Terry Eagleton
'Socialism & Culture'
7.30pm, Thursday, 5 June 2008
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG

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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.

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
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:ClareShort
The Future of the Left -
Do we need a new agenda?
Rodney Bickerstaffe (Chair)