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Events at the Centre for Modern Thought

Forthcoming Events

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Recent Events

2006

• Thursday, July 6th: Jonathan Culler, the distinguished literary scholar and theorist from Cornell University, visited the University of Aberdeen and gave a talk entitled: The Most Interesting Thing in the World: Derrida and Literature.
• Tuesday 13th June Mr Raoul Ruiz, the distinguished film director spoke to us in broad terms about his work in film (he has directed almost 100 films) and film theory (he is the author of a multi-volume book entitled "The Poetics of Cinema"). A video archive of this event is available
• Friday 17th March Professor Peter Osborne of Middlesex University will give a presentation entitled: Marx and the Philosophy of Time The seminar, to which all staff are cordially invited, will take place at 4pm in KCF22
• 27 February Danny James Between Memory and History; reflections of a reluctant oral historian
• 24 February Petar Bojanic The USA has no enemy because it has no form /Gestalt/... Enemy, Animal and Animal Functions in Schmitt and Hegel
• 10 February - Nahum Chandler Historicity and Paraontology. W.E.B. Du Bois and the Question of Another World
• 27 January - Strategies for Visibility in Contemporary Media

2005

• 24 November: Juliet Flower MacCannell, Psychoanalysis and the Question of Universals: a look at Badiou and Zizek
• 21 November Jason Read The Althusser Effect: Philosophy, History and Temporality
• 12 May: Luce Irigaray - “The Path Towards the Other”
• 18 May: Forms of Thought for a Change in Times

Luce Irigaray

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Director of Research in Philosophy, CNRS
Author of Speculum of the Other Woman

“The Path Towards the Other”

Thursday 12 May, 5.00 - 6.30pm, KCG8

Luce Irigaray, one of the leading figures in French feminism, philosophy and cultural theory over the last 30 years, will be making a rare appearance in Scotland to deliver a free public lecture at the University of Aberdeen in May.

Luce Irigaray is the author of several extremely influential works such as Speculum of the Other Woman, To Speak is Never Neutral, This Sex Which is Not One, and Democracy Begins Between Two, in which she has forcefully challenged traditional modes of thinking sexual difference within linguistics, philosophy, religion, psychoanalysis and political theory. Born in Belgium, she has occupied a number of prominent teaching positions at prestigious institutions around the world, and is currently Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Her unique style of writing is deeply poetic and philosophical. She continues to be actively engaged in European feminist movements, particularly in Italy, where she has worked as an advisor to the European Parliament on citizenship legislation, and with schoolchildren in researching gender difference in early language development.

The lecture, entitled The Path Towards the Other, is free and open to the public and will be delivered in English on Thursday 12 May, 5.00 - 6.30pm in KCG8, University of Aberdeen.

A reception will follow. For further information, please contact Michael Syrotinski (fre034@abdn.ac.uk).

Forms of Thought for a Change in Times - inaugural event for the Centre for Modern Thought

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May 18, 2005, 2:00-5:00 PM, in the King’s College Auditorium.

In the early 1960’s an international group of intellectuals (writers, philosophers, political theorists) sought to create a new form of journal whose task would be to respond to what Maurice Blanchot termed “a change in times”. Individuals such as Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes, Marguerite Duras, Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Antonio Moravia, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Günter Grass, and Ingeborg Bachmann sought a radically new vehicle of inquiry that would carry and provoke a form of “global critique” and a fundamental questioning of the role of literature and art in that moment.

Participants in a roundtable discussion will include:

• Christopher Fynsk, Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen
• Harry Harootunian, Professor of History and East Asian Studies, New York University
• Alberto Moreiras, Professor of Spanish and Literature, Duke University
• Nicholas Royle, Professor of English, Sussex University
• Naoki Sakai, Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell University
• Michael Syrotinski, Professor of French, University of Aberdeen

The discussion will take place on May 18, 2005, 2:00-5:00 PM, in the King’s College Auditorium. A reception will follow. For information regarding this event, please contact Profs. Christopher Fynsk (c.fynsk@abdn.ac.uk) or Michael Syrotinski (m.syro@abdn.ac.uk), University of Aberdeen

At the University of Aberdeen, a group of intellectuals (writers, philosophers, political theorists…) will convene to consider new collective undertakings in the context of the creation of the Centre for Modern Thought. The latter group has designs perhaps more modest than those of Blanchot’s “International Review”, but they seek the grounds of literary and philosophical intervention no less insistently than did Blanchot and his associates. They will take Blanchot’s account of the exigencies defining the form of his project as a starting point for a reflection on the directions thought must take today if it is to respond to our own change in times.

Professor Christopher Fynsk,
Director of the Centre for Modern Thought
c.fynsk@abdn.ac.uk

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