MIDDLESEX PHILOSOPHY SEMINAR SERIES, 2010-11.







This seminar series is open to the public. Seminars will mostly be held on



Thursdays, at 6.30pm, but three (30 November, 25 January and 15

February)



will be held on Tuesdays at 5.30pm.











Thursday 14 October



Alex Callinicos (Kings College London): ‘Slavoj Žižek and the Critique of



Political Economy’







Thursday 28 October



Nina Power (Roehampton): ‘Intellectual Equality: Rancière and Education’







Wednesday 3 November



Workshop: ‘The Humanities and the Idea of the University’







Thursday 11 November



Susan James (Birkbeck): ‘Spinoza, Rembrandt and Suspicion’







Thursday 18 November



Sean Sayers (Kent): ‘Marx’s Concept of Communism’







Tuesday 30 November



Christopher Norris (Cardiff): ‘Aesthetic Ideology Revisited’







Thursday 9 December



Gary Lachman (London): ‘What is Cosmic Consciousness?’







Tuesday 25 January



Robin Le Poidevin (Leeds): ‘The Beginning of Time’







Thursday 3 February



Keith Ansell Pearson (Warwick): ‘Beyond Compassion: On Nietzsche’s Moral



Therapy in Dawn’







Tuesday 15 February



Dylan Evans (University College Cork): ‘Is Lacanian Psychoanalysis Wrong, Or



Not Even Wrong?’







Thursday 3 March



Marcus Boon (York University, Toronto): ‘The Politics of Just

Intonation:



Music, Mathematics and Philosophy after La Monte Young’







Thursday 17 March



Martin Liebscher (Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London):



‘Sigmund Freud and his Philosophical Mediators’







Thursday 31 March



David Lapoujade (Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne): Title to be announced.







Thursday 5 May



Workshop: ‘Hegel Now?’ Including Slavoj Žižek on ‘Is it still possible to be



a Hegelian today?’ Further speakers to be confirmed.











All seminars will take place in the Saloon (M004), Mansion Building,



Middlesex University, Trent Park campus, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ.  

Tube:



Piccadilly line to Oakwood station, free bus to campus.







Please note that the workshop on Wednesday 3 November, ‘The Humanities and



the Idea of the University’, will take place between 11am and 6pm, in the



Saloon, Mansion Building. The ‘Hegel Now?’ workshop on 5 May 2011 will take



place from 2pm – 8.30pm (room to be announced).







In addition, this semester we will be running two short courses open to the



general public. These will take place on Friday afternoons in the Green Room



(M009), Mansion Building, between 4-6pm. From 15 October to 12 November,



Meade McCloughan will present a course on Marx’s Capital, and from 26



November to 10 December, Rosa Nogues will present an introduction to French



feminist philosophy.







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