Coming up in 2024:
On Tuesdays at 6.30pm BST/GMT
May, Tuesday 7th, 6.30pm (BST) – Reading Group Session (Chapter Eight of ‘Disability Praxis’)
June, Tuesday 4th (BST) – Julie Torrant – Pandemic, Disability and Capitalism
July, Tuesday 9th (BST) – James Brennan – Women with Chronic Pain as Time Travelers
August – taking a break
September, Tuesday 3rd (BST) – Jess O’Thomson – A Marxist critique of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities
October, Tuesday 8th (BST) – Barbara Neukirchinger – New perspectives on the materialist legacy of the social model
November, Tuesday 5th (GMT) – Kavana Ramaswamy – Disability and Immigration: A Marxist Analysis of Border Control
December, Tuesday 3rd (GMT) – Ioana Cerasella Chis – The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work in Contemporary UK
Past events:
2024:
January, Tuesday 9th, 6.30pm (GMT) – Bob Williams-Findlay (Disability Praxis: The Body as a Site of Struggle) – Book Launch
February, Tuesday 6th, 6.30pm (GMT) – Robert Chapman (Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism) – Book Launch
March, Tuesday 5th, 6.30pm (GMT) – Reading Group session
April, Tuesday 16th (BST) – Roddy Slorach – ‘A Very Capitalist Condition’ book – relaunched and updated in 2024
2023:
January, Wednesday 11th, 6.30pm (GMT) – Arianna Introna: On Crip Compositionisms: Recognising Disability in Our Midst
February, Tuesday 7th, 6.30pm (GMT) – Katharine Terrell: The fat* disabled Walmart shopper; or, how not to be a good consumer under capitalism
March, Tuesday 7th, 6.30pm (GMT) – Leonard Grant – Marxism and the Medical Curriculum
April, Tuesday 4th, 6.30pm (BST) – Luke Beesley: Extract and abandon? Surplus populations and surplus value in Health Communism
May, Tuesday 2nd – Ravi Malhotra and Jacqueline Moizer: Crip Time, Castoriadis and Disability Rights in the Workplace
June, Tuesday 13th, 6.30pm (BST) – Blue Maignien: Researching Time at the Intersection of Marxism, Disability and Technology
July, Tuesday 11th, 6.30pm (BST) – Aaron Jaffe: Social Reproduction Theory, ‘Disability’, and the Reification of Labor Power
August – taking a break
September, Sunday 3rd, 2pm – [HM & MDN Livestreaming] Ioana Cerasella Chis: Disablement Subjectivation and the Reproduction of Capitalist Social Relations
September, Tuesday 19th, 6.30pm (BST) – Scott Ritchie: Holding mad kids in community
October, Tuesday 17th, 6.30pm (BST) – Sabine Fernandes and Rachel da Silveira Gorman: Care as white property: A Marxist intervention into disability care work and feminist global care chain discourses
November, Wednesday 8th, 7.30pm (GMT) – Georgia van Toorn and Karen Soldatić: Disability, Racism, and the Spectre of Eugenics in Digital Welfare
December – taking a break
Marxism & Disability Network 