The Centre for Modern Thought

Seminar: ‘The State(s) of Knowledge: Reading between Hegel and Schelling on Art and History’, Professor Tilottama Rajan

Monday 7th March 2011, 4pm, Humanities Manse

The Centre for Modern Thought is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Professor Tilottama Rajan entitled ‘The State(s) of Knowledge: Reading between Hegel and Schelling on Art and History’. Professor Rajan is Canada Research Chair in English and Theory and a distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario. Read more ...

Film and Capitalism Series [Film and Visual Culture / Centre for Modern Thought]

Monday 25th May, 5 pm, Taylor Building A31

Geoffrey Kantaris (Centre for Latin American Studies, University fo Cambridge) will deliver a lecture on:

“The primal (mise en) scène of capital”: Argentine, Colombian and Brazilian urban film

Geoffrey Kantaris is the Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. His research currently focuses on contemporary urban cinema from Latin America, particularly Argentine, Colombian and Mexican cinema. Related interests include questions of modernity, postmodernity and transnational processes in Latin American culture. Read more ...

Literature and Mathematics: Figures, Topoi and Transferences across the Disciplines

11-12 June 2010, Linklater Rooms, University of Aberdeen

Further Information: m.wickman@abdn.ac.uk

When Alain Badiou divulges not only the numerical basis of modern ontology but also the reasons for the latter’s purported incoherence, he implicitly makes a more general case for the literary turn of mathematics—that is, for its implication in a system of slippery, philosophically-indeterminate tropes. Of course, we might come at this situation from the opposite direction. Read more ...