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Foster Court, University College London

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 6.00pm

For the sixth seminar in the 'Complex TV' series, Marc Farrant will be presenting on David Milch's Deadwood. Often cited as one of the 'big three' HBO drama series alongside The Wire and The Sopranos, Deadwood is often overlooked and under-appreciated among a wider TV public, something that this seminar will set right.

Marc Farrant is a doctoral candidate at the London Graduate School and a contributing editor at Review 31.

More information on the seminar series is available here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ah/figs/figs-eventspublication/tv-seminars

Directions to Foster Court are availabel here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/find-us/

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, London

01 May 2013, 7.00pm

Arms and the People: Popular Movements and the Military from the Paris Commune to the Arab Spring was recently published by Pluto Press. Noam Chomsky has called it 'a most revealing study of some of the most dramatic moments of modern history, from the people in arms in the Paris Commune to today’s headlines.'

Join Dr Elaheh Rostami-Povey (SOAS), Professor Phil Marfleet (UEL), Professor Mike Gonzalez (Glasgow) and Megan Trudell (Birkbeck) for a seminar & discussion on the relationship between mass movements and military institutions. Drinks will be provided.

For more information on Arms and the People, visit the Pluto Press website:

Ondaatje Theatre, Royal Geographic Society, London

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 7.00pm

Join Prospect for an evening of discussion and debate between two of the world's leading thinkers as they discuss markets and morals, the role of religion in the public sphere, the future of liberal democracy and what philosophy has to offer modern politics.

Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught political philosophy since 1980. His recent book, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?," relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of our time. His new book, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, is published by Penguin Books.

Anthony Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. Until 2011 he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. His new book, The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and For Humanism, is published by Bloomsbury.

Royal Geographic Society, 1 Kensington Gore, City of Westminster, London SW7.

Further details & ticket information here: https://prospect.ticketbud.com/sandel-grayling

Foyls Bookshop, London

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 6.30pm

The latest issue of Granta explores the sting of betrayal by a loved one, our leaders and from within our own hearts. Join Granta, Samantha Harvey and John Burnside for readings and conversation. A drinks reception will follow.

Foyles, 113–119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB. Admission is free.

Bookmarks Bookshop, London

Monday 28 January 2013, 6.30pm

Following the success of The Limerickiad volume I, Martin Rowson continues to lower the tone by reducing literary classics to a series of terrible limericks. Mixing low comedy and high seriousness, awful puns and dodgy rhymes, The Limerickiad volume II takes the story forward from John Donne to Jane Austen via Emmanuel Kant and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Along the way he pokes fun at Jacobean Tragedy, mangles all XII books of Paradise Lost and hangs out with some like-minded Augustan satirists before ridiculing the entire European Romantic movement.

Martin Rowson is an award winning cartoonist and political satirist whose work regularly appears in the Guardian, Tribune and the Daily Mirror. His books include a graphic adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels and The Dog Allusion: Pets, Gods and How to be Human.

For more information contact Bookmarks on 020 7637 1848 or email events@bookmarks.uk.com.

Bookmarks Bookshop, 1 Bloomsbury Street, London, WC1B 3QE.

Housmans Bookshop, King's Cross, London

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 7pm

Peter Dwyer and Leo Zeilig will be introducing their new book, African Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence, recently published by Haymarket.

In African Struggles Today, leading scholars investigate the social forces driving the democratic transformation of post-colonial states across Southern Africa. Extensive research and interviews with civil society organizers in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia and Swaziland inform this analysis of the challenges faced by non-governmental organisations in relating both to the attendant inequality of globalisation and to grassroots struggles for social justice.

Peter Dwyer is a tutor in economics at Ruskin College in Oxford. He is an active trade union member and has been involved as a researcher and campaigner in a variety of social movement campaigns in both the UK and South Africa.

Leo Zeilig is a lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

Housmans Bookshop

5 Caledonian Road

King's Cross, London N1 9DX

www.housmans.com

For more information contact Nik Gorecki on 020 7837 4473 or alternatively by email: nik@housmans.com.