::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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:: OXFORD RADICAL FORUM – 2009 ::

:: WADHAM COLLEGE, OXFORD ::

:: 6 – 8 MARCH ::

The second Oxford Radical Forum will be taking place from Friday to Saturday, 6 – 8 March, 2009, in Wadham College, Oxford. Building on the success of last year’s conference, and a conviction in the continued necessity of leftist theory and politics, the weekend will see some of the brightest and most engaged people from the radical left coming to Oxford in order to contribute towards the reconstruction of an alternative, critical politics – a politics that stands for a real transformation of society in favour of social justice and equality and against war and poverty. We invite you all to join and participate in open and challenging discussions in talks, debates and seminars on war and imperialism, women’s liberation, the economic crisis, socialism and ecology and many other issues, with some of the key thinkers and activists of our day.

The Forum will be centred around Wadham College’s ‘Ho Chi Minh Quad’ from Friday afternoon until Sunday evening. All talks and debates will be free of charge and no registration is necessary, though for more information do not hesitate to contact us at oxfordradicalforum@googlemail.com.

Sessions include:

:: Alex Callinicos on global imperialism today, and the forces that are resisting it.

:: Deborah Cameron on the myths of ‘Mars and Venus’.

:: Eyal Weizman on Israel’s architecture of occupation.

:: Alberto Tosacano: The Communist Hypothesis: Reflection on Recent Radical Philosophy.

:: Sarah Lamble on the threat of Titan Prisons and homophobic oppression.

:: Robert Wade, Costas Lapavitsas, Chris Harman and Alfredo Saad-Filho debate the economic crisis.

:: Views on gender and relationships as portrayed in contemporary popular cinema – a feminist perspective.

:: Derek Wall on the necessary relationship between ecology and socialism.

:: The Student Occupations: panel discussion with participants reviewing the recent wave of student occupations, and the

new potentialities that now exist.

With all best wishes from the Organising Committee of the OXFORD RADICAL FORUM – we hope to see as many of you as possible at Wadham College, 6 – 8 March.