Friday, April 4, 2014

Tony Benn: Assessing His Legacy for the Left

TONY BENN: ASSESSING HIS LEGACY FOR THE LEFT

The Socialist History Society is holding a seminar on Tony Benn's contribution to British politics; it will look at the historical roots of his commitment to socialism, his record in and out of office, some of the key causes he championed such as peace and nuclear disarmament and his role as a populariser of history.

The event will take place on: Saturday 26th April between 2pm and 4.30pm at Conway Hall, in London. 
Entry free of charge

Speakers:

Keith Flett (London Socialist Historians Group),

Duncan Bowie (Westminster University/Chartist magazine),

Prof Willie Thompson (Historian, former editor Socialist History)

Stefan Dickers (Bishopsgate archivist)

Jon Lansman (editor Left Futures/CLPD)

Stan Newens (ex-MP, ex-MEP; President SHS)

Kate Hudson (CND)/historian)

Further info: morganshs@hotmail.com


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The Politics of Post-Soviet Cinema: Colloquium Featuring Jacques Ranciere

THE POLITICS OF POST-SOVIET CINEMA: COLLOQUIUM FEATURING JACQUES RANCIERE

The Department of Comparative Literature and the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University present “Béla Tarr: The Politics of Post-Soviet Cinema,” a colloquium on the work of the Hungarian filmmaker, featuring Jacques Rancière, András Bálint Kovács, and Eva Cermanová.

Date and Time: Thursday April 10, 2:00pm-6:30 pm
Location: Brown University, Pembroke Hall room 305, 172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI 02912

Discussions of Béla Tarr’s films typically divide his work into the pre-1989 cinema of a militant director, grappling with the problems of socialist Hungary, and the post-1989 work of a mature artist, characterized by disenchantment and contemplation. Jacques Rancière’s book Béla Tarr, The Time Afterstrongly and compellingly rejects this narrative. “Béla Tarr: The Politics of Post-Soviet Cinema” will feature Rancière returning to this them e, along with András Bálint Kovács, acclaimed scholar of European cinema and one of the foremost interpreters of Tarr’s work, and Eva Cermanová, a graduate researcher on Béla Tarr.

Schedule:
2:00  Timothy Bewes, Introductory Remarks

2:15  Eva Cermanová, “The Time After Disaster: Intensity and Sequence in Béla Tarr”
András Bálint Kovács “Difference and Repetition: The Question of the Homogeneity of Béla Tarr’s Work"

4:15  Break

4:30  Jacques Rancière, “Béla Tarr: The Poetics and Politics of Fiction”

5:30  Roundtable – Jacques Rancière, András Bálint Kovács, Eva Cermanová

6:30  Reception

Organized by Timothy Bewes (Department of English), with help from Silvia Cernea Clark and the Department of Comparative Literature.

Co-sponsored by the Creative Arts Council, the Malcolm S. Forbes fund (Modern Culture and Media), Office of International Affairs, Department of Comparative Literature, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Department of English, Department of French, Pembroke Center, Department of History of Art and Architecture, and the Department of Visual Art.


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The Globalisation Lectures at SOAS - Now Online

THE GLOBALISATION LECTURES AT SOAS – NOW ONLINE

Haideh Moghissi, Professor and Trudeau Fellow, Department of Equity Studies, York University, Toronto
6 March 2013

Aziz Al-Azmeh, CEU University Professor, School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, Central European University, Budapest
6 February 2013

Chantal Mouffe, Professor of political theory and director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster
28 November 2012

Marcus Verhagen, Art historian and critic, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and Goldsmiths College, University of London
31 October 2012

Hisham Matar
5 March 2012

Heiner Flassbeck (Director on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD)
1 February 2012

Dr Serge Halimi (Director, Le Monde Diplomatique)
2 March 2011

Dr Shirin Ebadi (Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003)
2 February 2011

Tariq Ali (Novelist, Playwright and Historian; Editor - New Left Review)
1 December 2010

