On Wednesday 9th April 2014 to coincide with the visits of Morgan
Gibson (Queensland) and Vicente Ordóñez Roig (Jaume I University,
Castellón, Spain) to the Dumfries campus of the University of
Glasgow there will be a symposium (or perhaps something similar with
a slightly less pompous sounding title) on the theme:
“Contemporary Anarchist Theory and Practice: Critical
perspectives”. With ‘critical’ playing multiple roles, meaning
either important, relevant/vital, analytical, supportive, evaluative
or from opposing traditions.
The venue will be in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies,
University of Glasgow, Rutherford McCowan Building, Crichton Campus
Bankend Road, Dumfries (it is about 2.5 miles from the train station
to the Campus). It will start at 11am and finish formally at
5pm, so that those travelling on the day by public transport from
Glasgow, Stirling, Edinburgh and Carlisle, Newcastle and Lancaster
can attend without missing any of the formal event.
If you wish to travel from further afar and need to stay over, some
colleagues/friends/comrades up in Glasgow have offered accommodation
and something might be available in Dumfries too. Please let me know
ASAP.
As well as Vicente and Morgan, there is a strong line-up of activists
and academics contributing (a brief line up will be available soon).
We also inviting other contributions – it can be a formal
presentation/paper or something different - so if you are interested,
please send an abstract or a description and a title by Wednesday
19th March., though please let us know sooner if possible. The deadline for submitting completed papers, if you wish to have
them circulated beforehand is Wednesday 26th March (this is by no
means compulsory).
The deadline for confirming attendance (for those not formally
contributing) is also Wednesday 26th March (just so I know what size
rooms to book and see if I can get any catering).
The event will be free for anyone to attend, however, I have not been
able (as yet) to raise funds to subsidise travel.
For those not in a hurry back, there are some good pubs and
reasonable eateries around Dumfries town centre, and so something in
the evening might spontaneously arise.
If you have any questions, suggestions or advice, on any detail of
the plan for this symposium (colloquium, gathering…), please let me
know.
