The Marxist Criticism and Frankfurt School seminar will be held on Saturday, 30 January 2016, in 19 George Square.

Time	Event
0900 - 0930	Welcome with tea & coffee
0930 - 1100	Introductory lecture • Historical Materialism and the Literary Imagination • The Politics of the Literary Text • The Role of the Critic
1100 - 1130	Coffee break
1130 - 1300	Key concepts and texts What does Culture do? Culture and Economics • Discussion of Core Reading and Questions • Participant Group Presentation • New Directions Presentation (San Martin): ‘Necessity and agency in historical materialism’ • Individual presentations on research followed by group discussion
1300 - 1400	Lunch
1400 - 1500	Key concepts and texts Where’s your Ideology? Ideology and Imagination • Discussion of Core Reading and Questions • Participant Group Presentation • New Directions Presentation (Di Sotto): ‘Seeing, knowing, acting: the place of trauma in neoliberal ideology’ • Individual presentations on research followed by group discussion
1500 - 1530	Coffee break
1530 - 1700	Key concepts and texts When is Utopia? Utopia and Revolution • Discussion of Core Reading and Questions • Participant Group Presentation • New Directions Presentation (Leveque): ‘Aesthetics, Intellectuals, and Elites: the “Corporatism of the Universal” for writers and readers.’ • Individual presentations on research followed by group discussion
1700 - 1730	Summary discussion and feedback