special Programs
INTERNATIONAL HERBERT MARCUSE SOCIETY
In addition to holding itsinternational, biennial conference in every odd-numbered year since 2005—Past Biennial Conferences and Future Biennial Conferences, the Marcuse Society initiates and supports a variety of special programs, from perennial events and one-time happenings to research and translation projects.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS WORLDWIDE
Special Programs include conferences, symposia, colloquia, book talks, gallery exhibitions, cultural gatherings, lectures, debates, forums, meetings, workshops, summer schools, and other educational events, activities, and interventions as well as translation projects and other scholarly research and activist initiatives. Some are developed and organized by the Marcuse Society, while others are planned and undertaken—with the Marcuse Society's support—by our colleagues at affiliated institutions and a wide range of cooperating organizations around the world. A selection of these events is presented below (in reverse chronological order).
Marcuse society in Brasil 2022
The Marcuse Society is sponsoring a symposium at the Federal University of ABC on the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of Herbert Marcuse's Counterrevolution and Revolt.
December 5-7, 2022
Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)
São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, BRASIL
Symposium Website
Mark O'Brien (left) and the cast of When Eve Span—theatre workshops and rehearsed reading in Walthamstow, UK (the birthplace of the socialist William Morris) (February 2022)
RADICAL THEATRE 2022/2023
When Eve Span, a radical theatre project based on Mark O'Brien's inspiring text about the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, builds solidarity among union members, students, and community across the United Kingdom during a massive wave of strikes launched in 2022 and extending into 2023.
Mark O'Brien, When Adam Delved and Eve Span: A History of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 (2004/2016)
Striking college workers meet with striking rail workers in Liverpool, UK (October 2022)
University workers stand with postal workers in Liverpool (October 2022)
University students on the dockers' picket line in Liverpool (November 2022)
University workers striking to defend pensions in Liverpool (March 2022)
Trade unions— including the UK's academic union University and College Union (UCU)—standing together (August 2022)
University workers (UCU) and postal workers (CWU) strike and rally together (November 24, 2022)
Biggest picket lines ever on university campuses across the UK (November 2022)
William Morris (1834-1896)
Photograph by Frederick Hollyer, 1887
When Adam Delved and Eve Span
William Morris (illuminator) and Edward Burne-Jones (illustrator), 1892
A Dream of John Ball [Beckwith, Victorian Bibliomania catalogue no. 34 / Collection: Rare Books and Manuscripts, Boston Public Library]. Two of William Morris's political stories from 1880 comprise this text. A Dream of John Ball and A King's Lesson both originally appeared in the periodical of the Socialist League, The Commonweal, when Morris was the editor.
In the vision of the radical peasant priest John Ball, the peasants' "notion of freedom was taken to its most radical conclusion. The lowest peasant was as good as, indeed better than, the highest lord."
—Mark O'Brien
"When Adam delved, and Eve span,
Who was then a gentleman?"
—a 14th-century rhyme...made into praxis as an anti-feudal, freedom-seeking, army of peasants rose, marched, and occupied London in 1381
Dr. Deborah C. Antunes
Universidade Federal do Ceará (pictured on the left)
Dr. Marilia Mello Pisani
Universidade Federal do ABC (pictured on the right)
Marcuse on Ecology:
A Translation project in Brasil 2022/2023
Dr. Marilia Mello Pisani and Dr. Deborah C. Antunes are undertaking a project to translate into Portuguese Herbert Marcuse's publications on ecology. Publications to be translated include:
"Nature and Revolution" (1972)
"The Radical Transformation of Norms, Needs and Values" (1977)
"Ecology and Revolution" (1977)
"Ecology and Critique of Modern Society" (1979)
"Children of Prometheus: 25 Theses on Technology and Society" (1979)
The Marcuse Society is providing support for this important translation project.
RADICAL PHILOSOPHY ASSOCIATION 2022
15th Biennial Conference
November 16-19, 2022
University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Virtual Workshop 2022/2023
Departures and Arrivals:
Space in the
Frankfurt School
Margath walker
Dr. Walker is a professor of geography and geosciences, School of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
“Moving clearly between philosophy, social theory, and a range of contemporary examples, this is a compelling political and geographical account of why Herbert Marcuse’s work remains of enduring importance today.”
