In Solidarity: Rethinking Political Friendship

"Their world is collapsing. Ours is being built," said Marie Le Pen in a chilling statement after Trump's win. With upcoming elections in France, Austria and the Netherlands, and far-right governments in power in Erdogan's Turkey, Modi's India and Netanyahu's Israel, the far right is on the rise. It's time to riot.

Join us for a public dialogue on what needs to be done. Dr. Çubukçu will open this session with her thoughts on the politics of transnational solidarity. Drawing on examples of Erdogan's brutal crackdown on dissidents – recently Kurdish MPs – and Trump's chilling victory, she will engage with us on a conversation on thinking through how we can build a counter to the powerful networks of the International Right, and the potentialities and challenges of organising with and for others. This will be followed by an open dialogue on resisting the right after Trump.

Tuesday 15 November 5pm
Mill Lane Lecture Theaters Room 1

Dr Ayça Çubukçu is Assistant Professor in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she leads a research group on Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity. She is also a co-editor of Jadaliyya’s Turkey page.

Recommended: 13th Historical Materialism Conference in London

For the program and all practical informations see:
http://conference.historicalmaterialism.org

After Corbyn's (re)elections: strategies for the Left and the Labour Party

Jeremy Corbyn is Labour's first radical socialist leader, but he came to power at a time of grave inherited weaknesses for the Left. It is clear that his leadership represents the beginning of a process, rather than the end. It will take time for the promise of his win to bear its most important fruit. The Left needs to be cognisant of the serious impediments in the way of success, and take seriously the need to war-game failure in the short-to-medium term so that it can make the most long-term advantage of this unique, fragile moment. This talk will address the sources of Corbyn's unlikely win, in the context of social-democracy's crisis, the difficulties he will inevitably face, and the most effective ways for the Left to intervene.


Richard Seymour is a writer, broadcaster and socialist, raised in Northern Ireland and currently based in London. He is the author of The Liberal Defence of Murder (2008), Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens (2012), Against Austerity (2014) and Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (2016). A contributing editor of Salvage, he also writes for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and many other publications. He currently presents a programme, ‘Media Review’, for TeleSur, and has previously appeared on BBC, Al Jazeera and C-Span. He is finishing a PhD at the London School of Economics, where he also teaches.

Conference: "Rights to Nature: tracing alternative political ecologies to the neoliberal environmental agenda" - 23-24 June, Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

CONFERENCE: 'RIGHTS TO NATURE: TRACING ALTERNATIVE POLITICAL ECOLOGIES TO THE NEOLIBERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGENDA'

23-24 June, Keynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge

This is a hybrid academic-activist event that aims to encourage a closer collaboration between scholars and activists working on the neoliberalisation of nature. The conference is sponsored by 'Geoforum' journal.

We are looking for activists and scholars engaged in environmental movements in Europe. We are interested in a wide variety of topics, including - but not limited to - the privatization of natural resources and public assets, land grabbing, the dismantling of traditional forms of using natural resources, the neoliberalisation of nature (including biodiversity conservation), and expropriation of green spaces in both urban and rural areas. Instances of these movements include anti-fracking and anti-mining movements, housing struggles, anti-biodiversity offsetting initiatives, movements against the privatization of public nature assets, including forests and water, and struggles against gentrification, regeneration, urban redevelopment and/or large infrastructure projects with significant environmental impacts. We would like to invite you to participate in the conference and also if possible to help us reaching activists and scholars that engage in this kind of work.

You can find more information here:
https://conservationandtransformation.com/conference-rights-to-nature/

and here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/888306814624938/?notif_t=plan_user_joined&notif_id=1464867144262164

As places are limited, researchers and activists interested in taking part in the conference should email directly one of the organizers, Elia Apostolopoulou (ea367@cam.ac.uk)

The UK and Cambridge Housing Crisis: An Open Dialogue

THE UK AND CAMBRIDGE HOUSING CRISIS: AN OPEN DIALOGUE 

5pm (5.15 start) - 6.45pm, Tuesday 31st May

Sociology Department (Free School Lane), 
Seminar Room

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The availability of affordable housing is in crisis across the UK and Cambridge is one of the worst hit cities. Housing prices in Cambridge have risen by nearly 80 % since the post crisis dip, at the same time as public provision of social housing has declined.  The housing crisis affects us all, but low income residents are especially at risk of being pushed out of the city. What are the causes of this crisis both at the national and local levels, and how is the University involved? What are the consequences for different constituents? Is this just an inevitable result of urban development, or are there alternative models we can look to that promise more equitable and secure housing provision?

