As nuclear weapons rise up the international agenda, I will be talking at Sussex University about The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the first academic study of the movement in Britain to be published this century, with Sasha Roseneil, the University's Vice-Chancellor, author of Disarming Patriarchy: Feminism and Political Action at Greenham (Open University Press, 1995), and Common Women,… Continue reading Sussex event on antinuclear movement, with Sasha Roseneil
In conversation with MARY KALDOR and LUKE COOPER, Alumni Theatre, CKK Building, 6-7.30 pm. Full details and registration HERE (even if you can't make it, registering will ensure you get a link to the audio recording afterwards).
I now have a series of events lined up for The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament over the next 3 months: LONDON Tuesday 12 November 7 pm, Housmans Bookshop, 6 Caledonian Rd - in conversation with KATE HUDSON, until recently the general secretary of CND. DEVON Wednesday 20 November 5 pm, The Old Picture House, Seaton… Continue reading The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament – book events
MY LETTER in today's Guardian.
This month is the 80th anniversary of Raphael Lemkin's introduction fo the concept of genocide in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. On 17 October, I gave the annual Holocaust and Genocide Studies Lecture for NIOD in Amsterdam. Criticising those who would abandon Lemkin's concept, I looked at its relevance today in the light of Gaza.… Continue reading “In Defence of the Concept of Genocide”: my Amsterdam lecture
Peter's 'Broken Missile' is the frontispiece to my book.
Copies of my new book, The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, have arrived at the publishers and I'm waiting for them to reach me. Meanwhile, Agenda Publishing have announced 30 per cent off for paperbacks ordered via their website (in the UK and Europe only, I'm afraid). Use the code EM30 at the checkout.
BOOK DISCUSSION: ‘The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’ – Martin Shaw in conversation with Kate Hudson – Housmans Bookshop, 12 November — Read on housmans.com/event/book-discussion-the-campaign-for-nuclear-disarmament-martin-shaw-in-conversation-with-kate-hudson/ Or order online from your usual bookseller
The latest on my Substack.
I've done a lengthy interview with Thomas Karat in which I explain my views on Palestine and Israel. I expand on the question I put to Israeli historian Benny Morris in the Mehdi Hasan programme.
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