Hugo Blanco (Leader of the Peasant Confederation, Peru)
27 October 2010

Dr Rony Brauman (1999 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Former President of Doctors without Borders (MSF, Paris))
3 March 2010

Dr Susan George
20 January 2010

Professor Alex Callinicos and Professor Leo Panitch
25 November 2009

Professor Noam Chomsky
27 October 2009

Prof. Saskia Sassen - Lynd Professor Of Sociology And Member, The Committee On Global Thought, At Columbia University (New York)
25 February 2009

Prof. Samir Amin - Director Of The Third World Forum (Dakar, Senegal)
26 November 2008

Prof. Ellen Meiksins Wood Professor Emerita of Political Science at York University (Toronto, Canada)
29 October 2008

Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos
22 April 2008

Dr Eric Toussaint (World Social Forum and Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt)
25 February 2008

Robert Wade, Professor of Political Economy and Development (LSE)
22 January 2008


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Common Ground

COMMON GROUND
Interview and Discussion with Lawrence Grossberg

Dear Friends

I've written and introduction to / summary of my latest book, Common Ground,for the Compass website.  

It's here: http://www.compassonline.org.uk/collectivity-in-an-age-of-individualism/

At the same time, I've published on my blog a copy the long discussion of the book and its themes between myself and Lawrence Grossberg.


Please pass on to anyone who might be interested

Thanks!
Jeremy Gilbert

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Monday, March 31, 2014

The Right to Freedom: A Symposium on Critical Theory

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THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM: A SYMPOSIUM ON CRITICAL THEORY
London, 6-7 May, 2014

Venue: Woburn Suite (G22/26, Ground Floor), Institute of Philosophy, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Invited Speakers:
Prof. Dr Axel Honneth
Institute for Social Research/University of Frankfurt/Columbia University
Prof. Lois McNay
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Dr David McNeill
School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex
Dr Jörg Schaub
School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex
Dr Timo Jütten
School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex
Prof. Michael Rosen
Department of Government, Harvard University
ALL ARE WELCOME

This event is jointly organised and funded by the Department of Philosophy, The Open University, the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and the School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex. 
Full programme details and venue directions.
The symposium is free but requires registration.
To register, please email your name and affiliation to criticaltheorysymposium2014@gmail.com.
For further information, please contact Dr Manuel Dries at manuel.dries at open.ac.uk.

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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Nietzsche, Value and Self-Constitution Conference

NIETZSCHE, VALUE AND SELF-CONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE
Date: 17-18th May 2014
Venue: St Peter's College, Oxford – Registration required
Supported by:
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford; Department of Philosophy, The Open University; St. Peter's College, Oxford; St Hilda's College, Oxford. 
Invited Speakers:
Prof. Jessica Berry (Georgia State University, US)
Prof. Maudemarie Clark (University of California Riverside, US)
Prof. David Dudrick(Colgate University, US)
Dr Andrew Huddleston (University of Oxford, UK)
Prof. Paul Katsafanas (Boston University, US)
Prof. Brian Leiter (University of Chicago, US)
Dr Mattia Riccardi (University of Oporto, Portugal)

Programme:

Saturday, 17 May 2014
09:00–10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00–10:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Paul Katsafanas: Précis of Agency and the Foundations of Ethics. Nietzschean Constitutivism (OUP 2013)
Maudemarie Clark/David Dudrick: Précis of The Soul of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil (CUP 2012) 
10:30–12:00 Session 1
Brian Leiter: The Esoteric Reading of Nietzsche  
Lunch, St Peter’s College Oxford
14:00–15:30 Session 2 
Mattia Riccardi: Nietzsche on the Space of Values
Tea and Coffee
16:00–17:30 Session 3 
Maudemarie Clark/David Dudrick: title tbc
Conference Dinner, St Peter’s College 
Sunday, 18 May 2014
10:00–10:30 Tea and Coffee
10:30–12:00 Session 4 
Jessica Berry: In a Mirror, Dimly – Nietzsche on the Uncertainty of Agency
Lunch, St Peter’s College Oxford
14:00–15:30 Session 5 
Andrew Huddleston: Value and the Will to Power – Challenges to a Nietzschean Constitutivism 
Tea and Coffee
16:00–17:30 Session 6 
Paul Katsafanas: Nietzsche on the Free Individual 
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Registration: Due to a limited number of spaces available you need to register and pay a registration fee. Registration will open here shortly.
Organisation: Dr Peter Kail (St Peter's College, Oxford) and Dr Manuel Dries (OU | St Hilda's College, Oxford)

