Monday, April 02, 2012

Pre-Occupy Symposium

Pre-Occupy Symposium
1:30pm Curtin 175

This symposium addresses how earlier occupations and protests in California and in Wisconsin set the stage for current occupations across the globe. Such pre-acceleration or incipient movement without which Occupy Wall street may never have happened.

In this talk George Ciccariello-Maher, "From Oscar Grant to Occupy: The Long Arc of Rebellion in Oakland", will focus on one central aspect of the pre-occupy Oakland landscape: the 2009-2010 rebellions that shook hands with the murder of Oscar Grant. 

Joshua Clover
"The Coming Occupation"
A brief and partial history, both social and intellectual, of a certain tendency which would take part in the organizing of the 2009-2010 occupations, etc. in the UC system; its origins and its connections beyond UC and California; its political orientation and ensuing implications for strategy and tactics of struggle; and what role all this would play, directly and indirectly, in the formation and existence of Occupy Oakland, particularly regarding its difference from other Occupy venues.

Dan S. Wang
"Zuccotti Sans Rotunda, or the Uneven Spaces of Occupation"


This event is organized by Richard Grusin (C21) and Annie McClanahan (English)

Also...

There is a poetry reading by Joshua Clover
Sunday, April 14, 2012
7:30 pm Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E. Locust Street, Milwaukee
Cost: Free

For more information please visit: http://www4.uwm.edu/c21/pages/events/abstracts/12spring/preoccupy.html


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