The Coal in Violence: How One Swedish Working-Class Writer Predicted Global Warming in 1928
- Event date: 07/11/2024
- Venue: Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, 25-27 Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL
6.00pm, Followed by a wine reception Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up A Pipeline: learning to fight in a world on fire, discusses British histories of coal intertwined with Swedish working-class literature in the 2024 Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture. In 1928, a young Ivar Lo Johansson, soon to become the leading Swedish working-class … Continued