Timetable: Friday 6 July
This is the provisional timetable. We hope to run all these meetings, but we may make changes - for example, so as to fit in extra meetings on topical subjects. The final timetable will be available shortly before Marxism.
| << Thursday 5 July | Saturday 7 July >> | ||||
| 10-11.15am | 11.45-1pm | 2-3.15pm | 3.45-5pm | 7-8.30pm | |
| IE: Logan Hall | Can identity politics help us fight the BNP? Billy Bragg & Martin Smith |
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| IE: Jeffery Hall | How important
is class today? Chris Harman Class today |
Nkrumah – what
happened to the
dream of African
liberation? Mani Tanoh Africa |
Latin America –
a new kind of
revolution? Chris Harman & Diana Raby Latin America |
Who really ended slavery? Weyman Bennett & Robin Blackburn Slavery |
The return of strategy – revolutionaries & the movement Alex Callinicos Revolutionaries & the movement |
| ULU: Room 101 | Will China be the next superpower? Charlie Hore Understanding contemporary capitalism |
Keep our NHS public Geoff Martin, Karen Reissmann & John Lister Resisting neoliberal Britain |
Love, marriage & the family Lindsey German Material girls – women, men and work |
90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution Chris Bambery, Kevin Murphy & Steve Smith The Russian Revolution |
Theatre in revolt Tom Stoppard, Michael Billington, David Edgar & Charlotte Westenra Theatre |
| ULU: Upper Hall | Who are the neocons? Susan George The United States |
Culture wars in Brazil – samba, populism & crisis Dave Treece Latin America |
Is Iraq the new Vietnam? Chris Nineham |
The politics of the Tour de France Michael Lavalette |
Che Guevara Andy Brown |
| IE: Elvin Hall | Alienation & liberation Sally Campbell The Marxist method for beginners |
Historical materialism Martin Smith The Marxist method for beginners |
What is the dialectic? John Rees The Marxist method for beginners |
What's so funny about politics? Alistair Beaton |
Walter Benjamin's Marxism Michael Löwy |
| SOAS KLT | Scotland, Union & empire Neil Davidson |
Iran – from revolution to rogue state Naz Massoumi Rogue states |
Ecosocialism: the alternative to capitalist environmental crisis Michael Löwy The environment |
Rosa Luxemburg & the mass strike Candy Udwin Revolutionaries & the movement |
Beethoven Simon Behrman Music |
| Birkbeck: B33 | Capitalism & food Elane Heffernan |
The Black Panthers & the rise of Black power Donna Guthrie Black liberation |
The Bolsheviks & Islam Charlotte Ahmed Islam |
France in revolt: social struggles and political cycles Stathis Kouvelakis |
How was the Russian Revolution lost? Ian Birchall The Russian Revolution |
| Birkbeck: B36 | Has racism always existed? Kerri Parke Black liberation |
Britain’s dirty war in Ireland Simon Basketter |
Pierre Bourdieu Jim Wolfreys Radical theory in perspective |
The roots of gay oppression: illustrated talk Hannah Dee LGBT liberation |
Andreu Nin – from Soviet Russia to revolutionary Spain Andy Durgan |
| Birkbeck: 405 | Islam & Islamic civilisations Talat Ahmed Islam |
The Paris Commune Donny Gluckstein | Rap, racism & resistance Senan Mortell Music |
Class & sect in the Middle East Ann Alexander Middle East |
Pontecorvo – from bombing to shooting Tom Behan Film |
| IE: Nunn | The case for a global pension and youth grant Robin Blackburn | Communal Living Chanie Rosenberg |
Imperialism & women’s oppression Elaheh Rostami Povey |
Stem cell research – what's all the fuss about? Angela McCormack Science |
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| IE: Clarke | Marcel Martinet: Poetry and Resistance to World War One George Paizis Literature |
Capitalism & Genocide Sabby Sagall |
Samir Amin Guy Taylor Radical theory in perspective |
Cultural relativism Gareth Jenkins | |
| << Thursday 5 July | Saturday 7 July >> | ||||
Arts and Entertainment
1933 and all that: Brecht, Weill and friends
9pm, Room 101
Anna Zapparoli and her four piece band perform a musical journey through the first half of the 20th century taking in the best of Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and their fellow travellers.
Ewan McColl and the politics of the British folk song revival
9pm, SOAS bar
Alistair Hulett and Jimmy Ross sing the songs of Ewan McColl and discuss his ideas and influence on the British folk song revival of the 1950s and 60s. Political folk singer David Ferrard will follow with a live set.
Theatre in revolt
7pm, Room 101
Leading playwrights, directors and critics discuss the radicalisation of theatre. These include Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington and Tom Stoppard, the award winning British playwright famous for plays such as The Real Thing, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Playwright David Edgar will also speak. He once said: "I saw in the world-wide youth revolt of 1968 the prospect of a world without poverty, exploitation and war, and the possibility of my generation bringing that utopia about… that belief has informed everything I have written since."