::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.

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.

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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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

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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.