We bring together a panel of activists, policy makers, and academics to discuss these issues in the context of the debate on the National Housing and Planning Act and wider UK housing policy. 

The panel includes: 

Diana Minns, City Council's Housing Scrutiny Committee
Dr Gemma Burgess, Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research
Councillor Kevin Price, Labour Executive Councillor for Housing
Martyn Everett, housing campaigner and member of UNITE Community.

Format:
The panel discussion will last approximately 45 minutes, followed by 45 minutes of open discussion and Q and A with the audience. We invite all participants to a drink at the Anchor pub following the seminar.For more on our upcoming events:

www.facebook.com/criticaltheorypractice
http://criticaltheoryseminar.blogspot.co.uk
http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/

“Enough with excuses!”: The Brussels and Paris attacks and the dilemmas of public anthropology with Nadia Fadil

Join us for a conversation with Professor Nadia Fadil at 5:30pm in the Audit Room at King's. All welcome. 

The attacks in Paris and Brussels in 2015 and 2016 have sparked a new set of debates on Islam, radicalisation and the increasing participation of European born Muslims in new forms of violence. It is against that background that many scholars working on Islam in Europe are regularly asked to intervene in the public debate to share their analysis and views on these questions. In my paper I will offer a meta-reflection on the kind of public discourses anthropologists and other social scientists bring to the fore in these kinds of contexts, and how these sit in tension with those articulated by our own informants. This paper seeks to critically address the kinds of challenges that are implied in these kinds of discussions, my own hesitations and dilemmas in taking my own informants' accounts “seriously” and how these difficulties are also revelatory of the secular and liberal sensibilities that predominantly inform public speech and of which our own public discourse, as scholars, is a testimony.

Nadia Fadil works as an Assistant Professor at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Center in the department of Anthropology at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). A first thread in her research looks at processes of subject formation, and how pious and secular Muslims (of Maghrebi origin) construct themselves into ethical selves. A second thread in her work pays attention to modes of regulation and governance of religion and multiculturalism in Europe. Her publications have appeared in international peer-reviewed journals (such as Hau, Identities, Feminist Review, Social Anthropology, Ethnicities) and she is the author of several chapters in edited volumes published with international presses. She is also the editor of a book in Dutch on multiculturalism in Flanders (Een Leeuw in een Kooi. De Grenzen van het Multicultureel Vlaanderen, 2008) and is the Principal Investigator of a Research Project that looks at new forms of mobility of European Muslims to the UAE and Canada (2015-2019).

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As part of:

KING’S IN THE MIDDLE EAST:
Conversations in history and society

Easter Term 2016

All talks at 5:30pm in King's College

Thursday, May 5
The afterlife of revolution in southern Oman
Alice Wilson (Durham)
in Wine Room

Wednesday, May 11
Jihad -- What is it Good For? (Analytically Speaking)
Darryl Li (Yale)
in Audit Room

Tuesday, May 17
“Enough with excuses!”: The Brussels and Paris attacks and the dilemmas of public anthropology
Nadia Fadil (KU Leuven)
in Audit Room

Wednesday, May 18
Iraq's disappearing religions, and why they matter
Gerard Russell, author of Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
In Audit Room

ALL WELCOME

Generously supported by the King’s College Research Committee
Convenor: Mezna Qato [mq212@cam.ac.uk]

Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East

POPULAR POLITICS IN THE MAKING OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST 

with Dr John Chalcraft (Government, LSE)

5pm (5.15 start) - 6.45pm, Tue 10 May

Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1722887301291807/

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In this seminar John Chalcraft introduces his new book Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, a new history of revolutions, uprisings, movements, and diverse forms of protest from Morocco to Iran from the eighteenth century to the present. The focus is on unruly collective action: the emergence of new, fragile collective subjects and transgressive forms of contention. Writing against socioeconomic and discursive determinism alike, the book is particularly concerned to analyse the active agencies shaping mobilizing projects: forms of moral, political and intellectual leadership, trans-local appropriation, intellectual labour, normative commitments, and modes of organization, strategies and tactics. It challenges existing forms of Orientalism and teleological modernism by foregrounding the ways in which movements are situated within, and have shaped, the rise, establishment, reform and attrition of political hegemony.

