Making Connections

We live in interesting times. The Arab Spring, Occupy X and anti-austerity protests are only the latest and most visible examples in a long tradition of grassroots social movements in which ordinary people create democratic alternatives to hierarchy and inequality. Here and everywhere, people are getting together and making connections between their own everyday experiences and wider patterns of relationships and power, official and unofficial. They (or we) are making connections with each other, personal and political. New patterns evolve as people experiment with different ways of organising, of relating, of connecting, of thinking. Scholars, artists and activists observe, theorise and participate in various ways, helping to make connections, both in social movements and in the movements of everyday life. Feminists, in particular, have foregrounded intersectional approaches to power, privilege and oppression. Race, class and gender; sexuality, ecology and (dis)ability; age, species and faith -- each of these and more interconnect in numerous ways, both subtle and overt.

The Anarchist Studies Network is hosting a conference to acknowledge, celebrate and deepen these diverse efforts to understand and transform our world, our lives. We want this conference itself to be a space for making connections, both intellectual and personal.

Conference Initiators

Matthew Adams, Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, Laurence Davis, Oisín Gilmore, Jamie Heckert, Petar Jandric, Ruth Kinna, Alex Prichard, Chris Rossdale & Matt Wilson

Registration

To register go to:

http://store.lboro.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=145&deptid=258&catid=84

The deadline for registration is 30 June. After that, on-campus accommodation will not be available anymore. Late registration will be more expensive. 

Please also note that on-campus accommodation is available only for both nights, with an optional third night on the evening of 5 September. Breakfast is included. Rooms are available en-suite or with shared bathrooms. If on-campus accommodation is not convenient, the registration form provides details of two hotels in Loughborough, one of which has agreed to offer preferential rates for conference delegates (see information on the registration form). 

Contact

Laurence Davis DPhil
Dublin, Ireland
Email: [email protected]