The First London Anarchist Studies Network London Social - Be There or Be Somehere Else!
Tuesday 2nd March, 7pm - Freedom Bookshop, Whitechapel.
This is an opportunity for Anarchist students, researchers and Anarchist academics living, working or visiting in the capital to meet, talk and socialise. Freedom have even agreed to raise the ceiling to ensure all those pointy heads fit in the building!
Bring a bottle and get yourself down there.
Freedom is at Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street - nearest tube Aldgate East. For those arriving late, we will at some stage decamp to the nearby White Hart public house for further refreshments.
ASN wins £1400 for 2009 activities
The ASN was today (14/04/09) awarded £1400 by the PSA to fund our activities in 2009. In a seperate bid, the PSA also awarded the group £2000 for its forthcoming joint conference with the Marxism specialist group (see below).
Is Black and Red Dead?
An historic conference co-organised by the ASN and the PSA Marxism Specialist Group. A full call for papers, registration forms, payment details and posters can be found here.
New Call for Papers: Anarchism, Labor Unions, and Working People
Click on Call for Papers above
Call for Papers: Anarchism and Sexuality in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries
Leeds, 19 February 2010.
ANARCHISTS ORGANISE PISS-UP IN BREWERY (01/08/08)
To celebrate the second birthday of the establishment of ASN in November 2007, members organised a tour of Nottingham's Castle Rock Brewery. Hangovers contributed to it taking this long to post up the announcement.
Jesse Cohn, 'The Logic of Things': Meaning and Immanence in Proudhon's ''De la Justice''
Sophie Chambost 'The Value of Proudhon's Thought for Contemporary Debates about Democracy'
Alex Prichard, 'Proudhon's Political Theory'
This set of two panels engaged with a diverse and intriguing range of topics related to Proudhon’s life and times and his actual and potential contribution to contemporary debates. At the first workshop we beamed Jesse Cohn in from the United States via the internet (ours was the only panel to use this technology but we hope it will be taken up much more regularly). Jesse spoke about the connections between Proudhon’s theory of immanence and contemporary literary hermeneutic methodologies in an engaging and insightful way. James Rubin gave a talk on the Proudhonism of Courbet’s work and the way in which both Proudhon and Courbet influenced the evolution of French art more generally. Alex Prichard gave a contextualist reading of Proudhon’s political theory stressing the importance of this methodology for anarchists in general and for a truer appreciation of Proudhon’s thought in particular. In the second panel Erik Buleilinks gave a paper which sought to show Proudhon’s influence in nineteenth century Belgian thought. Sophie Chambost gave a paper on the enduring crisis of political representation and Proudhon’s potential to help us think beyond it. Luke Ashworth gave an entertaining paper on Proudhon’s influence on the thought of the arch-functionalist David Mitrany. Both panels provoked lively debate, with the questions and answer session in the second workshop conducted almost entirely in French. Overall a successful set of papers and discussions which bode well for any future publication to come out of it.