First COMMA meeting of Winter 2019 quarter is Friday, Jan 18th
The first COMMA meting of the Winter quarter is this FRIDAY, Jan 18th, at 3pm in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623).
In this ongoing Dialectic Plus series we will discuss:
1) “A Dialectic Approach to Film Form” by Sergei Eisenstein linked here.
2) Ch. 1 “Separation Perfected” from Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle linked here.
3) “The Culture Industry” by Adorno & Horkheimer linked here.
Come Friday, 3pm for food and good discussion – all are welcome!
Fifth COMMA meeting of the Fall quarter, 11/30
At the fifth COMMA meeting of the Fall 2018 quarter, we will discuss:
Susan Buck–Morss, “Hegel and Haiti” found here
C.L.R. James, Chapter 1, “The Property” from The Black Jacobins found here
Please join us
Friday, November 30th
3pm
South Hall 2623, The Sankey Room
See you Friday for the fifth discussion in The Dialectic Plus series – all are welcome,
Maurizia Boscagli, Director
Christine Weidner, RA
Fourth COMMA meeting of the quarter, 11/16
You are invited to the Fourth Fall COMMA meeting later today:
Marx, “Theses on Feuerbach” (www.marxists.org/theses)
Cyril Smith, “Science and Humanity: Hegel, Marx, and Dialectic” (www.marxists.org/smith)
Yannis Varoufakis, “Marx Predicted Our Present Crisis and Points the Way Out”
Please join us
Friday, November 16th
3:00-5:00pm
South Hall 2623, The Sankey Room
COMMA meeting Fri. Nov 2nd, 3pm
Third COMMA meeting of the quarter:
FRIDAY, NOV. 2nd
3pm
South Hall 2623
(Sankey Room)
We will be discussing the following pieces in our ongoing discussion series, The Dialectic Plus:
Hegel’s “Lordship & Bondage”
Alexandre Kojève’s “In Place of an Introduction”
Come for good food & discussion, all are welcome!
Second COMMA meeting of Fall Quarter, Fri., Oct. 19, 3pm
You are invited to the second COMMA meting of the Fall quarter:
FRIDAY
Oct. 19th
Sankey Room (South Hall 2623)
3pm
In The Dialectic Plus series, our second discussion is on the first 70 pages of Frederic Jameson’s “Valences of the Dialectic.” The most important sections to note are the introductory pages along with pages 49 to 66.
Find the link to the reading below and attached to this email –
Come Friday, 3pm for food and good discussion – all are welcome!
Maurizia Boscagli, Director
Christine Weidner, RA
Marxism in Reverse – Reading Group
You are invited to the last COMMA reading group of Spring 2018!!
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Yannis Varoufakis, “Marx Predicted Our Present Crisis–and Points the Way Out”
Friday June 1,
3:00pm
SH 2635 – note change in location
See you then!
Maurizia Boscagli, Director
Leah Norris, RA
Marxism in Reverse – Lecture Series
COMMA Lecture Series– Spring 2018
You are invited to a talk by Professor Allison Carruth
Department of English, UCLA
‘FORAGED CUISINES, CULINARY LABS”
Friday May 18
3:00pm
The Sankey Room, English Department
Maurizia Boscagli, Director
Leah Norris, RA
Marxism in Reverse – Lecture Series
COMMA Lecture Series:
You are invited to a talk by Professor Jennifer Wicke:
“Dirty Modernism”
Friday May 11
3:00pm
The Sankey Room
South Hall, Second Floor.
We hope to see you there.
Maurizia Boscagli, Director
Leah Norris, RA