Samantha Agarwal was an invited panelist at the Engaging Stuart Hall In/From the Global South Symposium at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, October 29-31. She participated in the 2025 American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Dissertation-to-Book Workshop at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on October 22.
Sofya Aptekar gave a talk, “Immigrants in the US Military: Experiences with Naturalization and Service,” at Adler University on September 10. She was part of a panel, Is Debtors’ Revolution the Way?” for the Debt Collective’s Jubilee School on October 21. Prof. Aptekar was quoted on public libraries in a Spanish publication, El Salto, and was featured on an episode “ The University’s Creditors with Sofya Aptekar” of the American Campus podcast.
Kafui Attoh published “Filming Urban Class Consciousness”in New Labor Forum (volume 34, issue 3). This piece introduces three student essays written in the Fall of 2024 as part of Prof. Attoh’s class “The Idiocy of Urban Life: Urban Geographies of Alienation and Class Formation.” Prof. Attoh also welcomed the paperback edition of his award-winning coauthored book, Disrupting DC: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City (Princeton University Press).
Yolande Cadore participated in a panel discussion, titled “The UN at 80: Reflections and Recommendations from the Perspective of Global Africa.” The webinar was sponsored by the Lusaka Branch of the The Dag Hammarskjold Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies of Copperbelt University, Zambia.
Alethia Jones gave a talk, “Souls on Fire,” on the Transformational Experience panel as part of “What Force on Earth? Theorizing the Labor Movement” event at the University of Chicago, October 11. She served as a commentator on Eric Blanc’s We Are the Union book talk at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge on September 15.
Lauren Hudson gave a talk, “Mapping a Movement: A Working Geography of Solidarity Economy Organizing in NYC” at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky on October 17.
Stephanie Luce was on a panel at the Occupy Wall Street film screening at The People’s Forum on September 17. She conducted a “Basics of Strategy” presentation for CWA District 7; a “Moving from Offense to Defense: A Practical Radicals Workshop” training for a UFCW 3000 Staff Retreat in Yakima, Wash. on September 25; and a “Moving from Offense to Defense: How to Build Power with Long-Term Strategy” training for the UFCW 3000 Executive Board in Seattle on September 30. Prof. Luce gave the keynote address on the same subject for the Massachusetts Nurses Association in Sturbridge, Mass. on October 16. Professor Luce was featured on an episode of the Future Hindsight podcast, How Underdogs Build Power.”
Rebecca Lurie appeared on the Redneck Gone Green podcast. She served as an advisor on the Community Food Advocates report, “Prioritizing Affordable, Quality, Neighborhood-Based Supermarket Access as a Public Good,” for Zohran Mamdani’s office. Prof. Lurie participated in the Fireside Chat at the National Cooperative Business Association Impact Conference. You can see her other activities as part of the “National Coop Month” here. She was interviewed on election night here.
James Rodriguez was featured in the new documentary film A Home Worth Fighting For about the push to stop the demolition of public housing in Chelsea.
Andrew Sparberg delivered an illustrated presentation at the Glen Cove Public Library on Long Island, entitled “Nelson Rockefeller and the LIRR’s Transition from Private Sector to the MTA.” This Oct. 5 presentation was the first part of a three-part public event called “Glen Cove Transit History Day.”
Nantina Vgontzas hosted the workshop “On the Move: Workers Steering AI Across the Transport Industry” at UC San Diego, September 12-13, 2025, together with co-PIs Dr. Sarah Fox of CMU and Dr. Lilly Irani of UCSD. They also presented “Social Need Unionism: Occupational, Public, and Environmental Health at Amazon” at the Urban History Association conference in Los Angeles on October 10. They were awarded a $10,000 community research grant from the Center for Engaged Scholarship to conduct a panel survey on the impact of recent labor policy and worker organizing on health and safety in New York’s warehousing industry. Together with co-author Dr. Sanjay Pinto, Prof. Vgontzas partnered with Amazon Labor Union-IBT Local 1 to receive a $25,000 Consortium for Worker Education grant to develop a large-scale peer education program for shop stewards.