Comrades and travellers,
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 FREEand 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.
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).
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).
8:30-…
:: FORUM DINNER
All Forum attendees welcome…
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