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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