[Marxism] Caudwelll Centenary

[Louis Proyect]

If any of you will be in London and are interested in the brilliant and 
brave marxist who lived, wrote and died in the 1930s, here is info on a 
conference to celebrate the centenary of Christopher Caudwell:

*Politics into Culture – Christopher Caudwell Centenary 
Conference/Celebration*

Saturday 20 October 2007
Charity Centre, 24 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2DP/

Admission by free ticket from Marx Memorial Library

9.30 coffee and registration

10 – 11 Session 1

Helena Sheehan – Caudwell and the Philosophical Landscape of the Century

Anindya Raychaudhury – Caudwell and Colonialism: Birth and Growth of a 
Home-spun Marxist

11 – 11.15 break

11.15 – 12.15 Session 2

Margaret Kinsman – Sprigg and the Neglected Detective Novels

Robert Sullivan – /This My Hand/, the First ‘Caudwell’ Publication

12.15 – 1.45 lunch break

1.45 – 2.45 Session* *3

Mike Sanders – Productive Problems and Clotted Social History: Reading 
Chartist Poetry through /Illusion and Reality/

Edith Hall – Caudwell and the Greek and Latin Classics

2.45 – 3.10 tea

3.10 – 3.30 – The Strawberry Thieves (Socialist Choir)

3.30 – 4.30 Session 4

Karl Dallas – The Phlogiston Effect: Caudwell’s /Illusion and Reality/

David Margolies – Caudwell’s Lasting Achievement

4.30 – 5. Open discussion




Professor Helena Sheehan
Dublin City University  Dublin 9  Ireland
tel: 353-1-7005568  e-mail: helena.sheehan at dcu.ie
http://www.comms.dcu.ie/sheehanh/sheehan.htm