—Stuart Elden, University of Warwick
(Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, 2022)
Convened by
Dr. Margath Walker and
University of Louisville Urban Student Collective
with support from the International Herbert Marcuse Society
Departures and Arrivals: Space in the Frankfurt School is a six-month long workshop beginning in October 2022 and running to April 2023. The workshop consists of a small, committed group of scholars gathering—virtually from around the world—on a regular basis to discuss ideas, empirical research, and work-in-progress related to theoretical concepts and applied meanings of space and spatiality, broadly construed, in the work of the Frankfurt School.
Global CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Due Date
September 9, 2022
We envision an interdisciplinary, international group of participants (emerging and senior scholars alike) from across the social sciences and humanities with diverse methodological and theoretical perspectives. The culminating aim of the workshop is to produce a theoretically innovative edited Special Issue. The workshop is guided by the idea that the work of the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory has been informed and enriched by questions of space and place. The experiences of displacement, exile, and migration, which Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, Marcuse, and other members associated with the Institute for Social Research have lived through, are substantially reflected in their writings. Thinking through these experiences and their meaning suggests that the spatial dimension is central to the philosophical tradition of Critical Theory. Spatial transitions, boundary crossings, and periods of flux imbued the writings and the thought of Frankfurt School Critical Theorists, yet the legacies of geographical unmooring and their socio-spatial resonance have not been at the forefront of scholarly inquiry so far. For various historical, social, and political reasons, explicitly spatial questions have been sidelined by dimensions of time and temporality, encapsulated by a seemingly nostalgic clinging to better, pre-capitalist times and a preoccupation with a utopian future of redeemed humankind. The entangled nature of space and place—rarely distilled or teased apart conceptually—too often serves as a background upon which to view larger intellectual or personal histories of members associated with the Institute for Social Research. As a result, a robust spatial perspective is yet to be solidified. Reckoning with the material aspects of space means that possibilities for considering re-actualizations of "the political" can be reimagined and further elaborated.
Considering the role of transitions, migrations, exiles, diasporas, and mobilities more generally, this workshop will strive to articulate the formative, significance of space, spatiality, and geography in the history and theory of the Frankfurt School. Our starting point has the materiality of space as fundamentally productive, where social relations become concrete and necessarily infused with the politics of scale. We hope to develop the spatial dimension, taking this perspective forward through studies within Frankfurt School scholarship and across multiple sites, augmenting our understanding of politics as relationally constituted and of space as integral to the political present.
Contributions may include work related to intellectual histories, key concepts, applied research, and grounded case studies. Possible topics and questions we would seek to explore are:
Places and spaces in Frankfurt School intellectual biographies. The place of personal, social, political, and geographical spaces —and spatial transitions—in the lives and thought of Frankfurt School thinkers.
The spatial dimensions of key concepts in the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory.
Geographically applied Critical Theory: Case studies of critical, social/political geography that pursue the concepts and methods of Critical Theory.
The Frankfurt School works, concepts, and arguments in different regional locations, such as, for example, Marcuse’s success and influence in Brazil; Benjamin’s reception in Palestine; The Frankfurt School in Africa, Adorno’s reception in Japan.
Anyone interested in participating should submit a 500-750 word abstract by September 9, 2022. A committee will review abstracts and provide potential participants additional details by the end of September 2022.
INFORMATION: departures@louisville.edu
Savita Singh
Professor Singh (Indira Gandhi National Open University, in Delhi, INDIA), co-organizer of the Creative Theory Colloquium (September 2022), serves on the board of directors of the Creative Theory Association and the International Herbert Marcuse Society.
CREATIVE THEORY COLLOQUIUM 2022
FUTURE OF THINKING:
CRISES & POSSIBILITIES
September 5, 6, 7, and 10, 2022
Organized by the Creative Theory Association
in collaboration with International Herbert Marcuse Society,
India International Center, and RAZA Foundation
Featuring speakers from India, Turkey, Brasil, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Germany, UK, Canada, and USA
All Panels Posters.pdfThe following session—featuring Andrew Feenberg and Bernard Stiegler in thoughtful dialogue—is highly recommended for those considering the legacy of Marcuse's contributions to the critical theory of technology.