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JOHN CHALCRAFT is an Associate Professor in the History and Politics of Empire/ Imperialism at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Previous posts include a Lectureship at the University of Edinburgh and a Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. His research focuses on labour, migration and contentious mobilisation in the Middle East. He is the author of The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories: crafts and guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004) and The Invisible Cage: Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon (Stanford University Press, 2009). His new book Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.

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The aim of these seminars is to integrate radical theory with political practice and activism. Each consists of a presentation followed by a Q&A session (and trip to the Anchor pub round the corner). We record each session, so if you can't make it, like our pages so you get updated once the video is uploaded. Organised with the help of Cambridge Defend Education (CDE) and Cambridgeshire Left.

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Upcoming talks for Easter 2016 (see our FB page and termcard for more)

Tue 17 May | Nadia Fadil (KU, Leuven), "Enough with excuses!”: The Brussels and Paris attacks and the dilemmas of public anthropology

Audit Room, King's College

Tue 24 May | Lydia Wilson (Oxford), Understanding ISIS and forming policy

Tue 31 May | The UK and Cambridge housing crisis - an open dialogue

Sociology seminar room

Cultures of Dispossession: Critical Reflections on Status, Rights and Identities

CULTURES OF DISPOSSESSION: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON STATUS, RIGHTS AND IDENTITIES

with Brenna Bhandar (Law, SOAS)

5pm (5.15 start) - 6.45pm, Tue 26 April

Room 4, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres

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Dispossession has long been a concept pervasive in the work of scholars and activists seeking to describe, analyse and challenge racial capitalism. To be dispossessed of one’s home, land, territory, means of subsistence, history, language, and sense of self has been a defining experience of much of the world’s population in the modern era. The global reaches of imperialism have not been relegated to a distant past, but are a networked legacy instrumental to shaping contemporary forms of modernity. Yet the acceleration of dispossession, and the extension of its grasp in contemporary late capitalism have produced its own cultural logics, affects and ways of being, which we refer to here as “cultures of dispossession”. With this formulation we seek to highlight the normalised practices of dispossession that cannot be singly located in an economic, social or legal register. Cultural formations of dispossession reflect the uneven impact of several hundred years of capitalist accumulation, centralised through the agency of the possessive individual and its corollary, the subject (always-already) ontologically and politically dispossessed of the capacity to appropriate and own, to be self-determining. The racialised and gendered formations that constitute the primary focus of the essays collected in this volume are not contingent but constitutive of dispossession – as it unfolds across material, social, psychic and juridical fields. Taken as a whole, the essays chart some of the ways in which the geopolitical realities of territorial dispossession and displacement are intertwined with cultural, psychic and affective forms of dispossession.

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BRENNA BHANDAR is Senior Lecturer in Law, SOAS. Her current research project explores the relationship between racial formations and modern property law in settler colonial contexts. She examines the articulation of race and ownership as a conjuncture that emerges through the appropriation of Indigenous lands, drawing on archival sources and interviews in Canada, Australia and Israel/Palestine. She is co-editor (with Jon Goldberg-Hiller) of the book Plastic Materialities: Legality, Politics and Metamorphosis in the work of Catherine Malabou (Duke University Press, 2015). The contributions in this volume assess the political and philosophical implications of Malabou's innovative combination of poststructuralism and neuroscience across disciplines. She is also co-editor of the forthcoming special issue of Darkmatter Journal, "Reflections on Dispossession: Critical Feminisms" (with Davina Bhandar).

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The aim of these seminars is to integrate radical theory with political practice and activism. Each consists of a presentation followed by a Q&A session (and trip to the Anchor pub round the corner). We record each session, so if you can't make it, like our pages so you get updated once the video is uploaded. Organised with the help of Cambridge Defend Education (CDE) and Cambridgeshire Left.

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Upcoming talks for Easter 2016 (see our FB page and forthcoming termcard for more)

Tue 10 May | John Chalcraft (LSE), Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East

Mill Lane Lecture Theatres Room 1

Tue 17 May | Nadia Fadil (KU, Leuven), Muslims in Brussels

Audit Room, King's College

Tue 24 May | Lydia Wilson (Oxford), Understanding ISIS and forming policy

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For more on our upcoming events:

www.facebook.com/criticaltheorypractice

http://criticaltheoryseminar.blogspot.co.uk

DECOLONIZING HIGHER EDUCATION: FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO THE UK

 

DECOLONIZING HIGHER EDUCATION: FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO THE UK

                                          5pm (5.15 start) - 6.45pm, Tuesday 8 March
                                                   Room 6, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres
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An open panel discussion looking at the theory and practice of decolonizing higher education, from South Africa to the UK.

