Purpose

The goals of ZSVS will be: To explore ideas about long term vision and related long and short term strategy and program, to reach agreements and clarify persisting differences To facilitate people laying a basis for working together To facilitate people establishing joint projects To generate enough agreement to initiate some joint or collective work To generate enough agreement to initiate continuing and/or enlarging group connections Additionally, Z will video, record, and otherwise keep transcripts. Some material will  appear in Z, on ZNet, and/or in book form - with permissions, of course.

Attendees

A number of people at one time or another during the preparations for ZSVS 2006 indicated a desire to attend, but were later unable to do so. These included:

A number of other folks either said no to coming, or didn't respond at all

Interviews

Click the following names for their ZSVS introductory interview...
Each participant has been sent the same series of questions to answer.
When the answers arrive they are linked here.

Submitted Interviews But Could Not Attend....

Agenda

ZSVS Agenda
This agenda is in process of formation in light of proposed papers, some guesses, etc.
Things will change, somewhat...no doubt.

Schedule
Please see immediately below the timetable for information on the format of presentations and questions...

Proposed Format
(Please send requests for either general changes,
or changes in your own sessions.)

Presentation Sessions

• Presentations will be chaired by the presenter.
• All papers will be available online to participants a month in advance.
• Presentations will summarize papers for at most thirty minutes.
• Presentations will offer claims about vision and or strategy, or about tasks regarding vision and or strategy.
• Named questioners will ask questions they and perhaps others have about how to understand or expand on the presenter's points seeking to provoke discussion and exploration.
• Named questioners will be limited to four minutes each.
• Anyone who wants to present more in-depth comments in advance, for posting, or debate, etc., should do so.
• After initial questions are asked, the presenter will answer for at most twenty minutes, and then take further questions and comments from all attending.
• Toward the close of the session the presenter will get a sense of the room regarding his or her claims - do people agree with them, disagree with them, or are they unclear about them - to provide grist for small group explorations.

Small Group Discussions

• Each day everyone will randomly get a colored slip before sessions - red, yellow, blue, green - and there will be four groups based on all members having the same color slip.
• Morning and afternoon small group discussions will be in these groups to facilitate that everyone spends time with everyone else and that there are small sessions for sharing ideas, etc.
• We considered a proposal that people have meals with their small groups, but decided we might get burned in oil for micro-managing.

Papers

Housing, Food, etc.

The Nautilous Motel

Harsha Walia / Ria Julien	Andrea Schmidt / Cynthia Peters	Susan George
Marie Trigona / Sonali Kolhatkar	Tamara Vukov / Irina Ceric	Andrej Grubacic / Marina Sitrin
Justin Podur / Greg Wilpert	Jessica Azulay / Brian Dominick	Kendra Fehrer / Thomas Ponniah
Normand Baillargeon / Chantel Santerre	Milan Rai / Mark Evans	Steve Shalom / Jonah Gindin
Ezequiel Adamovsky / Rahul Mahajan	Felipe Pérez Martí / Chris Spannos	Jeremy Brecher / Serge Halimi
Evan Henshaw Plath	Jamie LeJeune / Tom Wetzel
Lydia Sargent and Michael Albert (Z House)
Sean Gonsalves and Andy Dunn (commute)

Food

Z pre-paid meals will be at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's Swope Hall. Swope is a large University type dining hall, for marine biology students and faculty - world famous and teeming with international students and scientist/professors.

The meals are all you can eat, with diverse selections. It isn't gourmet, but it is quite good, and they have ample vegetarian selections and even make a credible stab at Vegan offerings.

It is also possible to eat at any of numerous local restaurants for breakfast, lunch, or dinner,for those who want to escape the larger venue at some point, though this is on your own tab.

Sunday meals will be catered at the Z House, as Swope Hall is closed. Excellent food.

 

Weather

Early June in Wood Holes is volatle. It will be mostly long pants and reasonably warm clothing, especially for the evening or if there is a cold rainy day - but also bring summer weight shorts and, if you would like to swim at a nearby beach, a swimming suit.

There are times when people, especially from hot climates, will want sweaters, etc. Other times, most everyone would have short sleeves. In short, come diversely prepared, depending on your needs. An umbrella is likely to prove useful once or twice. Our real summar weather starts a couple to three weeks later...which is why we get good prices on motel rooms, etc., in early June.

Temperatures can range from 50F to 80F but are likely to be in the 58F to 68F range, most often, unless we get an early warm spell.

 

 

Tactics, Strategy, Etc. ...

Conspiracy Theory
Various essays critical of conspiracy theory, with some debate.

Consensus?
Primarily Albert and ZNeter Brian Dominick debate the merits of consensus decision making.

"Feminism"
Lydia Sargent satire essays critiquing confused feminisms.

Pollitt/Media
Albert and Katha Pollit debate media, the Nation, etc.