[Video: École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, on July 19, 2017]
Marxist summer school
2022
The Institute for the Radical Imagination is pleased to sponsor the Marxist Summer School. For 2022, the Summer School will take place from June 30th through July 13th on the Greek island of Kasos. The Marxist Summer School is designed to enable those who are new to historical materialism as well as more advanced participants to address fundamental questions, concepts, and texts in an intensive way and in an inclusive, non-sectarian, and congenial setting. There will be two daily seminar sessions (held in the Kasos municipal library) where participants will collaborate on close readings of texts and address some of the core political problems of our times: from ecological devastation, the transformation of desire and subjectivity, and the politics of economic austerity to the new forms of technocratic capitalism and the ever-increasing tendency toward authoritarian rule.
The Marxist Summer School is open to everyone with intellectual drive and revolutionary zeal and does not require any previous preparation. Students can register on the Institute website. There is a non-refundable registration fee of $100 and tuition is $500 per week. The tuition includes a single occupancy hotel room (there can be reduced rates for those who want to share a room) and one communal meal each day. Students can register for a single week or both weeks. There will be a maximum of 25 students in total, and some financial aid will be available for students on a need basis.
Kasos is a very small island with about 800 residents. It has very little tourism and is an ideal location for engaging in collaborative study and radical thinking. There are a few beaches in walking distance from where you will be staying as well as various small cafes, bars, and tavernas. There are daily flights to Kasos from Rhodes and Karpathos as well as multiple ferry boats from Piraeus each week (connecting through the islands of Crete, Rhodes, and Karpathos), ferry boat tickets from Piraeus start at about 45 euros.
Financial support has been provided by the International Herbert Marcuse Society to make possible the attendance of graduate students and young scholars from around the world.
Also note that the Institute for the Radical Imagination has produced a series of courses, lectures, and discussions on a wide range of Left currents and thinkers, including the Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse. Two of these videos are presented below.
Schedule for THE MARXIST Summer SCHOOL 2022
Week 1 (June 30 – July 6)
Marxism and Philosophy: This seminar will engage both Marx and Marxism’s encounter with crucial figures and ideas in the history of philosophy. Through readings from Epicurus, Baruch Spinoza, Georg Hegel, Georg Lukacs, Herbert Marcuse, and Louis Althusser, we will focus on understanding and building the foundations for a materialist philosophy of the present.
Reproduction, Biopower, and Sexual Politics: An exploration of reproductive, sexual and bio-politics in contemporary capitalism. The seminar will examine how Marx’s theory of labor-power and its appropriation by capital entails a radical revision of dominant conceptions of biopower. It will also explore the emergence of offshore reproduction, the ongoing attempt to replace the symbolic authority of the Father, and three key problems that emancipatory politics has historically come up against: love, sexual difference and the education of children. Readings will include Alain Badiou, Laura Briggs, Friedrich Engels, Shulamith Firestone, Michel Foucault, and Sophie Lewis.
Week 2 (July 7 – 13)
Political Power and Class Struggle: An examination of key concepts in the Marxist understanding of political power, the state, and social class. The rightward turn in politics today and the conditions that characterize contemporary class struggles will be addressed. Readings will include works by Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas, and Ugo Palheta.
Fantasy, Fetish, and the Radical Imagination: This seminar will explore both the liberating and ideological role fantasy plays in the cultural world and analyze the fetishes and the notion of the fantastic engendered by capitalism. We will also explore how modern technology has impacted this fantasy world and how Marxism can help us recapture the radical imagination and overcome the disenchantment of the world. Readings will include works by Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Henri Lefebvre, and Bernard Stiegler.
Faculty for 2022:
Carlos Frade (University of Salford), Peter Bratsis (City University of New York), Jose Haro (City University of New York), Michael Pelias (Long Island University, Brooklyn), Kiarina Kordela (Macalester College), Alkisti Prepi (National Technical University of Athens), Paul Reynolds (Open University UK), Panagiotis Sotiris (Hellenic Open University), Costas Gousis (University of Roehampton), Victor Strazzeri (Berlin Institute for Critical Theory), Kristin Lawler (College of Mount Saint Vincent).
