9 May 2012 Swedenborg Hall 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH LARUELLE in LONDON: The LGS Seminars François Laruelle – Pour une philosophie dite ‘contemporaine’ (Towards a Philosophy Deemed ‘Contemporary’) With an introduction by John Mullarkey. To listen: click here Professor Laruelle has taught at both the University of Paris X and the Collège international [...]

Free public seminar (all welcome): Branka Arsic (SUNY Albany), “Memorial Life: Thoreau, Freud and Benjamin on Nature in Mourning” and David Wills (SUNY Albany), “Bloodless Coup: Love in the Heart of Technology”, at the Swedenborg , Wynter Room, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, 6-8pm on Tuesday 22nd May. Branka Arsic specialises in nineteenth-century literature and culture, [...]

Laruelle lecture, May 9, 2012: Towards a Philosophy Deemed ‘Contemporary’ http://www.thelondongraduateschool.co.uk/?p=667

Programmes and Abstracts

To hear Professor Ken McMullen (LCC), ‘Immortality and Cinema’, recorded at the Swedenborg on 27th March 2012: click here Ken McMullen is an award-winning film director and artist living currently in London. His feature films are distributed worldwide, his documentaries broadcast extensively and his art works exhibited in leading contemporary art galleries in Europe, The [...]

MA Criticism, Literature, Theory Course overview This MA combines cutting edge theory with critical invention, exploring the cross-disciplinary force of literature as it traverses multiple media. Taught by leading researchers in the field, it provides a context of stimulating seminars and debates designed to foster an extensive grounding in a wide range of theoretical approaches, [...]

Philosophical Screens Wed 25 Apr 18:30 at BFI Southbank (NFT3) Matthieu Potte-Bonneville on L’exercice de l’État (The Minister) (France 2011. Dir Pierre Schöller.     With Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman. 115min. EST) Philosophical Screens is a new series, running twice per semester, that invites audiences to explore dialogues between philosophy and film, through [...]

‘Theory and the Disappearing Future’, Tom Cohen, London Graduate School lecture, 21st February 2012, Swedenborg Hall, BloomsburyWay, London: click here

Apply for a full-time PhD studentship starting in October 2012, for 3 years (subject to annual monitoring). Proposals are invited for research in any area of critical theory, continental thought or modern European philosophy, relating to the interests and expertise of  staff in LGS or CRMEP (Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy). The studentships [...]

Professor Catherine Malabou (Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy) gave her inaugural lecture at Kingston University on February 2nd 2012. Entitled “Continental Philosophy and the Brain: Towards a Critical Neuroscience”, it can be downloaded free here