THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF COMMUNITY WITHIN THE ANGLOPHONE LEFT

9:30 - 10:00 (30min)

Welcome & coffee, Nanterre Université, Salle des conseils bât Grappin

UPN, bât. Grappin, salle des conseils

10:00 - 10:20 (20min)

Conference opening

UPN, bât. Grappin, salle des conseils

Tom Allen, Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau, Laurence Gervais, Nicolas Jara Joly, Bradley Smith

10:30 - 11:45 (1h15)

Panel 1 — Community in Theory and in Practice

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› Realigning Community, Locality, and Post-capitalist Alternatives: Deconstructing the US Left's Ambivalent Relationship to Community-as-locality - Sean DeMoranville, Center for Research on the English-speaking World (CREW - EA 4399) 10:30-10:50 (20min)

› Tom Nairn on the State, Nations and Community in the British Political Imaginary - Nicolas Jara Joly, Université Paris-Nanterre 10:50-11:10 (20min)

› From Vulnerability to Insurrection: ‘Joyful Militancy' and Conflict Spaces, the case of Bash Back! - Laurence Gervais, Centre de recherches anglophones (CREA - EA 370) 11:10-11:30 (20min)

12:00 - 14:00 (2h)

Lunch

UPN, restaurant L'Espace Gourmand, RDC RU

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

Keynote - "After Community"

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Jack Halberstam

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Coffee break

UPN, bât. Grappin, hall

16:00 - 17:30 (1h30)

Panel 2 — Words, Wings, and Magazines

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› Interspecies Communities on the Margins of Capitalism and the Problem of Insects - Phoebe Chetwynd, Royal Holloway [University of London] 16:00-16:20 (20min)

› The Collectivisation of the Avant-Garde - Ben Hickman, Centre for Modern Poetry (University of Kent) 16:20-16:40 (20min)

› Neighbourhoods publish books, the printing costs are paid by Ex-landlords Inc.': rent-free imaginaries in Bernadette Mayer's 1980s poetry - Lizzie Homersham, University of Westminster 16:40-17:00 (20min)

18:00 - 20:00 (2h)

Film screening 1 — Restorative Justice, Filmmaking, and Social Enterprise

Cinéma CGR Nanterre

Jayme Joyce, Founder and CEO of Local Legend Films

› The Founding of Local Legend Films - Jayme Joyce, Local Legend Films (Chicago, Illinois, USA) 18:00-18:15 (15min)

› "A Spirit of Healing" - Jayme Joyce, Local Legend Films (Chicago, Illinois, USA) 18:15-18:30 (15min)

› “A Case for Restorative Justice Explained” - Jayme Joyce, Local Legend Films (Chicago, IL, USA) 18:30-18:45 (15min)

› "Let's Talk Equity" - Jayme Joyce, Local Legend Films (Chicago, IL, USA) 18:45-19:10 (25min)