Chutzpah Magazine is proud to invite Professor Scott Lash, the director of the Center for Culture Studies in Goldsmiths College, University of London, to have a public conversation with the editor-in-chief Ou Ning, on the Revolutions, which is the curated theme of the issue #6. They will discuss the histories from Paris Commune to Civil War in Spain, from Situationist International to May 1968, from Zapatista to Seattle Protest, from Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, to see how the leftist, new anarchist developed the anti-capitalism and anti-globalization practices during the last twenty years.

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Doors close 15 minutes after event begins. No late entry.

Scott Lash is a professor of sociology and cultural studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He took a BSc as in Psychology from the University of Michigan, an MA in Sociology from Northwestern University, and a PhD from the London School of Economics. Lash began his teaching career as a Lecturer at Lancaster University where he became Professor in 1993. He moved to London in 1998 to take up his present post as Director for the Centre for Cultural Studies and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College. Lash's work has been particularly influential in sociology and cultural studies. His work with co-author John Urry has received a great deal of attention in cultural geography.

Ou Ning’s cultural practices encompass multiple disciplines. As a curator, he initiated the biennale exhibition Get It Louder and curated the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture; As an artist, he is known for the urban research projects such as San Yuan Li, commissioned by 50th Venice Biennale , and Meishi Street, commissioned by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes; As an activist, he founded Bishan Commune, an intellectual group who devote themselves to rural reconstruction movement in China; He was the jury member of the 8th Benesse Prize at the 53rd Venice Biennale and the member of Asian Art Council 2011 at Guggenheim Museum.