The Workers and Punks University

The Workers and Punks University in Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, is an educational project that since 1998[1] each year from November to May on a topic selected by the WPU board runs a series of lectures based on social theories critical towards neoliberalism, including World-systems theory, applying selected, but not all, Marxian concepts to understand Slovenia as peripheral country, such as the theoretical work of Antonio Negri, Andre Gunder Frank,[2] with participation from notable international academics,[3] including American geographer David Harvey from City University of New York and philosopher Peter Hudis[4] from Oakton Community College, British economist Michael Roberts,[5] economist Joachim Becker from Institute for International Economics and Development Department at the Vienna University of Economics,[6] Dutch economist Angela Wigger[7] from Radboud University Nijmegen.