Learning from 1968..... Radical Independent Bookfair August Event- Glasgow
Jul 30 2008 14:06
Dear All,
The Glasgow based Radical Independent Bookfair will host a session on the impact of the events of 1968 on education at the Centre for Contemporary Arts on Sauchiehall Street, 23 August. There are confirmed speakers who will be looking specifically at issues of policies and practices over the last 40 years, as well as discussion of how there is a tendency to romanticise the 1968 protests, and to assume that the students involved were truly 'radical' or 'revolutionary'. These and other debates should prove interesting for everyone with interests in education, in the history and legacy of 1968, and in radical politics in general.
The event is free, so please come along- the event lasts from 1-4.
If you would like to participate in the panel discussion or would like to present a 15 minute talk, please e-mail Angie on a.mcclan@live.co.uk.
Thanks!
Aug 21 2008 13:48
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Speakers Confirmed for RIB Glasgow Event: Learning from 1968……. To the Present
Radical Independent Bookfair
Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
23/8/2008
Recent media reports on the 40th anniversary of the student protests of
1968 recalled students' discontent with class inequalities, civil rights
and the increasing beureaucratic control of education. In 2008, in the
grip of neoliberalism, recession, temporary contracts, job losses and
increasing emphasis on 'employability' in education, it has been
reported that today's students no longer want to change society or the
education system, but instead just want their education to enable them
to get good enough jobs so they can pay their rent. The August RIB will
host a symposium that looks at these and other issues surrounding how
education policy and practice has developed and changed over the last 40
years, and student/teacher responses to them.
Timetable:
1pm- Angela McClanahan (worker in higher education): Introduction
1.45 start- Benjamin Franks (worker in higher education)
2.05-2.10 start: Gordon Asher (student and worker in higher education)
2.30 Break
3pm Christian Garland (author and activist)
3.20-25 start: Victor Vanni (Socialist Party of Great Britain)
3.40-345 start: Audience discussion, chaired by Angela
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Program now out from http://www.agitcollage.org/angry/events/ribevents.htm :
Glasgow's RADICAL INDEPENDENT BOOK FAIR Project
SAT 23rd AUGUST- 2008
11 am - 9 pm
(stalls till 8pm, events till 9pm)
The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA)
- 350 Sauchiehall Street- Glasgow
(city centre)
stalls / resources / library / events - FREE ENTRY
EVENTS
11.00am-8.00pm
the RIB project
STALLS/RESOURCES
This Book-fair has more in common with a wee bookshop than a large book festival. The stalls cover a number of publishers and presses in an eclectic mix. We stock various books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, dvd’s, cd’s, badges, cards and t-shirts. At this summer event there is not a lot of space so we won’t have any guest publishers or local groups. However we will still have the mini videotheque - a bank of documentary films including a selection from previous Document: International Human Rights Documentary Film Festivals. Titles that you can select from and watch with headphones on individual monitors. There is also the listening post where you can hear a variety of interesting lectures, talks, discussions and a bit of music too - the backbone of this CD collection is almost every title published by AK Press Audio. The reading room is an ongoing collection of current and older counter-culture newsheets and bulletins, these help form a representation of radical and autonomous publications.
You can also drop off or take away materials at the info point - a table or two of free things - a mixture of flyers, leaflets, newsheets, stickers, cards and other items.
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1.00pm - 4.00pm
Learning From 1968... to the Present
FORUM
Recent media reports on the 40th anniversary of the student protests of 1968 recalled students' discontent with class inequalities, civil rights and the increasing beureaucratic control of education. In 2008, in the grip of neoliberalism, recession, temporary contracts, job losses and increasing emphasis on 'employability' in education, it has been reported that today's students no longer want to change society or the education system, but instead just want their education to enable them to get good enough jobs so they can pay their rent. The August RIB will host a symposium that looks at these and other issues surrounding how education policy and practice has developed and changed over the last 40 years, and student/teacher responses to them.
This will include a panel of speakers from various education sectors.
For more information contact the organiser, Angie at a.mcclan@live.co.uk
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4.30pm-6.30pm
It's 2008 Not 1968! : Class Struggle Anarchism In The Here And Now
DISCUSSION
Hosted by the Anarchist Federation
A brief presentation on Class Struggle Anarchism followed by an open discussion on what Anarchism means to us and what it means in twenty first century Glasgow.
http://www.myspace.com/afedscotland
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7.00pm-9.00pm
The Armenian, Assyrian, Greek, Kurdish and 'Other' Genocides: The Politics of Genocide Recognition and Denialism
BOOK LAUNCH
Written by Desmond Fernandes and with a foreword by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, this is the second in a series of three books on the Armenian, Assyrian, Greek, Kurdish and Greek Cypriot Genocides, and the politics of denialism.
In recent years, … even as there has been greater international public recognition of the Armenian, Assyrian, Greek, Kurdish and ‘Other’ genocides (as a consequence of concerted initiatives by concerned individuals, Armenian, Assyrian, Greek and Kurdish communities and other people and organisations interested in exposing and confronting international genocidal crimes), certain governments, politicians, academics and lobbying groups have mobilized (and often collaborated with each other) to engage in denialism of these “events” due not to genuine uncertainty about the fate of these targeted “peoples/groups”, but to advance cynical personal and/or nationalist and/or geopolitical/economic/ideological agendas …
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The next RIB will be at DOCUMENT 6 - CCA - 16th - 19th OCT
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