News 2008
2-3 May: “IP Without IP”
Professor Mario Biagioli is organizing a conference at Radcliffe this May on the intellectual property practices that fall outside the domain currently recognized as IP. Full details are available in his announcement (Word document).
4-5 April: “Narrating the World”
Professor Mario Biagioli will be delivering a paper at “Narrating the World: Current Debates in Science and Literary Studies Revised,” a conference at Harvard’s Barker Center. See the poster (PDF) for more details.
28 February: Gérard Bensussan’s paper + notes
Following a series of talks, Prof. Bensussan graciously allowed us to post a paper of one talk, and notes on the other.
- “Marx and the exit of philosophy” (Word document)
- Notes on a talk on Franz Rosenzweig (text file)
26 February: Showing Khalefi and Sivan’s Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel
The Centre, in partnership with Peacock Visual Arts, has arranged a showing of Khalefi and Sivan’s Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel, Feb 26th.
29 January: Showing Pasolini’s Oedipus
The Centre and Peacock Visual Arts are presenting Oedipus at the Peacock at 7 pm on 29 January. All invited! Further details.
8 January: Three new documents; changing the wiki discussion
Three new documents have been added to the ongoing political philosophy discussion: Bruno Bosteels’ “Afterword: Thinking, Being, Acting, or, On the Uses and Disadvantages of Ontology for Politics” (Word document); John D. French and Daniel James’ “Polemics and an ‘Army of One’: Responding to John Womack Jr.,” (PDF document); and John Womack, Jr.’s “On Labor History, Material Relations, Labor Movements, and Strategic Positions: A Reply to French and James (As Nice and Civil As I Can Make It)” (PDF document).
The discussion itself has been hampered by technical problems with the wiki; I’ve been trying to set up a forum to continue the discussion, and encountered some technical problems there as well. I hope to have these resolved shortly. In the meantime, to deal with ongoing attacks from spammers and to keep any more discussion from being added before I migrate the conversation to the forum, I’ve blocked editing on the wiki. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please email me at f at mavo dot nu.
4 February: Professor Bruno Latour, “Another European Tradition: Traceability of the social and the vindication of Gabriel Tarde,” at LSE
Latour will deliver his talk at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 6.30 to 8 pm. For full details, please see the flyer (Word document).
Past Events
4 December: Professor Derek Attridge, “Knowing Works of Art”
The School of Language & Literature Research Forum presents a seminar with the internationally renowned literary critic. KCG5, 5.15–7 pm; Further details (Word poster).
6 December: Modern Thought seminar I, week 11
310 MacRobert, 3-5. The reading is Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers, by Michelle Murphy.
10 December: Several additions to our Participants page
Over the last few weeks, we have added Dr Alexandra M. Kokoli, Professor James Leach (upcoming conference, April ’08: “Subversion, Conversion, Development: Public Interests in New Technologies”), Professor Mustapha Kamal Pasha, and Professor Joachim Schaper to our participants list.
11 December: Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma, pt. 2
The Centre and Peacock Visual Arts are presenting Godard’s extraordinary project: Chapters 1 & 2, December 4 at 7pm; chapters 3 & 4, December 11 at 7pm. Further details.
12 December: A Centre Postgraduate Presentation
310 MacRobert, 3.30-5. Finn Brunton will present, along with Francisca Sánchez Ortiz, in a panel chaired by Dr. Nerea Arruti, as part of the School of Language and Literature’s PhD student presentations day.
