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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-03-12/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-03-05/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-02-26/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-02-19/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230212T130000
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-02-12/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-02-05/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-01-29/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230122T130000
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DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-01-22/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20230115T130000
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DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-01-15/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2023-01-08/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221218T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221218T143000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
CREATED:20221109T164311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T134552Z
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2022-12-18/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221211T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221211T143000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2022-12-11/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221204T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221204T143000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2022-12-04/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221127T143000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
CREATED:20221109T164311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T134552Z
UID:10007205-1669554000-1669559400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2022-11-27/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20221120T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20221120T143000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
CREATED:20221109T164311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T134552Z
UID:10007204-1668949200-1668954600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Woman\, Life\, Freedom: Iran through the Lens of Antonio Gramsci
DESCRIPTION:With Piruz Alemi\nJuxtaposing documentary video footage with selected readings from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks\, we will deepen our understanding of the current uprising among women and young people in Iran. Applying Gramsci’s dual perspective on Individuality/Universality\, Hegemony/Authority\, Force/Consent\, Terror/Legitimacy\, Strategy/Tactic\, Agitation/Propaganda\, and State/Civil Society\, we will examine spontaneous movements\, subaltern groups\, and the balance of domestic and international forces. These sessions will offer an opportunity for participants to document\, write\, screen films\, archive\, brainstorm\, and stay informed about the movement for Woman\, Life\, Freedom in Iran. They will be accessible to people at all levels of familiarity with Gramsci’s work and Iranian history and politics. \nConvened and facilitated by Piruz Alemi\, who holds a PhD in political economy from the New School for Social Research and an MFA in documentary film making from CCNY. He is director of the People of Color International Cultural Exchange Film Festival. He has taught at John Jay College/CUNY for 15 years and holds a research fellowship at Sheffield university in the UK.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/women-life-freedom-iran-through-gramscis-lens/2022-11-20/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anti-capitalist art,Anti-fascism,Art and politics,Asia,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Film and television,Film Screenings,Gender,Hegemony,historical materialism,Insurgency,Late Capital and Fascism,Marxist Method,Media Criticism,Multi-session Classes,Neo-fascism,Populism,Science and Method,Social Reproduction,Women
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210423T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210423T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
CREATED:20210328T223104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210423T020522Z
UID:10006926-1619206200-1619213400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:The Hour of the Furnaces: A film screening with discussion
DESCRIPTION:The Hour of the Furnaces\nPart 1: Notes and Testimonies on Neocolonialism and Violence in Argentina\, 1968\, 84 minutes\nDir. Grupo Cine Liberación\nSpanish with English subtitles\nIn 1968\, Grupo Cine Liberación released their powerful documentary and visual essay\, The Hour of the Furnaces. This three-part film analyzes the severe neocolonial situation of 1960s Argentina\, radical wings of Peronism\, and the role of violence in the national liberation process. Part 1\, Notes and Testimonies on Neocolonialism focuses on the everyday violence of the Argentine\, employing a Marxist analysis between quotes from Martí\, Fanon\, Césaire\, Che\, Mariátegui\, and other revolutionary figures. The usage of avant-garde and mainstream techniques was meant to attack the passivity of the spectator and incite political action. The Hour of the Furnaces remains an essential film of militant cinema. \nThis discussion will go over the Third Cinema movement in Argentina\, the making of Grupo Cine Liberación’s The Hour of the Furnaces\, and it’s international influence. We will watch and analyze chapters from Part 1 and discuss how it relates to the greater context of (neo)colonialism in the Global South. \nGrupo Cine Liberación clandestinely filmed The Hour of the Furnaces in fear of repression by Juan Carlos Onganía’s dictatorship. Because of the subversive nature of the film\, attending the film became an act of resistance and was met with violent confrontation by the military. Members of the group\, filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino later wrote their manifesto\, Towards a Third Cinema\, reflecting on the filmmaking process under the political restraints\, which would later become the theoretical framework for the Third Cinema film movement.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-hour-of-the-furnaces-a-film-screening-with-discussion/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Anti-colonialism,Classes/Events,Emancipation,Film Screenings,Revolutions Study Group
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190404T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190404T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
CREATED:20181216T071121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T043627Z
UID:10006418-1554406200-1554413400@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-04-04/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190328T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190328T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
CREATED:20181216T071121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T043627Z
UID:10006417-1553801400-1553808600@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-03-28/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190321T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190321T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
CREATED:20181216T071121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T043627Z
UID:10006416-1553196600-1553203800@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-03-21/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190314T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190314T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
CREATED:20181216T071121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T043627Z
UID:10006415-1552591800-1552599000@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-03-14/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GlobalizedLitJan24_Site2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190307T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190307T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
CREATED:20181216T071121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T043627Z
UID:10006414-1551987000-1551994200@marxedproject.org
SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-03-07/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GlobalizedLitJan24_Site2.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190228T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190228T213000
