Research seminars

All seminars are free and open to the public. MA and Research Degree students are especially encouraged to attend.

Semester 2, 2011/12

Seminars take place from 6-8pm, usually on Thursdays.

Date	Title
2 February 2012	Continental Philosophy and the Brain: Towards a Critical Neuroscience Inaugural Lecture by Catherine Malabou (CRMEP) Followed by a reception and book launch Venue: venue is Clattern Lecture Theatre
16 February 2012	Between Interpellation and Immunisation: Althusser, Balibar, Esposito Warren Montag (Comparative Literature, Occidental College, LA) Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH
1 March 2012	Object and Decision Markus Gabriel (Philosophy, University of Bonn) Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH
22-23 March 2012	Transdisciplinarity Project, Workshop 2 Case Studies 1 - Transdisciplinary Texts: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Capitalism and Schizophrenia Venue: French Institute, 17 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2DT
3 May 2012	The Politics and Philosophy of Marx's Materialism Cas McMenemin (CRMEP) Venue: Penrhyn Road campus
10 May 2012	Marcel Gauchet and the Disenchantment of Politics Knox Peden (History of European Discourses, University of Queensland) Venue: Penrhyn Road campus
17–18 May 2012	Transdisciplinarity Project, Workshop 3 Case Studies 2 - Transdisciplinary Problematics: Anti-Humanism and Gender Studies Venue: Penrhyn Road campus
24 May 2012	The Female Body and Sexuation: Towards an Understanding of Lacan's Thinking of the Body Rosa Nogues (CRMEP) Venue: Penrhyn Road campus
14-15 June 2012	Postgraduate Conference NAME Venue: Penrhyn Road campus

Semester 1, 2011/12

Date	Title
6 October 2011	Also Sprach Zapata: Philosophy and Resistance Inaugural Lecture by Howard Caygill Including at reception book launches for two volumes from CRMEP events: Eric Alliez and Andrew Goffey, eds, The Guattari-Effect, Continuum, London & NY, 2011; A. Avanesian and L. Skrebowski, eds, Aesthetics and Contemporary Art, Sternberg Press, Berlin & NY, 2011 Venue: Clattern Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Penrhyn Road campus Listen to a recording of the talk
13 October 2011	Ontology of the Image John Lechte (Sociology, Macquarrie University, NSW) Venue: Room JG3004, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus
3 November 2011	An Immemorial Remainder: The Legacy of Derrida Rodolphe Gasché (Comparative Literature, SUNY, Buffalo) Followed by reception Venue: Art Workers Guild, Lecture Hall, 6 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AT Listen to a recording of the talk
18-19 November 2011	Society for Women in Philosophy More information
24 November 2011	The Politics of Monstrosity Filippo del Luchese (Politics and History, Brunel University) Venue: Room JG3004, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus Listen to a recording of the talk
8-9 December 2011	French philosophy and (anti-)psychiatry More information
15 December 2011	Return to Sender: Why Democrats Should Not Accept Rousseau's Letter on the Theatre Juliane Rebentisch (Philosophy, University of Frankfurt) Followed by reception Venue: SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, London E8 3RH Listen to a recording of the talk

