3-5 of September 2012 Loughborough.- 2nd Anarchist Studies Network Conference. 2.0 ‘Making Connections’

Provisional Conference Programme

Day 1 Monday 3rd of September, 2012

11:30 Opening Plenary, Schofield Building, Room A201
12:30-14:00 Lunch (Rooms t.b.c.)
14:00 – 15:30 Session 1

1. Anarchism and War (1/2)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB103
1. Alex Prichard (Coventry) ‘When is war just? Proudhon on War and Justice’
2. Carl Levy (Goldsmith) ’Errico Malatesta and the First World War: 1914-1919’
3. Pietro Di Paola (Lincoln) ’Freedom Press and the amnesty campaign for deserters after WW2’

2. Bodily Anarchy

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB008
Often, anarchist practices of writing and otherwise engaging with the world focus outward on social patterns. In this workshop, participants will be invited to look inward, to witness the ways in which we might hold ourselves back from freedom, equality and vitality, and to release them. The session will begin with basic relaxation exercises, some gentle physical warm-ups followed by movement and interactive exercises designed to help people feel a sense of connection with their own bodies and with the other people in the room. The session design draws on insights and practices from yoga, ecopsychology and anarcha-feminism.

3. Anarchism in Different National Contexts (1/2)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB010
1. Roy Krøvel (Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway): ‘Norway’s 19th century nationalist anarchists’
2. Grzegorz Piotrowski (Södertörn University, Sweden): ‘Anarchist movement in post-socialist context’
3. Christian Fröhlich (Södertörn University, Sweden): ‘Anarchist movement in,contemporary Russia’

4. IWW (1/2)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB104
What now for workplace organising? contemporary wobbly experiences 1: roundtable strategy discussion
This roundtable discussion will focus on the experiences and strategies of IWW
members in different workplace contexts. It will include a brief introduction from
each participant, outlining recent workplace activities. This includes those involved in
building independent workplace branches, IWW members organising within existing
TUC unions, campaigns that have sought to provide a rival to existing TUC unions
(when the latter have proven unable or unwilling to support workers), and the
experience of creating a closed-shop workers’ cooperative (bike foundry) with an all-
IWW membership. We will also discuss some of the benefits of IWW membership, in
terms of solidarity unionism and the international dimension. Participants will have an
opportunity to reflect on, and discuss, the strengths and limits of their respective
organising initiatives. Participation and critical discussion from the floor will be
welcomed.

5. Real Democracy and the Revolutions of Our Time (1/7)

James France Building, Room CC014
1. Peter Snowdon (Provinciale Hogeschool), ‘The Revolution Will be Uploaded:
vernacular video and the Arab Spring’
2. Laurence Davis (University College Cork), ‘Real Democracy and the
Revolutions of our Time’
3. Uri Gordon (Loughborough), ‘Democratic Deficit in the Israeli Tent Protests –
An Insider’s View’

6. ‘No Master but God?’ Exploring the Compatibility of Anarchism and Religion

(1/7)
James France Building Room CC109
Anarchist Biblical Studies
1. Justin Meggitt (Cambridge) ‘Anarchism, anachronism and the historical Jesus’
2. Mark McHenry (Wales, Lampeter) ‘An Anarchist Critique of Isaiah’s
Revolution – Developing the Anarchist Hermeneutic in Mainstream Biblical Studies’
3. Danny Nemu (Independent) ‘Scribes and Kings: Scriptural Translation and Interpretation in the Service of Empire’

7. Anarchism and Disability (1/2)

James France Building Room CC110
1. Jess Bradley (Students for Sensible Drug Policy and University of
Manchester, UK): ’Drugs and Bodily Autonomy: how the state controls treatment through the institution’
2. Steve Graby (University of Leeds and Disabled People’s Direct Action Network, UK) and Anat Greenstein (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK): ’Social dis-order: autistic experiences of/in radical political activism’
3. Shelly Rhian (Cambridge): ‘Resisting capitalism and state’s control of our bodies and care’

16:00-17:30 Session 2

8. Anarchism and War (2/2)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB103
1. Uri Gordon (Loughborough) ’Anarchists Against the Wall’ (provisional title)
2. Anthony T. Fiscella, ’Anarchism, Empire and the War in Libya’.

