In TICK TALKs: The Blind and Deaf Highway Woman, we hear from Dr Undine Sellbach from the University of Dundee about her research and writing on the biologist Jakob von Uexküll, including his writing on ticks in which he presents the tick as a subject. The shared foray explores the tick in our contemporary world …
This Thursday, the 15th of April, from 5pm to 7pm we will welcome Jason E. Smith (Los Angeles) who will give a lecture entitled Aristotle’s Dream. The event will take place through Teams. If you are interested in participating, please contact Dr Frank Ruda to register. Jason E. Smith lives in Los Angeles and writes …
What a year it has been… Almost exactly a year ago, Dr Dom Smith from the centre had a chance to sit down and do a podcast on two of his favourite things in life: Philosophy… and FOOTBALL!. Dom did this with Stuart and Simon from the ‘I Leeds Therefore I Am’ podcast – listen …
We are pleased to announce the talk Freud’s Agnosticism? by Lorenzo Chiesa from Newcastle University. The talk will be an online event and it will take place the 8th of April at 4pm. Teams will be used. If you are interested in participating, please contact Dr Frank Ruda to register. Here is the abstract of …
We are pleased to announce the talk Freud’s Agnosticism? by Lorenzo Chiesa from Newcastle University. The talk will be an online event and it will take place the 8th of April at 4pm. Teams will be used. If you are interested in participating, please contact Dr Frank Ruda to register. Here is the abstract of …
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Dr Dominic Smith from the Centre recently had the pleasure of taking part in an expert witness panel for the Scottish Parliament, that fed into the work of a Citizens’ Panel on Covid-19 Strategy. The panel responded to the question: “What priorities should shape the Scottish Government’s approach to Covid-19 restrictions and strategy in 2021?”. …
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We are pleased to announce two online events that are going to take place in this term’s philosophy speaker series: “More Real Than Real: Truth and Authenticity in Psychoanalysis” by Patricia Gherovici, from the University of Philadelphia, is taking place on the 13th of January at 4PM. “The Mute Animal. Adorno’s Rhinoceros” by Alexander Garcia Dütmann, from the …
We are pleased to announce that the “Indeterminate Futures / The Future of Indeterminacy” online conference will take place on November 13-14-15. Click the following link for every detail, including day by day programme, speaking abstracts and instructions about registration: https://indeterminacy.ac.uk/indeterminate-futures/
Slavoj Žižek: Samuel Beckett’s Art of Abstraction In 2018 we invited Slavoj Žižek from the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities to speak as part of the Evening Lecture Series, hosted by the The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy at the University of Dundee. Mladen Dolar: Gossip’s Feast. Politics in the Time of …