BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Housmans Bookshop - ECPv6.16.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Housmans Bookshop X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://housmans.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Housmans Bookshop REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240716T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240716T203000 DTSTAMP:20240621T152743Z CREATED:20240621T145541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240621T152743Z UID:57978-1721156400-1721161800@housmans.com SUMMARY:AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: The Politics of Solidarity: The International Working Men’s Association 1873 with Anthony Zurbrugg DESCRIPTION:AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: The Politics of Solidarity: The International Working Men’s Association 1873 with Anthony Zurbrugg\n\n\n\n\n\nAutonomy Now present the launch of a new book from Merlin Press exploring the infamous arguments and split within the International Working Men’s Association. The disagreements\, which gravitated between the two positions of Mikhail Bakunin’s horizontalist anarchism and Karl Marx’s hierarchical communism\, have repercussions which reverberate to this day. Join author Anthony Zurbrugg to discuss this infamous historical moment. There will be an illustrated presentation by the author\, outlining the scope and activities of the First International as it worked through difficulties in the aftermath of the Paris Commune of 1871\, The book addresses issues of class\, gender\, authority and ethnicity within labour and progressive movements in in Europe and in the Americas.The book will be available at a special launch price of £20\, down from its list price of £25. Entry to the event is free but please register via RSVP ticket link below\, or optional £5 solidarity ticket “The First International was founded with high ideals: ‘every individual or society joining it\, will recognise morality\, justice and truth as the basis of their conduct toward to all men\, without distinction of nationality\, creed\, or colour.’ By September 1873 it had split.Six regional federations supported one congress\, a few local sections and a Council in New York\, supported another. The congresses\, both meeting in Geneva\, brought together persons inspired by contrasting forms of organisation\, one federalist and mainly based on workplace organisation\, the other centralist\, supporting national electoral parties.Reports and newspaper articles (some translated for the first time) present rival perspectives\, influenced by Bakunin and Marx. These texts review issues of class\, gender\, authority and ethnicity within labour and progressive movements in Europe and the USA. ‘The congress of Geneva of 1873 has reset our Association on its true path\, working people have had enough of chiefs and bosses\, they want to take the management of their affairs into their own hands.’” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/autonomy-now-book-launch-the-politics-of-solidarity-the-international-working-mens-association-1873-with-anthony-zurbrugg/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Politics-of-solidarity.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240719T220000 DTSTAMP:20240719T134246Z CREATED:20240514T151820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240719T134246Z UID:56984-1721415600-1721426400@housmans.com SUMMARY:POSTPONED DUE TO SPEAKER COMING DOWN WITH COVID! So Mayer and Kate Hardie in conversation. DESCRIPTION:SADLY THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO A SPEAKER COMING DOWN WITH COVID. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE SOON. THOSE WITH TICKETS WILL BE REIMBURSED. \n\n\n\nTHANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING!Housmans are delighted to hand the shop floor over to Kate Hardie and So Mayer who will be talking about about how they both use genre fiction to tell hard truths\, finding queer and feminist form for personal stories. We are also happy to be celebrating the paperback launch of Kate’s brilliant and haunting debut novel This Is Where We Live. Described in The Independent as ‘the most gripping account of motherhood since Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work’ This Is Where We Live is a masterful work of contemporary\, and subtle\, gothic fiction: A single mother wakes to blood in her mouth and flesh under her fingernails. A severed toe on the doorstep. A boy missing. But her child needs to get to school. There’s a food shop to be done. Parents evenings\, play dates and pasta for tea. Raising her child alone\, she’s done all she can to protect them. But what if she’s the thing they need protecting from the most? \n\n\n\nKate’s interlocuter for the evening will be the inimitable So Mayer\, whose most recent work is the acclaimed short story collection Truth or Dare: a queer quantum tour through what was\, what is\, what could have been and may yet still come to pass\, a collection that braids high-wire believe-it-or-not memoir with cutting-edge science fiction (or is it?) from alternate timelines that vibrate very close to ours. Truth or dare? Both\, always. