Perry Anderson will discuss the current collapse of American global hegemony and the situation of the contemporary left in a now rapidly-changing international arena. Perry is a founder-editor of the New Left Review.
8pm National Gallery of Ireland (entry Merrion Square West entrance).
He teaches at UCLA (where he has a joint appointment in History and Sociology) and is the author of numerous works including Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (1974); /Lineages of the Absolutist State /(1974); Considerations on Western Marxism (1979); In the Tracks of Historical Materialism (1983);/English Questions/ (1992); A Zone of Engagement (1992); /The Question of Europe/ (1997); The Origins of Postmodernity (1998); and Spectrum (2005).