Colleagues,
I've been asked to circulate this notice about the Soundings event and the
website debate leading up to it.
Ruth Lister
Left Futures: new kinds of socialism
The third Soundings annual event
Saturday 30 June 10.30am to 5pm
Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Lane, London NW3
The socialism that developed in response to the modernity of Western mass
industrial society has largely passed into history. We need to create new
kinds of socialism that are able effectively to counter the destructive
impact of the new globalised forms of capitalism.
The event will include three sessions, each with brief introductions to help
facilitate discussion: Michael Rustin and Kate Soper on countering the
social recession; Doreen Massey and Bob Sutcliffe on financialisation and
globalisation; Neal Lawson, Jeremy Gilbert, Hilary Wainwright on new
political strategies for the left.
Registration costs £25, unwaged is £10 (includes lunch). To reserve a place,
send credit card details or a cheque payable to Soundings to FREEPOST, LON
176, London, E9 5BR (no stamp is needed). Alternatively, you can book online
by going to www.soundings.org.uk. Places are limited so early booking is
advisable.
Join the debate
From Wednesday 23 May, the Soundings website (www.soundings.org.uk) will be
beginning the discussion on Left Futures. Contributors include Greg
McLennan, Michael Rustin on a new sociology after New Labour ; Ruth Lister
on inequality and the social recession; Erik Olins Wright on envisioning
real utopias; Andrew Glyn on financialisation; Sue Gerhardt on children
and the social recession; Doreen Massey on the local global; Neal Lawson
on Labour after New Labour; Andrea Westall on alternative economics;
Priscilla Alderson on intergenerational politics; plus more, including
articles on republican democracy, the left and pleasure, a new modernity?,
rethinking social life.
Join us online on 23 May and at the event on 30 June.
www.soundings.org.uk
'New kinds of socialism' is organised in association with Compass
(www.compassonline.org.uk) and Red Pepper (www.redpepper.org.uk) and
financially supported by the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust.
For further information contact [log in to unmask]
Ruth Lister
Professor of Social Policy
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leics LE11 3TU
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tel: 44(0)1509 223350
fax: 44(0)1509 223944
www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/depstaff/staff/lister.html
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