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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. Please direct enquiries to [log in to unmask] Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html . Prolonged discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal . Martin Upchurch Professor of International Employment Relations Middlesex University Business School The Burroughs Hendon London NW4 4BT 07545 487952 [log in to unmask] Global Work and Employment Project (GWEp website) http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/areas/enterprise/gwep/index.aspx Globalisation and Work Facebook Group http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/group.php?gid=238371095227&ref=ts Beyond Labour Regulation blog http://www.globalworkonline.net/blog/beyondlabour/