[DEBATE] : Reminder: CCS seminar on US financial melt - skypecast option (today, 12:30pm SA time)

[Patrick Bond]

Seminar: The US financial meltdown, Part 1: What really happened
Speaker: Patrick Bond
Date: 3 October, 2008
Time: 12:30-2pm
Venue: CCS/SDS Boardroom, Memorial Tower Building Room F208, University 
of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College Campus

In the first of three seminars in coming weeks, Patrick Bond explores 
the deep roots of the current financial meltdown. Progressive critics of 
the global economy have generated several explanations for the current 
volatility. This seminar covers empirical evidence of the building 
crisis, debates especially within the tradition of Marxist crisis 
theory, and elite techniques of crisis management since the 1970s. The 
seminar concludes by considering the exhaustion of crisis displacement, 
as witnessed in the collapse of major components of US finance. (The 
next two seminars will be on 24 and 31 October: on civil society 
resistance, and on implications for South Africa, respectively. Bond 
will be doing similar presentations in San Francisco and Caracas, 
inbetween.)

Bond is professor of development studies and director of CCS, and during 
the 1980s was educated in the political economy of finance at the 
Wharton School and Johns Hopkins, and also worked in the US Federal 
Reserve on subprime lending in urban ghettoes and in the US House 
Banking Committee on third world debt. In the anti-apartheid solidarity 
movement he was active in financial sanctions campaigning. He has 
recently authored several papers and chapters about global economic 
turmoil and inequality (http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?5,75), and 
amongst his books is Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the 
World Bank, IMF and International Finance (Zed and UCT Press, 2003).

[This seminar will be skypecast; contact pbond at mail.ngo.za to rsvp a 
space, and send a skype message to patricksouthafrica]