This week, we have the pleasure of welcoming Laura Cull from the University of Surrey! She will be giving a talk on “Opening the Circle, Toward a Radical Equality: Performance, Philosophy & Animals” DATE AND LOCATION 29.11. 4-6 pm: Dalhousie Building, Room 2G13 Abstract: Today, I would like to consider the relationships between performance, …
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, which is freely available to read online: http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/index.html This issue contains the first publication in English of Bernard Stiegler’s first philosophical work, ‘Technologies of Memory and Imagination,’ translated by Ashley Woodward and Amélie Berger Soraruff, along with …
DESCRIPTION Philosophy Seminar Series – presented by the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy ‘Samuel Beckett’s Art of Abstraction’ by Slavoj Žižek (The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities). All are welcome, but please book tickets in advance. The first 350 tickets will be for the main room. Any extra will be seated in the overspill theatre, …
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This Tuesday, we have the pleasure to welcome Hynek Janousek (Charles University, Prague) for a seminar on Hume. Date and time: Tuesday 30/11, 4-6pm Location: Dalhousie Building, room 2F14 Abstract: The influence and the reception of David Hume’s philosophical ideas by thinkers of the so called continental tradition is rarely discussed in literature and stands …
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Hi everyone ! The Scottish center for Continental Philosophy is pleased to welcome Dr Lynn Turner who will be giving a talk on Derrida’s Cardio-pedagogy this Wednesday. Location: 2F11 Dalhousie Building Time: 4-6pm Abstract: This paper will bring attention to the investments of White God (dir. Kornel Mundruczo, Hungary, 2015) in either shielding us from …
Read more “Dr Lynn Turner : In Lieu of Conclusion: Derrida’s Cardio-pedagogy and / in White God”
The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy is excited to announce that Dominic Smith has recently published a monograph drawing on his long-term research into philosophy of technology. The book is called Exceptional Technologies: A Continental Philosophy, and was officially published on 23rd August. “Philosophy of technology regularly draws on key thinkers in the Continental tradition, …
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“From ‘Ding an sich’ to ‘Ansichhalten’ – The Hermeneutics of Constitutive Absentiality in Kant and Heidegger” Andrea Rehberg (Newcastle University) (*Please note the change from the previously advertised date of Wednesday 6 June) All welcome! WHEN ? Friday, the 8th of June, 4-6 pm. WHERE ? Room 2F14, Dalhousie Building. Abstract: The initial idea motivating …
The university of Dundee had the pleasure to welcome Alexander Galloway, major media theorist based in New York, who ran a series of seminars on the concept of the digital and the analog. If you missed it, here is your chance to catch up! First Masterclass: the concept of the Digital Second Masterclass: the …
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 Dalhousie 1S05 Abstract: Although not widely known outside of France, Charles Péguy is an important social critic, essayist and poet from the early 20th century. European intellectuals who have been influenced by his work include T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and …
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When: Wednesday, 25th April. Where: Dalhousie Building, 2F14 Abstract: Hannah Arendt famously declared the “breakdown of all traditional authorities”, later going even further to say that “practically as well as theoretically, we are no longer in a position to know what authority really is”. Is authority in the Western tradition condemned to be …
Read more “Dr Connal Parsley: “The authority of the artist””