The Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust
2013 Annual Lecture
Recent conferences & events
NINA FISHMAN
TRANSLATION AWARD
Nina Fishman was a political historian,
thinker and activist, and the author of important books such as The British
Communist Party and the Trade Unions (1995) and the two-volume Arthur
Horner: A Political Biography (2011). She was also an active member of
the board of the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust. In her honour a
specific fund has been created to support the translation into English
of works that fall within the interests of the Trust. No topic is specified
but the Trust is particularly keen to support works on topics that would
have interested Prof. Fishman such as Labour history, European socialism
and social democracy, the theory and practice of industrial relations
(for further information on this please see http://www.ninafishman.org/).
The Trust will consider applications for translations of essays, articles,
book chapters and interviews as well as full length books.
The Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust will consider applications for this award on Thursday, 24th October 2013. The closing deadline for submissions to this meeting is Thursday, 12th September 2013.
If you do wish to make an application for funds, please contact the administrator on apply@amielandmelburn.org.uk specifying that you wish to apply for the ‘Nina Fishman Translation Award’. You will be sent application guidelines along with an application form specifically for the Nina Fishman Translation Award. Application forms are only available from the administrator. Any applications which do not meet the application guidelines will not be accepted.
The Sam Aaronovitch political writing prize
2009:
Ines Newman,
The Future of Local Development.
2008:
Alison Wolf, King's College London Davidson
Round and round the houses: the Leitch Review of Skills.
2007:
Danny Dorling,Sheffield University
Inequalities in Britain 1997-2006: the Dream that Turned: Pear-shaped.
2005:
Fred Robinson, Keith Shaw, and Gill Davidson
On the Side of the Angels’: Community Involvement in the Governance
of Neighbourhood Renewal.
2002:Glyn
Robbins
Taking Stock – Regeneration Programmes and Social Housing.
2001:
John Diamond
Managing Change Or Coping With Conflict? – Mapping The Experience
Of A Local Regeneration Partnership.
2000:
Christina Ashworth
Changing Cultures and Building Shared Ownership.
Dave
Cope's remarkable BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GB is now available
on line
New Political Writing Prize 2005
Winners of the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust/New
Statesman Prize for New Political Writing on the subject:
Do women’s rights remain the privilege of the developed world?
First: Racheal Walker
Second: Verity Johnson
Third: Sarah Solemani and Tanya Angerer
PAUL
MASON
Why It’s
Still Kicking Off Everywhere
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Paul Mason is the economics editor of the
BBC's flagship current affairs program Newsnight. He has covered globalization
and social justice stories from locations around the world, including
Latin America, Africa and China, has been nominated for an Emmy for his
work with BBC World News America, and has twice been nominated for the
Orwell Prize for his blog Idle Scrawl. He is the author of Meltdown and
Live Working or Die Fighting.
Eighteen months on from the Arab Spring, a year on from the Occupy protests, social unrest continues. Paul Mason explored the roots of the great dissatisfaction among the young and educated and reflected on the way his thesis – that this is an 1848 of the mind, driven by new information networks and horizontal forms of protest – has stood up in the face of attempts to normalise and colonise the protest movements.
He also explored the changing dynamic of the economic crisis that underpins the social unrest, showing how events in Russia and China – countries that have delivered economically to their middle classes – fit into the pattern of disruption and challenge begun in Tahrir Square.
This was a landmark exposition
of Mason’s analysis, incorporating new research and reactions to
the original criticisms of his book, “Why It’s Kicking Off
Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions”.
read
lecture
lecture video recording (70 mins in five parts)
part1
part2
part3
part4
part5
Identity Politics and the Left
1998: Noam Chomsky
Power in The Global Arena
2000: Tom Nairn
Farewell Britannia
2004: Robin Blackburn
A Rescue Plan for Pensions
(audio file part 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6)
2006: Moshe Machover
Israelis
& Palestinians: Conflict & Resolution
2008: Terry Eagleton
'Socialism & Culture'
(10Mb audiofile) and
following debate
© Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust 2005
