(All rooms in Wadham College, unless otherwise stated. Please note this timetable may be subject to some minor alterations or room-changes, so please check back here or pick up finalised timetables at the event. All events free and open to all!)
- FRIDAY (15/02) -
4:45-6:15
Labour and social movements in China today
Tia Thornton; Tim Pringle
(Okinaga Room)
Radical Journalism
Laurie Penny (The Independent; New Statesman); others TBC
6:30-7:45
Address to conference
John McDonnel MP
International dimensions of the crisis
Alex Callinicos (KCL; author, The Bonfire of Illusions)
(Moser Theatre)
8:30-10:00
‘Riot from Wrong’: Film Screening + Q&A
riotfromwrong.com/
Film about the 2011 riots, winning plaudits from Michael Mansfield QC and many others, having screened at the BFI, Somerset House, and many others
(Magdalen Auditorium, Longwall Street entrance)
- SATURDAY (16/02) -
10:15-11:30
Workshop: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
Practical workshop on campaigning against the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
(New Seminar Room, A)
Workshop: Gearing up for the ORF Marathon
Interactive and experience-based workshop on how to get the most out of
the weekend!
(Moser Theatre)
11:45-1:00
‘Speak English like a native’: language, the state and the new racism
Deborah Cameron (Oxford; author, The Myths of Mars and Venus).
(Okinaga Room)
Oxford Left Review: Student movements past and present
Jamie Woodcock (NUS Exec); George Paizis (’68 Veteran); Ecuadorian student.
(Location TBC)
Ethical Lunch! (By donation)
2:30-4:00
Marx and Abraham Lincoln: An Unfinished Revolution
Robin Blackburn (Essex; author, An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and
Abraham Lincoln)
(New Seminar Room A)
Zer0 Books Panel (1): Oppositional Geography
Agata Pyzik (Images of the East and West in Popular Culture During the Cold
War); Tom Astley (A Redefinition of Left-Wing Identity in Contemporary Cuban Music Making); Alex Niven (The North East of England as a Quidditch Pitch)
(Okinaga Room)
STAR Migration Panel (2:30-6:00)
(Turl Street Kitchen)
4:30-6:00
The Arab Spring: Three Years On
Anne Alexander (Cambridge; editor, Egypt: The Moment of Change); Miriyam
Afsar (Author, Palestine Online); Yves Gonzalez-Quijano (Researcher on the internet in the Arab world; author, Arabitès numériques)
(Okinaga Room)
7:30-8:45
Human Rights in Sri Lanka
Amnesty International
(Okinaga Room)
Drinks at the Old Fire Station
- SUNDAY (17/02) -
10:30-11:45
Revolutionary Theory: Leninism and the Revolutionary
Situation
Stathis Kouvelakis (Speaking on Greece. KCL; author, From Kant to Marx)
(New Seminar Room A)
Radical Philosphy in Latin America
(Moser Theatre)
12:00-1:15
Shostakovich: Socialism, Stalinism and Symphonies
Simon Behrman (Author, Shostakovich: Socialism, Stalinism and Symphonies)
(Okinaga Room)
70 Years after the Warsaw Ghetto Rising
John Rose (author, The Myths of Zionism)
(New Seminar Room A)
Anarchism and Animals
(Moser Theatre)
Ethical Lunch! (By donation)
2:30-4:00
Austerity and Resistance in Britian and Europe
Stathis Kouvelakis (Speaking on Greece. KCL; author, From Kant to Marx); Ellen
Clifford (Disabled People against Cuts); TBC.
(Okinaga Room)
Zer0 Books Panel (2): British Culture and the Left
Joe Kennedy (The Culture of Football); Rhian Jones (Pop Culture, Class and
Gender); Rosie Lavan (The Northern Irish Troubles and Collective Experience)
(New Seminar Room A)
4:30-6:00
Book Launch: Unhitched: The Trial Against Christopher
Hitchens
Richard Seymour (Author, Unhitched: The Trial Against Christopher Hitchens).
(Okinaga Room)
Feminism Today
Chaired by Sarah Pine (OUSU Womens VP elect)
(New Seminar Room A)
Bass & Superstructure: Club Night and Fundraiser
The Cellar