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Forthcoming or recent academic and cultural events, publications and so on of interest to this project. To suggest items to be posted here please contact: crisis-and-protest-project@open.ac.uk.

Blogs of interest:

Cr(y)sis 2015 blog

Please take a look at the 'Cr(y)sis 2015' blog created by Masters Students in Digital Media & Communications at The University of Nicosia, who are studying with Project Coordinator Mike Hajimichael.


Events

Dec 10-11

Conference call for papers:

December 2015

University of Turku, Finland

Spaces and tactics of politics: Transnational connections, neoliberalisation and the reshaping of civil society.

Mar 24

Conference: ‘What is Radical History?’

March 2015

Birkbeck, University of London

A one-day post-graduate led interdisciplinary conference organised by Luca Lapolla (Birkbeck), Diarmaid Kelliher(Glasgow) and Julie Russell (Exeter), as part of the Raphael Samuel History Centre‘s New Historians’ Network, funded by Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London.

There are 6 panels split over three sessions, with 2 panels running concurrently in each session. The day concludes with a roundtable featuring Dr Becky Taylor (Birkbeck), Dr Robbie Shilliam (QMUL), and Mike Jackson (Gays and Lesbians Support the Miners).

  • Session 1: a) Radical historiographies, and b) Urban and rural workers.
  • Session 2: a) Political commitment, and b) The state and authority.
  • Session 3: a) Social movements and protest, and b) Radical education.

PDF of the timetable 

For more information go to the Radical History conference website

Bookings on Eventbrite.

Please send any email enquiries to: radicalhistoryconference@gmail.com

Feb 21

Conference: After Neoliberalism? Kilburn Manifesto Conference

February 2015

Human Rights Action Centre, London, EC2A 3EA

 After Neoliberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto

To celebrate the completion of After Neoliberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto written by the late Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin, Soundings Journal is organising a one day conference to discuss and develop the ideas outlined in the Manifesto, and the seminars that accompanied each instalment.

Although the neoliberal economic settlement is unravelling, its political underpinning remains largely unchallenged. The analyses in The Kilburn Manifesto call into question the foundational assumptions of the neoliberal order, and argue for radical alternatives that are capable of challenging the system as a whole.

The conference will combine plenary discussions with smaller breakout sessions to build on the themes of the Manifesto, and to debate ways forward.

Participants from all backgrounds - academics, students, activists, journalists and commentators, or anyone interested in joining in the conversation - are welcome.

Following the conference, there will be a reception from 4.30pm - 6.30pm at 71a Leonard Street to launch the printed version of After Neoliberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto and to honour its co-editor, Stuart Hall.

To find out more about the conference, please visit the Soundings website.

Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin founded Soundings in 1995. Doreen Massey is Emeritus Professor of Geography at The Open University. Michael Rustin is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London. Stuart Hall was Emeritus Professor at The Open University.

Dec 4

Conference: Participation, Media Representation and the Financial and Political Crises in Cyprus

4th December 2014

UNESCO Ampitheatre, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Organizers: Department of Communication, University of Nicosia, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Cyprus Office

Occupy London Day 2’, Sunday 16 October 2011, sinister dexter

We are very grateful for the use of images by:
‘News News News 98/365’, 08 April 2014, © Dennis Skley, image cropped, and ‘Occupy London Day 2’, Sunday 16 October 2011, © sinister dexter