Women: The longest Revolution?

A Panel Discussion at II European Conference in Frankfurt

A Panel Discussion at the Second Platypus European Conference in Frankfurt, November 7 2015. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Cornelia Möser (HU Berlin) Joy McReady (LFI) Lucy Parker (Platypus Affiliated Society) Ursula Jensen (IBT) Moderated by Hannah Schroeder. Description A namesake of Juliet Mitchell’s 1966 essay, this panel will explore the long history of the struggle for women’s liberation from the vantage point of the Left today. [Read More]

What is Platypus Doing?

A panel event held at the Inaugural European Conference of the Platypus Affiliated Society on July 18, 2014 at Goldsmiths College, London. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Lucy Parker (London) Jan Schroeder (Frankfurt) Nikos Manousakis (Thessaloniki) Questions What have been some of the more significant engagements in your chapter with the Left? Why was this important for the development of your chapter and, what has this engagement taught us about the nature international Left? [Read More]

Art, Culture, and Politics

Marxist Approaches

Panel held as part of the third annual Platypus International Convention, on Saturday, April 30, 2011, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element A transcript of Bret Schneider’s remarks appears in Platypus Review #37 Panelists Omair Hussain Lucy Parker Pac Pobric Bret Schneider Description After its apparent exhaustion as a project of social transformation, Marxism seems to remain alive as a cultural and hermeneutic endeavor. [Read More]

Cultural Studies in the Academy

Towards a Critique of the Present Moment

Panel organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society given at the 2011 annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association in Chicago, IL on Thursday, March 24, 2011, at Columbia College, Chicago. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Benjamin Shepard - Independent Scholar (Los Angeles), Platypus Affiliated Society Jacob Cayia - University of Illinois - Chicago Omair Hussain - School of the Art Institute of Chicago [Read More]