May 7th – 9th  2010 at the Wedgwood Memorial College

Towards 2020	

Course Co-ordinator:  Derek Tatton, Raymond Williams Foundation Administrator, and former Principal of Wedgwood Memorial College.	

The Course: will take themes from The Long Revolution (1962) and Towards 2000 (1982) reviewing these to attempt to look forward over the next decade.
The debate will be wide ranging, assessing Williams’ prescience but also engaging with developments he did not, or could not, anticipate.	

	

Programme	

Friday	

4.00-6.00pm	
Arrival and registration at college reception	

6. 30 pm
	
Two course dinner	

7. 45 pm	
Keynote Lecture: Developing Raymond Williams thoughts on the environment  

Mike Rustin   Professor of Sociology, University of East London;  author of books including The Good Society and the Inner World;  worked with RW, Edward Thompson and Stuart Hall on the Mayday Manifesto;  founding editor of Soundings with Doreen Massey and Stuart Hall	

	

Saturday	

8.30am	
Continental breakfast 	

9.30am	
Forum on issues from the Keynote Lecture but also short talks and discussion on chapters from The Long Revolution and Towards 2000
Joining Mike Rustin for this will be: 
Malcolm Pittock, retired academic and adult educationalist;
unretired veteran peace activist; author of book on Ernst Toller and numerous articles on literary and political issues.
Tony Dennis,  teacher with WEA,  Bedfordshire University and the OU.   Founder member of the RWMF. 
11.00am  Coffee
 11.00am    Coffee

11.30am	
Democracy Old and New  -  looking especially at technological developments which may assist direct participation and democratic renewal.

Chad Goodwin,  Chairman, The Thomas Paine Society;
WEA Tutor   with   Derek Tatton.

	

1.00pm                
	
Two course lunch	

	

2.30pm	
Free-time or  RWF AGM

4.00pm	
Afternoon tea

4.45pm	
The Manufacture of Consent 
Granville Williams,  long-standing member of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedoom (CPBF) and on its National Council;  currently Director of the CPBF’s Media Ownership in the Age of Convergence research project.

6.30pm	
Three course dinner

7.45pm	
The 1980s Miners’ Strike and its enduring resonance.
This will include some BFI film and video material.  

	

Sunday 
8.30am                 Continental breakfast
9.30am                 The  ‘lived experience’ of four generations of women 
                                 A brief personal feminist view. 
                                 Then, group discussions
11.00am                Coffee
11.30am                The same themes in plenary session.	

12.30pm                Review of the weekend, and next year’s programme. 	

   1.00pm                 Soup and sandwiches lunch
                            
                               Heading home…

	

	

Special Fees:    (reflecting meal arrangements and the Raymond Williams Weekend filling the College.)	

Single               £96.00                                   	

Shared             £84.00	

Non- resident    £66.00	

	

En-suite fee per room for weekend:	

Single              £10.00	

Shared             £16.00 	

	

Course viability is dependent on early enrolment. Courses if necessary will be cancelled 3 weeks prior to course commencement.	

	

Please note that en suite accommodation is allocated on a first request first served basis.	

	

Check in for accommodation is not available before 3pm on the first day of your course. However, should you arrive earlier feel free to use the College’s Common Room.   

The Raymond Williams Foundation Registered Charity (No 1126575);   Membership -   £5.00 annually;  £50.00 life-membership
(if a leaflet and application form for RWF is not enclosed with this leaflet, please ask to be sent one).   

These Raymond Williams weekends have invariably filled the College.   Earliest possible enrolment is, therefore, advised

Wedgwood Memorial College
Tel: 01782 372105     Fax: 01782 372393
Email: wedgwood.memorial@stoke.gov.uk
www.stoke.gov.uk/wedgwoodmemorialcollege