Please join us in London on 27 May 2026 for this year’s Raymond Williams Society Annual Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Mark Steven (University of Exeter).
Mark’s lecture, ‘24 Revolutions Per Second’, will take its lead from Raymond Williams’s writings on film, and will consider the relationships between cinema and revolution twentieth century and into the present.
Mark Steven is Associate Professor of Literature and Film at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017), Splatter Capital (Repeater, 2017), and Class War: A Literary History (Verso, 2023). He is also editor of Understanding Marx: Understanding Modernism (2021), co-editor of the collections The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos (2015) and Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2012), as well as the author of numerous articles in journals including Post45, Commune, Modernism/modernity, Textual Practice, Film-Philosophy and Screen.
Date and time: Wednesday 27 May, 16:00-18:00
Venue: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2HW (map)
Venue accessibility information: https://www.accessable.co.uk/university-of-westminster/regent-street-campus/access-guides/309-regent-street-fyvie-hall-london
Free and open to all, but please register in advance via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rws-annual-lecture-mark-steven-24-revolutions-per-second-tickets-1987620605737
Contact for questions: Elinor Taylor, e.taylor@westminster.ac.uk
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