9. Social Technology (1/2)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB008
This series of three workshops will function as a participatory ’unconference’ using techniques drawn from bar camps and Open Space Technology. It will straddle the
too often divided realms of practice and critique and aim to uncover and explore the
role of social technologies in the transformation of society along anarchist principles.
This will hopefully be achieved through theoretical reflections on key issues, such as
the philosophy of social technology, the recent proprietary turn and surveillance, as
well as the sharing and demonstration, development, hacking or appropriation of
technology.

10. Anarchism in Different National Contexts (2/2)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB010
1. Magnus Wennerhag (Södertörn University, Sweden) and Adrienne Sörbom
(Stockholm University & Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden): ‘Between adaptation and a new contentiousness: The case of the anarchist and autonomist movement in Sweden’
2. Mari Kuukkanen (University of Helsinki, Finland): ‘Politicization by direct action: the contemporary anarchist movement in Finland’

11. IWW (2/2)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB104
What now for workplace organising? Contemporary wobbly experiences 2: the nuts
and bolts of IWW organising
This second panel will take the form of a workshop outlining the IWW approach to
organising in contemporary British workplaces. We will set out what we view as
current IWW strategy, the practicalities of setting up and running an IWW branch,
and the current state of the union. We will also outline some key legal rights and
campaign strategies that education workers might use in their current struggles. The
workshop will seek to identify ways in which activists and radical educators can use
the IWW to increase their effectiveness

12. Real Democracy and the Revolutions of Our Time (2/7)

James France Building, Room CC014
Lessons from the Occupy Movement
1. Aragorn! ‘First Lessons of Occupy 2011’
2. David Osborn (Rising Tide North America/Portland State University) ‘Anarchist Interventions in the Occupy Portland Movement’
3. Anna Szolucha (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), ‘People on the Move: Occupy as a Temporary Space of Participative (Un)Learning’

13. ‘No Master but God?’ Exploring the Compatibility of Anarchism and Religion (2/7)

James France Building Room CC109
Religious and Anarchist Philosophy/Philosophers
1. Alexandre Christoyannopoulos (Loughborough) ‘Leo Tolstoy’s Political Thought’
2. Richard Fitch (Independent) ‘Without Dogma, but with Eloquence and Irony:Anarchism, Religion, and Scepticism’
3. Hugo Strandberg (Åbo Akademi) ‘Hardening one’s heart: On the relation of anarchism and religious belief’

14. Anarchism and Disability (2/2)

James France Building Room CC110
1. Ynestra King (Columbia): ’Anarchism’s ‘Free Individual’, Community and Disability’
2. Anthony J. Nocella (Hamline University): ’Eco-Ability and Anarchism: A Challenge to Capitalism, Green Anarchism, and Normalcy’

18:00 Film Night, Schofield Building, Room A201

End 20:00

Day 2 Tuesday 4th of September, 2012

09:00-10:30 Session 3

15. Real Democracy and the Revolutions of our Time (3/7)

James France Building, Room CC014
The Arab Spring: Origins, Originality, Futures
1. Sofiane Bouhdiba (University of Tunis), ‘The Sociodemographic Aspects of the Jasmine Revolution’
2. Sara Salem (Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands), ‘Egypt Rises Up: Bread, Freedom, Dignity’
3. Ying Chen (Indiana University), ‘Arab Spring Coming to China – A Chinese Perspective’

16. ‘No Master but God?’ Exploring the Compatibility of Anarchism and Religion (3/7)

James France Building Room CC109
Anarchist Theology (i)
1. Siegfried Bernhauser & Birgit Wörishofer (Independent) ‘The Divine Order and Anarchy’
2. André de Raaij (Independent) ‘Power to be free through obedience’
3. Stefan Rossbach (Kent) ‘Religious Experience and Community Formation’

