TALK CANCELLED Within the context of Cooper Gallery’s current exhibition The Pleasure of Expense by Jasmina Cibic, we are delighted to host a talk by Professor Dany Nobus on “Arresting Masculinity: Anger, Hybridity and the Persistence of Patriarchy in the 21st Century”. The event will take place on the Wednesday 11 of December, at …
This week we have the pleasure of welcoming Michael Lewis who will be discussing on “Helmuth Plessner and the Contemporary Relevance of Philosophical Anthropology”. As usual, do not hesitate to join us for this exciting discussion. The event will take place in room 1G05 (Dalhousie Building) from 4 to 6 pm, on Wednesday the 18th …
This week we have the pleasure of welcoming Jeffrey Bell who will be giving a talk on “Making Sense of Capital: Towards a Deleuzo-Humean Political Theory”. As usual, do not hesitate to join us for this exciting discussion. The event will take place in room 1G05 (Dalhousie) from 4 to 6 pm, on Wednesday the …
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This week, we welcome Dr Julia Ng (Goldsmith) who will be talking about “Ancient Mexico and Natural-History: Walter Benjamin’s Transition Problem”. The talk will take place at Dalhousie Building (room 1G05), Wednesday 6th November, from for 4 to 6 pm. Abstract: This paper traces one of early critical theory’s key terms—Walter Benjamin’s …
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This Wednesday, we have the pleasure of welcoming Dr Gregor Moder from the University of Ljubljana who will be talking about “Lubitsch, Shakespeare and the Power of Theater”. Location: The talk will be held in room 2G12, Dalhousie Building Time: The event will take place on Wednesday the 16th of October from 4 …
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Co-presented by Philosophy & the School of Life Sciences University of Dundee Wednesday 5 June 2019, 3pm in the Sir Kenneth and Lady Noreen Murray Seminar Room, CTIR How have views about females shifted in the international research community of evolutionary biologists? Females were long expected to be coy and to gain no benefit from …
Co-presented by Philosophy & the School of Life Sciences University of Dundee Wednesday 22 May 2019 3pm in the Sir Kenneth and Lady Noreen Murray Seminar Room, CTIR Day by day, month by month, we are losing species at rates not previously observed by humans, leading a near unanimous chorus of scientists to claim we …
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Dear everyone, We are pleased to invite you to a workshop on “Materialist Pedagogies”. The core aim of the workshop is to reflect on what can count as a ‘stimulus’ or ‘object of thought’ in the Arts and Humanities today, in the face of a world that, if you believe the hype, seems to be ‘dematerialising’ …
What is it about? What better way to endure the Brexit confusion than have a conversation about a famous philosophical outsider figure who took an informed and insightful interest in the corner of the British Isles where you’re based….. This is what Dr Dominic Smith, from the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy was able to do …
This Thursday, we have the pleasure of welcoming Christoph Menke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), who will be giving a talk on “the Shadow of the Constitution: The Crisis of Liberalism”. Date and Location: March 7th, 4-6pm 2F15, Dalhousie Building Abstract: Liberalism is a theory and practice of public order which puts it on a completely …
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