2008 Annual Lecture
Recent conferences & events
Legacies & futures
19 September 2009, Ruskin College, Oxford
The History Workshop and
Radical Education
The recent opening up of the History Workshop
archive at Ruskin College – in addition to the Raphael
Samuel Archive at the Bishopsgate Institute –
provides new opportunities for thinking about
History.
The History Workshops held in the 1960s, 70s and
80s provided particular opportunities for wideranging
discussions of History and its application in
the present. The History Workshop Movement was
seen as a radical movement dedicated to political
change and new ways of thinking about the past and
present.
While discussion of the past in the public domain has
arguably opened up extensively, History in schools,
colleges, universities and adult education is
circumscribed by different constraints to those of
the early years of the History Workshop.
What are the possibilities now of practising radical
history-making? Is democratic scholarship viable –
and what forms can it take? What new forms of
engagement are possible? What have we learned and
what should be left in the past? What different roles
might History have in local and community activism?
This one day conference is not intended to be a
nostalgic event but to provide an opportunity to
think about and discuss visions and practical
examples now.
Sam Aaronovitch's prize 2008
winning article
Dave Cope's remarkable BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GB is now available on line
The Sam Aaronovitch
prize winning article for 2006 is:
"Inequalities
in Britain 1997-2006: the Dream that Turned Pear-shaped"
written by Danny Dorling of Sheffield University.
A prize ceremony will be held at London
South Bank University at 5pm on June 7th . The guest speaker will be Mr
Tony Travers of the London School of Economics.
CLARE SHORT
The Future of the Left -
Do we need a new agenda?
Rodney Bickerstaffe (Chair)
Thursday, 18 May 2006
Call
for Papers RSD3 - Sheffield 2006:
Social democracy in the post-bipolar world:
Challenges in the developed world, opportunities in
the developing world?
28-30 June 2006 - Unversity of
Sheffield
2005 Sam Aaronovitch
political writing prize
winners: Fred Robinson, Keith Shaw, and Gill
Davidson
‘On the Side of the Angels’: Community
Involvement in the Governance of Neighbourhood Renewal
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
Terry Eagleton
'Socialism & Culture'
7.30pm, Thursday, 5 June 2008
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG
Ticketing
information:
SOLD OUT
All enquiries: eagleton_lecture@yahoo.co.uk
Bookstalls - Doors Open 6.45pm
Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English
Literature at the University of Manchester and a Fellow of the
British Academy. He has written almost fifty books of literary
criticism and cultural theory, has taught and lectured widely
throughout the world, and has had stage plays produced in
London and Ireland. A study of ethics, Trouble with Strangers,
is due from Basil Blackwell this September.
His lecture Socialism &
Culture investigates the central role
which culture has played in the politics of the 20th century, and
examines the role of culture in the so-called war on terror. It
considers the interrelations between culture, civilization and so-
called barbarism, and argues that in certain key respects ‘culture’
is being treated as a new form of barbarism.
2006 Annual Lecture
Dr
Moshe Machover
Israelis
& Palestinians:
Conflict & Resolution
Tariq Ali ( chair)
The conflict in Palestine/Israel has been
raging for almost a
century.It is arguably the world’s most charged and explosive
flashpoint: a spluttering powder keg next to millions of barrels
of oil. Armageddon – Har Megido – is, literally, in that
country.
Moral value judgments about this conflict and formulas for its
resolution must be based on a clear understanding of its
nature and its regional and global context.
In this lecture Moshé Machover will analyse it as a specific
confrontation – the last major active one of its type – between
a settler nation and the indigenous people of the land claimed
as one without a people.
Essential features of a just and lasting resolution are easy to
delineate abstractly; but what are the real prerequisites for
making it feasible?
Moshé Machover is an Israeli socialist, founding member of
the Socialist Organization in Israel (Matzpen). He is a
mathematician, emeritus Professor of Philosophy at King’s
College, London. He is author of several books, including
Laws of Chaos: A probabilistic Approach to Political
Economy (co-authored with Emmanuel Farjoun), Verso, 1983.
1996:
Eric Hobsbawm
1998: Noam Chomsky
2000: Tom Nairn
Farewell
Britannia
2004: Robin Blackburn
2006:ClareShort
(Chair)
© Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust 2005