17. Anarchism and Non-Domination (1/3)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB103
Facilitator: Alex Prichard
1. John Desmond (Independent) ‘Organizational enclaves in the third sector’
2. Uri Gordon (Loughborough) ‘Chains and Whips Excite Me: Anarchists and BDSM’

18. Connecting Anarchism and Critical Management Studies (1/3)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB104
1. A.Espinosa (Hull University Business School) ‘From indignation to commitment: Criteria for effective organisation in cooperative networks’
2. Jon Walker (Independent) ‘Anarchy, Cybernetics, and Commons’
3. Bojan Radej (Independent) ‘Movement 99%: Through Exclusion to Community’

19. Embodied Autonomy

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB008
(Details to be confirmed)

20. ‘A thousand lines of flight’: Post-anarchism and Contemporary Art (1/4)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB010
1. Introductory remarks, Gillian Whiteley, Loughborough University
2. Tere Vaden, Helsinki, ‘Primitivism and post-anarchist art: it is possible’
3. Michael Paraskos, Cornaro Institute, Cyprus, ‘What would an anarchist Rembrandt look like?’
4. Kuba Szreder, Loughborough University and Marsha Bradfield, Chelsea,
‘What does a post-anarchist art practice look like, sound, taste like and so on and so forth and how would it function?’

21. Is Anarchism Western? (1/2)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB002
Facilitator: Gabriel Kuhn
1. Anthony T. Fiscella (Lund) ‘Writing Libertarian History with (Post)Colonial Pens’
2. Brian Callan (Loughborough) ‘What are we fighting for! The Primacy of Performance in Association’
3. Ole Birk Laursen (Open University) ‘‘Different kinds of anarchists’: India House, anarchism and anti-colonial resistances in Britain’
11:00-12:30, Session 4

22. Real Democracy and the Revolutions of our Time (4/7)

James France Building, Room CC014

The Greek Uprising in Pictures and Words


1. Myrto Tsilimpounidi and Aylwyn Walsh (University of Northampton/Ministry of Untold Stories), Performance/Presentation using photography: ‘It’s a Beautiful Thing: the Destruction of Worlds’
2. Nikolaos Papakostas (Institute for Security and Defence Analysis, Athens,), ‘New Social Movements: Promising Future – Grim Present’

3. Daphne Heretakis (Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Paris), Film Presentation: ‘Ici rien’

23. ‘No Master but God?’

Exploring the Compatibility of Anarchism and Religion (4/7)
James France Building Room CC109
Anarchist Theology (ii)
1. Sam Flintoft (Independent) ‘The Egalitarian God: Exploring the Anarchist Implications of Don Cupitt’s Theology’
2. Simon Podmore (Oxford) ‘Anti-theism & the Self Before God: Kierkegaard & Proudhon on the Freedom of Offence’

24. Re-imagining Anarchism in America

James France Building Room CC110
1. Andrew Hoyt (Minnesota) ‘Methods of Tracing Radical Networks: Mapping the Print Culture and Propagandists of the Italian Anarchists’
2. Dana Ward (Pitzer) ‘Anarchy Anticipated’
3. Jorell A. Meléndez (Independent) ‘Hacia el Porvenir: The Beginnings, Development and Suppression of Puerto Rican Anarchism, 1900-1911’

25. Anarchism and Non-Domination (2/3)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB103
Facilitator: Alex Prichard
1. Benjamin Franks (Glasgow) ‘The virtues of non-domination’
2. John Clark, (Lyola) ’Anarchism and Domination’
3. Nathan Eisenstadt (Bristol) ‘An ethos of non-domination: The manifest ethics of anarchist social centres’

26. Connecting Anarchism and Critical Management Studies (2/3)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB104
1. John Crossan (Glasgow) ‘Occupy Glasgow: Imperfect Experiments in ‘Commoning’ an Old Industrial City’
2. Neil Sutherland (Essex) ‘Democracy, participation and leadership in Social Movement Organizations’
3. George Kokkinidis (Leicester) ‘Anarchism and social innovations in times of austerity: The case of workers’ collectives in Greece’

