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LGS Summer Academy 2015 Final Programme
The London Graduate School
Summer Academy in the Critical Humanities
University College London
22-25 June 2015
‘Right to Philosophy’
Programme
Featuring
Bernard Stiegler, Andrew Benjamin, Stella Sandford, Howard Caygill, Rebecca Comay, Catherine Malabou and Etienne Balibar
Monday 22nd June
1pm Registration and Welcome
Simon Morgan Wortham and Martin McQuillan (Kingston University)
South Wing 9 Garwood Lecture Theatre
2-4pm Bernard Stiegler (IRI)
“Facts and rights. Making the différance between code and law”
South Wing 9 Garwood Lecture Theatre
Tuesday 23rd June
10.30-noon Andrew Benjamin (Monash University and Kingston University)
“‘Je n’en sais rien’: Knowing after ‘nothing’. Proceeding after Deconstruction”
South Wing 9 Garwood Lecture Theatre
12-1.30pm Reading Groups, led by Chiara Alfano (Kingston University) and Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz (Princeton University)
Foster Court 130 and Foster Court 132
2.30-4pm Stella Sandford (Kingston University)
“Privilege”
Pearson North East Entrance G22 Lecture Theatre
Wednesday 24th June
10-11.30am Reading Groups, Chiara Alfano and Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
Foster Court 130 and Foster Court 132
11.30-1.30pm Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto)
“Leverage”
Pearson North East Entrance G22 Lecture Theatre
2.30-4pm Howard Caygill (Kingston University)
“That Perhaps Abused Word…”
South Wing 9 Garwood Lecture Theatre
Thursday 25th June
10.30am-noon Reading Groups, Chiara Alfano and Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
South Wing G12 Council Room and South Wing 9 Garwood Lecture Theatre
1-2.30 Catherine Malabou (Kingston University)
“Philosophical Commons and the French Republic”
Pearson North East Entrance G22 Lecture Theatre
3-4.30 Etienne Balibar (Columbia University and Kingston University)
“Which conditions for a ‘University without Conditions’? Rereading Derrida’s profession of faith fifteen years later”
Pearson North East Entrance G22 Lecture Theatre
Key Reading:
‘Privilege: Justificatory Title and Introductory Remarks’ in Who’s Afraid of Philosophy: Right to Philosophy I (Stanford University Press, 2002)
‘Mochlos’, ‘Vacant Chair’, and ‘The Principle of Reason’ and in Right to Philosophy 2: Eyes of the University (Stanford University Press, 2004)
Immanuel Kant, ‘What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?’ in Allen W. Wood and George Di Giovanni, eds (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
First of Kant’s Conflict of the Faculties