“Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India” – Virtual event. Speakers: Sujatha Gidla, Author, Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India, Member, Transport Workers Union, Local 100. Moderator: Kafui Attoh, Associate Professor, CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies, Editor-at-Large, New Labor Forum. (March 24, 2022)
“France on Strike!” Speakers: Emmanuel Lepine, General Secretary of CGT National Federation of Chemical Industries, Jean-Pierre Page, Former Head of the International Department of CGT and member of the national executive committee. (January 28, 2020).
“The Making of a Progressive Foreign Policy” Speakers: Katrina vanden Heuvel, Publisher, The Nation, Aziz Rana, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School (May 10, 2019).
“Organizing Palestinian Workers in Israeli West Bank settlements” Speakers: Assaf Adiv, WAC MAAN. Co-sponsored by WAC MAAN. (July 2, 2019).
“Change in Mexico: Migration Policy, Economic Renewal & the New Government” Speakers: Tatiana Clouthier, Congresswomen from Mexico, former campaign director for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Roberto Valdovinos, Director, Institute of Mexicans Abroad. Co-sponsored by The Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute at CUNY, The Center for Mexican Studies at Columbia University, Columbia University Mexican Students Association (Feb 8, 2019)
“Radical Film Network NYC: A Global Gathering” Co-sponsored by Radical Film Network, Workers Unite! Film Festival, Murphy Institute with additional supporters (May 3-5, 2017)
“Dilma Rousseff: The Attack on Democracy and Human Rights in Brazil” Co-sponsored by the Defend Democracy Brazil and the Murphy Institute, CUNY Speakers: Dilma Rousseff was Brazil’s former president, impeached in August 2016 in what many have called a “soft coup” based on what analysts almost universally have described as minor and highly irregular charges − will discuss the attack on, and current efforts to defend, democracy, labor rights, and social and economic justice in Brazil. (April 14, 2017)
“Migrant Labour in China: A Post-Socialist Transformation” Speaker: Pun Ngai, received a PhD from the School of Oriental and African studies at the University of London in 1998. She is currently a professor in the social science department at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has written extensively about labor and gender issues in China. Her book MADE IN CHINA: WOMEN FACTORY WORKERS IN A GLOBAL WORKPLACE was the winner of the C. Wright Mills Award in 2006. Moderated by Ruth Milkman, Murphy Institute Co-sponsored with the Asian American/Asian Research Institute (February 23, 2016)
“Better Wages and Corporate Accountability for Workers in the Global Supply Chain” Speakers:Steven Greenhouse, former New York Times labor journalist, Judy Gearhart, Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum , Jeff Hermanson, Director of Global Strategies, Workers United-SEIU, Sarah Labowitz, Co-Director, Center for Business & Human Rights, NYU Stern School, Atish Saha, Bangladeshi photojournalist, prize winning series “The Ghosts of Rana Plaza” Moderator: May Chen, Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies(May 28th, 2015)
“A Back –room Deal for the 1%: The Trans-Pacific Partnership” speakers: Arthur Stamoulis, Executive Director, Citizens; Trade Campaign, and Celeste Drake, Trade and Globalization Specialist, AFL-CIO (October 25, 2013)
“Greek Unions, Greek Elections, and the European Economic Crisis” speakers: George Mavrikos, General Secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions, member of the Greek Parliament and former General Secretary of the Greek General Confederation of Labor, Arthur Cheliotes, President of CWA, Local 1180, Ed Ott, Distinguished Lecturer, the Murphy Institute and Cristina R. Vazquez, International Vice President, Workers’ United, SEIU (July 23, 2012)
“Afghanistan and Labor’s Agenda” speakers: William Hartung, Director of the Arms and Security Initiative, New America Foundation, Marilyn Young, Professor of History, NYU, and Michael Zweig, Professor of Economics, SUNY Stony Brook (December 10, 2010)
“APALA on Vietnam in Transition” speakers: Kent Wong, Author of Organizing on Separate Shores: Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans Union Organizers, Ramon A. Rodriguez, Former Vietnam veteran and NY Education and Development Coordinator for 1199SEIU, UHE Greg Mantsios, Executive Director of The Murphy Institute. Moderator: May Chen, Former International VP, Workers United/SEIU and National Executive Board member, (April 15, 2010)
“Voices of Iraqi Workers: U.S. Solidarity” speakers: Faleh Abood Umara, General Secretary, Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, President, Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union (June 18, 2007)
“Fast Boat to China” speaker: Andrew Ross, Professor of American Studies and Director of Metropolitan Studies Program at New York University (April 28, 2006)
“Working-Class British Seamen on the Trans-Atlantic Route: Ambassadors of American Style”, The Filmmakers and the Cunard Yanks present the documentary film, Liverpool’s Cunard Yanks (April 23, 2004).
“El Taller, a Workers’ Theater Group from Mexico, performing La Otra Historia de King Kong de Atlixco (The Other Story of King Kong of Atlixco)” Moderator: Jeff Hermanson, Senior Advisor of the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center (July 30, 2003)
“Rethinking U.S. Labor’s Policy Toward China and its Unions” speakers: Elaine Bernard, Director of Harvard University’s Labor and Worklife Program and Trade Union Program, and Kent Wong, Director of the Labor Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles (December 13, 2002)
“Building Peace and Democracy in the Americas: What Role for Organized Labor?” speaker: Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Nobel Peace Laureate (April 6, 2001)
“What Can the United States Learn from the European Union’s Experience in Controlling and Reducing Corporate Subsidies?” Kenneth P. Thomas, author of Competing for Capital: Europe and North America in a Global Era (March 16, 2001)
“What Does the Defeat of the PRI and Its Lock on Mexican Unions Mean for Building a North American Labor Alliance?” speaker: Jeff Faux, President of the Economic Policy Institute (January 26, 2001)
“Free Association? The Attack on Internationally Respected Workers’ Rights in the U.S.” speaker: Lance Campa, author of “Unfair Advantage: Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States Under International Human Rights Standards” a report in Human Rights Watch (October 20, 2000)
“The Battle After Seattle: How Can Labor and its Allies Wrest the WTO & Global Trade Policy from Corporate Control?” speakers: Thea M. Lee, Assistant Director for International Economics in the Public Policy Department, AFL-CIO, and Tim Shorrock, Analyst of the U.S. and International Labor Movements and the U.S.-Asian Trade Policy (January 4, 2000)
“Organizing for Workers’ Rights in the Maquiladoras” speaker: Manuel Mondragon, Director of the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, (October 6, 1999)
“The War in Kosovo and the Chances for Democracy in the Former Yugoslavia” speaker: Bogdan Denitch, author of Trade Unionist and Expert on the Balkans (April 16, 1999)
“Latinas in Brazil and the U.S.: Engendering and Coloring Labor Unions” speaker: Mary Garcia Castro, Professor of Sociology and Cultural Political Studies, University of Bahia and University of Campinas (March 26, 1999)
“The Roots of Caribbean Radicalism in the Early 20th Century United States” speaker: Winston James, Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University and author of Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America (June 12, 1998)
“The Liverpool Lockout, Global Solidarity and New Labor” speakers: Terry Southers and David Cotteri, Leaders of the Liverpool Longshoremen’s strike (March 20, 1998)
“The Post-Civil War Guatemalan Labor Movement” speaker: Marco Vinicio Hernandez, founding member of Guatemala’s National Teachers’ Union and coordinator of the national training commission of his country’s 12-year old, 72-union member labor federation, UNSITRUGUA, (March 13, 1997)
“After Yeltsin: What Next for Russia and its Labor Movement” speaker: Boris Kargalitsky, Russian labor activist and political dissident (February 23, 1996)
“French Workers Defend the Public Sector: An Eye-Witness Account” speaker: Arthur Cheliotes, President, and CWA Local 1180, (January 26, 1996)
“India’s New Economic Policy: Joining the Battle Against Privatization and Deregulation” speaker: T.A. Francis, National Secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress (April 21, 1995)
“The Thirty-Five Hour Work Week: A Labor Victory in Germany?” speaker: Jakob Moneta, former editor of Metall, the German metal workers’ newsweekly (March 10, 1995)
“Unrest in Europe: Responding to Privatization, Layoffs and Sub-Minimum Wages” speaker; Louis Viannet, President, Confederation Generale du Travail (France) (April 11, 1994)
“Labor in the South African Freedom Movement: Winning in the Electoral Arena” Mike Mabuyakhula, officer, National Union of Metalworkers and African National Congress candidate for Parliament (South Africa) (February 17, 1994)
“Political Education in Brazil: Use of Popular Culture” speaker: Augusto Baol, playwright, Workers’ Party representative, and member City Council, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (February 2, 1994)
“Union Member Based Response to Privatization: A Global Perspective” speaker: Andrew Banks, Education Officer, International Trade Union Secretariat (Geneva) (January 28, 1994)
“Jewish-Palestinian Cooperation in Defending the Legal Rights of Palestinian Workers” speaker: Amira Hass, journalist (Israel) (April 16, 1993)