Events
Colonisation 101
February 14, 2024 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
Given that the Aotearoa | New Zealand government is seeking to delegitimise Te Tiriti o Waitangi and disembed other elements…
Reality Captured; Reality Imagined: Politics and Gender Through the Lens of Kati Horna
March 13, 2024 6:30 pm-9:00 pm
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Amelia Byrnes will survey the life and work of Hungarian-born photographer, Kati Horna, and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Second New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies National Conference – Labour Weekend 2024
October 26, 2024 12:00 pm-October 27, 2024 10:00 pm
Events, Panel Discussion, Public Lecture, Wellington
Kia ora Neighbours - both members and supporters of the New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies. The Wellington Socialist Society…
Te Tiriti and the struggle for socialism
October 26, 2024 6:15 pm-9:00 pm
Events, Panel Discussion, Wellington
The Saturday keynote panel of the Second New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies National Conference - Labour Weekend 2024 brings…
Resisting neoliberalism in Latin America: The 2019 Chilean revolt and the struggle for constitutional reform
October 27, 2024 6:45 pm-9:00 pm
Events, Public Lecture, Wellington
Coming to us all the way from Chile, Pablo Abufom is the Sunday keynote speaker at the Second New Zealand…
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…
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…
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…