Anarchist University

Minutes 7 Nov 2004

Jozsef, John, Lee Paula & Sarah, Erik, Jeffrey, Alan, Dwayne, Darren, Hailey

• Intros
• January Courses
• Promotion
• End of term party
• Website
• Updates on current courses
• Next meeting

January Courses

MOST COURSES WILL START THE WEEK OF 17 JANUARY

SPRING READING BREAK IS WEEK OF 21 FEBRUARY

We like the idea of an Introduction to Anarchism suggested by Todd. Possum will ask him about ideas for speakers and we will try to put together a course for next meeting. The course will need or two people to be present every week.

Lee discussed a course on gender and power and will present an outline next meeting

Jazsef discussed a course on "frontiers of knowledge" similar to his previous course but focusing on new ideas about knowledge. He has four guests lined up. Would start on Thursday 27 January. He'll have an outline for next meeting.

Erik discussed a course which would be a political look at the Internet, its origins, free software, porn, internet governance and other topics. Detailed outline next meeting.

Darren explained that he has a background in college radio and proposes a course which is an introduction to electronics. It involves math and would be textbook based. Hands on work is possible. He'll do an outline for next meeting.

Jeffrey presented a written proposal on Anarchism and Urban Planning with a list of discussion topics. He'll do a more detailed outline for next meeting.

Other courses: Paula may offer the sexuality course and we believe Yehuda has an idea.

Promotion

We need a poster and flyers Outreach to Now, Eye, CIUT, CKLN, Please post news of January courses to list serves everywhere

End of Term Party

Saturday 11 December 2004. Possum will ask Christian is he might host it.

Website

We agreed to try a section of the website where people can post comments, interest in courses, etc without a password. Possum will set this up. Paula will keep an eye on it while she is doing the e-mails.

Updates on courses

Darren O'Donnell's Monday 9am meeting on Toronto's Social Capital attracts 10-12 people.

Sexuality (Paula) usually has 5-6 people The 1980s (Alan) about 5 people. Social Ecology (Tod) 9-15 people Comics (Christian) 3-6 people

In general classes are smaller than usual because of a lack of promotion in August.

Next meeting

Wednesday Dec 1 at 7pm at 196 Manning Ave

Topics we didn't cover

• Do our course proposals need to be so formal?
• How can we encourage people do contribute writing?
• Idea for an anarchist convention (John Gilbert)