Going into Labour: Childbirth in Capitalism by Anna Fielder
May 28, 2025 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT DATE DIFFERS FROM OUR USUAL SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH* Childbirth is often described…
ANZACS and Jihadis – Public Lecture by Byron Clark
April 9, 2025 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
On November 14,1914 the Sultan-Caliph of the Ottoman empire proclaimed an official ‘Great Jihad’ against the allied powers. Today there…
News from Nowhere: The Utopian Vision of William Morris
February 19, 2025 6:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
"Go back again, now you have seen us, and your outward eyes have learned that in spite of all the…
The Left in Local Government – Limits and Opportunities
January 22, 2025 6:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion
The Canterbury Socialist Society are back for 2025 with our first event, a panel exploring the political left in the…
1913: False Dawn – The Great Strike and the triumph of the ruling class
November 13, 2024 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
The Canterbury Socialist Society is pleased to confirm our 2024 Fred Evans Memorial Lecture. For this lecture we invite a…
Guest Lecture – New Debates on Social Domination: Marxist Political Theory in the Post-Pandemic Era
August 14, 2024 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
The Canterbury Socialist Society is thrilled to be able to host this guest lecture for our August event, 2024. Berkay…
The Philosophy of Ernst Bloch in an Age of Disaster – An online seminar hosted by Jon Greenaway
August 4, 2024 6:00 pm-8:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Interview, Otago, Public Lecture, Wellington
"Precisely the defeated man must try the outside world again" - Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope (1954). It is…
CSS public lecture and discussion – Mutual Aid: Fostering Resilience and Solidarity
July 31, 2024 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Public Lecture
“The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution…
Panel Event – The Socialist Society: Where have we come from, where are we going?
July 10, 2024 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Canterbury, Events, Panel Discussion
"Marx was not simply the best or most consistent or radical socialist, but rather the most historically, and hence critically,…
Ghosts of the Millennial Left – An Online Seminar w/ C Derick Varn
May 5, 2024 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Canterbury, Events, Interview, Otago, Public Lecture, Wellington
“There is today in the world a dominant discourse […] This dominating discourse often has the manic, jubilatory, and incantatory…
Capital After Covid – NZFSS Online Seminar w Guest Speaker Michael Roberts
January 24, 2024 8:00 pm
Canterbury, Otago, Public Lecture, Wellington
“Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They…
Federation of Socialist Societies 2023 Conference
October 21, 2023 12:00 am-October 23, 2023 12:00 am
Canterbury, Events, Otago, Wellington
Federation of Socialist Societies 2023 Conference Registration The New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies is holding our first conference…