Sunday, December 8, 2 pm

The First in a Series of Forums on New World Dis-Order: THE WARS IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA RE-EXAMINED

A talk by David Watson and a response from Peter Hudis followed by a discussion. Co-sponsored by News and Letters Committees and Open University of the Left.

DAVID WATSON has been an antiwar/antimilitarism activist since his youth, and a member of the editorial collective of the North American journal Fifth Estate for 25 years. He is the author of three books on ecological politics. "Alikornio Ediciones" of Barcelona, Spain, has just published a selection of his essays from "Against the Megamachine: Essays on Empire & Its Enemies" (Autonomedia, 1998), translated in Spanish. He is currently working on a book on the collapse of Yugoslavia, the subsequent wars, and the failure of the West to understand these events. He recently published an extended essay on leftist and anarchist apologists for ethno-fascism in the former Yugoslavia published in the Fifth Estate journal, fall 2002.

PETER HUDIS is a member of the national editorial board of "News & Letters" (Marxist-Humanist publication) and has written extensively on the crises in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosova over the past decade. He is a contributor to the book "Bosnia-Herzegovina: Achilles Heel of Western 'Civilization'" and most recently co-edited (with Kevin Anderson) "The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx."

LIPA's programming is created with the purpose to raise awareness about the human impact of war and its aftermath. We try to facilitate a dialogue, to explore the root causes of ethnic and racial conflicts and to unveil how myths and misunderstandings can start conflicts on a larger scale.

LIPA was originally created in 1997 in Washington, DC, with the "Artists for Peace" program, which sought to bring greater attention to the tragic war in former Yugoslavia and since then has presented scores of exhibitions, lectures and performances with the purpose to promote international understanding through the arts.