27. Propaganda and Pedagogy

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB008
1. Hilary Gordon: ‘Propaganda in Revolutionary Spain’
2. Felix Paties: ‘Anarchism and Radio: A Decade of Radiophonic Propaganda’
3. Sutapa Chattopadhyay: ‘Working Through the Dangers of Neoliberal Dystopia: Counter Pedagogies and Action Research’

28. ‘A thousand lines of flight’: Post-anarchism and Contemporary Art (2/4)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB010
1. Veda Popovici, artist, Rumania, ‘Invitation to War: the dangers of post-Voina’
2. Tjasa Pureber, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, ‘Subversion of subversity’
3. Antonia Majaca, Goldsmiths, London, ‘Autonomy of Art and the Promise of (Anti)Politics. Proposal for a Postanarchist Reading of the Yugoslav Conceptual Art Practices of the 1960s and 1970s’

29. Is Anarchism Western? (2/2)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB002
Round table/open session
Facilitator: Gabriel Kuhn
12:30-14:00 –
Lunch

Session 5, 14:00-15:30

Open Session
Open sessions are dedicated slots on the programme for people to socialise, organise
and relax. All the conference rooms will be available for use by participants. Please
sign up on the sheets provided to book yourselves a room if you need one. Available
rooms (all Stuart Mason Building): SMB103 (capacity 40), SMB104 (capacity 38),
SMB017 (capacity 101), SMB008 (capacity 20), SMB002 (capacity 16)

Session 6, 16:00-17:30

30. Real Democracy and the Revolutions of our Time (5/7)

James France Building, Room CC014
Space and Hegemony in the New Wave of European Mobilisations
1. Maxine Newlands (University of East London) ‘The ‘Practice’ of Protest: How Heterotopias Unite the Occupy Movement’
2. Martin Walter (University of Nottingham) ‘15-M Populism: The Case of the June 19th Demonstration in Valencia’

31. ‘No Master but God?’

Exploring the Compatibility of Anarchism and Religion (5/7)
James France Building Room CC109
When anarchists meet religion
1. Paul Stott (East Anglia), ‘When Malatesta Met Mohammed: The Response of Anarchists to the Rise of Islamism’
2. Pedro Garcia-Guirao, (Southampton) ‘Old Stereotypes and New Conceptions: Representations of Religion in Contemporary Spanish Anarchist Film (19952011)’
3. Matthew Adams (Manchester) ‘ ‘As harmless as the rats and crows’: Religion and Spirituality in Herbert Read’s Anarchism’

32. Social Technology (2)

James France Building Room CC110
(Details to be confirmed)

33. Anarchism and Non-Domination (3/3)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB103
1. Ruth Kinna (Loughborough) & Alex Prichard (Exeter) ‘Anarchism and Non-Domination’
2. Matt Wilson (Independent) ‘Unseen and Unintentional: Domination and Consensus.’

34. Connecting Anarchism and Critical Management Studies (3/3)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB104
Open Session/roundtable

35. Marginalised Thinkers

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB008
1. Daniel Huckfield and Peter Ryley: The Small Town Anarchist: Researching the life and times of Henry Seymour
2. Daniel Duggan: Auberon Herbert and the Voluntary State: A Neglected and Misunderstood Nineteenth Century Anarchist’
3. Elena Trivelli: ‘Well, yes, he was a doctor. But, truly, he was an anarchist’: responsibility, permanent crisis, and sustainable opposition in the work of Franco Basaglia
4. Damian White ‘Urban Political Ecology, the Anarchist Tradition and Ecological Urbanism’

36. ‘You have nothing to lose but your chains!’

