POLITICS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS The London Graduate School is pleased to announce details of its 2018 Summer Academy, an intensive week-long programme offered annually for postgraduate students of any institutional affiliation. This year’s Summer Academy is held in conjunction with The London Society of the New Lacanian School, The Lacanian Review, The Journal for Cultural […]

This is the final programme for the 2017 London Graduate School Summer Academy in the Critical Humanities, on the topic of ‘1967’: Monday 26 June 1pm Registration and Welcome 2pm Michael Naas (DePaul University), ‘The Inside Story of Derrida’s Grammatology‘ (Reading: Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology) 4pm Drinks Tuesday 27 June 11.00-12.30 Reading Groups 1.30pm Peggy […]

1967 was perhaps the annus mirabilis for the oeuvre of Jacques Derrida: Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomenon and Of Grammatology all appeared in French in that year. More generally, 1967 figures as a decisive moment in the history of what came to be called ‘theory’, ‘continental philosophy’, ‘post-structuralism’ and ‘deconstruction’. The Oxford Literary Review […]

The London Graduate School Summer Academy in the Critical Humanities 26-29 June 2017  “1967”     The London Graduate School is pleased to announce details of its 2017 Summer Academy, an intensive week-long programme offered annually for postgraduate students of any institutional affiliation. This year’s Summer Academy is held in conjunction with the Oxford Literary […]

Reading for LGS Summer Academy 2016 *** Core texts: Derrida, “Geschlecht: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference”, Research in Phenomenology  13.1 (1983): 65-83, “Women in the Beehive”, Differences 16.3 (2005): 139-157, “Choreographies”, Diacritics 12.2 (1982): 66-76,  Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979). Also: Derrida, Geneses, Genealogies, Genres, and Genius: The Secrets of the Archive  (New York: […]

The MA Psychoanalysis at Kingston University and the London Graduate School in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central Saint Martins present: The Speaking Body is Today’s Unconscious Psychoanalysis on the 21st Century Seminar 1 (21.1.16): Professor Pierre-Gilles Gueguen (Paris 8) – The Body and the Imaginary: The Case of Francis Bacon Pierre-Gille Guéguen’s talk […]

Public lecture series by LGS and Art and Philosophy, Central St Martins

Hegel-Lab 3rd International workshop HEGEL AND THE CONCEPT OF WORLD HISTORY Supported by the London Graduate School & the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University   Dates: 14-15 April 2016 Venue: Antoinette Hotel, Beaufort Road, Kingston, KT1 2TQ   Event description Objektiver Geist occupies an intermediary position in the general context of Hegel’s […]

10 November 2015, Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury Way, London   What Can We Do With Non-Philosophy? A Discussion with Alexander Galloway, Ian James, and John Ó Maoilearca ‘A great misunderstanding in fact threatens non-philosophy, that of its spontaneous definition as a theory or even as a practice. It is neither one nor the other, of course, neither practical theory […]

The London Graduate School Summer Academy in the Critical Humanities Gender and Difference 27-30 June 2016 The London Graduate School is pleased to announce details of its 2016 Summer Academy, an intensive week-long programme offered annually for postgraduate students of any institutional affiliation. In 1981 Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron published New French Feminisms, […]