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Edward Said Annual Lecture
Location: MS.01 (Maths & Statistics Building)
The ninth Annual Edward Said Lecture will be given by Samir Amin. Amin is former Professor of Political Economy, University of Poitiers, Dakar, Senegal and the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes, France; director of Forum du Tiers Monde, Dakar, Senegal; President, World Forum for Alternatives. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The People’s Spring: The Future of the Arab Revolution (2012); Eurocentrism (2010); Capitalism in the Age of Globalization(1997); Unequal Development: Social Formations at the Periphery of the Capitalist System (1978) and Accumulation on a World Scale (1974). The lecture is entitled 'The Implosion of the Contemporary System: A Challenge for the Societies of the South'.