For additional information, contact Peter Bratsis at pbratsis@gmail.com
Michael pelias
Michael Pelias is the President of the Institute for the Radical Imagination, a founding member of its journal Situations, and a longstanding professor of philosophy at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York. [SoundCloud image]
Stanley aronowitz
The late Stanley Aronowitz (1933-2021) was the President Emeritus of the Institute for the Radical Imagination, a critical sociologist at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and an important figure in the New Left. He wrote significant works on the labor movement, urban education, and numerous other topics. He was influenced by—and wrote about—C. Wright Mills and Herbert Marcuse. [Verso image]
Peter Bratsis
Peter Bratsis is the Vice President of the Institute for the Radical Imagination, a founding member of its journal Situations, a professor of political science and political theory at the City University of New York, and author of Everyday Life and the State (Paradigm, 2006). [CUNY image]
Future of the university conference 2022
Statement from the Co-Organizers
Sonay Ban, Ph.D.
Emre Çetin Gürer, Ph.D.
The future of the university is not determined yet, despite the ongoing attempts to shape it into an anti-democratic corporation. While authoritarian attempts are dominant today, trying to confine the university into an oppressive neoliberal institution, the humanitarian core and egalitarian visions are still alive and resisting. The ongoing Boğaziçi University resistance against the anti-democratic rectorate appointments and restrictions on academic freedom is an indication of the democratic potentials of the universities —even amidst rampant authoritarianization, and practices of surveillance and securitization under the pretext of pandemic conditions.
Aiming to enhance the growing international solidarity with Boğaziçi University, we hold "Future of the University," an online conference sponsored by the International Herbert Marcuse Society. The conference will take place between June 22 and 24, 2022, and it will be hosted by the Departments of Political Science and International Relations, Sociology, and Philosophy at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey).
Ranking among the global events organized for the centenary of Herbert Marcuse's 1922 dissertation (The German Artist-Novel) and the fiftieth anniversary of Marcuse's 1972 Counterrevolution and Revolt, this conference aims at solidifying the international dialogue among scholars who problematize the current conjuncture and explore the democratic potentials of the universities. Taking its foothold from Marcuse’s dialectical approach to universities — which critiques one-dimensional and alienating education while committing to its democratic prospects, this conference brings together a broad range of perspectives from critical pedagogy and critical university studies.
Simultaneous Turkish and English translations will be provided for the panels on June 22 and 23, 2022. There will be an in-person closing forum (in Turkish) on June 24, 2022.
We cordially invite everyone interested to this free and timely conference to discuss academic freedom in a myriad of ways and to be in solidarity with the Boğaziçi University resistance and beyond. We are looking forward to meeting participants (both virtually and in person), exchanging ideas and experiences, and helping build better and stronger networks of solidarity.
You may register -- without charge -- for the conference through the link on the International Herbert Marcuse Society's webpage.
Sonay Ban, Ph.D. sonay.ban@temple.edu
Emre Çetin Gürer, Ph.D. cgurer@ku.edu.tr
Istanbul, TURKEY
Critical Theory meets creative praxis in india
2022
Chandrabhaga Poetry Festival
The Chandrabhaga Poetry Festival, first launched in 2013, has become a significant cultural event in India. The annual gathering takes place in the Puri district of the state of Odisha, in the town of Konark, which is the location of the 13th-century Sun Temple—designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. As Savita Singh writes, "The Chandrabhaga Poetry Festival is a forum for sharing poetry from different parts of India and the world.... The tribal Poetry of India is brought centre-stage in this festival. Dalit and women's poetry in its liberating posture impresses all who join and participate.... Definitionally, poetry is liberating in its quest to decipher the intense relationship that exists between human beings and nature; between language and cultures, leading us to find what is beautiful in our ennobled togetherness. Organised on the banks of the mythical river Chandrabhaga, next to the world famous Sun Temple in Konark, Odisha, India, this festival welcomes our critical thinkers, and lovers of language and poetry from the world over."
The Festival concludes with a special session introducing Critical Theory, at the intersection of art and politics, on the 100th anniversary of an early moment of significance in twentieth-century aesthetic theory and in the life of the philosopher Herbert Marcuse—the completion in 1922 of his dissertation “Der Deutsche Künstlerroman” (“The German Artist Novel”). Marcuse—the student of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and the teacher of Angela Davis—was renowned in the 1960s as a radical philosopher of global significance.
