LGS Blog
Announcing LGS Graduate Seminar in the Critical Humanities (Autumn Term)
Tuesdays, 5-7 pm
John Galsworthy Building Room 2005
Penrhyn Road campus
Kingston University
Seminar coordinator
Prof Isabella van Elferen,
Contact
Sven Raeymaekers, /
Reading material will be made available in PDF ahead of each seminar.
Programme
6 October
Prof Isabella van Elferen: Phenomenology vs Ontology (vs Sound)
Reading: Jean-Luc Nancy, Listening (2007)
13 October
Prof Fred Botting: On Desire
Reading: TBC
20 October
Prof Tina Chanter: Rancière and Feminist Aesthetics
Reading: TBC
27 October
October 27.
Prof Andrew Benjamin: Images, Iconoclasm and the Founding of the Law
Reading: Exodus 32. 19-20
Viewing: Rembrandt. Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law (1659)
10 November
Prof Peter Buse: On Enjoyment
Reading: TBC
17 November, NB: seminar from 7-9 pm this week
Dr Helen Palmer: Borders and Surfaces: Deleuze’s Nomadic Alice
Reading: Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense
24 November
Prof John O’Maoilearca: Non-Standard Equalities
Reading: Alexander Galloway, Laruelle: Against the Digital, 2014
1 December
Dr Hager Weslati: Boredom & Time
Reading: from Heidegger’s The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics (1929-30)
8 December
Dr Eleni Ikoniadou: Sonic Fictions
Reading: Kodwo Eshun, ‘Operating System for the redesign of sonic reality’ in More Brilliant than the Sun (1998)
15 December
Prof Simon Morgan Wortham: On Civility: Balibar, Rancière, Lyotard
Reading: selections from Etienne Balibar, Violence and Civility (2015); J.F. Lyotard, ‘The Other’s Rights’ (1993)