LSHG Autumn term seminars
Monday 28th September 5.30pm Gregor Gall ‘Marxism in Music: Constructing a Communist Contra-Culture with The Redskins, Rock’n’roll and Revolution’. On Zoom. Book (Free) Marxism in Music: Constructing a Communist Contra-Culture with The Redskins, Rock’n’roll and Revolution | Institute of Historical Research
Manufacturing Marxist music (and culture) has been the missing component of the theory and practice of the revolutionary left in Western Europe. To do so, as The Redskins did, gives us a glimpse of what can be achieved in certain conducive circumstances.
Monday 12th October 5.30pm Emile Chabal, The Age of Hobsbawm, The Life of a Revolutionary Historian. Past & Present Room (202). Institute of Historical St, Senate House, Malet St WC1. Book (Free) The Age of Hobsbawm. The Life of a Revolutionary Historian | Institute of Historical Research
Socialist History Seminar Wed 28th Oct (Zoom) Quentin Deleurmoz, the Paris Commune, 1871, a global history. Free, please book at link
Wednesday 28th October 5.30pm on Zoom. Free, For joining details The Paris Commune: a global history | Institute of Historical Research
The Paris Commune as world revolutionary event and laboratory for republican and socialist ideas
In 1871 and over the years to follow, the impact of the Paris Commune was felt the world over. Concepts and practices developed there were taken up in all corners of Europe and travelled as far afield as Mexico City and Algiers. Drawing on history, anthropology, and the sociology of crises and revolutions, Quentin Deluermoz follows the revolution from its origins on the Parisian street, capturing the perspective of ordinary men and women, to examine the delicate question of its legacy.
In recent decades, the Commune has been a touchstone for social and political struggles in France, the United States, Spain, Mexico, and the Syrian Kurdish region of Rojava. This resurgence is rooted in twentieth-century anarchist and communist history. It hearkens back to often forgotten meanings of socialism, federalism, and republicanism. Deluermoz recaptures the intensity of the ‘Commune moment’, helping readers grasp its enduring relevance for today.
Seminars are free and organised by the London Socialist Historians Group
Further Autumn Term Seminars will be added shortly