This special session, moderated by the scholar and poet Sukrita Paul Kumar, features presentations by Douglas Kellner, Charles Reitz, and Craig Christiansen, along with case studies by Cat Dawson and Emre Çetin Gürer.
The Critical Theory session was organized by Savita Singh (Indira Gandhi National Open University) and Andrew Lamas (University of Pennsylvania), in cooperation with the Institute of Knowledge Societies and the International Herbert Marcuse Society.
January 8-10, 2022
Savita Singh
Sukrita Paul Kumar
Douglas Kellner
Charles Reitz
Craig Christiansen
Cat Dawson
Emre Çetin Gürer
Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis
1960s
Marcuse's Der deutsche Künstlerroman:
A Translation project in Brasil 2021-2024
Dr. Cibele Saraiva Kunz, a Brasilian philosopher, dancer, and choreographer, is undertaking a project to translate into Portuguese Herbert Marcuse's 1922 dissertation, Der deutsche Künstlerroman. The Marcuse Society is providing support for this important translation project.
Dr. Kunz's introduction to her forthcoming translation of Marcuse's Der deutsche Künstlerroman is published in the journal Rapsódia – almanaque de filosofia e arte [Departamento de Filosofia – FFLCH – Universidade de São Paulo, BRASIL], no. 16 (2022).
CITATION: Marcuse, H., & Kunz, C. S. (2022). O romance de artista alemão – Introdução. Rapsódia, (16), 185-200. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9772.i16p185-200
Dr. Cibele Saraiva Kunz
FORDHAM SDS
Documentary on the 1960s
2019
Bert Schultz, a longtime friend of the Marcuse Society, has produced a prize-winning film on the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) chapter at Fordham University during the 1960s. The film has won two awards at the 2015 Granite State Film Festival (USA) and another award at the 2019 Oaxaca FilmFest (MEXICO).
For more information, visit its website at Fordham SDS.
Jodocus Hondius, "America," Mercator's Atlas (Amsterdam, 1606).
CRITICAL THEORYIES FROM THE AMERICAS
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
2016
Teorías críticas—desde las Américas
Teorias críticas—das Américas
Théories Critiques—des Amériques
workshopping our writing, art, and alternative media
assessing the limits and possibilities of critical theories today
practicing radical pedagogies and militant research
thinking politically about the neoliberal university
developing intellectual and beloved community
...in solidarity with contemporary social movements across the globe.
14-19 August 2016
Hell0! Sadness!
Mary Tuomanen performed her play "Hello! Sadness!" for the Critical Theoryies from the Americas collective gathering at the University of Pennsylvania. In the image above, her character is in dialogue with Fred Hampton. This solo work, commissioned by the Kimmel Center in 2015, is about the frustrated desire to bring about social change. A tumbling fantasia of French New Wave, the Black Panther Party, Joan of Arc, the FBI, and driving fast cars toward liberation.
Mary Tuomanen
Mary Tuomanen, a longtime friend of the Marcuse Society, is a writer and theater artist. She graduated from the École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris in 2008, and she has been making wonderfully strange and critically engaging marvels in Philadelphia ever since. Named “Best Theatre Artist” by Philadelphia Magazine in 2015, she makes art as an antidote to the hopelessness of end-stage capitalism. She believes in joy as a weapon.
Reclaiming our Future:
The Black Radical Tradition in our time
2016
This major conference, co-sponsored by the Marcuse Society, was held at Temple University, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on January 8-10, 2016.
Herbert Marcuse and Student (Brandeis University, 1956)
The many dimensions of herbert marcuse
2014
The critical theory of Herbert Marcuse was discussed at this two-day conference—October 1-2, 2014—held at Brandeis University, the institution where Marcuse taught philosophy from 1954-1965. The conference coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Marcuse's most famous book, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964). All conference talks were held in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall in Goldfarb Library, Brandeis University. Special appreciation is extended by the Marcuse Society to Patrick Gamsby and Sarah Shoemaker (Goldfarb Library at Brandeis University), Andrew T. Lamas (University of Pennsylvania), and Brandeis University faculty and staff for conference planning and support.
