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Talks and Seminars

Glasgow Reading – May 8, 2022

April 25, 2022 by normd

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Compass Webinar – Living Maps – June 17th

June 13, 2020 by normd

A Compass Webinar, in association with Living Maps Pausing for Thought: Mindful Perspectives on a Multiple Crisis. Wednesday, June 17th 18:30 – 20:00     First there was Brexit. Then the Labour Party goes down to a historic defeat with its most radical Social Democratic agenda since 1945. Then … [Read more...] about Compass Webinar – Living Maps – June 17th

Telling the Olympic Legacy Story – an Ethnographic Approach – Japan Visit

February 8, 2019 by normd

TALKS ABOUT THE OLYMPICS IN JAPAN  Telling the Olympic Legacy Story - an  ethnographic  approach   Phil Cohen  For seven years prior to the London 2012 Games I carried out ethnographic research with local communities most directly affected by the creation of a new Olympic Park In East London. Subsequently I carried out a further … [Read more...] about Telling the Olympic Legacy Story – an Ethnographic Approach – Japan Visit

‘1968’ , THE COMING OF AGE STORY AND THE VIEW FROM LEFT FIELD

October 2, 2018 by philco

Note: This is the text of a keynote address to  the 'Rethinking 1968' Conference on September 21st 2018. There is a video of this presentation  and a linked powerpoint elsewhere on my website. The party spirit Googling Festschrift ( as one does) I discovered  that it is a relatively recent practice, inaugurated by intellectual emigres from Germany  to … [Read more...] about ‘1968’ , THE COMING OF AGE STORY AND THE VIEW FROM LEFT FIELD

CONFERENCE : RETHINKING THE LEGACY OF 1968

June 28, 2018 by philco

left fields and the quest for common ground  A day of discussions and debates  bringing together different generations of   writers,  researchers and activists to consider the political and cultural legacies of  1968, their bearing on the  future prospects for a more democratic, equal  and participatory society and for modes of research in the arts, humanities and social … [Read more...] about CONFERENCE : RETHINKING THE LEGACY OF 1968

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    December 1, 2024
    Sadly Phil Cohen died on November 7th 2024. Funeral details and a link to his obituary can be found here...
  • Phil Cohen Obituary

    November 27, 2024
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  • WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET : A DOUBLE TAKE ON THE UK ELECTION  2024 

    July 15, 2024
    Note: These two short pieces written after the June 4th election result ,  are  extracted from a  collection of essays , Studies in the Grey Zone, due to be published by eyeglass books in October. Take One:  One Nation Labourism and the Great Moving Right Show The question of just how and from where, and […]
  • Waypoints 2

    March 27, 2024
    Publication date: first quarter of 2025. New introduction by Andrew Calcutt This new book brings together Phil Cohen’s most recent writing and spans the period from the Covid 19 pandemic to the ongoing wars in the Ukraine and Gaza. Like the pieces in the first Waypoints volume, these essays are occasional in that they were […]
  • Living Maps : towards a poetry made by all

    December 24, 2023
    Looking back on the first ten years of Livingmaps Network     Every project has its founding myth , a story about its origins in which the cold rational prose of ‘aims and objectives’ melts into  the thicker air of  an auto-poetics. The risk is that in the process  starting points become end points,  and the […]
  • ANTISEMIT-ORIENTAL- ZION-ISMS

    December 23, 2023
    The Triple Misalliance I An extract from‘Studies in thr Grey Zone; Waypoints Vol 2 to be published by eyglass books at Easter 2024 .Introduction One of the many  fallouts from the current  horrific conflict in Palestine/Israel is the way sections of the Hard Left have advanced an apologetics for the atrocities committed by Hamas, while […]

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