Here is a list of planned sessions for ORF 2012.
Locations for talks and a map can be found on the Resources page
| Friday Timetable | Event | Speakers | Location |
| 5.15pm to 7pm | The Revolutions in The Middle East and North Africa: One Year On | Gilbert Achcar (the Revolutions and Western Imperialism), Nadine El-Enany (Lecturer in Law, Brunel University and Egyptian activist), Anne Alexander (workers’s struggles in Egypt), Firoze Manji – Pambazuka Speaker (Social movements in Africa and the MENA revolutions) | Magdalen Auditorium |
| 7.30pm to 9.15pm | Why Marx was Right | Terry Eagleton (Literary/Cultural theorist, author of “Why Marx was Right”) and Alex Callinicos (Prof Kingʼs College London, author of “The Marx”) Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx | Magdalen Auditorium |
| Saturday Timetable | |||
| 10am to 11.30am | Austerity and Resistance in Latin America | Jeff Webber (QMUL) on Bolivia | Wadham Okinaga |
| Scottish Nationalism Today: The British State in Crisis? | Neil Davidson (Uni Strathclyde, author of “The Origins of Scottish Nationhood”), Cailean Gallagher (OurKingdom Associate Editor) | Balliol Lecture Room 23 | |
| Antonio Gramsci: Hegemony, Philosophy and Revolution | Peter Thomas (Brunel, Author ‘The Gramscian Moment’) | Wadham New Seminar Room | |
| 12pm to 1.30pm | Dale farm and Traveller Solidarity | Traveller Solidarity Network | Wadham Okinaga |
| Where next for Climate Justice? Climate Change Activism panel | Nancy Lindisfarne (Oxford Climate Jobs Campaign), Cat Hudson (Newcastle Uni student, UK Youth Climate Coalition ambassador to UK Durban), Jess Worth (No Tar Sands) | Balliol Lecture Room 23 | |
| Oxford Left Review Launch | Contributors to Oxford Left Review 6 | Wadham New Seminar Room | |
| Radical Culture | Julian Stallabrass (Courtauld Institute of Art) | St John’s Graves Room | |
| LGBTQ Resistance | Ghassan Makarem, Founding member of Helem (Lebanese protection for LGBTIQ people); Colin Wilson (Queer theory and politics) | Worcester LB | |
| 1.30pm to 2.30pm | Lunch | ||
| 2.30pm to 4pm | Historical Materialism session on the International Dimensions of The Crisis | Historical Materialism (journal): Rob Knox, Jeffery Webber on Chile, Peter Thomas | Wadham Okinaga |
| Zero Books Panel | Tariq Goddard (radical publishing), Sinead Murphy (modern art), Peter Fleming (work) | Wadham New Seminar Room | |
| Palestine in the Media: fair and balanced? | Moshe Machover (founder member Matzpen), Greg Philo (author, Bad News From Israel), Daphna Baram (author, Disenchantment: The Guardian and Israel), Miriyam Aouragh (author, Palestine Online). | Worcester LB | |
| No Tar Sands campaign | Jess Worth (No Tar Sands Campaign) | St John’s Graves Room | |
| Protest, Riots & Political Policing | Hannah Dee (Defend The Right To Protest Campaign), Sara El Sheikh (Student Activist), Stop Criminalising Hackney Youth Campaign, Adam Cooper (Tottenham Defense Campaign) | Balliol Lecture Room 23 | |
| 4.30pm to 6pm | Occupy: From London to New York | Connor Reed (via Skype, occupy activist in New York), Anindya Bhattacharyya (eyewitness Occupy Wallstreet), Tanya Dempsey (Occupy London) | Wadham Okinaga |
| The Politics of Intervention in Revolution: the Case of Syria and Iran | Ali Alizadeh (lecturer and activist London) and Joseph Daher (SOAS) and Ghassan Makarem (activist Lebanon) | Balliol Lecture Room 23 | |
| Revolutions in History: Political, Social, Permanent | Neil Davidson (Author, “How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?”), Peter Thomas (discussant) | Worcester LB | |
| Radical Poetry | Anna Chen, Tim Wells | St John’s Graves Room | |
| Film as Spatial Critique | Patrick Keiller (London, Robinson in Space, Robinson in Ruins) | Wadham New Seminar Room | |
| 6pm tp 7pm | Dinner | ||
| 7pm to 8.30pm | The Future of Education | Kate Tunstall (OUCHE, No Confidence in Willetts campaign), Prof John Holmwood (Campaign for the Public University), Jim Wolfreys (UCU, Author Universities for Hire’), Mark Bergfeld (EAN, NUS NEC) | Wadham Okinaga |
| Sunday Timetable | |||
| 10am to 11.30am | China and the Crisis | Jane Hardy (Herts Uni), Patricia Thornton (Oxford) | Wadham New Seminar Room |
| 12pm to 1.30pm | Women’s Liberation | Closed womenʼs circle | Balliol Lecture Room 23 |
| Radical Culture Session | Henry Procter – Practicing Conflict, the art installations of Thomas Hirschhorn, Guy Atkins – the ‘Save Our Placards’ project | Wadham New Seminar Room | |
| Radical Science | John Parrington (Oxford), Amy Gilligan (Cambridge) | Worcester LB | |
| 1.30pm to 2.30pm | Lunch | Food Not Bombs | Clarendon Steps, Bodleian |
| 2.30pm to 4pm | Eurozone Crisis | John Weeks (SOAS), Pete Dwyer (Ruskin) | Wadham Okinaga |
| Group Facilitation Training | Clare Cochrane (on behalf of Seeds for Change) | St John’s Graves Room | |
| Internet Security for Activists | Pete Speller (Students for a Free Tibet, Greenpeace) | Worcester LB | |
| Race, Racism and Resistance Panel | Weyman Bennett (Unite against Fascism), Lee Jaspers (BARAC) tbc | Wadham New Seminar Room | |
| 4.30pm to 6pm | Radical Gender | Thierry Schaffauser, Judith Orr (author “Sexism and the System”) and local activist | Balliol Lecture Room 23 |
| Austerity, Resistance and Trade Unions | Ian Bradley (Sparks – victorious electricians dispute), Mark Campbell (UCU) and Kate Douglas (PCS), Manishta Sunnia (Ex-NUC NEC, SOS), Robin Coleman (student, Cherwell School) | Wadham New Seminar Room | |
| 6pm tp 7pm | Dinner/Close |
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