Speakers
‘Sexual Desire in Scruton, Althusser, and Lacan’
Speakers
‘Sexual Desire in Scruton, Althusser, and Lacan’
A conference on Nancy’s work, in Oxford, in 2019. Information here: https://thinkingwithnancy2019.wordpress.com/
Poster available here: please disseminate widely
A message from across the Moors:
Boris Groys will be in Durham for the annual MLAC Leslie Brooks lecture on the evening of June 21st. To mark the occasion, we will also have a reading group on his Introduction to Anti-Philosophy book the morning after, on Friday 22nd, hopefully with Groys present.
https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/?eventno=38430
Philosophy Events
2017–18
Plenty of spaces still available for the events with Bernasconi and Andres de Saenz Sicilia, both of which will be excellent. So please register and come along.
Semester II
16/5 Robert Bernasconi (Penn State), ‘Rethinking the Anthropocene in Terms of Race’ (Contact michael.lewis@ncl.ac.uk if you want to attend this event)
Other, extra-mural events, organised by Bigg Books/Newcastle Philosophy Society
Unless otherwise indicated: Time: 7pm. Place: Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society. Admission: £3
Tuesday 15th May: (Keith Ansell-Pearson’s event has had to be cancelled: it will be replaced by:) Prof. Edith Hall (KCL), Aristotle on True Happiness
Saturday May 19th: Andres de Saenz Sicilia — Philosophical Materialism, 2–4pm (Hosted by the Newcastle Philosophy Society), St. John the Baptist Church Hall, Newcastle. Venue tbc. (Andres will also be giving an extra session for Newcastle students and others with a little background in philosophy, in the morning. Those interested in attending should contact Anthony Morgan to express their interest (a.t.morgan@live.co.uk).)
Tuesday 5th June: Gregory Claeys (Royal Holloway) — Why Marx Matters
Conferences
June 6th: Philosophy Undergrad-Postgrad conference: https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/philosophy/2018/01/29/philosophy-across-disciplines-newcastle-philosophy-undergraduate-and-postgraduate-conference-june-6th-2018/
The Friedrich Nietzsche Society is holding its conference here in September: https://fns.org.uk/node/342
An announcement from the Centre for Cultural Ecologies, a quondam partner of Newcastle Philosophy:
We are pleased to announce Psycho-Physical Causations, a seminar with HENRI ATLAN, on occasion of the publication of his new book on Spinoza and Contemporary Biology (Odile Jacob, 2018).
Prof. Atlan will offer a reading of Spinoza’s Ethics, Part III, Proposition 2:
“The body cannot determine the mind to thinking, and the mind cannot determine the body to motion, to rest, or to anything else (if there is anything else).”
The seminar will include the response of Dr. Michael Mack (Durham University) and a Q&A.
Wednesday 16th May, 4pm to 6pm (venue TBA)
Suggested reading: Henri Atlan, The Sparks of Randomness, Vol. II Chapter 6 (“A Spinozist Perspective on Evolution and The Theory of Action”)
Henri Atlan is an emeritus professor of biophysics, as well as the founder and director of the Research Centre in Human Biology at the Hadassah Hospital, in Jerusalem. He is also directeur d’études in philosophy of biology at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris. He is the author of seminal works such as Entre le cristal et la fumée (Editions du Seuil, 1979), Les Étincelles de hazard (Editions du Seuil, 1999; The Sparks of Randomness, Stanford University Press, 2011-2013), and Le Vivant post-génomique (Odile Jacob, 2011).
Michael Mack is the author of Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud (New York: Continuum, 2010).
For more information, please contact Dr. Mauro Senatore (Durham University), mauro.senatore@durham.ac.uk
This seminar is organised thanks to the support received from the British Academy and the Centre for Cultural Ecology at Durham University.