Panelists:
Adam Branch (Politics, Cambridge)
Ruchi Chaturvedi (Sociology, University of Cape Town)
Suren Pillay (Humanities, University of the Western Cape)
Rhodes Must Fall - Oxford Representative
Robbie Shilliam (Politics, Queen Mary)
Arathi Sriprakash (Faculty of Education, Cambridge)

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The aim of these seminars is to integrate radical theory with political practice and activism. We record each session, so if you can't make it, like our pages so you get updated once the video is uploaded. Organised with the help of Cambridge Defend Education (CDE) and Cambridgeshire Left.
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For more on our upcoming events:
www.facebook.com/criticaltheorypractice
http://criticaltheoryseminar.blogspot.co.uk/

ON THE BIRTH - AND POSSIBLE DEATH - OF FOSSIL CAPITAL

ON THE BIRTH - AND POSSIBLE DEATH - OF FOSSIL CAPITAL 

with Andreas Malm

5pm (5.15 start) - 6.45pm, Tuesday 1st March

Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres

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Fossil capital is the creation of profit by means of fossil energy. Or, as the CEO of ExxonMobil recently put it: “My philosophy is to make money. If I can drill and make money, then that’s what I want to do.” For two centuries, this credo has informed the actions of capitalists of all hues: if I can dig up fossil fuels or burn them and make money, than that’s what I want to do – and après moi, le deluge. As we are now experiencing the early phases of that deluge, we have reason to look back and ask: how did fossil capital seize hold of this planet? This talk will focus on the birth of the phenomenon in the country of Britain in the early nineteenth century. It will deal, more precisely, with the transition from water to steam in British industry: the key moment when a fossil fuel was first connected, via a prime mover for impelling machines, to the production of commodities. Why did manufacturers abandon water and pick up steam? While offering some answers to that question, this talk will pose some new questions on what could possibly be done today to achieve a complete shift to renewable energy and rid the earth of fossil capital.
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Andreas Malm teaches human ecology at Lund University, Sweden. His work has appeared in journals such as Environmental History, Historical Materialism, Antipode and Organization & Environment. He is the author, of Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, and with Shora Esmailian, of Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War, and of half a dozen books in Swedish on political economy, the Middle East and climate change.
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This is the fifth of our Critical Theory and Practice seminars this year. The aim of these seminars is to integrate radical theory with political practice and activism. Each consists of a presentation followed by a Q&A session (and trip to the Anchor pub round the corner). We record each session, so if you can't make it, like our pages so you get updated once the video is uploaded. Organised with the help of Cambridge Defend Education (CDE) and Cambridgeshire Left.
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Upcoming talks for Lent 2016 (see our termcard for more)


Tuesday 8 March, Mill Lane Lecture Room 6
The theory and practice of decolonizing higher education, from South Africa to the UK

Arathi Sriprakash (Faculty of Education Cambridge)

Adam Branch (Politics, Cambridge)

Robbie Shilliam (Politics, Queen Mary)

Ruchi Chaturvedi (Sociology, Cape Town)

Suren Pillay (Humanities, Western Cape)

Activist From Rhodes Must Fall Oxford

For more on our upcoming events:
www.facebook.com/criticaltheorypractice
http://criticaltheoryseminar.blogspot.co.uk
http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/

Frantz Fanon on Race, Recognition, and Revolution: A Re-examination

FRANTZ FANON ON RACE, RECOGNITION, AND REVOLUTION: A RE-EXAMINATION 

with Peter Hudis

5pm (5.15 start) - 6.45pm, Tue 16 Feb

Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres

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Frantz Fanon (1926-61) is widely considered one of the most important anti-colonial theorists of the twentieth century.  Today we are witnessing a resurgence of interest in his contributions to philosophy, psychology and revolutionary theory in light of such realities as persistent racial discrimination in the West, the rise of religious fundamentalism, and the social crises enveloping much of the developing world. This talk will re-examine Fanon’s contributions to ongoing debates over race, racism, and recognition in light of the intellectual sources that motivated much of his work—especially Marxist theory and Hegelian philosophy.
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Peter Hudis is author of Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades (Pluto Press, 2015) and Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (Brill, 2012).  He has edited or co-edited numerous works, including The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic of Hegel and Marx, by Raya Dunayevskaya (Lexington, 1992) and The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (Monthly Review Books, 2006). He is currently general editor of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, which will make all of her work available in 14 volumes (3 volumes have appeared so far). He is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Oakton Community College in the U.S.
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Upcoming talks for Lent 2016 (see our termcard for more)

