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The Subject Centre for History, Classics & Archaeology is proposing to hold a workshop to investigate the teaching of Marxism within those disciplines

In the second edition of his book ‘A Marxist Archaeology’ published in 2002, Randall McGuire, a leading social commentator on the material past, questioned whether we should still seriously consider Marxism. He says that Marxist theories have evolved from Marx’s own rather ‘basic and unambiguous observations’ into interpretations which form a body of scholarly tradition that sheds light on human history. This workshop aims to explore this notion and re-asks the question of whether Marxist theory, even in this new, more defined form still has value for the classicists and archaeologists of the future and therefore, should we be teaching it to our students. If you would like to participate either as a speaker or delegate, we’d very much like to hear from you.

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