Two keynote addresses were delivered at the conference:
October 1, 2014: Martin Jay, "Irony and Dialectics: One-Dimensional Man at Fifty"
October 2, 2014: Douglas Kellner, "One-Dimensional Man: Relevance Across the Decades, from 1964 to 2014"
Martin Jay
University of California, Berkeley
Douglas Kellner
University of California, Los Angeles
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL MAN FOUND in BRANDEIS ARCHIVES
In preparation for the 2014 Brandeis University conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, Patrick Gamsby (academic outreach librarian for the humanities at Brandeis), scoured the Goldfarb Library’s archives...and discovered a heretofore unknown draft manuscript of Marcuse's most famous book. Read more....
50th Anniversary
One-Dimensional Man
2014
HERBERT MARCUSE AND THE LEGACY OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL MAN
One-Dimensional Man at Fifty Conference Program
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Special appreciation is extended by the Marcuse Society to: Peter Marcuse (Columbia University), Douglas Kellner (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrew T. Lamas (University of Pennsylvania), and Thai Jones (Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University).
Craig R. Christiansen University of Kansas
Patricia McDermott York University
Raffaele Laudani Università di Bologna
Terry Maley York University
LEFT FORUM 2014
The LEFT FORUM has its roots in the SOCIALIST SCHOLARS CONFERENCE (SSC), which was founded in the 1960s by leading intellectuals and activists, including Bogdan Denitch and Stanley Aronowitz, who often emphasized the enduring significance of Herbert Marcuse's radical critical theory. (See, for example, Stanley Aronowitz, "The Unknown Herbert Marcuse," Social Text 58, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 1999.) The SSC was refounded in 1981, and it transitioned into the LEFT FORUM in 2005. Panels on Marcuse's ideas have consistently been featured at the SSC and LEFT FORUM conferences at City University of New York (CUNY), Cooper Union, Pace University, and, most recently, John Jay College (CUNY). In 2014, the Marcuse Society organized a panel—"Justice in a One-Dimensional Society: Is It Still Possible?"—featuring presentations by Arnold L. Farr (University of Kentucky), Peter Marcuse (Columbia University), and Charles Reitz Kansas City Kansas Community College [moderated by Andrew T. Lamas (University of Pennsylvania)].
CRITICAL THEORY SYMPOSIUM
Liverpool & London
2012
Dr. Mark O'Brien
University of Liverpool
Critical theory Symposium 2012
Organized by Dr. Mark O'Brien (University of Liverpool) as a collaboration between the Centre for Lifelong Learning (University of Liverpool) and the Paulo Freire Institute (University of Roehampton), this two-city symposium was developed in association with the International Herbert Marcuse Society.
The SYMPOSIUM featured sessions on Critical Theories of 'Social Representation and Reality' at the University of Liverpool on 18 June 2012, and at the University of Roehampton (London) on 21 June 2012. "The events were organized to be of interest to researchers, students, and professional practitioners who are engaged with or use critical approaches in their work."
University of Liverpool
At the symposium's first event (University of Liverpool), papers will be presented by four scholars whose work questions and exposes the power dynamics and hidden conflicts that underlie and structure our social realities. Each in their different ways explores the myriad meanings of ‘representation’ in our culture. Alex Callinicos explores Marx’s critique of political economy; Penny Jane Burke interrogates the British widening participation agenda with a ‘critical eye’; Catalina Montoya explores the changing role of the media in Colombian civil society using Chomsky’s ‘propaganda model’; and, Mark O’Brien considers the deceptions of language in the policy rhetoric of the UK Coalition Government."
University of Roehampton
At the symposium's second event (Portrait Room, Grove House, Froebel College, University of Roehampton), papers will be presented by four scholars: Heidi Safia Mirza on "Race, Gender, Religion and ‘Embodied Intersectionality’ in the Lives of Muslim Women in Britain;" Penny Jane Burke on "The Right to Higher Education: Reconceptualising Widening Participation;" Catalina Montoya on "Civil Society Organizations' Radio and Internet Projects for Democracy and Human Rights in Colombia: Any Room for the Propaganda Model?;" and, Mark O'Brien on "Marcuse and the Language of Power: The Unfair Discourse of ‘Fairness’ in the Coalition Governments’ Policy Presentation."