RECENT INVITED LECTURES, INTERVIEWS, AND MEDIA APPEARANCES

All jointly with Janet Afary: Lecture on “Foucault and the Iranian Revolution,” Bosphorus University, Istanbul, June 2
“Contemporary Marxist Problems in the Perspective of Foreign Scholars: An Interview with Kevin Anderson,” Philosophy Trends (in Chinese), No. 8

Colloquium on “Marx’s Late Writings on Non-Western and Precapitalist Societies,” Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, UCLA, May 14; interview on Marxist Section of American Sociological Association on “CityWatch” with Bill DiFazio, WBAI-FM (Pacifica), NY, Aug. 8); “Plötzlich wird die Linke still,” interview by Simon Birnbaum with Peter Hudis and me on leftist politics in U.S., Jungle World [Berlin] 18 (May 2); “USA: Die Linke hat Fehler gemacht,” interview by Simon Birnbaum with Peter Hudis and me on leftist politics in U.S. in iz3w [Freiburg] 301 (July-August), pp. 14-17; “Interview mit Peter Hudis und Kevin Anderson,” pp. 8-30 in Eingriffe: Aktuelle linke Debatten in den USA über Fundamentalismus und Krieg, edited by Simon Birnbaum (Münster: Unrast Verlag)
All jointly with Janet Afary: interview by Jerome McDonnell on “A Shift in U.S.-Iran Relations?” on “Worldview,” WBEZ (National Public Radio), Chicago (June 1); interview as part of program on “Iraq, Iran, and Gee’s Bend” on the Marc Steiner Show, WYPR (National Public Radio), Baltimore (July 23)

“Behind Last Year’s French Ghetto Revolts,” commentary for “Behind the News,” WBAA-AM (NPR), Purdue University (Jan. 27); lecture on Foucault and the Iranian Revolution at New Space, New York City (Oct. 25); “Remembering the 1956 Hungarian Revolution,” commentary for “Behind the News,” WBAA-AM (NPR), Purdue University (Oct. 27)
All jointly with Janet Afary, on Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: our 2005 colloquium at McMaster University (see below) was broadcast on February 27 on TV-Ontario (a major public television station, 1 hour); colloquium at Toyo Bunko (Oriental Institute-Parliamentary Branch), Tokyo (March 13; author meets critics session at Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago (April 21); lecture at Palms-Rancho Branch of Los Angeles Public Library (April 29); colloquium at UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies and Center for Social Theory and Comparative History (May 2); colloquium at Sociology Department of Free University of Berlin (July 20);

Interview on The Rosa Luxemburg Reader, on “Beneath the Surface,” KPFK-FM (Pacifica Radio), Los Angeles, February 7 (30 mins.)
All jointly with Janet Afary, on Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: colloquia at Indiana University-Bloomington (November, Political Science); Loyola University Chicago (November, Philosophy and Sociology); McMaster University, Ontario (November, Sociology and Political Science); interviews on “Beneath the Surface” with Suzi Weissman, KPFK-FM (Pacifica Radio), Los Angeles, July 18 (1 hour); on “Against the Grain” with Sasha Lilly, KPFA-FM (Pacifica), San Francisco, September 20 (1 hour), on “The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade” with Bill Weinberg, WBAI-FM (Pacifica Radio), New York, December 27 (90 mins.); reading at Left of Center Bookstore, Chicago (August 4)

Lecture on “Rosa Luxemburg, Democracy, and Revolution” at National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop on “Nation, Family, and State: The Political Writings of Women,” University of Cincinnati (September)
Lecture on “Obstacles and Resources for Democracy in the Middle East,” to Indiana Council of World Affairs, Indianapolis (March), and to Unitarian Sunday Morning Forum, Lafayette, (July)
Lecture on “Iran and the World,” to Residents’ Association of University Place, West Lafayette (May)

Lecture on “Foucault and Rodinson: French Intellectuals Respond to the Iranian Revolution,” Society for the Promotion of Persian Culture, Indianapolis (December)
Lecture on Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, Brecht Forum, New York City
Interview on The Power of Negativity, on “Beneath the Surface,” KPFK-FM (Pacifica Radio), Los Angeles, July 28
“Behind the News: War and Politics in the Middle East,” commentary for WBAA-AM, Purdue University, February 28

Interviewed by Chronicle of Higher Education on Collaborative Research Grant on Marx from National Endowment for the Humanities

Two interviews on KPFK-FM (Pacifica Radio), Los Angeles on Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology and on Marx on Suicide
Lectures at Brecht Forum and Washington Square Church, New York City
Lecture at St. Joseph’s College, Patchogue, New York

Commentator on social and political issues for KPFK-FM (Pacifica Radio), Los Angeles
Interviewed about my book on Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism on “One on One,” KPFK-FM (Pacifica Radio), Los Angeles, January 2 (30 minutes)
Lectures at University of Illinois-Urbana, California State University-Los Angeles

Kevin B. Anderson