Semester 2, 2010/11

Date	Title
20 January 2011	Hegel's Other Woman: The Figure of Niobe in Hegel's Lectures on Fine Art Andrew Benjamin (Aesthetics and Critical Theory, Monash University) Venue: Art Workers Guild Lecture Hall, 6, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AT Listen to a recording of the talk
27 January 2011	Lacan and the Cahiers pour l'Analyse Tom Eyers (CRMEP, Kingston University) Venue: Room JG1005, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus
3 February 2011	Basic Concepts of Transcendental Materialism Rainer E. Zimmermann (Philosophy, Faculty Studium Generale, University of Applied Sciences, Munich) Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH Listen to a recording of the talk
10 February 2011	Look out it's real: Documentary Truth and Tear Gas Hito Steyerl (Artist, Berlin) Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH Listen to a recording of the talk
17 March 2011	Disjunctive Captures of the Body and Movement Bojana Cvejic (CRMEP, Kingston University) Venue: Room JG1002, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus
Monday 28 March 2011	What is a Commandment? Giorgio Agamben (Visiting Professor, Philosophy, University of Paris 8) Venue: Clattern Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Penrhyn Road campus Listen to a recording of the talk
14 April 2011	Eleven Theses on Marx and Marxism Étienne Balibar (University of Paris X and Irvine, University of California) Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH Listen to a recording of the talk
19 May 2011	To be or not to be - Schelling and the Time of Decision Vijak Haddadi Moghaddam (CRMEP, Kingston University) Venue: Room JG0001, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus
26 May 2011, 6.45-8.30pm	Media, New Media, Post-Media: What is German Philosophy of Media? Lorenz Engell and Bernhard Siegert (IKKM, Bauhaus University Weimar), Boris Groys (New York University) Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH Listen to a recording of the talk
2 June 2011	Rousseau and 'the Party of the Common State' Max Blechman (CRMEP, Kingston University) Venue: Room JG0001, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus
9-10 June 2011, 11am-4pm	Research Student Annual Progress Seminar Venue: Rooms JG2004 (9 June) and JG3009 (10 June), John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus

Semester 1, 2010/11

Date	Title
7 October 2010	Hegel, Kierkegaard and Mediation Jon Stewart (Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen University) Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH
21 October 2010	Philosophy, Capitalism and the Novel David Cunningham (Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, Westminster University) Venue: Ramsay Lecture Theatre, UCL, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ
26 October 2010	What is a Psychic Event? Freud and Contemporary Neurology on Trauma Catherine Malabou (University of Paris, Ouest-Nanterre) Venue: The Churchill Room, Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London, WC1N 2AB Listen to a recording of the talk
11 November 2010	Between Sharing and Antagonism: The Invention of Communism in Marx's 1844 Manuscripts Antonia Birnbaum (Department of Philosophy, University of Paris 8) Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH Listen to a recording of the talk

Semester 2, 2009/10

Date	Title
21 January 2010	Feuerbach for the 21st Century Nina Power (Roehampton University)
4 February 2010	Fragment, Project, Information: Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin and Sol LeWitt Peter Osborne (CRMEP)
25 March 2010	What's Experimental about Experimental Metaphysics? Deleuze, Stengers, Whitehead Andrew Goffey (Middlesex University)
20 May 2010	Nancy/Hegel Stephen Melville (Ohio State University)
3-4 June 2010	Research Students' Annual Progress Review

Semester 1, 2009/10

Date	Title
1 October 2009	Negation, Affirmation, the New Peter Osborne (CRMEP)
8 October 2009	Rationalist Empiricism / Dialectical Materialism: From Althusser to Meillassoux Nathan Brown (University of California at Davis)
15 October 2009	Ubi Inletabilitas Ibi Virtus: Some Inconclusive Notes on Melancholy Wayne Martin (University of Essex)
29 October 2009	The Diagram and the Baroque Kamini Vellodi (Middlesex University)
26 November 2009	The Dialectic in The Dialectic of Sex Stella Sandford (CRMEP)

Semester 2, 2008/09

Date	Title
15 January 2009	Subject(ivat)ion: Foucault on the Constitution of Subjectivity Mark Kelly (Middlesex University)
29 January 2009	Leroi-Gourhan and the Limits of the Human Christopher Johnson (University of Nottingham)
19 February 2009	When Species Meet: Ethical Attachment Sites for Out-of-Place Companions Donna Haraway (University of California, Santa Cruz)
5 March 2009	Kant's Answer to the Question "What is Man?" Alix Cohen (University of Leeds)
26 March 2009	Kant contra Bhaskar: Transcendental Philosophy and the Ontology of Natural Science Dustin McWherter (Middlesex University)
7 May 2009	Presentation and Temporality in Hegel's Logic Ali Alizadeh (Middlesex University)
28 May 2009	The General in His Bathtub: Biopolitics in Negri and Esposito Jon Beasley-Murray (University of British Columbia)
4-5 June 2009	Research Students' Annual Progress Review NAME

