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Dear Friends
Here are details of two events in October which might be of interest.
ASSEMBLING THE LEFT: A CONVERSATION WITH MICHAEL HARDT
(website for this event: http://culturalstudiesresearch.org/?p=1724)
Recent years have seen a remarkable new wave of engagement between radical political movements and established institutions of government and party politics; with decidedly mixed results. From the Syriza experiment to the emergence of Corbynism, what lessons can be learned, and how can we best hope to take advantage of the opportunities for radical democracy which the twenty-first century affords? What forms of leadership, strategy and organisation are possible and necessary in this new period?
Acclaimed thinker and co-author of several key works with Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt, will discuss these issue – as well as themes from their new book, Assembly – with Marina Prentoulis, Jeremy Gilbert and other participants in the seminar.
Saturday October 14th 2017
17:00-19:00
Room G21A
Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU
Free, all welcome, no advanced booking, please arrive promptly as space will be very limited.
Michael will also be speaking at a ticketed event in Finsbury Park earlier the same afternoon - ‘ Opening the Commons: Technology, Leadership and Organisation in conversation with Michael Hardt on Assembly’: https://events.ticketsforgood.co.uk/events/466-opening-the-commons-technology-leadership-and-organisation-in-conversation-with-michael-hardt-on-assembly
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The Revolution is dead, long live the revolution - Philosophy Football seminar as part of the ‘Art of Revolution’ event.
'The revolution is dead, long live the revolution' is the theme of our afternoon seminar for the centenary of October 1917. Organised in association with Soundings, ' a journal of politics and culture'. We aim to provide in the course of the afternoon three hours of participative discussion ranging over the meaning of revolution, then, and now, models of change, old and new, and the legacy of 1917 for how today's Left organises with a strong historical, theoretical and cultural dimension.
The seminar is chaired and introduced by Jeremy Gilbert, regular contributor to the Guardian Opinion pages, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London and author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism.
Panellists
John Medhurst has recently had published by Repeater his new book No Less than Mystic : A History of Lenin and the Russian Revolution for a 21st Century Left
Kevin Morgan is one of the editors of the journal Twentieth Century Communism and has written widely on the history of Communism, particularly British Communism including Communists and British Society 1920-1991 : People of a Special Mould
Marina Prentoulis appears regularly across the UK media as a spokesperson for Syriza and has recenly contributed a chapter on what Corbynism can learn from the Greek left's experience of government in the book The Corbyn Effect.
Hilary Wainwright is a founder and co-editor of the magazine Red Pepper, her latest book A New Politics from the Left will be pubiished in early 2018.
The seminar is free (except for a small fee to cover our admin costs) though advance booking essential.
Saturday 21st October at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA. From 2-5pm.
Website: https://www.philosophyfootball.com/1917-seminar.html
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