I haven’t shared my email conversation with Leo, but he has been very accommodating to our wishes, dropping three people entirely from the panel (in spite of a bit of push back from his group) and suggesting ways of making sure that panelists not only make short introductory remarks, but don’t speak too much during the session.  I’ve pointed out that going overtime will affect our very important roundtable on union diversity and inclusiveness.  I think they got the point.  They have proposed Leo and/or Sam Gindin as chair.  I’m going to argue that we should go with their suggestion.  Not only are they people who should, logically, be part of the panel, they very much get our concerns.  And I will use my role of conference committee chair to enforce that in the unlikely case that it becomes a problem. I very much believe that our initial concerns about time have been addressed.  Not only that, Leo and Sam are both significant drawing cards to the conference and the session.  If the session is going ahead, we want to make it as successful as possible.

 

Jim

 

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Brandon University

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From: 1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca <1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca> On Behalf Of Sharon Reilly
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 11:00 AM
To: 1919 conference organizing committee <1919-conference@lists.umanitoba.ca>
Subject: Re: [1919-Conference] Proposal from Program Committee

 

I think Jim's point is a good one. 

So, yes. the Friday afternoon plenary does seem like our best option under the circumstances.

I agree that Jeff would be an excellent choice to chair this session, if he is willing. 

Sharon 

 

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:23 AM James Naylor <Naylor@brandonu.ca> wrote:

I think doing it over the lunch break will just mean eliminating the lunch break for a very large number of people and mess up the sessions afterwards.

 

I actually have a different thought as I watch registrations come in.  We have now at least one union registering as a group (they’ve now asked us to register 40 of them as a block), and as I’m writing the blurb about the conference for the MFL newsletter that goes to hundreds of locals, as well as receiving at least a few emails from out of town of people i didn’t know were coming, I’m beginning to wonder about our total numbers. The Panitch session, whatever we think of it, will also bring people to the conference.  We might have a lot of registrations!  Frankly, I don’t really know.  But I’m beginning to think that we’re better off with a few more concurrent sessions rather than ones that are too large, or where people can't get seats.

 

This is not a bad problem to have, but I’m a bit relieved at the thought of dividing a large group into four, rather than into three, for most of the time slots.

 

I have no idea whether is is a real issue, since it's very early in the registration process. 

 

Jim 



On Jan 22, 2019, at 9:34 AM, Sharon Reilly <reillysharonmarie@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Is there no way we could run this session over a lunch break?

(So we can keep the Friday afternoon time slot for concurrent sessions and not have more conflicting sessions)

Sharon

 

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 5:44 PM Janis Thiessen <ja.thiessen@uwinnipeg.ca> wrote:

"the least bad of two bad options" -- YES.

 

From: 1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca <1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca> on behalf of Rhonda Hinther <HintherR@BrandonU.CA>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2019 5:06:59 PM
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I agree with David, too.

 

RLH

 

 

From: <1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca> on behalf of Paul Moist <pmoist@cupe.ca>
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Date: Monday, January 21, 2019 at 5:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [1919-Conference] Proposal from Program Committee

 

I too agree with David.

 

Paul

 

 

 

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Date: 2019-01-21 4:58 PM (GMT-06:00)

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Subject: Re: [1919-Conference] Proposal from Program Committee

 

Again, I agree with David.

 

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On Jan 21, 2019, at 4:56 PM, David Camfield <David.Camfield@umanitoba.ca> wrote:

 

For what it’s worth, I think having it as a stand-alone session is the least-bad of two bad options.

I’m not happy that we’re in this position.

 

Cheers,
David

 

 

 

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From: 1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of Julie Guard
Sent: January-21-19 4:54 PM
To: 1919 conference organizing committee
Subject: Re: [1919-Conference] Proposal from Program Committee

 

So, are you both arguing for leaving it as a stand-alone session? Just to be clear.

Thanks,

julie

 

From: 1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of Jeff Taylor
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2019 4:50 PM
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I concur with David.  Jeff 

 

Dr. Jeffery Taylor
Dean of Arts

Acting Director, School of Art
Professor of History
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University of Manitoba
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On Jan 21, 2019, at 3:50 PM, David Camfield <David.Camfield@umanitoba.ca> wrote:

 

I think scheduling that panel as a stand-alone event does give it special treatment that I don’t think the panel merits on intellectual

or political grounds. However, I think doing so may well be the best choice for pragmatic reasons (it might draw a significant number

of people away from panels scheduled simultaneously).


Cheers,
David

 

 

David Camfield

Coordinator, Labour Studies Program

Associate Professor of Labour Studies & Sociology

 

116 Isbister Building

183 Dafoe Road

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg

Manitoba

R3T 2N2

 

phone: 204-474-6160

fax: 204-474-7869

 

From: 1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of Julie Guard
Sent: January-21-19 1:54 PM
To: 1919 conference organizing committee
Subject: Re: [1919-Conference] Proposal from Program Committee

 

FYI, everyone:

There has been some debate among the committee and our chair about whether to schedule the new panel, organized by Leo Panitch, in its one slot on the program.

On the one hand, there’s a case that a panel of well-known and long-standing academics might attract so many of the participants that it would compete unfairly with adjacent panels.

On the other, there’s a case that scheduling the panel as a stand-alone event privileges this one panel unfairly. It assumes that they will be of greater interest than other panels and deserve a special place on the program, an assumption that may not be correct.

I, for one, would be interested in knowing what everyone else thinks about this decision.

julie

 

From: 1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:1919-conference-bounces@lists.umanitoba.ca] On Behalf Of James Naylor
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2019 12:05 PM
To: 1919 conference organizing committee
Subject: [1919-Conference] Proposal from Program Committee

 

Hello everyone,

 

Here’s what the program committee has come up with. I did communicate with Leo Panitch and his group.  They are willing to reduce the size of their panel as we wish and, I think more importantly, recognize the time constraints generally since the issue is not simply the number and length of the opening remarks, but of ending it on time.

 

Jim

 

James Naylor

Professor

Department of History

Brandon University

270 18th Street

Brandon, MB R7A 6A9

Canada

 

Office: 204 727 9664

Cell: 204 720 2117

 

 

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