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Artistic Modernism as Reply to Mass Media
Speaker: 
Ben Watson and Didier Mervelet

Artistic Modernism as Reply to Mass Media
Frank Zappa versus the Banalifacation of Anniversaries

"1968 & All That" Conference, Conway Hall, London 10-v-2008

Ben Watson & Didier Mervelet

1pmArtists RoomArt and Politics 1968 then and now a talk by John Molyneux
Speaker: 
Molyneux, John
Room: 
Artists Room
Time: 
1pm

John Molyneux is senior lecturer at the School of Art, Design and Media at Portsmouth University.

2pmArtists RoomMay 68: the return of the working class after 40 years of counter-revolution
Speaker: 
The International Communist Current
Room: 
Artists Room
Time: 
2pm

May 68 The student riots Ah, the idealistic 60s, all that talk about class struggle revolution it's all a bit out of date now?.

5pmArtists RoomStewart Home
Speaker: 
Banksy and 1968
Room: 
Artists Room
Time: 
5pm
4pmArtists Room1968, Music, Capitalism
Speaker: 
Watson, Ben and Mervelet Didier
Room: 
Artists Room
Time: 
4pm

Ben Watson from www.MilitantEsthetix.co.uk and Didier Mervelet, General
Secretary of Less Fils de l'Invention (the Parisian chapter of Frank Zappa

3pmArtists RoomMay 1968 Socialist Party of Great Britain
Speaker: 
Adam Buick
Room: 
Artists Room
Time: 
3pm

Was there really a revolutionary situation in France in May 68?

Adam Buick will raise this question and discuss whether what happened was

12pmArtists Room1968 and Africa
Speaker: 
Explo Nani-Kofi
Room: 
Artists Room
Time: 
12pm

Explo Nani-Kofi is an African solidarity and Pan African community campaign activist.

7pmArtists Room1968 and Spain - autonomy and anarchism
Speaker: 
Torres Maggie
Room: 
Artists Room
Time: 
7pm
11amBertrand Russell RoomDada, Surrealism and their Influence on the Situationist International - a talk by Malcolm Hopkins
Speaker: 
Hopkins, Malcolm
Room: 
Bertrand Russell Room
Time: 
11am

The influence of the Situationist was not confined to the streets of Paris. Their influence can be seen in the works of King Mob in England and Black Mask in the USA.

7pmBertrand Russell RoomStudents in May and Students Today - a talk by Stewart Halforty
Speaker: 
Halforty, Stuart
Room: 
Bertrand Russell Room
Time: 
7pm

Stewart Halforty was President of Goldsmiths College Students Union in 2005 and is now an organiser for the Stop the War Coalition.

1pmBertrand Russell Room1968, the view from outside London: Swansea!
Speaker: 
Ian Bone
Room: 
Bertrand Russell Room
Time: 
1pm

Bash the Rich Film captured Ian's talk on video:

Ian Bone was an anarchist in Swansea in 1968

4pmBertrand Russell RoomPiers Corbyn The Squatting Movement in 1968
Speaker: 
Corbyn Piers
Room: 
Bertrand Russell Room
Time: 
4pm

Huntley Street SquatHuntley Street Squat
From the spirit of 68 to now, What happened?
- Squatting & the Housing crisis AND