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At The Gallery, Farringdon, London
70/77 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ.
(near Farringdon Tube station)
note new start time at 6.45 p.m. to 8.45 p.m.
We suggest you arrive 15 minutes beforehand in order to settle in with your glass of wine.
Entrance fee: £3
(£2 concessions)
Monday 28th May - GREECE: AT WHAT PRICE MEMBERSHIP OF EUROPE? with Stathis Kouvelakis.
As the crisis in Greece develops, living standards are on a downward spiral, welfare and health services have virtually collapsed, and the European bail out demands greater austerity which will make the situation even more desperate. Is there a way out of this dark crisis? Dr. Stathis Kouvelakis researches and teaches on political theory at Kings College, London and is an informed commentator on the political and social meltdown that has taken place in Greece. See link to a recent interview. He will talk about the nature and causes of the current crisis there and will look at the prospects for the future of Greece either in or outside Europe.
Monday June 11th: The Trouble with India Democracy: a Critical Perspective withNitasha Kaul
Nitasha Kaul is a Kashmiri novelist, academic, economist, and artist. Her first book was ‘Imagining Economics Otherwise’ (Routledge, 2007). Aside from publishing fiction and poetry she has also authored numerous articles on several themes including identity, economy, social theory and democracy. She is a Visiting Fellow in Politics and International Relations at Westminster, London. Dr Kaul helps us to examine the protracted and often armed conflicts in North east India and Naxal regions, and offers us a wider critique of the internal contradictions of democracy in India, with reference to political and economic relationships