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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Critique Today

CRITIQUE TODAY
Call for Papers
Editors: Frank Ruda & Agon Hamza

The International journal of political philosophy, Crisis and Critique, announces a call for papers for its second issue, which will be devoted to the notion of critique today.
To criticize, in the original Greek meaning (krinein), is the act of drawing a line of demarcation. Such a critical act introduced with the same move a hierarchy between the two sides of this very line. Thus, to criticize meant to decide for and to give preference to one of two sides of a choice that was constituted by the very act of criticism. To criticize thus also implied the very emphasize of a choice that would not have existed without the critique.
In 1858 Karl Marx wrote to Lasalle that his Capital is “at once an exposé [Darstellung] and, by the same token, a critique of the system.” Today it is a widely shared contention that a concept of critique through presentation and Darstellung, any critique of political economy has to be either renewed such that it is still apt to perform its peculiar criticism of the contemporary world or that it has to be revamped such that its unhindered actuality comes to the fore.
These two takes on the notion of critique – and there are many possible others – provide sufficient ground to raise a banal but obvious question: where does one stand today with regard to critique? The second issue of Crisis and Critique seeks to address this question with regard to philosophy and political practice, contemporary critical analysis of capitalism and its structural effects.

In this issue, we want to address questions such as:
–      critique as a negative activity: a negative determination of certain activities, practices, orientation in thinking
–      critique as an overcoming of the limits of the possibilities imposed by contemporary forms of capitalism
–      critique of ideology versus discourse analysis
–      renewals of critique and critiques of critique
–      the return to Marx via return to the critique of political economy
Articles should be sent in English. The maximal length is 9000-10.000 words.
Submissions should be sent to: editor@materializmidialektik.org
The deadline for submission is May 30, 2014
ISSN 2311-5475

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Our Books & Pamphlets

OUR BOOKS & PAMPHLETS

Details on the book and pamphlets of Glenn Rikowski and Ruth Rikowski


Glenn Rikowski




Rikowski, G. (2011) Marksist Eğitim Kurami ve Radikal Pedagoji (in Turkish), Radical Marxist Educational Theory and Pedagogy, Istanbul: Kalkedon.


Green, A., Rikowski, G. & Raduntz, H. (eds.) 2007 Renewing Dialogues in Marxism and Education: Openings, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.


McLaren, P., Rikowski, G., Cole, M. & Hill, D. (2006) Kızıl Tebeşir (Eğitim Söyleşileri) (in Turkish), Red Chalk: Education Talks, Trans. Ozge Yilmaz, Istanbul: Kalkedon,


Hill, D., McLaren, P., Cole, M. & Rikowski, G. (eds.) (2002) Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Publisher (Lexington Books): https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739103456


Rikowski, G. (2001) The Battle in Seattle: Its Significance for Education, London: Tufnell Press.
Institute for Education Policy Studies: http://www.ieps.org.uk/hillcolepubs.php  


Cole, M., Hill, D., Rikowski, G. & McLaren P. (2001) Red Chalk: On Schooling, Capitalism & Politics, with Foreword by Paula Allman, Brighton: The Institute for Education Policy Studies.
The Institue for Education Policy Studies : http://www.ieps.org.uk/redchalk.php


Hill, D., McLaren, P., Cole, M. & Rikowski, G. (eds.) (1999) Postmodernism in Educational Theory: Education and the Politics of Human Resistance, London: Tufnell Press.


