Marxism in Culture seminars

MARXISM IN CULTURE

PROGRAMME FOR AUTUMN TERM 2011

Friday 14 October
Financialisation, Monetisation, Privatisation: Creating the New Market
in Higher Education
Andrew McGettigan (Central Saint Martins)
Friday 28 October
Self-emancipation, activity theory, and political deskilling /
reskilling: Some thoughts on organising into a big fish
Alex Levant (Wilfred Laurier University)
Friday 25 November
A Socialist Realist Sander: Comparative Portraiture as a Marxist Model
in the German Democratic Republic
Sarah James (University College London)

Friday 09 December
Cultures of Marxism 1: Publishing and the Left
Contributors to be confirmed

All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Court Room (unless
otherwise indicated) at the Institute of Historical Research in Senate
House, Malet St, London. The seminar closes at 7.30pm and retires to
the bar.

Organisers: Matthew Beaumont, Dave Beech, Alan Bradshaw, Warren
Carter, Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Larne Abse Gogarty, Owen Hatherley,
Esther Leslie, David Mabb, Antigoni Memou,Chrysi Papaioannou, Nina
Power, Dominic Rahtz, Pete Smith, Peter Thomas & Alberto Toscano.

For further information, contact Warren Carter, at: w.carter@ucl.ac.uk
or Esther Leslie at: e.leslie@bbk.ac.uk