2013 TIMETABLE (15-17 Feb // Wadham College, Oxford)

(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

OXFORD RADICAL FORUM :: 2013

We are very excited to announce the SIXTH Oxford Radical Forum, 2013 – a full weekend of talks, workshops and debates on radical ideas and movements – from the role of media in the Arab revolutions, to the historic struggles against slavery; from workshops on migrant solidarity, to a posthumous trial of the late Christopher Hitchens, as well as sessions on feminism, radical culture and media, and much, much more…

A programme will be out imminently – please do return to our page, or join our Facebook event at http://www.facebook.com/events/287614944695092/?fref=ts

Confirmed speakers include Robin Blackburn, Laurie Penny, and Richard Seymour.

The event will be taking place in and around Wadham College in central Oxford, from 15 – 17 February (Friday – Saturday).

 

Admission to all talks and event is free – and everyone is welcome. Please do forward details of this event to your networks.

OXFORD RADICAL FORUM 2012

THIS YEAR’S OXFORD RADICAL FORUM HAS A NEW SITE – IT CAN BE FOUND HERE:

http://orf2012.wordpress.com/

::OXFORD-RADICAL-FORUM:: 2011

TIMETABLE: 19/20/21/22 May

::OXFORD-RADICAL-FORUM:: 2011

HO CHI MINH QUAD
WADHAM COLLEGE

JESUS COLLEGE

(DIRECTIONS AND ROOM INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE ON-SITE)

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:THURSDAY:

What are we selling and what’s for sale? The IUSW and ECP discuss sex work THUR 17:30 WADHAM

Open Source Culture: radical notes on the Internet THUR 19:30 WADHAM

:FRIDAY:

‘Nothing about us without us: disability rights and inclusive activism’ FRI 19:00 WADHAM

:SATURDAY:

‘Radical migrant support work; why we need to overhaul the dominant paradigm of refugee support’ – Sophie Roumat, SAT, 11:00 WADHAM

‘Walter Benjamin, Time and Money’ – with Prof. Esther Leslie, Birkbeck, SAT 15:00 WADHAM

>> “OXFORD RADICAL NIGHT” AT BABYLOVE – LATE <<

:SUNDAY:

’100 days since the Arab revolutions’ with Marwa Daoudi, Abed Takrity, Sami Hermez. SUN 11:00 WADHAM

Libya: revolution betrayed? with Simon Assaf and Mohammed Mahdi SUN 13:00 WADHAM

Antiquity, Marxism and Radical History – with Peter Thonemann SUN 15:00 WADHAM

With Bin Laden’s death, end of the war on terror? with John Rees SUN 19:00 WADHAM

FILM SCREENING ‘Maedchen in Uniform’ (Leontine Sagan 1931) SUN 20:00 JESUS COLL.

Revolution in the Arab world, controversies over nuclear power, neoliberal cuts across the globe, and uprisings from Wisconsin to Westminster set the scene for this year’s Oxford Radical Forum. Once again Wadham College – and other venues – will play host to a broad range of critical debates and discussions on the radical left, with leading speakers, commentators, activists and academics.

OXFORD RADICAL NITES #1

We’re very excited to be able to confirm the details for our gig on the Saturday of ORF.

All action happening at The Cellar, which is just off Cornmarket Street. Doors open at 9:00 p.m. for live-music, poetry and performance – and of course a well-earned chance to relax / drink / dance with all your new friends from the Forum.

From midnight the venue will be turned over to our very special DJs, Theo Leanse and Hannah Hammond, who have cooked up an eclectic mixture of techno, house, disco and funk that will last to the small hours…

KING OF CATS
BABY GRAVY
MR SHAODOW

POETRY and PERFORMANCE from STEPHEN BOCHONEK, ROBERT RAPOPORT, BEN HUNT.

00:00-3:00 BEATS AND RHYTHMS FROM THEO LEANSE (TECHNO/DISCO/HOUSE/FUNK) and HANNAH HAMMOND (TECHNO/HOUSE)

£4 on the door…

£3 *only* to good people who sign up to our Facebook event (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=374105820489) or onto the guestlist at Oxford Radical Forum events.

OXFORD RADICAL FORUM 2010!

Comrades and travellers,

Welcome to the blog of the Oxford Radical Forum.

We are excited to announce the current programme for the Oxford Radical Forum 2010, which will be taking place Friday – Sunday, 5 – 7 March.

Once again Wadham College will play host to a broad range of critical debates and discussions on the radical left, with leading speakers, commentars, activists and academics. As always the event is entirely FREE and we are also pleased to announce a Forum dinner on the Friday night, and an evening social on the Saturday night.

We hope to see many of you at Wadham over the course of the Forum and hope that you will join us in making this another successful and fruitful event.

oxfordradicalforum@googlemail.com

Getting to Wadham College: http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/images/files/wadhmaprev.pdf

<< We view re-energising popular discussion and action on the left a necessity. Our belief in the need for an event in Oxford bringing together progressive politics stems both from a conviction in the continued and critical relevancy of Marxist and leftist ideas and theory and from the sad and persistent weakness of focused or organised progressive political organisation locally and nationally, despite such pressing conditions of political and economic crisis, and despite the very many who would under more favourable circumstances participate in such interventions. Therefore we are hosting again this forum which will continue to address these issues and draw in individuals from the two universities in Oxford, the city and beyond to consider critically ideas about social progress and transformation. Ultimately ORF seeks to contribute to a critical culture of left debate, theory and action, as well as to cement political and intellectual links between individuals and groups who will have a basis upon which to work in the future. >>

CURRENT TIMETABLE

(NB: All venues will be around the Ho Chi Minh Quad in Wadham College. The exact room will be clearly inidcated on the day.)

