30

The Speakers answering Questions by University participants on European Issues

 

Wednesday 13 July

Ways out of the Capitalist Crisis and Left Alternatives in Europe

10.00-11.00

Presentation of book from Vittorio Agnoletto “L’eclisse della democrazia”

 

11:00-13:00

“The hopes coming from the squares”

Lara Hernandez, movement participant 15M

Stavros Panagiotidis, member of the Central Council of Neolaia Synaspismou

Anna Belligero- national speaker Giovani Comunisti

13.00-14.00

Break

14.00-16.00

–Workshop 1

Environmental Crisis

Tommaso Sodano, PRC responsible for environemnt

Eduardo Meneses, representing the ecologic struggle’s sector of the PG

 

–Workshop 2

Feminist views on crises

Giovanna Capelli, PRC-EL ExB member

Christa Wichterich, Sociologist, Feminist Author

Christianne Reymann, EL-FEM

–         Workshop 3

European Crisis and discussion of left alternatives

Elisabeth Gauthier, Espaces Marx, transform!

–Workshop 4

Basic income and other reforms and visions towards liberation of (female) labour 

Hilde Grammel

Gisela Notz

16.30 – 19.00

Plenary: Ways out of the Capitalist Crisis and Left Alternatives in Europe

Alexis Tsipras, EL Vice president and President of Synaspismos

Cayo Lara, national coordinator of IU

Massimo Rossi, national speaker of Federation of the Left, Italy

José Manuel Pureza, member of Bloco de Esquerda’s National Board and Professor of the University of Coimbra, Portugal

Elisabeth Gauthier, Director of Espaces Marx-France, member of Board of Transform!

Dr. Christa Wichterich, Sociologist, Feminist Author

Thursday 14 July

New Revolts and Development of New internationalism

10.00-13.00

Plenary: New Revolts and Development of New internationalism

Alessandra Mecozzi, FIOM CGIL, ESF/WSF Italia

Mahmdouh Habashi, World Forum for Alternatives, Egypt

Mouhieddine Cherbib, member of the committee for the respect of liberties and human rights in Tunisia

Wolfgang Gerhcke, DIE LINKE MP

Willy Meyer, EL Executive Board, GUE/NGL MEP

13.00-14.00

Break

14.00-16.00

Workshop 1: Situation of Migrants During Crisis

Stefano Gallieni, Responsible Nazionale Immigrazione PRC

Jonas Söderqvist, CMS Sweden/Transform

Workshop 2: Rebellions in the Arab World and Euro-Mediterranean left strategies

Willy Meyer, EL Executive Board, MEP

Mouhieddine Cherbib, member of the committee for the respect of liberties and human rights in Tunisia

Alain Billon, Responsible for the Arab World in the PG

Workshop 3: NATO Interventions

Claudia Haydt, EL Executive Board, DIE LINKE

Jiří Hudeček, EL Executive Board, SDS

Francesco Francescaglia, PdCi

Workshop 4: Feminist Critique of Gender mainstreaming

Birge Krondorfer

16.30 – 19.00

Plenary: New Imperialism and New Internationalism

Maite Mola, EL Vice president and International Responsible of PCE

Samir Amin, President of the World Forum for Alternatives

Haris Golemis, Director Nicos Poulantzas Institute – Greece, member of Board of Transform

 

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Friday 15 July

 

10.00-13.00

Plenary: Youth against precariousness and unemployment

1. Universities as the gateway to a life of precarity: The effects of the privatizations, Bologna Process and the dismantling of academic knowledge.

2. New precarious working spaces, new forms of organization and resistance.

13.00-14.00

Break

14.00 – 16.00

– Workshop 1: Situation of social movements in Europe (different currents, how they are developing)

Walter Baier, Transform! Europe coordinator

Natasa Theodorakopoulou, EL Executive Board Secretariat and Synaspismos

 

Workshop 2: Youth in Europe: Engagement in political organizations

Michel Vakaloulis, political scientist and philosopher, Université de Paris VIII

 

 

17.00-19.30

Plenary: Markets’ dictatorship and Left European Strategies

Pierre Laurent, President of the European Left Party, National Secretary of Parti Communiste Francais

Walter Baier, Transform! Europe coordinator

Margarita Mileva, EL Executive Board Secretariat and Bulgarian Left

Vladimiro Giacchè, economist and journalist, association Marx 21^st

Giovanna Vertova- economist- University of Bergamo

Laura Tuominen, Left Forum Finland

Bruno Steri- National direction of Rifondazione

Saturday 16 July

Media and Democracy. The Response of the Radical Left

 

10.00-13.00

Plenary: Media and Democracy.

Rosa Rinaldi, responsible for communication of PRC

Romina Velchi, Vice director of Liberazione

Gael de Santis, Humanité

Sinikka Torkkola, PhD, University Lecturer Tampere University

Christianne Reymann, journalist

13.00-14.00

Break

14.00-16.00

Workshop 1: Alternative Media (New media:  Internet (indymedia, youtube, ..), web 2.0 (facebook, twitter) “Traditional” Print, Radio, TV, Journal-/Party-Websites)

Jacopo Vennier, Libera tv

Antonio Ferrario, controlacrisi.org

Christos Simos, co-editor of RedNoteBook.gr

Yanic Gornet, website transform!

 

Workshop 2: “Social Media revolutions”

Gabriele Habashi

Workshop 3: “The dismantling of the social state and our strategies to keep a good public service”

Inger V Johansen, EL ExB, Red-Green Alliance

Gitte Pedersen, Red-Green Alliance

Litsa Doudoumi, Synapismos

16.30-19.00

Plenary:  Gramsci and the Question of Revolution

Guido Liguori, Professor of Philosoph at the University of Calabria, Vice President of the International Gramsci society-Italy

Dieter Dehm, EL Treasurer, DIE LINKE MP

Eleonora Forenza, National Secretariat PRC

 

« With Brecht and Love »

Music performance by Diether Dehm and pianist Micha Letz

 

Sunday 17 July

Morning

Departure