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2025 International
Platypus Convention
April 3rd — 5 th
Chicago, IL
Thursday
April 3rd
Thursday
1970s Rank-and-File Militancy and the Decline of the Labor Left in the U.S.
3:30pm — 5:30pm
- Matt Cavagrotti
Screening and Discussion of Goodbye, Art (Documentary Film)
6pm — 8pm
- Taylor Ervin
Friday
April 4th
Thursday
What was the Millennial Left?
1pm — 3pm
- Rebekah (United Kingdom)
- Hilario (Berlin, Germany)
- Johannes (Nuremberg, Germany)
- Ethan (South Carolina)
Students and the Left
1pm — 3pm
- Chris (Irvine)
- Yunus (Colombia)
- Hannah (Berlin, Germany)
- Theo (Auckland, New Zealand)
What was Neoliberalism?
5pm — 7pm
- Jamie Merchant (Writer and member of the Chicago Independent Labor Club)
- Pamela Nogales (Historian, Platypus Affiliated Society)
- Michael Kazin (Editor emeritus of Dissent Magazine)
- Branko Marcetic (Jacobin Magazine)
Saturday
April 5th
Thursday
What is Platypus doing?
10am — 12pm
- Andreas Wintersperger (Austria, Vienna)
- Kathrin Dick (Germany, Cologne)
- Ismail Cem Ademir (Irvine)
- Lucas Zabotin (United Kingdom, Cambridge)
Why does Society have Politics?
1pm — 3pm
- Douglas Lain (Sublation Media)
- Bill Ayers (Activist)
- Alex Higgins (Prometheus Journal)
- Dave McKerracher (Theory Underground)
Is there a Left in the 21st Century?
5pm — 7pm
- Andrew Hartman (Historian)
- Branko Marcetic (Jacobin Magazine)
- Chris Cutrone (Platypus Affiliated Society)
- Alex Higgins (Prometheus Journal)
Hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society
“The Left is dead — Long live the Left!”