Croydon Momentum in collaboration with LARAF (Labour Against Racism and Fascism) invite you to our flagship event on Fascism, Racism and their Contemporary Afterlives.

Invited speakers are Prof Esther Leslie (Birkbeck), Dr Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths) and Anwar Akhtar from The Samosa charity.

About the speakers:

Professor Esther Leslie is Professor in Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is Co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Esther Leslie has research interests in Marxist theories of aesthetics and culture, with a particular focus on the work of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. See http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/leslie

Dr Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory and Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of three monographs: The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze (2006), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2010), and (with Jeff Kinkle) Cartographies of the Absolute (2015). He edited The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics with Lorenzo Chiesa, and has translated several works by Alain Badiou, as well as Antonio Negri, Furio Jesi and Franco Fortini. He is currently working on two book projects, the first on tragedy as a political form, the second on philosophy, capitalism and ‘real abstraction’. He is also preparing two multi-volume edited collections, a Handbook of Marxism (with Bev Skeggs and Sara Farris) and Alain Badiou: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (with Ray Brassier). See https://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/staff/toscano/

Anwar Akhtar is the Founder/ Director of The Samosa Media project, www.thesamosa.co.uk and led The Royal Society of Arts & Commerce Pakistan Calling www.pkcalling.com project, which produced over 70 films looking at education, culture, religion, development, conflict resolution, women, and minority rights in the UK and Pakistan. He was the production consultant on the play Dara, working with Ajoka Theatre Pakistan and the National Theatre UK and Director, The Rich Mix Centre. www.thesamosa.co.uk is an arts and journalism charity that works to embed diversity in the arts and humanities curriculum and produces work that explores cultural and social issues.

LARAF aims to mobilise Labour Party members for anti-racist and anti-fascist activities, including demonstrations and local campaigns, as well as to share experience and spread local anti-racist initiatives across boroughs and Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs). See https://laraflondon.wordpress.com/about/

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