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FRI

2:30 – 3:45

:: DIRECT ACTION WORKSHOP

With the ‘Seeds For Change’ collective.

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4:30 – 6:00

:: ENGLAND’S POSTIMPERIAL MELANCHOLIA

Paul Gilroy (author, There Aint no Black in the Union Jack; Anthony Giddens Prof., London School of Economics).

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6:45 – 8:15

:: THE BLACK AND THE RED: MARXISM & ANARCHISM TODAY

Paul Blackledge (author, Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History; Leeds Metropolitan University); Ruth Kinna (author, William Morris: The Art of Socialism; editor, Anarchist Studies; Loughborough University).

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8:30-…

:: FORUM DINNER

All Forum attendees welcome…

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SAT

11:00 – 12:15

:: COMMONWEALTH AND CONVIVIALITY: ANTI-CAPITALISM AND THE POLITICS OF PLEASURE

Kate Soper (author, The Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently; Londen Metropolitan University); Jeremy Gilbert (author, Anti-capitalism and Culture; University of East London).

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1:15 – 2:30

:: PAN-AFRICANISM IN THE 21st CENTURY

Patricia Daley (author, Gender and Genocide in Burundi; Oxford University).

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3:00 – 4:15

:: FIGHTING FASCISM, RACISM AND IMMIGRATION CONTROLS TODAY

Teresa Hayter (author Open Borders: The Case against Immigration Controls; Campaign to Close Campfield); Anindya Bhattacharyya (Unite Against Fascism).

:: BODY POLITIC DRAMA WORKSHOP

Caitlin McLeod and Cara Verkerk (Warwick University, Theatre Studies Finalists).

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4:45 – 6:00

:: DISASTER POLITICS IN HAITI: AID, EXPLOITATION AND THE ARMY

Peter Hallward (author, Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment; Middlesex University), Richard Seymour (author, The Liberal Defense of Murder; blogs at ‘LENIN’S TOMB’).

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7:00 – 8:30

:: ONE MILLION CLIMATE JOBS – NOW!

Jonathan Neale (author, Stop Global Warming, Change the World; International Secretary, Campaign against Climate Change); former Vestas worker and occupier (TBC).

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9:00 – 3:00 (a.m.!)

PERFORMANCE // SPOKEN WORD // GIG // DJs
@ “THE CELLAR”

An eclectic mixture of live music, spoken word and comedy, arts-performance, and – after midnight – serious dance music until late.

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SUN

1:15 – 2:30

:: UTOPIAN ORGANISATION IN MUSIC

Adam Harper (musician; blogs at Rouge’s Foam).

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3:00 – 4:15

:: MILITANT MODERNISM AND THE RUINS OF BRITISH UTOPIA

Owen Hatherly (author, Militant Modernism; architectural critic).

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4:45 – 6:00

:: INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY: LIBERATION NOW

Nina Power (author, One-Dimensional Woman; Roehampton University) and Laurie Penny (writer and blogger at Red Penny).

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7:00 – 8:30

:: CONTEMPORARY POLITICS IN FRANCE AND THE NOUVEAU PARTI ANTICAPITALISTEStathis Kouvelakis (author, Philosophy and Revolution; editor, A Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism; NPA member; Kings College London).

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8:45 – Late

DRINKS AND FAREWELLS

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Timetable – O.R.F. 2009

::OXFORD-RADICAL-FORUM:: 2009

HO CHI MINH QUAD
WADHAM COLLEGE, PARK ROAD,OXFORD

(DIRECTIONS AND ROOM INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE ON-SITE)
FRIDAY 6 MARCH

2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
:: The Myths of Zionism – John Rose (Southwark College and London Metropolitan University; author, The Myths of Zionism (Pluto)).

3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
:: The Myths of Mars and Venus – Deborah Cameron (Worcester College, Oxford University; author, The Myths of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages?)

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
:: Gender and the Media: What the Movies we Love Tell us About How to be Women and Men – Amy Putman (Oxford University); Ryan Thoreson (Oxford University); Ashley Slaff (Oxford University).

SATURDAY 7 MARCH

11:45 a.m – 1:00 p.m.
:: The Communist Hypothesis: Reflections on Recent Radical Philosophy – Alberto Toscano, (Goldsmiths, London; author, The Theatre of Production)

2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
:: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation – Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths, London; author, Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation.)

3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
:: Theories of Imperialism and Global Resistance – Alex Callinicos (KCL, London; author, The New Mandarins of American Power)

7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
:: Socialism and Ecology: What is the relationship? – Derek Wall, (previous National Speaker and MEP candidate for the Green Party; author, Babylon and Beyond.)

SUNDAY 8 MARCH

11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m
:: Stopping the Titan Prisons:  A feminist/queer/trans approach to prison
abolition in Britain – Sarah Lamble (Kent University).

2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
:: Race and Class – TBC

3:45 – 5:15
:: The Student Occupation Movement: A Discussion on Lessons and Potentials – University Occupation participants from across the country.

7:30 – 9:15 :: Explaining the Crisis: Causes and Responses – Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS, author; Political Economy and Finance); Robert Wade (LSE, London); Alfredo Saad Filho (SOAS, London; author (with Ben Fine), Marx’s Capital); Chris Harman (Editor, International Socialism Journal).

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Contact and More information:

http://oxfordradicalforum.wordpress.com

oxfordadicalforum@googlemail.com

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Map of Wadham Collge: http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/images/files/WadhamFunctionRoomPlan.jpg