Walter Rodney Commemoration
New York City, Oct. 21, 2005

Walter Rodney 25th Anniversary Commemoration Comittee in collaboration with The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

presents:

Walter Rodney Across the Generations:

An Evening of Reflection.

To celebrate and commemorate the life of scholar/activist, Dr. Walter Rodney on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his assassination in Guyana.

The evening brings together several generations of activists and scholars who were influenced by the work and example of Walter Rodney. This includes those who worked with Rodney in any of the several theaters of struggle in which he was engaged during his lifetime, in Africa, the Caribbean, the USA, and Guyana. It also includes a younger generation of activists and scholars whose work was inspired by the legacy of Walter Rodney.

Cultural activists from the USA, and the Caribbean will provide the spiritual refinement that was always a feature of Rodney’s work.

Special Guests: Asha and Kanini Rodney.

Participants Include:

*Sam Anderson - *Monifa Bandele - *Moses Bhagwan - *Humberto Brown - *Horace Campbell - *Rosa Clemente - *Howard Dodson - *Roberta Kilkenny - *Mahmoud Mamdani - *Rupal Oza - *Fernando Reals - * Amita Swadhin - *Others TBA.

Cultural Presentations: TBA

Friday – October 21st: 6–9 pm.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

515 Malcolm X Blvd. NYC

Make this netWORK

Brooklyn, New York, Oct. 6, 2005

A gathering of media makers and social justice organizers

October 6th, 7-9:30pm

Prison Moratorium Project

388 Atlantic Avenue, 3rd Floor

Brooklyn, NY 11217

This is the third in a series of informal networking events organized to
create a space for grassroots media makers and social justice
organizers/activists to come together, get to know one another and make
the connections necessary to strengthen local campaigns and independent
media networks.

Spinoza17 writes: "Initial conference alert, full programme forthcoming..."

"Towards a Cosmopolitan Marxism"
Historical Materialism's Annual Conference 2005
London, November 4–6, 2005

Birkbeck College and School of Oriental and African Studies, London, WC1

The Editorial Board of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, in collaboration with the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Committee and the Editorial Board of the Socialist Register, is pleased to announce its annual conference, ‘Towards a Cosmopolitan Marxism’, 4-6 November 2005.

Since its inception, Historical Materialism has been firmly committed to the project of creating a space of dialogue and debate which extends across disciplinary, linguistic and cultural borders, and promotes the circulation, cross-fertilisation and expansion of critical Marxist thought.

further_bunny writes:

"Open Season"

London, October, 2005

NODE.London presents : Open Season, London, October 2005

This October the UK government, as part of its presidency of the EU is holding a pan-European conference on how to consolidate regulation and control of intellectual property, copyright and technology.

Looking for creative alternatives, NODE.London is declaring this October an 'Open Season' on technology, media, culture, politics and art with a diverse and challenging series of events – building towards London-wide media arts events in March 2006.