Tue 23 Feb | 'Policing Neoliberalism in Egypt: The Rise of the "Securocratic" State' (Cancelled)
Keynes Hall, King's College

Tue 1 Mar | Andreas Malm, 'Fossil Capital'
Mill Lane Lecture Theatres Room 1

Tue 8 Mar | The theory and practice of decolonizing higher education, from South Africa to the UK
Arathi Sriprakash (Faculty of Education, Cambridge)
Adam Branch (Politics, Cambridge)
Robbie Shilliam (Politics, Queen Mary)
Ruchi Chaturvedi (Sociology, Cape Town & Rhodes Must Fall Oxford)
Suren Pillay (Humanities, Western Cape)
Activist from Rhodes Must Fall Oxford

For more on our upcoming events:
www.facebook.com/criticaltheorypractice

The Politics of Grieving: A Panel-led Discussion

THE POLITICS OF GRIEVING: AN    OPEN DIALOGUE

5pm (5.15 start) - 6.45pm, Tue 9 Feb

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres

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Barzan Sadiq (President of the Cambridge Kurdish Society)
Philip Luther-Davies (Sociology)
Lola Olufemi (chair of FLY, the university women of colour network)
Others TBC
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The desire for this event was sparked in the wake of events in November 2015 which saw Paris elevated in the public mind and universally mourned. Discussions about the inequality of grief began almost immediately and this event hopes to ask more and take these questions somewhere. It will be a chaired and panel-led open discussion about grieving. The panelists will each give us some insight into grief - politically, psychologically, socially and individually and then the discussion will open up to all. We will consider why some lives are easier to grieve than others; what is political about grief; what it means to grieve and who dictates it. We look forward to seeing many of you there.
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This is the third of our Critical Theory and Practice seminars this year. The aim of these seminars is to integrate radical theory with political practice and activism. Each consists of a presentation followed by a Q&A session (and trip to the Anchor pub round the corner). We record each session, so if you can't make it, like our pages so you get updated once the video is uploaded. Organised with the help of Cambridge Defend Education (CDE) and Cambridgeshire Left.
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Upcoming talks for Lent 2016 (see our termcard for more)

Tue 16 Feb | Peter Hudis, 'Frantz Fanon on Race, Recognition, and Revolution: A Re-examination'
Mill Lane Lecture Theatres Room 1

Tue 23 Feb | 'Policing Neoliberalism in Egypt: The Rise of the "Securocratic" State' (Cancelled)
Keynes Hall, King's College

Tue 1 Mar | Andreas Malm, 'Fossil Capital'
Mill Lane Lecture Theatres Room 1

Tue 8 Mar | The theory and practice of decolonizing higher education, from South Africa to the UK
Arathi Sriprakash (Faculty Education Cambridge)
Adam Branch (Politics, Cambridge)
Robbie Shilliam (Politics, Queen Mary)
Ruchi Chaturvedi (Sociology, Cape Town & Rhodes Must Fall Oxford)
Suren Pillay (Humanities, Western Cape)

