Event Date: 22 June 2011
Room B04 Birkbeck Main Building
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX

 

The Rise of the Indignant: Spain, Greece, Europe

When Stephane Hessel wrote in Time for Outrage! that indignation with injustice should turn to ‘a peaceful insurrection’ perhaps he did not expect that the movement of ‘indignados’ in Spain and ‘aganaktismenoi’ (outraged) in Greece would take his advice to heart so soon and so spectacularly.

Introduction by Costas Douzinas.

Order of speakers:

Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS)

Carlos Frade (Salford University)

Illan Rua Wall (Oxford Brookes)

Stathis Kouvelakis (King’s College London)

Alex Colas (Birkbeck)

Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck)

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