New Book – Circling Marx: Essays 1980-2020
Circling Marx: Essays 1980-2020 (Brill, 2020)
Author: Peter Beilharz, Sichuan University
Forty Years Ago Today – Thesis Eleven, A Bookmark
by Peter Beilharz
8 December, 1980. Today, Thesis Eleven is forty years old. Who would have thunk? The day John Lennon was murdered, we picked up the boxes in Julian Triado’s Renault 12, news on the radio, axles groaning, us, I suppose, otherwise elated, but also in shock. What were these new times?
“How Memory Survives” – The 2020 Agnes Heller Annual Sociology Lecture with Professor Alice Bloch
‘How Memory Survives: Descendants of Auschwitz survivors and the progenic tattoo’. The Sociology Program at La Trobe University invites you to the Agnes Heller Annual Sociology Lecture. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Alice Bloch, University of Manchester. 17 November
6:30-8:00pm (AEDT)
New Book: Beyond the Public Sphere: Film and the Feminist Imaginary
In Beyond the Public Sphere: Film and the Feminist Imaginary, the renowned philosopher and critical theorist María Pía Lara challenges the notion that the bourgeois public sphere is the most important informal institution between social and political actors and the state.
Event: A friendship with Zygmunt Bauman: Peter Beilharz in conversation with Mark Davis
Join Peter Beliharz and Mark Davis in discussion about Peter’s new book, ‘Intimacy in postmodern times: A friendship with Zygmunt Bauman’.
Thursday, Nov 26, 2020
7:00 – 8:00 pm AEDT
[8:00 – 9:00 am GMT]
Video – The Coronavirus upheaval: Bauman, Beck and Rethinking the Politics of Global Pandemics
In this episode of the the Monnet Conversations, Ingrid Biese, Sven Kesselring and Thesis Eleven founder Peter Beilharz join Anthony Elliott to discuss the contributions of Zygmunt Bauman and Ulrich Beck in the context of the global pandemic.
Conference – Marxist Critical Theory in Eastern Europe: In memory of Ágnes Heller
Online International Conference on Marxist Critical Theory in Eastern Europe: In memory of Ágnes Heller
November 14 and 15, 2020
Sichuan University
Global book talk – Zygmunt Bauman: Life and Biography
The virtual platform HPS.CESEE and Thesis Eleven warmly invite you to a public global book talk on the biography of Zygmunt Bauman. Natalia Aleksiun (Jena/New York) and Peter Beilharz (Melbourne) will join Izabela Wagner (Warsaw) to discuss her newly published biography of Zygmunt Bauman: Bauman. A Biography (Cambridge: Polity Press 2020).
Online workshop: “Living in Crisis”
An online workshop on “Living in Crisis” organized by the TASA Social Theory thematic group and Thesis Eleven.
Speakers: Deborah Lupton, Craig Calhoun, Peter Vale and Peter Beilharz
Update: Living and Thinking Crisis online series
It’s been several weeks since we launched our special online series of essays and photo-essays; engaging with the pandemic in the real-time of its making. Our aim has been to document the thoughts (and lived-experience) of authors and artists from diverse locations, cultural/political contexts and from different intellectual perspectives. Below you will find a list of the articles published to date.