Semester 1, 2008/09

Date	Title
2 October 2008	Women, Philosophy and Stupidity Eva D. Bahovec (University of Ljubljana)
16 October 2008	Local Cosmology Elie During (University of Paris X, Nanterre)
30 October 2008	Animal Presence Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)
20 November 2008	From the State as 'Metaphysical Event' to Hegemony as 'Philosophical Fact' Peter Thomas (University of Amsterdam / Jan van Eyck Academie)
11 December 2008	The Speculative Subject: Subjectivities and Possessions in a Philosophy of Nature Dider Debaise (Max Planck Institute, Berlin)

Semester 2, 2007/08

Date	Title
31 January 2008	Historical Descartes? Michael Moriarty (Queen Mary, University of London)
14 February 2008	Adorno and the Ends of Contemporary Philosophy Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway)
28 February 2008	Walter Lippmann and the Disinvention of the Object-Oriented Citizen Noortje Marres (Goldsmiths / University of Amsterdam)
10 April 2008	Difference from Above, Difference from Below: Idea and Sensation in Deleuze's Calculus Robin Mackay (Middlesex University)
8 May 2008	Time without Becoming Quentin Meillassoux (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
22 May 2008	Inaugural Lecture: What is Contemporary French Philosophy, Today? Professor Eric Alliez (CRMEP)
12-13 June 2008	PhD Work-in-Progress Seminar

Semester 1, 2007/08

Date	Title
4 October 2007	Continental Philosophy and Neuroscience Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths)
25 October 2007	Affection and Infinitude: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Question of Sensing Ian James (University of Cambridge)
22 November 2007	Repetitions: Habit, Practice, and the Problem of the Self Clare Carlisle (University of Liverpool)
6 December 2007	Bearing and Begetting: The Sexual Imaginary in Plato Stella Sandford (CRMEP)

Semester 2, 2006/07

Date	Title
22 February 2007	Derrida's Writing Theatre: The Theatrical Allegory and the Aesthetic Aporia Alison Ross (Monash University)
8 March 2007	Shock and Aura: Walter Benjamin's Critical Sublime Matt Charles (Middlesex University)
26 April 2007	Art as Experience: Deleuze (and Guattari) after Matisse (and Dewey) Eric Alliez (CRMEP)
10 May 2007	Socrates, Sophist Keith Crome (Manchester Metropolitan University)
17 May 2007	Inaugural Professorial Lecture: The Consequences of Philosophy Professor Peter Hallward (CRMEP)
24 May 2007	The Problem of Choice in Kant's Concept of Evil Peter Kapos (Middlesex University)
7 June 2007	Deleuze and the Mathematical Philosophy of Albert Lautman Simon Duffy (University of Sydney)

Semester 1, 2006/07

Date	Title
5 October 2006	Gilles Deleuze and the Conditions of the New Dan Smith (Middlesex University)
26 October 2006	Blanchot in 'The International Review' Christopher Fynsk (University of Aberdeen)
9 November 2006	Thinking with Deleuze and Whitehead: A Double-Test Isabelle Stengers (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
23 November 2006	Modern Musical Schematism Wesley Phillips (Middlesex University)
12 December 2006	Special Guest Lecture: Sub Specie Universitatis: What is to be Done in Philosophy Today? Etienne Balibar (Université de Paris X-Nanterre)
14 December 2006	Hobbes in New Orleans: Solidarity and Government in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina John Protevi (Louisana State University)

Semester 2, 2005/06

Date	Title
9 February 2006	Manet: The Balcony - A New Approach to Modernism Claude Imbert (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
2 March 2006	The Meaning of Life in Bergson's Theory of Comedy Alenka Zupankic (Institute of Philosophy, SRCSASA, Ljubljana)
23 March 2006	The Ethics of Jacques Rancière Todd May (Clemson University)
27 April 2006	Imagination: Gadamer's Oversight Nicholas Davey (University of Dundee)
11 May 2006	Alterity and Indifference: Encountering the Other with Levinas and Lispector Lisa Guenther (University of Auckland)

