Date: Mon, 8 Jul 96 22:53 BST-1
From: jplant-AT-cix.compulink.co.uk (Jj Plant)
Subject: The Popular Front : Seminars on communist history


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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 21:23:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Martin Ryle <RYLE-AT-urvax.urich.edu>

From:   IN%"H-LABOR-AT-msu.edu"  "H-Net Labor History discussion 
list" 27-JUN-1996
 11:24:19.03

From: ucrahex-AT-ucl.ac.uk (Rick Halpern)
Anyone in London, or passing through this Autumn, is more than 
welcome to
attend the bi-weekly Comparative Labour & Working Class History 
seminar at
the University of London.

                THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT:
 A SERIES OF SEMINARS AND ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION


AUTUMN 1996 PROGRAMME: THE POPULAR FRONT

The format for this term will be papers of c.50-60 minutes, 
followed by an
hour of discussion. The aim is both to promote comparative 
historical study
and to contribute to the necessary process of coming to terms 
with the
heritage of the Communist experiment.

4 October, John Saville (Hull), "The Communist Party of Great 
Britain in the
1930s - a Reassessment"

18 October, Stanley Mitchell (Derby), "Aesthetics and Politics 
in the USSR
in the 1930s"

1 November, Steve Edwards (Derby), "Communist Intellectuals in 
England and
the Figure of `the People'"

15 November, Sarah Wilson (Courtauld Institute), "Art and the 
Popular Front
in France"

29 November, Robert Radford (Winchester School of Art), "The 
Artists
International Association and the Popular Front"

13 December, O.K. Werckmeister (Northwestern University), 
"Picasso's
Guernica and the Cultural Policy of the Popular Front in Spain 
and France".


All seminars will take place at 5:30pm in the British Local 
History Room at
the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet 
Street, London
WC1E 7HU.



The programme for the Spring term will comprise of a series of 
roundtable
discussions on themes in Communist History including "Communist 
Parties and
the Labour Movement," "Communist Parties of Latin America and the
Caribbean," "Destalinization," "Feminism and the Communist 
Movement," and
"Communists After Communism?"

Queries should be addressed to

Rick Halpern, Department of History, University College London, 
Gower Street
 WC1E 6BT

ucrahex-AT-ucl.ac.uk

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