Word: panels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There will be a debate and panel discussion about the seven SDS demands at 2 p.m. today in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...original concerns of the CCAS organizers was the "irrelevance" of AAS panel topics--the Vietnam War and Communist China, for example, were conspicuously absent on the AAS program. In contrast, the two or three hundred people who attended the CCAS conference discussed such topics as "People's War and the Transformation of Peasant Societies," "The Limits of Liberal Asian Scholarship," and "Social Sciences and the Third World." Boston University professor Howard Zinn told the audience at an AAS discussion, "When I compare the CCAS program with the AAS program, I applaud...
...only the panel topics but the whole spirit of the CCAS conference was in marked contrast to that of the AAS meetings. The CCAS members sought to identify themselves with the people they were studying, and to join forces with the other movements in their society working for social change. The CCAS statement of purpose, adopted at a business meeting the night before the conference, says, "We realized that to be students of other peoples, we must first understand our relations to them." Kathleen Gough Aberle, an anthropologist at Simon Fraser University, urged scholars in the field to "choose between...
SCHELL'S statement was borne out when a group of CCAS people, acting as individuals rather than CCAS representatives, attempted to join a Southeast Asian Development Advisory Group (SEADAG) panel in discussing a paper by Harvard Government professor Samuel Huntington. The SEADAG meeting, on "Political Succession in Southeast Asia," was sponsored by the AID, and many CCAS members saw it as "a pernicious attempt to further the U.S. aggression against the Vietnamese people through political as well as military means...
About 30 people from the CCAS conference sat down at the side of the room in which the SEADAG panel met. Professor I. Milton Sachs, of the Political Science department at Brandeis, immediately moved that they be ejected from this "private, though not secret meeting," because he "refused to argue with barbarians." A spokesman for the CCAS visitors told the SEADAG panel they were present merely "to discuss as equals" Huntington's paper, and that they were all affiliated with educational institutions and had legitimate interests in discussing the paper on a matter of public concern. After half an hour...