Semester 1, 2005/06

Date	Title
6 October 2005	Where is the Work of Art? Art, Architecture and the Space of the Post-Conceptual Work Peter Osbone (CRMEP)
20 October 2005	'What Is It I Have Been Doing All My Life?' Deleuze and the Question of Philosophy Peter Hallward (CRMEP)
10 November 2005	Springtime for Hegemony: Laclau in Theory and Practice Ozren Pupovac (Open University)
24 November 2005	The Neo-Avant-Garde Repetition: Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni Nuno Rodrigues (Middlesex University)
15 December 2005	Nietzsche and the Sublime Christine Battersby (University of Warwick)

Semester 2, 2004/05

Date	Title
10 February 2005	Subtractive Philosophy: Henry, Deleuze, Badiou Peter Hallward (CRMEP)
24 February 2005	Liberation Technology: Marcuse via Simondon Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths College)
3 March 2005	Bad Conscience and the Structure of the Soul in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality David McNeill (University of Essex)
14 April 2005	Heidegger's 'Thing' and Beyond Graham Harman (The American University in Cairo)
28 April 2005	After Postmodernism: Feminism and Materialism Revisited Gillian Howie (University of Liverpool)
19 May 2005	Sophistic Practices of Language Barbara Cassin (CNRS, Paris)
26 May 2005	Ignorance of the Chicken, or, Why Many Lacanians Are Reactionary Liberals Slavoj Zizek (Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana / Birkbeck College)

Semester 1, 2004/05

Date	Title
7 October 2004	Kant's Transcendental Proof Mark Sacks (University of Essex)
14 October 2004	The Non-Subject of the Political Alberto Moreiras (Duke University)
21 October 2004	The Subversive Core of Foucault's Care of the Self Benda Hofmeyr, University of Nijmegen
11 November 2004	The Dynamics of the Transcendental and the Physics of the All Iain Hamilton Grant (University of the West of England)
25 November 2004	Friedrich Schlegel, Romanticism, and the Re-Enchantment of Nature Alison Stone (Lancaster University)
9 December 2004	Clinical Issues in Psychoanalysis Darian Leader (author of Introducing Lacan and Stealing the Mona Lisa)

Semester 2, 2003/04

Date	Title
5 February 2004	The Claim to Ignorance Lilian Alweiss (Trinity College, Dublin)
19 February 2004	The Philosopher's Fear of Alterity: How 'the Other' Repels What is Other Andy McGettigan (Middlesex University)
4 March 2004	The Dreambird of Experience: Utopia, Possibility, Boredom Peter Osborne (CRMEP)
18 March 2004	Maxims and Thick Ethical Concepts A.W. Moore (University of Oxford)
1 April 2004	Language, Theory, Politics John Collins (University of East Anglia)
29 April 2004	What is Aesthetic Education? Some Thoughts on Kant, Schiller and Paul de Man Gary Peters (University of the West of England)
27 May 2004	Why Everyone Should Read Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason Nina Power (Middlesex University)

Semester 1, 2003/04

Date	Title
2 October 2003	Being Bored: Heidegger on Patience and Melancholia Espen Hammer (University of Essex)
16 October 2003	Philosophy's Faith Lost: Mulhall, Cavell and the Problem of Acknowledgment Katerina Delligiorgi (Anglia Polytechnic University)
30 October 2003	Art and the Arts Stewart Martin (Middlesex University)
20 November 2003	'Ethics Overcoming Finitude': Levinas, Kant and the Davos Legacy Ian Leask (Mater Dei Institute, Dublin)
27 November 2003	Guest Lecture: Deleuze After Matisse Eric Alliez (CRMEP)
11 December 2003	Death in Heidegger and Freud Havi Carel (University of York)