For more on our upcoming events:
www.facebook.com/criticaltheorypractice

RETURN OF THE INCORRUPTIBLE: ROBESPIERRE, MOUFFE, LACLAU, PODEMOS

RETURN OF THE INCORRUPTIBLE: ROBESPIERRE, MOUFFE, LACLAU, PODEMOS

with Olivier Tonneau 

5pm (5.15 start) - 6.45pm, Tue 26 Jan

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres

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Why bother today with Robespierre? There is at least one reason: he remains one of the scarecrows used to turn people away from radical democracy. Following the historiographical triumph of François Furet, hostility to Robespierre has even spread to the Left, with Mouffe and Laclau’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy being predicated upon the rejection of Jacobinism, conflated with Stalinism. Paradoxically, Mouffe and Laclau aimed to hegemonize the French Revolution’s democratic discourse while conjuring the threat of its only radical proponent. They wanted, to quote Robespierre, ‘a revolution without a revolution’ – an inconsistency that can be traced, decades later, in Mouffe's difficulty, within her 'agonistic pluralism', of naming the enemy. Yet this inconsistency has disappeared from the works of one Pablo Iglesias who, whilst drawing upon Mouffe and Laclau’s work, does not hesitate to quote from Robespierre. Podemos is but one example of a massive reinvestment of the French revolution’s heritage by radical movements. What does the return of Robespierre contribute to radical politics? I will argue that it opens access to untapped theoretical resources, and powerful mobilizing symbols.
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Olivier Tonneau is a Lecturer in Modern Languages at Homerton College, Cambridge. He is currently exploring anti-colonial uses of the French revolution, especially in the works of Aimé Césaire, Kateb Yacine and Alejandro Carpentier (see his article in the January issue of Radical Philosophy).
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This is the second of our Critical Theory and Practice seminars this year. The aim of these seminars is to integrate radical theory with political practice and activism. Each consists of a presentation followed by a Q&A session (and trip to the Anchor pub round the corner). We record each session, so if you can't make it, like our pages so you get updated once the video is uploaded. Organised with the help of Cambridge Defend Education (CDE) and Cambridgeshire Left.
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Upcoming talks for Lent 2016 (more details to come, look out for our termcard)


Tue 9 Feb | 'The Politics of Grieving: A Panel-led Discussion' Mill Lane Lecture Theatres Room 9


Tue 16 Feb | Peter Hudis, 'Frantz Fanon on Race, Recognition, and Revolution: A Re-examination' Mill Lane Lecture Theatres Room 1


Tue 23 Feb | 'Policing Neoliberalism in Egypt: The Rise of the "Securocratic" State' (Cancelled) 
Keynes Hall, King's College


Tue 1 Mar | Andreas Malm, 'On the birth -- and possible death -- of fossil capital', Mill Lane Lecture Theatres, room 1

Tue 8 Mar | The theory and practice of decolonizing higher education, from South Africa to the UK: an open dialogue with Adam Branch, Arathi Sprikarash and activists from Cambridge, SOAS, Oxford and South Africa

James Meadway // Corbynomics: What Next? // Tuesday 19th January, 5-6.30pm

CORBYNOMICS: WHAT NEXT? 

with James Meadway

5pm (5.15 start) - 6.30pm, Tuesday 19 Jan

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Theatre

There’s been a lot of excitable talk about Jeremy Corbyn’s economic policies in the press, but little substance. The Corbyn-led Labour Party has a major task ahead of it: to think through what kind of economic strategy is needed to make anti-austerity policy in the UK function. This talk will look at how these efforts are going, and where they might lead the left. It will revolve around (but not be restricted to) several themes: the insufficiency of Keynesianism; the difficulty of breaking austerity not only as an ideology, but as a set of practices; the need for structural reforms and how to develop popular support for a comprehensive anti-austerity programme that can change the shape of the economy.

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James Meadway is consultant economic advisor to Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. Before that he was chief economist at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), a leading UK think-tank promoting social, economic and environmental justice.
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This is the first of Lent term's Critical Theory and Practice seminars. The aim of these talks is to integrate radical theory with political practice and activism. Each talk consists of a presentation followed by a Q&A session (and trip to the Anchor pub round the corner). We record each session, so if you can't make it, like our pages so you get updated once the video is uploaded. Organised by Cambridge Defend Education (CDE) and Cambridgeshire Left.

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TERM CARD

Upcoming talks for Lent 2016 (more details to come...)

Tue 26 Jan | Olivier Tonneau: 'The Return of the Incorruptible: Robespierre, Mouffe, Laclau, Podemos'
Seminar Room Sociology, Cambridge

Tue 2 Feb 9 Feb| 'The Politics of Grieving: A Panel-led Discussion'
Mill Lane Lecture Room 9

Tue 16 Feb Peter Hudis, 'Frantz Fanon on Race, Recognition, and Revolution: A Re-examination'
Mill Lane Lecture Room 1

Tue 23 Feb: 'Policing Neoliberalism in Egypt: The Rise of the "Securocratic" State' (Cancelled)
Keynes Hall, King's College

Tue 1 Mar | Andreas Malm, 'Fossil Capital'
Mill Lane Lecture Room 1