25 November, 2011

cedric robinson, two events

Dear friends and colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that we announce two upcoming events with Cedric Robinson, Professor in the Department of Black Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Public Lecture
Staging Black Radicalism
Tuesday 29 November 6.00pm (please note the time change)
Queen Mary, University of London
Art Two Lecture Theatre
Mile End Campus - map available here, followed by a reception in the Senior Common Room

Speaking at Occupy LSX
Friday 2 December 5pm
St Paul’s occupation

Cedric Robinson is the author of Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership and Black Movements in America. He is also the author of numerous articles on US, African and Caribbean political thought; Western social theory, film and the press. His most recent work includesThe Anthropology of Marxism, a monograph study of the historical and discursive antecedents of Marxism, and research into anti-facism in Africa and the African Diaspora in the 1920s and 1930s.

Co-organised and sponsored by: Centre for Ethics and Politics (Queen Mary, University of London) Centre for Cultural Studies and the Department of Sociology (Goldsmiths, University of London)