(bicycle workshop)
Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB002
This will be an interactive session, with some open stands for participants to bring
their bicycle and learn how to tune up something they didn’t know how to do before.
More than this it will be an opportunity to ponder links between working with our hands and finding spaces for practical mutual aid in small turns of the bolt. I’ll be offering some reflections on recent projects in self organised spaces in various cities around the world as well Maribyrnong Detention

Day 3 Wednesday 5th of September, 2012

Session 7, 09:00-10:30

37. ‘A thousand lines of flight’: Post-anarchism and Contemporary Art (4/4)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB104
1. Holly Crawford, artist/Director AC Institute, New York ‘Artist Stripped Naked, the public art of Zefrey Throwell’
2. Stuart Tait, artist, stuarttait.com, ‘Molecular Collaboration’
3. Andy Abbott, artist, University of Leeds, ‘Garden Nomad’ Plenary
Panel Respondent Süreyyya Evren, Kultur University/Loughborough University will
provide some comments on the day’s papers and introduce the final discussion

38. Anarchism and Autonomism (1/2)

Stuart Mason Building, Room CC110
Chair: Stevphen Shukaitis
1. Mathijs van de Sande (K.U. Leuven) ‘From ‘the Passion of Destruction’ to ‘Counter-Empire’: Prefiguration and Anti-Thetics in Anarchist and Autonomist traditions’
2. Anja Kanngieser & the vacuum cleaner ‘an invitation not to get up this morning, to stay in bed with somebody and build musical instruments and war machines’
3. Alexandros Kioupkiolis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) ‘Late agonies of liberty in common’

39. ‘No Master but God?’

Exploring the Compatibility of Anarchism and Religion (6/7)
James France Building Room CC109
Spiritual Anarchism
1. Anthony T. Fiscella (Lund) ‘Autonomous Religious Movements and the State: An Incomplete History of Spiritual Anarchism’
2. Karen Kennedy (Independent) ‘The Anarchist Turn and the Ideas of the Free Spirit’
3. Paul Cudenec (Independent) ‘The Sacred Soul of Anarchy’

40. Anarchism and Other Animals (1/3)

James France Building Room SMB008
Intersectionalised relations of domination
1. Anne Bota (annebota@yahoo.de) ‘The Wrong-Headed to the Norm: An Examination of Social Reactions Towards Empathy and Resistance’
2. Erika Cudworth (University of East London) ‘Intersectionality, Species and Social domination’
3. Richard White (Sheffield Hallam) ‘No Gods, No Masters, No Meat Burgers: Anarchism, Animals, and the Purity of Rebellion.’

41. Anarchism and Education (1/3)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB010
1. Andreas Wittel (Nottingham Trent) ‘Beyond State and Market: Higher Education as a Commons’
2. Jere Kuzmanic (Zagreb) ‘Space Negotiation/Negotiation of Space’
3. Caroline Newton & Gideon Boie (Saint-Lucas School of Architecture) ‘Resuscitating the architect -The case of the fragile project’
Session 8, 11:00-12:30

42. Anarchism and Autonomism (2/2)

James France Building Room CC110
Chair: Stevphen Shukaitis
1. Yannis Kallianos (St Andrews) ‘The practice of self-organization in Greece since 2008’
2. Neil Gray, (Glasgow)’From ‘Right to the City’ to ‘Take Over the City’’
3. David Bates (Canterbury Christ Church) ‘Networks of Revolution’

43. Real Democracy and the Revolutions of our Time (6/7)

James France Building, Room CC014

Participatory Workshop: Can the Revolution be Analyzed?

Facilitated by George Sotiropoulos (University of Kent) and Markos Vogiatzoglou (European University Institute, Florence), ‘Can the Revolution be Analyzed?: Methodological and Moral Issues When Conducting Social Research in Contentious
Environments’

44. ‘No Master but God?’

