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Research Seminars and Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures


Academic Session: 2009-10: Autumn

Unless otherwise indicated, each lecture will be held on Wednesdays from 4.00 to 6.00pm, in Dalhousie, room 2F13 (Building 14 on the Main Campus Map).

Date Speaker and Title
Sep 16 David Rodin (University of Oxford)
How Rights Move
Sep 30 Dominic Smith (University of Dundee)
Risk and Subjectivity: Deleuze, Badiou, and the Stakes of Contemporary Ethical Thought
Oct 7 Karin de Boer (University of Groningen)
On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative
Oct 14 Didier Debaise (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Subjects of Nature. Reconstructing the concept of event with Tarde and Whitehead
Oct 28 Alberto Moreiras (University of Aberdeen)
Life's Vertigo - Biopolitics and the Impersonal
Nov 4 Julian Reid (King's College London)
The Subject, State, and War
Nov 11 The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Philosophy and Religion
Philip Goodchild (University of Nottingham)
Philosophy as a Spiritual Exercise
Nov 18 The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Philosophy and Religion
Claire Carlisle (University of Liverpool)
Kierkegaard and the Question of Freedom
Nov 25 The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Philosophy and Religion
Graham Ward (University of Manchester)
The Sacred Origins of Modernity
Dec 2 Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc (Ecole Normale Superieure)
Politicization of Deleuzian thought, Minority's Position within Marxism