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SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-02-28/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GlobalizedLitJan24_Site2.jpg
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190221T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190221T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
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SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-02-21/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GlobalizedLitJan24_Site2.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190214T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190214T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
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SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-02-14/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GlobalizedLitJan24_Site2.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190207T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190207T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
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SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-02-07/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GlobalizedLitJan24_Site2.jpg
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190131T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190131T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190320T043627Z
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SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-01-31/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://marxedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GlobalizedLitJan24_Site2.jpg
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190124T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190124T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T161215
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SUMMARY:Globalization and Writing
DESCRIPTION:Exploration: Exploitation/Domination • Discovery/Liberation\n4 Works • 11 Weeks \nThe MEP Literature Group \nIn this eleven-week session we will read one memoir and three novels that study the scope of empire. Written between 1899 and 2000\, the authors\, two sailors (Polish and American)\, a Jamaican social theorist\, and a British Jamaican immigrant are denied privilege because of their citizenship (or lack of it)\, class\, or color. Unwilling\, or unable to conform and accept lesser positions in their societies\, they remain within their marginality and write their unease in novels which give readers an alternative report of the results of colonization both abroad where the EuroAmerican capitalists have colonized and what consequences that colonization has made for life in the home countries. \nHeart of Darkness\nJoseph Conrad\nThe story\, written at the height of the British Empire\, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890 when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The experience left him disillusioned\, questioning what it meant to be civilized in the age of colonialism \nThis novella is astonishingly powerful and equally enigmatic. Its condemnation of Western imperialism—of the greed\, violence\, and exploitation that so often accompanies ventures to bring “light” and civilization to the “dark” and needy areas of the world—and its poignant look at the destructive influence of colonization on the colonized and colonizer alike\, have been widely praised. However\, some postcolonial African writers\, most notably Chinua Achebe\, deemed the book racist for its portrayal of native African cultures. \nFamiliar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands\nStuart Hall\nFamiliar Stranger takes us only as far as the mid-1960s\, after a decade during which\, for Hall\, “normal” life was suspended in favour of non-stop political agitation. The book touches on his role in the New Left; his critical involvement with CND; his early exposition of the “formal” and “unwitting” variants of British racism; and the importance of Catherine\, with whom he relocated to Birmingham at the start of his lifelong embrace of cultural studies. These recollections of a busy life in Britain nonetheless remain haunted by the ghostly presence of his earlier years in Jamaica. With its resonant subtitle\, A Life Between Two Islands\, it encourages the reader to draw such parallels as that between Jamaica’s 1938 rebellion and the Brixton riots of 1981. It was Hall’s belief that the British had never fully come to terms with colonialism and decolonization. \nDog Soldiers\nRobert Stone\nDog Soldiers deals with the fall of the counterculture in America\, the rise of mass cynicism and the end of the optimism of the 1960s. California has moved on from the Summer of Love to post-Manson paranoia. Converse\, a once-promising writer now unable to do more than observe\, waits for artistic inspiration as a correspondent in Vietnam. Symbolic of his moral corruption is his decision to traffic in heroin\, which the 1960s counterculture never embraced as they did marijuana and LSD. \nWhite Teeth\nZadie Smith\nThis may be the first novel ever written that truly feels at home in our borderless\, globalized\, intermarried\, post-colonial age\, populated by “children with first and last names on a direct collision course.” Published when Smith was just 24\, White Teeth follows the friendship of two Londoners\, a pub-going working-class bloke named Archie and a Muslim from Bangladesh named Samad. Archie marries a Jamaican; Samad has twin sons\, one of whom becomes a religious militant\, the other a rabid Anglophile. The overlapping fates of Smith’s characters seem to trace the new structures of 21st-century life and test their sturdiness as framework for peace and happiness. Both deeply Dickensian and playfully post-modern\, White Teeth doesn’t quail before the rampantly ramifying novelistic complexities of a multicultural world. It revels in them. \nThe MEP LITERATURE GROUP has been meeting to discuss literature since the first days of The Marxist Education Project following a presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her Indigenous Peoples History of the United States and her recommendation that we take up literature with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of The Dead. The group has recently completed readings of Victor Serge’s Unforgiving Years following by Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Our second summer of noir\, considered works by Hammett\, Chandler\, Manchette\, and others. Other studies have included novels related to World War I\, the global depression of the 1930s\, and novels on border politics\, migrations and labor organizing.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/globalization-and-writing/2019-01-24/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events
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SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-06-11/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-06-04/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Chinese Revolution: 1930-1949
DESCRIPTION:An 11-Week session with The Revolutions Study Group \nOf 20th-century revolutions\, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. We begin with the Chinese Revolution in 1930\, after the nationalist party led by Chiang Kai Shek turned on the mass movement\, slaughtered militant workers and peasants\, and declared war on Communists. The Communist Party regrouped in remote rural areas and reoriented its activity from urban industrial working class to organizing a peasant rebellion from these rural bases. This led to a prolonged civil war\, interrupted by a Japanese invasion\, which in turn became part of World War Two. After the war\, the struggle between the armies of Chiang Kai Shek and the Communists resumed\, ending with Chiang’s fleeing to Taiwan and the final victory of the Communist army in 1949. The primary reading will be Mark Selden: China in Revolution: The Yenan Way Revisited. Check marxedproject.org for updates to the reading list. \nTHE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone\, however the group has held together\, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution\, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917\, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya\, the Haitian Revolution\, the European Revolutions of 1848\, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year\, the Spanish Civil War\, the Mexican Revolution\, the Socialist (2nd) International\, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-chinese-revolution-1930-1949/2018-05-21/
LOCATION:NY\, United States
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