Exploring the Compatibility of Anarchism and Religion (7/7)
James France Building Room CC109
Anarchism/Religion Parallels
1. Jay Cassano (Independent) ‘Jewish Mysticism and Anarchism, a question of compatibility’
2. Keith Hebden (priest) ‘If I can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your religion:
Understanding the Atheisms of Anarchism with Simone Weil and Emma Goldman’
3. Erica Lagalisse (McGill) ‘Anarchism as Pantheism: Exploring the ‘Occult’ History of the Radical Enlightenment’

45. Anarchism and Other Animals (2/2)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB008
Discourse, culture and resistance
1. Jim Donaghey (Loughborough University), ‘The Confluence of Veganism, Anarchism and Punk Culture.’
2. Maxine Newlands (University of East London), ‘Eco-terrorist or Animal Liberationist? Reclaiming the Vanguard from Capitalism’

46. The Question of Work: From Exploitation to Revolution, from Idleness to Utopia

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB103
1. Mario Bosincu (Sassari) ‘The Utopia of Laziness and the Conversion to Revolution in The Coming Insurrection’
2. Peter Seyferth (Munich) ‘The Role of Work in Anarchist Utopias’

47. ‘A thousand lines of flight’: Post-anarchism and Contemporary Art (3/4)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB104
1. Tom Bresolin, Artist, Insurrectionary Anarchist & Martin Lang, University for the Creative Arts & University of Kent, ‘Militant Training Camp: the debriefing’
2. David Bell, University of Nottingham, ‘Multidominance and hyperpessimism. Thoughts on Improvisation, Power and Freedom’
3. Garfield Benjamin, University of Wolverhampton, ‘How to wake up the Bit-Shoveller: towards a cyber-artist[arsonist]’s handbook’

48. Anarchism and Education (2/2)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB010
1. Hauke Morisse (Independent) ‘Webbased tools and learning environments for
teaching in universities between standardisation and diversity’
2. Petar Jandric (Zagreb Poly) ‘In and against the State: anarchism, technologies and educational praxis’
3. Emily Charkin (Institute of Education) ’I grew up with anarchist ideas’: the lives of children in anarchist communities’
12:30-14:00 -Lunch
Session 9, 14:00-15:30

49. The Political Philosophy of Max Stirner

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB103
1. Nathan Fretwell: ‘Max Stirner and Postanarchism’
2. Elmo Feiten: ‘Stirner Méconnu: Newman’s Critique of Ideology’

50. Real Democracy and the Revolutions of our Time (7/7)

James France Building, Room CC014
Real Democracy: The Means are the Ends
1. Uri Gordon (Loughborough), ‘The Israeli Tent Protests: Stymied Mobilization in a Right-Wing Polity’
2. Isil Erdinç (University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne), ‘The Encounter of the
Rise of the Trade Union Movement and the Student Movement: The Young Trade Union, GENÇ-SEN and its Radicalization Process’
3. Richard Moore (Independent), ‘Real Democracy: the Means are the Ends’

51. Anarchist Publishing (1/1)

James France Building Room CC109
Open session/roundtable
This session will be led by the editors and contributors to the ‘Contemporary Anarchist Studies’ monograph series published by Continuum Books. Laurence Davis, Uri Gordon, Nathan Jun, Alex Prichard and Jason Lindsey will lead discussions on the challenges of publishing academic anarchist works.

52. Social Technology (3/3)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB104
(Details to be confirmed)

53. Anarchism and Education (3/3)

Stuart Mason Building, Room SMB010
1. Judith Suissa (Institute of Education) ‘That’s funny, you don’t look like an anarchist...’ Subversion and solidarity in the world of education studies’
2. Richard Morgan (UCL) ‘Brought to Perfection’: Petr Kropotkin and the Sciences of Education

54. Networks and Insurgent Practices

James France Building, Room CC110
1. Peter Shaji: ‘We are Legion: Anarchism, Anonymity and the escape from the Panopticon’
2. John Nightingale: ‘Anarchism: A New Perspective on Solidarity’
3. Grzegorz Poitrowski: ‘Anarchism and autonomisms in different contexts’
Chris Rossdale: ‘Anarchism, Anti-Militarism and the Politics of Security’
16:15-17:45: Closing Plenary
Conference close.