Distinguished American academic speaks to packed house at UEL
Tuesday 22 June 2010
Marshall Berman, esteemed American academic, spoke to a packed house at UEL on Wednesday at the 2010 Annual Lecture for the Centre for Cultural Studies Research.
Professor Berman, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, gave a thoughtful and often personal lecture on the subject of Urbicide: the wilful and widespread destructionof the urban environment.
Sporting a T-shirt which read, ‘Sure I’m a Marxist’, Professor Berman began his lecture with the Jimmy Cliff song, Rivers of Babylon, and referenced everyone from King Lear to Karl Marx and ultimately Grandmaster Flash, suggesting that from the ruins of South Bronx the creativity of the rap movement emerged.
Professor Berman is the author a number of highly influential socio-philosophical tomes including All That is Solid Melts Into Air, Adventures in Marxism, The Politics of Authenticity and most recently On the Town. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the Village Voice Literary Supplement.
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