“What’s in today’s Striking Insights! UCU Teach Out?” I hear you ask en masse. Well, it’s …

1300-1400

The Paris Commune of 1871 via photography

Andy Stafford (A.J.Stafford@leeds.ac.uk)

Quaker Meeting House

 

Keywords: why language matters

Tony Crowley (t.crowley@leeds.ac.uk)

The Packhorse (meeting room)

 

How to strike when you don’t have a workplace? Students and the university in and against capitalism

Tim Joubert (t.joubert1@leeds.ac.uk)

The Packhorse (band room)

 

1400-1500

Red Flags over Rangoon Docks: The 1941 Millworkers’ Strike and some Reflections for Today

Jonathan Saha (j.saha@leeds.ac.uk)

Quaker Meeting House

 

How to get involved in local politics

Vicky Blake and Tim Goodall (t.goodall@leeds.ac.uk)

The Packhorse (meeting room)

 

Rethinking masculinity

This session explores how cultural ideals of masculinity are constructed and the implications of those ideals for men and for women.

Jane Rickard (J.Rickard@leeds.ac.uk)

The Packhorse (band room)

 

1500-1600

Leeds and the general strike of 1842

Malcolm Chase (m.s.chase@leeds.ac.uk)

Quaker Meeting House

 

Zero not Hero: (in)security of work and impacts of casualisation on health.

What can we do to secure better employment rights?

Vicky Blake (v.blake@leeds.ac.uk)

The Packhorse (meeting room)

 

They Say Cut-Up, We Say Fight-Up: Making Radical Poetry from Old News

We’ll be cutting up newspapers to make political poetry, partly in the inspiration of the work of  Nat Raha’s, whose work will also be discussed in the session. Bring your own newspapers if you have them!

Calum Gardner (C.Gardner1@leeds.ac.uk)

The Packhorse (band room)

 

1900

New poetry from Emilia Weber (author of Familiars) and Tom Betteridge (author of Pedicure)

Zarf Poetry (c/o Calum Gardner (C.Gardner1@leeds.ac.uk))

Wharf Chambers

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