"It's the Oil, Stupid: The Oily Aspects of the Current Wars in Iraq, Syria, and Other Hot Spots on Five Continents "

(In collaboration with the Office of the Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs

8:00 PM Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Dennison Theatre

"Military Neo-Liberalism: The Evolving Profile of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century"

3:10 PM Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Gallagher Business Building 123

Please join us for a seminar and lecture with Michael Schwartz. After graduating in 1971 from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in sociology, he began teaching at Stony Brook.  His areas of special interest are economic, Marxist, historical, and political sociology, as well as ethnic relations, insurgency and revolution, and applied sociology. Books that he has written or edited include:

• War without End: The Iraq War in Context (2008)
• Social Policy and the Conservative Agenda (1998)
• Corporate Control, Capital Formation, and Organizational Networks:
• Intercorporate Relations in Japan (1996)
• Structural Analysis of Business (1987)
• The Corporate Elite as a Ruling Class: Studies in the Structure of the American Elite (1987) 
• The Power Structure of American Business (1985)
• Radical Protest and Social Structure: The Southern Farmers’ Alliance and the Cotton Tenancy System (1976)

Two other books by Professor Schwartz are nearing completion: “The Rise and Fall of Detroit,” with Joshua Murray; and “Military Neo-liberalism.” His other current research projects are “Politics, Economics, and Violent Resistance in Iraq” and “Food Riots in Latin America.” A prize-winning teacher at Stony Brook and a popular lecturer nationally, he is a regular contributor to TomDispatch and Socialist Worker.

In addition, that evening he will give a lecture at 8:00 P.M. in the Dennison Theatre: “It’s the Oil, Stupid: The Oily Aspects of the Current Wars in Iraq, Syria, and Other Hot Spots on Five Continents.”

The seminar and lecture are free and open to the public.