Wednesday 27 May 2026, 16:00-18:00
Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street

24 Revolutions Per Second: The Raymond Williams Society Annual Lecture 2026

Please join us on 27 May for this year’s Raymond Williams Society Annual Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Mark Steven (University of Exeter).

Mark’s lecture, ‘24 Revolutions Per Second’, will take its lead from Raymond Williams’s writings on film, and will consider the relationships between cinema and revolution twentieth century and into the present.

Mark Steven is Associate Professor of Literature and Film at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017), Splatter Capital (Repeater, 2017), and Class War: A Literary History (Verso, 2023). He is also editor of Understanding Marx: Understanding Modernism (2021), co-editor of the collections The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos (2015) and Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2012), as well as the author of numerous articles in journals including Post45, Commune, Modernism/modernity, Textual Practice, Film-Philosophy and Screen.

All welcome, but please register in advance via Eventbrite 

Organised by Elinor Taylor: e.taylor@westminster.ac.uk