Allen, M., Benn, C., Chitty, C., Cole, M., Hatcher, R., Hirtt, N. & Rikowski, G. (1999) Business, Business, Business: New Labour’s Education Policy, London: Tufnell Press.
Tufnell Press (purchasing): http://www.tpress.free-online.co.uk/buy.html


The Hillcole Group (including Glenn Rikowski) (1997) Rethinking Education and Democracy: A socialist alternative for the twenty first century, London: Tufnell Press.


Papers and Articles by Glenn Rikowski can be viewed at Academia: http://www.academia.edu/GlennRikowski



Ruth Rikowski


Rikowski, R. (Ed.) (2010) Digitisation Perspectives, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.


Rikowski, R. (Ed.) (2007) Knowledge Management: Social, Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives, Oxford: Chandos Publishing.


Rikowski, R. (2005) Globalisation, Information and Libraries: The implications of the World Trade Organisation’s GATS and TRIPS Agreements, Oxford:  Chandos Publishing.


Global Conference on Contemporary Issues in Education: Last Call for Papers


GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EDUCATION – LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
Reminder: Last month for Abstracts Submission!
Global Conference on Contemporary Issues in Education
12-14 July 2014
Stratosphere Hotel & Tower Convention Center
Las Vegas, USA
All accepted full papers will be published in Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences Journal (ISSN: 1877-0428), and indexed in ScienceDirect, Scopus and Thomson Reuters Web of Science.
Due Dated Abstract Submissions: 12 April 2014
Abstracts must be written in English, and can be sent as an email attach to globe.info@globalcenter.info


CHAIR
Professor Dr. Gul Celkan
Middle Georgia State College, USA

KEYNOTES
Prof. Dr. Stephen W. Harmon
President, The Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Professor and Chair, Learning Technologies Division, College of Education, Georgia State University
Prof. Dr. Colla Jean MacDonald
Professor, Faculty of Education
University of Ottawa, Canada
Prof. Dr. Ampere A. Tseng
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, USA

CONFERENCE SCOPES
GLOBEDU-2014 includes all theoretical and practical knowledge about learning, teaching and education. For more information www.globe-edu.org
Education
Learning
Teaching
Teacher Training
Curriculum and Instruction
Educational Administration and Supervision
Counselling and Guidance
Assessment and Evaluation in Education
Educational Psychology
Foundation of Education
Educational Technology
Language Teaching
Science Teaching
Social Sciences Teaching
Mathematics Teaching
Higher Education

Supporting Journals:
Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling (Indexed in SSCI)
British Journal of Educational Technology (Indexed in SSCI)
Asia Pacific Education Review (Indexed in SSCI)
Educational Technology Research and Development (Indexed in SSCI)
South African Journal of Psychology, (Indexed in SSCI)
Perspectives in Education (Indexed in SSCI)
Ankara University Faculty of Education Journal
Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences
World Journal on Educational Technology
Contemporary Educational Researches Journal
International Journal of Learning and Teaching
Global journal on Counselling and Guidance

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
· You can participate to the conference with paper or poster presentation, pannel and workshop.
· Participants who cannot particiate physically should prefer virtual presentation. These participants must uploaded skype on their computers. For more info: www.globe-edu.org

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
· The abstracts can be one-page long (150-250 words). 
· The abstract include Problem Statement, Purpose of Study, Methods, Findings and Results, and Conclusions and Recommendations.
· If your paper is not completed, it might be included only your study proposal.
· The abstracts must be included the authors’ names, surnames, affiliations, departments, email addresses and phone numbers.
· Abstracts can be submitted through www.globe-edu.org or attached to globe.info@globalcenter.info


FULL PAPER SUBMISSION              
Please click the link for the full paper template

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submissions: April 12, 2014
Full Paper Submission: May 12, 2014
Early Hotel Reservation: May 12, 2014
Early Registration: May 12, 2014
Conference Dates: July 12-14, 2014
Camera Ready Submission: July 25, 2014                                

VENUE and ACCOMODATION
Stratosphere Hotel & Tower Convention Center, Las Vegas, USA. We were special agreement with the Hotels for GLOBEDU-2014 participants only. The rate start from 35 USD for Double room.

For more information: www.globe-edu.org

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