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Politics, History and International Relations

Anarchism Research Group

About the Anarchism Research Group

The ARG is based in the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University. Its aims are:

to facilitate the study of anarchism across scholarly disciplines in the University;
to help raise the profile of anarchist studies in the wider academic community;
to promote international collaborative work on anarchism;
to provide a centre for postgraduate researchers working on aspects of anarchist history and politics;
to encourage the exploration and analysis of anarchist ideas and practices in the local community.

If you are interested in attending or receiving more information about our local seminars, please contact one of the co-ordinators and see information below. If you are interested in similar research areas and wish to associate yourself with researchers working on anarchism, please consider joining the Anarchist Studies Network (a specialist group of the Political Studies Association). The ARG is associated with the Anarchist Studies Initiative at SUNY, Cortland.

Seminars
Members
Publications

Speakers for 2012-13:
Name	Affiliation	Title	Date	Room
Allan Antliff	University of Victoria	Pacifist-Anarchism and the Arts: Kenneth Patchen, Jackson MacLow, John Cage and Donald Judd	31 October, 5-6:30pm	A204 (Schofield)
Kathy Ferguson	Hawaii	Anarchist women of the first wave	7 November, 5-6:30pm	A204 (Schofield)
Diogo Duarte	Instituto de Historia Contemporânea, Lisbon	Anarchism and the State in Portugal in the early 20th century	5 December, 5-6:30pm	A204 (Schofield)
Peter Ryley	Independent	Anarchism's Hidden Histories: Researching Individualism in 19th Century Britain	13 February, 5-6:30pm	A204 (Schofield)
Uri Gordon	Loughborough	Contemporary Anarchist Critiques of the State	24 April, 5-6:30pm	A204 (Schofield)
Constance Bantman	Surrey	Transnational lives - internationalism and nationalism in Belle Epoque anarchism	1 May, 5-6:30pm	A204 (Schofield)

For past seminars and files available for download, please see below.

Co-ordinators:

Dave Berry; Alex Christoyannopoulos; Uri Gordon; Ruth Kinna

Members:

Will Boisseau; James Donaghey; Cristos Iliopoulos; John Nightingale; Saku Pinta; Sureyyya Turkeli; Matt Wilson; Gwendolyn Windpassinger

Associates:

Dr Peter Ackers, Professor of Industrial Relations & Labour History, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University

Dr Maurizio Atzeni, Lecturer in Labour and Industrial Relations, School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University

Dr John Cromby, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Science, Loughborough University

Dr Jennifer Cooke, Lecturer in English, Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University

Dr Simon Downs, Lecturer in Graphic Communication, Scool of the Arts, Loughborough University

Dr Alex Prichard, Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics, University of Exeter

Dr Gillian Whiteley, Senior Lecturer in Visual and Material Culture, School of the Arts, Loughborough University

The following publications are freely available on the university's Institutional Repository. See also below for papers and videos of ARG seminars.

PhD theses completed at Loughborough:

Alex Prichard, Justice, order and anarchy: the international political theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865)

Sureyya Turkeli, What is anarchism? A reflection on the canon and the constructive potential of its destruction

Gwendolyn Windpassinger, Queer anarcha-feminism: an emerging ideology? The case of Proyectil Fetal

Publications by current staff:

Dave Berry

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (see personal website for more)

Ruth Kinna

Past speakers (2011-12)

Name	Affiliation	Title	Date
Georgios Sagriotis	Panteion and Patras	Benjamin and Anarchism (paper available below)	2/11/11
Anthony Fiscella	Lund University, Center for Theology and Religious Studies	From Anarcho-Fascism to Libertarian Spirituality: What Does it Men to be Free?	29/11/11
Christos Memos	University of York	Anarchism and Marxism: In Search of Lost Revolutionary Time	18/1/12
Judy Greenway	East London	‘Not the Church and not the State, women must decide our fate’: anarchist feminists and the politics of reproduction.	8/2/12
Diane Morgan	Leeds	Seriality and Everyone's Place Under the Sun: Proudhon with Kant (paper available below)	7/3/12
Andrew Cornell	Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3	The Evolution U.S. Anarchism in the Mid-20th Century: From Mother Earth to the Fifth Estate	25/4/12
Richard Morgan	UCL	Hygiene is the best of medicines': Petr Kropotkin and Criminological Science.	16/5/12

Past speakers (2010-11)

Name	Affiliation	Title	Date
Cris Iliopoulos	Loughborough	The anarchist aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy (paper available below)	06/12/10
Maurizio Atzeni	Loughborough	Worker Occupations in Argentina (paper available here)	26/01/11
Charlotte Alston	Northumbria	Tolstoyism: An international movement in the late 19th / early 20th centuries	09/03/11
Emma Dixon	Bangor	Women, Love and Anarchism: Anarcho-Sexism and The Rise of British Second Wave Feminism	04/05/11
Gabriel Kuhn	independent	Gustav Landauer, Erich Mühsam, and Anarchism in Germany	05/05/11

Past speakers (up to 2010)

Name	Title	Date
Saul Newman	Postanarchism and contemporary politics (paper available below)	10/12/08
Paul McLaughlin	Bakunin and Marx: An Unbridgeable Chasm? (paper available below)	26/01/09
Ben Franks	Anarchism and the Problem of Political Philosophy (slides available below)	13/05/09
Paul Blackledge	Between science and morality: Victor Serge and Simon Critchley on Marxism, anarchism and the ethics of anti?capitalism	10/03/10

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