[Commlist] The Radical 1970s symposium

The Radical 1970s

A symposium to coincide with the publication of Michael Hardt’s The 
Subversive Seventies 
(https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-subversive-seventies-9780197674659?cc=gb&lang=en&;)

Presented by: the Centre for Social Change and Justice, University of 
East London; the Raphael Samuel History Centre; The Centre for Cultural 
Studies Research, University of East London

  December 9th 2023

Room MAL B34, Birkbeck main building (entrance on Torrington Square), 
London, WC1E 7JL

Map: 
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Torrington+Square,+London+WC1E+7JL/@51.5225327,-0.1300644,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x48761b2e31b1aab3:0x42170d989c791143!8m2!3d51.5225327!4d-0.1300644!16s%2Fg%2F1tl0wtz7?entry=ttu

Free, open to all, no need to book.

This event will not be streamed, although audio recordings will be 
podcast as part of the Culture, Power and Politics podcast feed 
(https://culturepowerpolitics.org/podcast-episodes/).

The event will not be catered, but refreshments can easily be purchased 
locally during breaks.

Hosted by Jeremy Gilbert (UEL) and the Raphael Samuel History Centre. 
For any queries please contact Katy Pettit at RSHC (k.pettit /at/ bbk.ac.uk).

   Michael Hardt is a leading radical philosopher, best known for his 
scholarship on Deleuze and his long history of collaboration with 
Antonio Negri, including their best-selling 2000 volume, Empire. His new 
book The Subversive Seventies examines the 1970s from an international 
perspective, considering the many revolutionary movements that erupted 
during what was arguably the last decade of sustained resistance to 
global capitalism: from feminist and queer movements to struggles 
against colonialism and autocratic militarism. This event will consider 
this subject from a largely UK based perspective, addressing topics from 
Women’s Liberation to Punk, with guest speakers from two of the European 
countries within which these struggles were most bitterly fought out: 
Portugal and Italy.

NB: Michael will give the annual lecture of the Barry Amiel and Norman 
Melbourne trust, the previous evening, and tickets for that can be 
booked here. It won’t be assumed that anyone attending the symposium on 
December 9th has heard the lecture on December 8th, but we imagine some 
people will wish to attend both events.

Schedule:

December 9th 2023

9:00-9:15 Arrival

9:15-9:30 Introduction

9:30–10:40 Subversion and Sexuality in the 1970s

Michael Hardt (Duke)  on the Subversive Seventies
Lucy Robinson (Sussex) on Gay Liberation


10:40-11:00 Break


11:00–12:10 Feminism and Women’s Liberation in the 1970s

Lynne Segal (Birkbeck) on Women’s Liberation
Hilary Wainwright (Red Pepper) on Socialist Feminism


12:10–13:10 Lunch Break


13:10-14:20 International perspectives

Pedro Ramos Pinto (Cambridge) on the Portuguese revolution and its 
implications
Sandro Mezzadra (Bologna) on the Italian experience


14:20-14:40 Break


14:40–16:10 Race, Class and Resistance in the 1970s

Sundari Anitha (Lincoln) & Ruth Pearson (Leeds) on the Grunwick dispute 
and its wider implications
John Narayan (KCL)  on Black Power and anti-racist activism in the UK


16:10-16:30 Break


16:30-17:40 Music, Counterculture and Radical Consciousness in the 1970s

Matthew Worley (Reading) on Punk
Jeremy Gilbert (UEL) on the connections between cultural and political 
radicalism in the 1970s


17:40 -18:10  The Radical Seventies and Us – final discussion

To share this event please use this link: 
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/the-radical-1970s/


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