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>Delivered-To: [log in to unmask] >User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 >Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 16:07:33 +0100 >Subject: HM CONFERENCE: AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD CRISIS >From: Sébastien Budgen <[log in to unmask]> >To: UK Friends of HM 9 <[log in to unmask]> >Mime-version: 1.0 >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=7.5 > tests=DOUBLE_CAPSWORD,LINES_OF_YELLING,UNDESIRED_LANGUAGE_BODY, > LINES_OF_YELLING_2,FROM_AND_TO_SAME,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS > version=2.31 >X-Spam-Level: * > >HISTORICAL MATERIALISM, in cooperation with the Centre for Diplomacy and >International Studies (SOAS) invites you to a one -day conference on AN >ANATOMY OF THE WORLD CRISIS on Saturday 2 November, with ROBERT BRENNER to >discuss the themes and questions raised by his book THE BOOM AND THE BUBBLE >(Verso, 2002). > >PROGRAMME: > >9.30 a.m. REGISTRATION > >10.00 ROBERT BRENNER on the US and the World Economy > >12.30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK > >1.30 Panel discussion around crisis theory and state of the world economy >with BEN FINE (Economics Department, SOAS), ALAN FREEMAN (GLA), COSTAS >LAPAVITSAS (Economics Department, SOAS), JOHN WEEKS (Economics Department, >SOAS), ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD and ROBERT BRENNER. > >4.00 BREAK > >4.30 Panel discussion around the future of the anticapitalist movement and >the Left in the face of the crisis with ALEX CALLINICOS (Politics >Department, York), RAY KIELY (Development Department, SOAS), ALFREDO >SAAD-FILHO (Development Department, SOAS) and ROBERT BRENNER. > >The event will be taking place at the School of African and Oriental >Studies, London (Russell Square & Goodge Street tubes), room to be >confirmed. > >***PLEASE NOTE THAT THOSE ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE MUST PREREGISTER BY >SENDING AN EMAIL WITH YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO ><[log in to unmask]> > >ROBERT BRENNER will also be speaking at the following events: > >Monday 28 October, 7.30pm, The Union Tavern, 52 Lloyd Baker Street, London >WC2 >'New War Order: The USA and Global Power' >After September 11 George Bush declared 'war on terrorism'. Is this the >beginning of a new imperial order where might is right, resistance outlawed >and the USA the only model of political, economic and cultural power? >SPEAKERS >Robert Brenner, author 'The Boom and the Bubble' and New Left Review >Editorial Committee Peter Gowan, author 'The Global Gamble' and New Left >Review Editorial Committee Ziauddin Sardar, co-author 'Why Do People Hate >America?' >Organised by Signs of the Times, details; >[log in to unmask] >Tel 020 8926 7092 > >*** > >Tuesday 29 October, 6.30pm, Bookmarks, 1 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QE >'US Imperialism in the 21st Century', > >RSVP to <[log in to unmask]> or 0207 637 1848 > >*** > >Friday 1 November, 6pm >'Boom, Bubble, Bust: The US and the World Economy' with ANDREW GLYN >(University of Oxford). >London School of Economics, room to be confirmed. > >***PLEASE PREGISTER FOR THIS EVENT BY SENDING AN EMAIL WITH NAME AND ADDRESS >TO <[log in to unmask]> > >*** > >Sunday 3 November >'Politics Culture Resistance: Globalisation and its Discontents2', >University of Brighton >Further details of the contributors, their previous publications and the >titles of their conference talks in November, can be found on the conference >web site www.brighton.ac.uk/globalisation/ > >Globalisation and its Discontents2 - Booking details >Registration is £12 waged, £5 unwaged. Payment must be made by cheque in >advance, or by cheque or cash on the door. For multiple bookings, please >specify the number of tickets required, and include a cheque for the global >figure. > >Tickets will be posted to you if your booking is received before Monday 28th >October. Tickets for bookings received after this date will be held at the >registration desk at Sallis Benney Theatre for collection on Sunday 3 >November. This desk will be open from 9.30am. Any remaining tickets will be >available on the day from the registration desk. Call 07816 921105 for >availability. >Note: places in individual workshops cannot be booked in advance - it is >strictly first come, first served. You should get to the venue for the >meeting in good time. >Approximate room capacities are as follows: >… Sallis Benney Theatre: 370 >… SHACS G7 Ground Floor: 100 >… SHACS B4 Basement: 60 >… SHACS Seminar Room 101: 40 >All published contributors were confirmed at the time of printing. >A final timetable will be available on Sunday 3rd November, and the >provisional timetable will be amended on a continual basis on the conference >website at www.brighton.ac.uk/ globalisation The web site will be >operational from the end of September. >Refreshments are not included in the ticket price, but are on sale at the >Sallis Benney Theatre throughout the day. >There are no crèche facilities available. >For more information about the event, E-mail: [log in to unmask] or go >to www.brighton.ac.uk/globalisation/ >Details of how to get here: >The conference takes place at the Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade, & at >The School of Historical & Critical Studies (SHACS), Pavilion Parade. Both >are sites of the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of >Brighton, on the South Coast of the UK. Registration is at the Sallis Benney >Theatre, which is on Grand Parade, close to the Royal Pavilion, and opposite >the King and Queen public house. >There are fast trains from London, Victoria, to Brighton, which take 55 >minutes. Slow trains take 85 minutes. There is also a coach service from >London to Brighton. The conference venue is 12 minutes walk from the >railway station and 5 minutes from the bus station. International visitors >should arrive at Gatwick airport, which is 30 minutes from Brighton. > >The Sallis Benney Theatre, which is part of the main Faculty of Arts and >Architecture building, is situated on Grand Parade on the corner of , & >SHACS is 5 minutes walk away, on the corner of Pavilion Parade & Pavilion >Street, opposite the Royal Pavilion. Its entrance is on Pavilion Street. >Most local bus routes stop by the Royal Pavilion (in both directions). The >Sallis Benney Theatre is wheelchair accessible. Unfortunately, SHACS is not. >P&P Politics, Culture and Resistance: Globalisation and its Discontents 2 >c/o SHACS, University of Brighton, 10-11 Pavilion Parade, Brighton BN2 1RA. > Politics, culture & resistance >'Globalisation and its Discontents2' >Sunday 3rd November >10am-7.00pm >Central Brighton > >Debates & workshops & plenary sessions; confirmed speakers include: >Penny Kemp, National Chair, The Green Party of England and Wales >Esther Leslie, Birkbeck College, University of London >Robert Brenner, University of California, Los Angeles >Geoff Eley, University of Michigan >Eustache Kouvelakis, author and socialist, Paris >Mehmet Ali Dikerdem, University of Middlesex >Rebecca Stasel, Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers >Radikha Desai, University of Victoria, Canada >Gilbert Achcar (University of Paris VIII) >Alex Callinicos, University of York >Anita Rupprecht, University of Brighton >Gregory Elliott, author and socialist, Paris >John Rees, editor International Socialism >Paul Hopper, University of Brighton >Masao Miyoshi, University of California, San Diego >Tom Hickey, University of Brighton >Lee Billingham, European Social Forum Mobilisation >Justin Rosenberg, University of Sussex >Mark Devenney, University of Brighton >Ronnie Margulies, Stop the War Committee, Istambul >Rob Hoveman, National Secretary, Socialist Alliance >Simon Bromley, Open University >Bob Brecher, University of Brighton >Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers > Deborah Knight CSE/Capital & Class Business Manager 25 Horsell Road, London N5 1XL (020) 7607 9615, www.cseweb.org.uk