Pain and Protest at UEL

December 05, 2010

Pain and Protest at UEL

Friends

On the afternoon of Wednesday December 8th 2010 an Emergency General
Assembly will take place at the University of East London (details below)

On the same day an important seminar on the politics of 'pain' in an age of
austerity will be held at the same site (details below)

The following morning, a public seminar and discussion on the crisis in
higher education and the politics and practicalities of protest will be held
at 10:00, allowing time for all participants to convene with the occupation
afterwards and to travel to central London to join the major demonstration
at 1:00pm (details below)

for any further information contact J.Gilbert@uel.ac.uk
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Occupying Students at the University of East London have called an Emergency
General Assembly at 13:00 in the main lecture theatre (next to the library -
Docklands Campus, Cyprus DLR) on Wednesday December 8th to address the
crisis facing the university, as management threatens to roll out
redundancies without consulting staff unions and continues to deny students
democratic representation, as the voided elections to the students' union,
declared illegitimate last Spring, have STILL not been re-run. UEL is in
many ways a test case for the next wave of anti-democratic neoliberal
managerialism across the public sector - so this issue affects all of us.
All staff and students are asked to attend the meeting; sympathetic
observers are unlikely to be turned away.

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UEL Centre for Cultural Studies Research
presents
A Public Symposium: The Politics of Pain

8 December 2010, 15:00 to 17:00

'Pain' has become central to the discourse of the coalition government as
it embarks on its cuts programme. The cuts are inevitable, we are told, and
the pain must be shared in the interests of fairness. But is the pain
necessary, should it be shared, is it really being shared, how will the pain
affect the social fabric, and what are the psychosocial consequences of the
crisis? This is the second seminar in the Centre for Cultural Studies
Research's three-part "Debt, Pain, Work" series that interrogates the
discourses and policies of the coalition government. (NB: A full audio
recording of our last seminar, 'The Politics of Debt', is now available at
http://culturalstudiesresearch.org/)

Speakers:
Kate Pickett, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York, co-author
of The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
Mike Rustin, Professor of Sociology in the School of Humanities and Social
Sciences at UEL and author of The Good Society and the Inner World
Jeremy Gilbert Reader in Cultural Studies in the School of Humanities and
Social Sciences at UEL and author of Anti-Capitalism and Culture: Radical
Theory and Popular Politics

For more Information and for a full audio recording of the last event in
this series see http://culturalstudiesresearch.org/

UEL Docklands Campus
Transport: Cyprus DLR station is located right next to the campus (just
follow signs out of the station)

Room EB.G.14
(Ground Floor, East Building, which is to the left on entering the main
square from Cyprus station)

All Welcome - no booking required

AS SOON AS THIS SYMPOSIUM HAS FINISHED THE ORGANISERS WILL INVITE ALL
PARTICIPANTS TO VISIT THE UEL OCCUPATION FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION OF THE
ISSUES FACING THOSE IN STRUGGLE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT'S CURRENT WAVE OF
CUTS, AT UEL AND FURTHER AFIELD
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Thursday December 9th 2010

10:00-11:00 (possibly carrying on a bit longer...)

The Crisis in the Universities and the Politics of Protest

Debra Benita Shaw (UEL), Jeremy Gilbert (UEL), Stephen Maddison (UEL) will
lead an open seminar on the issues, and offer some practical guidelines on
safe and legal protest
Room EB.3.19 (Third floor, main building, turn left on entering main square
from Cyprus DLR)

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