Dec 1 2006 - Mao CCS 1-6pm

Centre for Cultural Studies presents:

Mao workshop - Friday 1st Dec - Goldsmiths 1-6pm cinema - all welcome.

Why Mao? Why Now?

Why have a conference on Maoism in a heart of 21st century post-industrial post-colonial European Capitalism? What interest would Maoism hold for anUrban Bourgeois Institution of Intellectuals in an era in which Communismhas been historically 'surpassed'? Two decades after China itself began its 'De-Maoification'? And why Maoism in particular out of all forms ofMarxist-Leninism? Why does Maoism continue to inspire theory and revolutionary struggle far beyond the bounds of China and Chinese Culture,beyond the divisions of East and West, North and South? This small dayconference attempts to address those and other questions by looking at different currents of Maoist thought and practice in the US, France,India, China and Nepal.


Here is the draft schedule for 1 December (but some speakers are still to be confirmed. The venue will be Goldsmiths Cinema):

1pm welcome - Intro/framing - Maude Colville

1.25 - Alpa Shah and George Kunnath on the state and struggle in Jharkhand, India - anthropological studies and the People's War

2.05 - . Sukant Chandan on the 40th anniversary of the Black Panther Party and Influence of Maoism

2.45 - break

3.05 - Michael Dutton on the Mao museum and memorial village in ... Mao badge museum, trinkets etc.

3.45 Alberto Toscano - Learning with Mao: Revolutionary Pedagogy in Post-Althusserian Thought

4.25 Break

4.35 - Bill Martin - Maoism and the call of the future: Bob Avakian and the next synthesis

5.55 - Final Discussion.

6.15pm - end (local refreshments)
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