The Workers and Punks University
The Workers and Punks University in Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, is an educational project that since 1998[1] each year from November to May on a topic selected by the WPU board runs a series of lectures based on social theories critical towards neoliberalism, including World-systems theory, applying selected, but not all, Marxian concepts to understand Slovenia as peripheral country, such as the theoretical work of Antonio Negri, Andre Gunder Frank,[2] with participation from notable international academics,[3] including American geographer David Harvey from City University of New York and philosopher Peter Hudis[4] from Oakton Community College, British economist Michael Roberts,[5] economist Joachim Becker from Institute for International Economics and Development Department at the Vienna University of Economics,[6] Dutch economist Angela Wigger[7] from Radboud University Nijmegen.
Lecture topics by years
The topics by years were:[8]
- 2013/2014 Democratic Socialism (with accompanying round tables with members of German Die Linke, French Front de Gauche, and Greek Syriza)
- 2012/2013 Euro crisis
- 2011/2012 Financialization,
- 2010/2011 Class Struggle after Class Struggle[2]
- 2009/2010 School as an Ideological Apparatus of Economy,
- 2008/2009 Stupidity,
- 2007/2008 Totalitarianism,
- 2006/2007 On Sin,
- 2005/2006 Political Ecology,
- 2004/2005 Post-Fordism,
- 2003/2004 Love and Politics,
- 2002/2003 May ‘68 – REvision,
- 2001/2002 Utopistics,
- 2000/2001 The Left,
- 1999/2000 The New Right,
- 1998/1999 Neo-conservatism.
References
- ↑ "Workers' Punk University - Culture of Slovenia". Culture.si. 2012-07-13. Retrieved 2012-09-16.
- 1 2 Jela Krečič: Razredni boj po razrednem boju, Delo, 16 February 2011
- ↑ Delavsko-punkerska univerza: Potomci delavcev so ostali delavci in pozabili na punk, Dnevnik, 16 February 2013
- ↑ A 2013 lecture by Peter Hudis
- ↑ A 2014 lecture by Michael Roberts
- ↑ Joachim Becker: "Nujno je treba zavreti poglabljanje neoliberalizma v Evropski uniji, saj je to slepa ulica", Mladina, 23.11.2012
- ↑ A 2012 lecture by Angela Wigger
- ↑ "Delavsko-punkerska univerza". Delavske študije. Retrieved 2014-07-02.