Listen to the fifth in the series of public lectures on philosophy, politics and the arts, hosted jointly by CRMEP and LGS in conjunction with art and philosophy at Central Saint Martins: Stella Sandford on the critical theory of sex (21st March 2013) at CSM, click here to listen

The London Graduate School held a half-day symposium on “Debt” at Bolivar Hall, Grafton Way, on Thursday 14th March, featuring Etienne Balibar on “Debt Capitalism”, Samuel Weber on “The Debt of the Living”, Howard Caygill on “Debt and the Origins of Obedience” and Martin McQuillan on “False Economy”: click here to listen

An AHRC-funded PhD studentship is available with Kingston University’s Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), the leading centre for postgraduate level study and doctoral research in Continental Philosophy in the UK. This award is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under its Capacity Building programme and is available to start from [...]

Listen to the first in ten lectures on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts, offered jointly by The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) and the London Graduate School in conjunction with Central Saint Martins – click here to listen: Howard Caygill – Philosophy and The Black Panthers Howard Caygill  reflects on the role played by [...]

Call For Papers History, Postcolonialism and Tradition The Postcolonial Studies Association Conference The organisers of the 2013 Postcolonial Studies Association would like to invite proposals for papers on this year’s theme: ‘History, Postcolonialism and Tradition’. The theme is designed to facilitate the opportunity for interdisciplinary dialogue, particularly (but not exclusively) between the spheres of literature, [...]

Philosophical Screens: Catherine Wheatley on ‘Playable Reality’ in Haneke’s Benny’s Video In the latest in our series exploring the dialogue between film and philosophy, Catherine Wheatley examines Michael Haneke’s unsettling tale of teenage alienation and disturbance. Get tickets here Feb 6, 2013 6:30 PM Austria-Switzerland 1992 Directed by Michael Haneke With Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, [...]

Announcing the LGS graduate seminar programme for Spring Term 2012-13. For all students of the LGS. Also open to CRMEP students. Seminars will take place in the John Gallsworthy Building on the Penrhyn Road Campus, Room JG3015, from 4-6pm. 5th February – Samuel Weber, Walter Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. John Osborne (Verso, [...]

Unruly Creatures 3 London Graduate School, Kingston University and the Centre for Arts and Humanities Research, Natural History Museum, London April 23 2013 http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=2372 Confirmed speakers: Robert McKay (University of Sheffield) Andrew Dodds Jennifer Parker-Starbuck (University of Roehampton) Giovanni Aloi (Editor of Antennae) This is the third in a series of one-day conferences that analyse [...]

You can listen to François Laruelle’s lecture ‘The Degrowth of Philosophy: Towards a Generic Ecology’ here.

Gran Torino at LGS/BFI Philosophical Screens, December 12, 2012 BFI Southbank 6.10pm In the latest in this series exploring the dialogue between philosophy and film, philosopher Pascal Sévérac examines Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood’s complex portrait of the relationship between a widowed Korean war veteran (played by Eastwood himself) and his Hmong American neighbours, which reaches [...]