Wednesday 18 May 2011

Oxford Radical Forum 2011

TIMETABLE: 19/20/21/22 May

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.