Research Seminars 2012

 

Philosophy Seminars

Centre for Writing and Society & Philosophy @ UWS
Conveners: Dimitris Vardoulakis and Magdalena Zolkos

Time: 2-4pm / Place: Bankstown Campus, 3.G.55

Date

Presenter

Title

March 07 Dimitris Vardoulakis (UWS) “Rebel, Saint or Unexceptional? Coetzee’s Michael K.”
March 21 Jessica Whyte (UWS) “Human Rights: Confronting governments? Michel Foucault and the Right to Intervene.”
April 04 Alex Ling (UWS) “Cinema as Anti-Philosophy?”
April 18 John Hadley (UWS) “Pain, Death, and Concern for Animal Life”
May 02 Paul Alberts  (UWS) “An Ecocritical Self: Beginning with Crusoe”
May 16 Robyn Ferrell (UWS) Cancelled

May 28

Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia) “An Archē for Radical Democracy”
Postponed Peter Banki (UWS)
"Love, Non-Understanding and Irony in the work of Friedrich Schegel"
July 04
3pm-5pm
Peter Gratton (Newfoundland)
"Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity"
August 01 Kiarina Kordela (Macalaster) “Gaze, or, The Limit to Boundary”
August 15 Dalia Nassar (Syd) “Goethe and Environmental Philosophy”
August 29 Vanessa Lemm (UNSW) Cancelled - “The posthumous in Derrida, Sartre and Nietzsche”
September 03 Peg Birmingham (Depaul)  "Revolutionary Declarations: État du droit and the droit de l’opposition"
September 26 James Phillips (UNSW) “Jean-Luc Nancy’s Fraternal First Philosophy of the ‘With’: Rethinking Communion”
October 10 Simone Bignall (UNSW) "Black Swan: Cracked Porcelain and Becoming-Animal"
October 24 Diego Bubio (UWS) "Kant's Sacrificial Turns"
October 31 Douglas Moggach (University of Toronto) “Marx and German Idealism”