Marxism In Culture

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Dear All,

The Marxism in Culture reading group will resume its monthly meetings on Friday the 12th of February 2010 at 5.30. The group meets on Friday evenings in SR5 at the UCL History of Art Department, 20-21 Gordon Square, and discusses key texts, both historical and contemporary, that bear on Marxist aesthetics and radical cultural theory and practice more generally. Thus far, we have discussed texts by Marx and Engels, Lukacs, Brecht, Adorno, Bensaid, Eagleton,

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spring term 2010

MARXISM IN CULTURE: PROGRAMME FOR SPRING TERM 2010

Friday 22 January
Discussion of the film Venezuela from Below
Gail Day (University of Leeds)

Friday 26 February
Marxism & Orientalism
Gilbert Achcar (School of Oriental & African Studies)

Friday 5 March
Advertising and the Politics of Aesthetics
Michael Sayeau (University College London)

Friday 26 March
Shaftesbury’s Theory of Art: Substance and Identity
Richard Checketts (Royal College of Art)

All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Wolfson Room (unless otherwise indicated) at the Institute of Historical Research

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About

The Marxism In Culture seminar meets four times a term. All seminars start at 5.30pm, and are held in the Wolfson Room (unless otherwise stated) at the Institute of Historical Research in Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU.

The seminar closes at 7.30pm and retires to a bar.

For further information, contact Warren Carter, Department of History of Art, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

Forthcoming Seminars for Autumn 2009

Friday 16 Oct Dominic Rahtz, University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, ‘Metaphorical Materialism (Carl Andre & Robert Smithson)’.

Friday 6 Nov Erdmut Wizisla, Brecht-Benjamin Archive, Berlin, Launch of Walter Benjamin & Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship. This will take place at Birkbeck, Malet St, Room B02/03, & follows a one day conference on the book organised by Esther Leslie.

Wednesday 25 Nov Tim Dayton, Kansas State University, ‘American Poetry, the Historical Materialism of Ideology, & the Great War’. This seminar will take place in the SR3, History of Art Department, UCL, 21-22 Gordon Square.

Friday 18 Dec Nina Power, Roehampton University, ‘One Dimensional Woman: A Critique of Contemporary Consumer Feminism’