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur speakers: \n\n\n\nKate Hardie is an actor and screenwriter\, her acting work includes The Krays\, Mona Lisa\, the award winning Safe and more recently National Treasure. She has written and directed for Channel Four The BFI and Sky and is due to direct her first feature. She has also taught screen writing and directing\, lectured and advised on representation and diversity within the film industry\, and written essays and articles for the Guardian and Dazed. She is mother to one and lives in London with her husband. This Is Where We Live is her debut novel. \n\n\n\nSo Mayer is a writer\, indie bookseller\, film curator\, and pencil stan. Their most recent books are A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula\, 2020)\, a short essay on queer art\, censorship and resistance\, and (Litmus\, 2018)\, a poetry sequence about interwar masculinity\, technology and hats\, and their BFI Film Classics on Orlando is forthcoming. Their work across genres and forms has been published internationally\, including in Roxane Gay’s anthology Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture\, in several Criterion DVDs\, and in Ignota Press’s Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry. Plus their poetry once appeared on hoardings in Dublin. With Adam Zmith\, they collaborated on Unreal Sex for Cipher\, an anthology of queer SFFH\, and on the BBC Sounds podcast The Film We Can’t See\, a tour through queer film history. \n\n\n\nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available. \n\n\n\nIf you choose book + event entry\, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or have it delivered\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com. \n\n\n\nDoors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/book-talk-kate-hardie-in-conversation-with-so-mayer/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,Feminist event,In Store,Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/preeti-insta-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240724T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240724T203000 DTSTAMP:20240622T135011Z CREATED:20240622T123343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240622T135011Z UID:57994-1721847600-1721853000@housmans.com SUMMARY:AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch:'Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire' with Adam Greenfield DESCRIPTION:AUTONOMY NOW Book Launch: ‘Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire’ with Adam Greenfield\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAutonomy Now present the launch of a new book from Verso\, an urgent and practical guide to community resilience in the face of climate catastrophe. In this book Adam Greenfield\, author of Radical Technologies\, recovers lessons from the Black Panther survival programs\, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece\, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava\, to show how practices of mutual care and local power can help shelter us from a future that often feels like it has no place for us or the values we cherish. \n\n\n\nReviews“Mixing clear-eyed\, unwavering analysis with deep compassion\, Lifehouse offers something much more sustaining than hope: traction”Jenny Odell\, author of Saving Time“When three emergencies — climate\, political and social – build together into the storm of our present we need to start thinking from the ground-up. In this we have no better guide than AG. Lifehouse constructs a much needed\, hands-on strategy for urban care. Read it and start planning.” Eyal Weizman\, author of Hollowland“A succinct\, unflinching assessment of the urgent conditions unfolding around us\, and a nuanced\, practical analysis of why and how we must take up immediate\, local\, collective direct action.”Dean Spade\, author of Mutual AidAbout the authorAdam Greenfield has spent the past quarter-century thinking and working at the intersection of technology\, design and politics with everyday life. Selected in 2013 as Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities centre of the London School of Economics\, he previously taught in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and the Urban Design program of the Bartlett\, University College London. His books include Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing\, Urban Computing and Its Discontents\, and the bestsellers Against the Smart City and Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEntry to the event is free but please register via RSVP ticket link below\, or optional £5 solidarity ticket \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/autonomy-now-book-launchlifehouse-taking-care-of-ourselves-in-a-world-on-fire-with-adam-greenfield/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/lifehouse.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T220000 DTSTAMP:20240710T164336Z CREATED:20240710T115525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T164336Z UID:58322-1721934000-1721944800@housmans.com SUMMARY:SISSY ANARCHY presents the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube DESCRIPTION:SISSY ANARCHY cranks up the volume on confessional literature with a blistering new journal series. Brace yourself for genre-bending writers who burrow into the recesses of their psyches\, dragging out the raw\, unsettling truths lurking beneath the surface. \n\n\n\nFor our first journal\, we present the release of ‘KNOTS’ by Fi Kube\, an auto-essay journal that reflects on experiences of trans misogyny\, child sexual abuse\, sexual and gendered violence and the trauma this causes. \n\n\n\nTo be presented at Housmans Bookshop with special guest readers Fi Kube \, Hesse K.\, and Biogal\, alongside the release of a new special edition risograph poster bundle with artworks by Bug Shepherd-Barron\, Leomi Sadler\, and Jesse Glazzard.  \n\n\n\nAll proceeds made on the evening from the sale of posters will go to trans healthcare + you can use your posters at Trans Pride! \n\n\n\nABOUT SISSY ANARCHY \n\n\n\nSISSY ANARCHY is a platform about trans queer anarchism by P Eldridge and Caitlin McLoughlin. We understand anarchism as an ideology\, that is\, a set of ideas\, motivations\, ethics\, values\, a structure or system of concepts that have a direct connection with action which influences political practices. We include the abstract and theoretical understandings of anarchism as a basis for free thinking and understanding from activists\, artists\, writers\, poets\, archivists\, and many more\, as a conducive way toward conceiving a model for social transformation; which converges through the lens of trans queer theory and artistic practices against anti-trans\, anti-queer\, capitalist\, colonial\, racist\, ableist\, and discrimination struggles across the world. We strive toward SISSY ANARCHY being a platform that has a political practice which seeks final objectives. @sissyanarchy \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/sissy-anarchy-presents-the-release-of-knots-by-fi-kube/ CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book Talk,In Store ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/KNOTS_EVENT-GRAPHIC-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240726T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240726T213000 DTSTAMP:20240715T112735Z CREATED:20240709T153057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240715T112735Z UID:58299-1722020400-1722029400@housmans.com SUMMARY:MAGAZINE LAUNCH: Modern Poetry in Translation DESCRIPTION:Poetry has always been critical to dreams of liberation. In these perilous\, and calamitous times\, we’ll hear from our poets about their liberatory dreams and rage. An archive of anger\, dissidence\, and rebellion\, this issue features poets and translators speaking truth to power from Palestine\, Ivory Coast\, Iran\, Nepal\, Argentina\, China\, India and various other places and languages.  \n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome our readers Leo Boix who has translated Liliana Ancalao from Argentina\, Cristina Viti  who has translated Batool Abu Akleen from Gaza and Yě Yě who has translated Jike Ayou from China’s Sichuan province.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Poets: \n\n\n\nLEO BOIX is a bilingual Latinx poet and translator born in Argentina who lives in the UK. His second poetry collection is forthcoming with Chatto & Windus (Vintage) in June 2025. \n\n\n\nCRISTINA VITI’S recent publications include Pasolini’s La rabbia (Tenement Press\, 2022) and An Anarchist Playbook (NoUP\, 2024)\, a series of texts co-translated in her workshop at King’s College. \n\n\n\nYĚ YĚ is the co-founder of Poetry Lab Shanghai\, and has had two collections of poetry published. Her words have appeared in the87press\, Pamenar Press\, Voice & Verse poetry magazine and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nALL PROCEEDS FROM TICKET SALES WILL BE DONATED TO THE RED CRESCENT \nAs always\, tickets are priced on a sliding scale. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please do not hesitate to contact us at shop@housmans.com\, and a free ticket will be made available.If you choose ‘book + event entry’ or ‘special bundle’\, your copies of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier\, or arrange for delivery\, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.Doors Open at 7pm\, Event Starts 7:30\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/magazine-launch-modern-poetry-in-translation/ CATEGORIES:Literary Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/MPT_No2-2024-FRONT.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240731T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240731T203000 DTSTAMP:20240530T164415Z CREATED:20240530T163403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240530T164415Z UID:57362-1722452400-1722457800@housmans.com SUMMARY:"Disaster Nationalism" Richard Seymour and Sivamohan Valluvan on the Downfall of Liberal Civilization DESCRIPTION:“Disaster Nationalism” Richard Seymour and Sivamohan Valluvan on the Downfall of Liberal Civilization\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe third and final conversation in a three-part series on Resisting Nationalism is with Richard Seymour previewing his forthcoming book ‘Disaster Nationalism’ (October 2024\, Verso). The rise of the new far-right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders like Donald Trump\, Jair Bolsonaro\, and Rodrigo Duterte\, the true peril lies elsewhere. They are but the political manifestations of a potent force – disaster nationalism. This mass cultural phenomenon\, propelled through the vast networks of social media and fueled by far-right influencers\, emerges from a reservoir of societal despair\, fear\, and isolation. \n\n\n\nAt its core\, disaster nationalism fixates on images of catastrophe – the ‘Great Replacement\,’ Satanic ‘cabals’ – as explanations for its discontent. It yearns for an ‘end of days\,’ a reckoning\, a ‘storm’ as the QAnon faithful call it\, to bring an end to its suffering. This yearning is only heightened by the relentless onslaught of real-world disasters – from economic recessions to global pandemics and ecological collapse. \n\n\n\nWithin this seething cauldron\, we witness not only the surge of far-right political movements but also the sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies\, from ‘lone wolf’ killers to terrifying pogroms. Should a new fascism emerge\, it will coalesce from these very elements. This is disaster nationalism. \n\n\n\nIn Disaster Nationalism\, Richard Seymour delves deep into this alarming phenomenon\, dissecting its roots\, its influencers\, and the threats it poses. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling\, this book offers a stark warning and a call to action. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization itself.PART OF THE RESISTING NATIONALISM SERIES \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on Insta (Opens in new window)\n Insta\n Like this:Like Loading… URL:https://housmans.com/event/disaster-nationalism-richard-seymour-and-sivamohan-valluvan-on-the-downfall-of-liberal-civilization/ CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://housmans.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/disaser-tight.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR