Breaking Up? A Route Out of the Eurozone Crisis
Posted: November 29, 2011 Filed under: Economy, EU | Tags: conference Leave a comment »
BREAKING UP? A ROUTE OUT OF THE EUROZONE CRISIS
Friday 9 December, 2011
Doors open at 6 pm; the panel will begin at 6.30 pm
Brunei Gallery Theatre, SOAS , WC1H 0XG
Join us for a timely and urgently needed discussion over the future of
the eurozone, the possibility of exit, and what it will all mean for
the people of Europe . Bringing together leading economists, political
scientists and financial journalists, the discussion will play a
critical role in setting the terms of the debate for the tumultuous
period that lies ahead.
The panel includes:
- Costas Lapavitsas, professor, department of economics, SOAS, and
lead author of a series of groundbreaking reports on the eurozone
crisis from the Research on Money and Finance network.
- George Irvin professor, department of development studies, SOAS, and
author of ‘Super Rich: the Growth of Inequality in Britain and the
United States ‘.
- Paul Mason, BBC economics editor and author of ‘Meltdown: The End of
the Age of Greed’.
- Stathis Kouvelakis, reader in political theory, King’s College London.
The panel will be chaired by Seamus Milne, associate editor at The
Guardian.
Please register your participation (see link below or visit the RMF
website) and arrive as early as possible.
Read the latest RMF report on the eurozone crisis: www.researchonmoneyandfinance.org
Register: https://docs.google.com/a/soas.ac.uk/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dDRpWjBGaXNhTmxyb3lLUUFQdnRvcmc6MA
Being In-Human: The Critical Theory and Law of Human Rights
Posted: November 7, 2011 Filed under: Politics | Tags: conference, Critical Theory, Humanity, LAW Leave a comment »A three-day Conference hosted by Birkbeck School of Law, and sponsored by The Leverhulme Trust, Birkbeck Law School and LSE Law Department, and Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities (BIH).
Dates: Thursday 17 – Saturday 19 November 2011
Venue: Birkbeck, University of London
Speakers include:
Slavoj Zizek, Chantal Mouffe, Samuel Moyn, John Milbank, Upendra Baxi, Pheng Cheah, Walter Mignolo, Costas Douzinas, Conor Gearty, Bruce Robbins, Paul Patton, Paul Gilroy amongst others.
For further details contact: Valerie Kelley.
Fightback against Austerity – Organise across Europe
Posted: August 3, 2011 Filed under: International, Politics | Tags: conference Leave a comment »
http://www.europeagainstausterity.org/ July 30, 2011
The economic crisis of 2008 is still gripping Europe. Governments are telling us that we are all in it together. But we are not responsible for this crisis of the neo-liberal system.
The EU Central Bank and the IMF are trying to impose austerity programmes on a scale not seen since the 1930s. This means mass unemployment, wage cuts, reforms of pensions, and privatisation of public services. Meanwhile the same bankers collect bonuses worth millions. But these programmes are not working. Greece and Ireland are now asking for more help as they are unable to pay back the first financial bail-out.
There is an alternative.
This crisis is not our crisis. We should refuse to pay their debt. Together across Europe, we must take action to resist these attacks and to defend our public services and jobs. And together, we must organise for a society which meets the needs of people and the planet, not private profit.
Join us in London on Saturday 1st October 2011
Delegations and representatives welcome from trade-unions, social movements and progressive organisations from across Europe.
Conference initiated by the
Greek Economic History Association
Posted: May 22, 2011 Filed under: EU, Politics, Society | Tags: conference Leave a comment »University of Thessaly
Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology
2nd International Conference
“Markets” and Politics:
Private Interests and Public Power (18th-20th c.)
10-12 February 2012 (University of Thessaly, Volos – Greece)
Call for papers
The Greek Economic History Association in collaboration with the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology/ University of Thessaly organize an international conference titled “Markets” and Politics: Private Interests and Public Power (18th-20th c.) and hopes to trace the historical evolution of this complex power relationship, over the period when contemporary capitalist economies were shaped, from the late 18th century until today.
These days, the economy seems to have become completely dominant over all other fields of social life. Politics, in particular, seems unable (or unwilling) to intervene in “markets”, presenting them as an overwhelming exogenous entity, to whose logic all people and societies must conform. How did this asymmetric relationship emerge? In which ways, and in what broader social context, did economics and politics – i.e. their agents and subjects – converse, converge or influence each other, and negotiate interests, power and ideological hegemony?
The conference will focus on the following four broader themes:
1. Economic theories: means of diffusion, reproduction and popularisation.
This concerns the processes whereby economic theories are constituted and reproduced, not only within academia, but also in the broader public sphere, and how public “economic culture” is shaped. Of particular interest is the process whereby market ideology assumed its ideological prominence in social science, as well as in political and public discourse. Read the rest of this entry »
Mapping the Commons, Athens
Posted: May 19, 2011 Filed under: Aesthetics, Art & Politics | Tags: conference, Exhibition Leave a comment »Inventing Alternatives: Commons as Exodus from late Capitalism http://www.emst.gr/mappingthecommons/index.html#
[commons]
The recurrent concept of the commons elaborates on the same idea, that is, that in nowadays world the production of wealth and social life are heavily dependent on communication, cooperation, affects and collective creativity. The commons would be, then, those milieux of shared resources, that are generated by the participation of the many and multiple, which constitute, some would say, the essential productive fabric of the 21st Century metroplis. And then, if we make this connection between commons and production, we have to think of political economy; power, rents and conflict
[mapping]
However, due to our tradition of the private and the public, of property and individualism, the commons are still hard to see for our late 20th Century eyes. We propose, therefore, a search for the commons; a search that will take the form of a mapping process. We understand mapping, of course, as proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, and as artists and social astivists have been using it during the last decade, as a performance that can become a reflection, a work of art, a social action.
Disobedience Workshop
Posted: May 19, 2011 Filed under: Activism, EU, International, Politics, Society, Uncategorized | Tags: conference Leave a comment »
20 – 21 May 2011
Birkbeck College, University of London
Malet Street, Rooms G15 & 416
For reservation please contact V.kelley@bbk.ac.uk
Friday 20 May
Malet street, G15
11.00 – 11.15 Welcome & Tea/Coffee (Elena Loizidou)
11.15 – 1.00
Session 1:
Chair Carolina Olarte (School of Law Birkbeck)
Sara Ahmed (Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College)
Wilfulness and Disobedience
Lucy Finchett-Maddock (School of Law, Birkbeck)
To Dis or not to Dis? Disobedience and ‘Disrespecting’: The Case of Naughty in Relation to Law
Margarita Palacios (School of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck)
Hermeneutics and the Art of Disobedience: A critical Reading of Rorty, Ricoeur and Derrida
IKT CONGRESS 2010
Posted: May 18, 2011 Filed under: Aesthetics, Art & Politics | Tags: conference Leave a comment »IKT Congress
Each year the IKT organizes an annual congress with high level speakers on an actual and relevant subject. The congress is hosted by another city each year.For information on previous congresses, please go to our archive-section.
http://www.iktsite.org/congress
The City
Posted: May 14, 2011 Filed under: Aesthetics, Art & Politics, Politics, Society | Tags: conference Leave a comment »The City 1 of 4: Language, Planning and Politics
Time: 10:30:00
10.50 Welcome, Dr Marina Lathouri11.00–12.30 Session 1
11.00–11.20 Iris Lycourioti, University of Thessaly – N.T.U.A., Greece
Anti-Form: When is space fleeting contigency to see you?
11.20–11.40 Orsalia Dimitriou, Goldsmiths
Public/ Squatted/ Autonomous/ Municipal/ Common Space
11.40–12.00 Amir Djalali, Berlage Institute – T.U. Delft
A Grammar of Common Space
12.00–12.30 Discussion
12.30 Lunch break
1.30–3.00 Session 2
1.30–1.50 Maros Krivy, University of Helsinki
Between planning and non-planning: Use of Culture in transformation of obsolete industrial Space
1.50–2.10 Vilmos Katona, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Regionalism Reloaded
2.10–2.30 Karita Ching-Yeung Kan, Oxford University
Architecture of Show and Control: the spectacular and the vernacular in Chinese cities
2.30–3.00 Discussion
3.00–3.20 Coffee break
3.20–4.50 Session 3
3.20–3.40 Maria S. Guidici, Berlage Institute, The Netherlands
Commonplaces: Rethinking the Architecture of the Street
3.40–4.00 Eva Eylers, AA
The Modern Medical Institution and its Role within the City
4.00–4.20 Ross Adams, London Consortium
‘Validad’ and the Total State: Theological Foundations in the Construction of Liberal Universality
4.20–4.50 Discussion
4.50–5.10 Coffee break
5.10–5.30 Concluding Remarks, Dr Marina Lathouri
5.30–6.30 Keynote Lecture, Elia Zenghelis
