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

The Society for European Philosophy and The Forum for European Philosophy Joint Conference 2012 (and in association with the London Graduate School) Manchester Metropolitan University 5th-7th September 2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis) Alphonso Lingis (Pennsylvania State University) Catherine Malabou (Kingston University) CALL FOR PAPERS/CONTRIBUTIONS The Society for European Philosophy (SEP) aims to [...]

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 [...]

LARUELLE in LONDON May 8 and 9, 2012 Professor François Laruelle will give his second set of talks on Non-Standard Philosophy at the London Graduate School on May 8th and 9th 2012. The May events comprise an afternoon workshop on May 8th, 2-5pm in The Conservatory, Bloomsbury Publishing, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP – this [...]

Tom Cohen (Professor in Literary, Cultural and Media Studies, SUNY at Albany) will give a lecture on Tuesday 21st February, 6-8pm, at the Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury Way, London, on ‘Theory and the Disappearing Future 1: Oil and the End of Philosophy’. There will also be a seminar the following day, Wednesday 22nd February, 4pm, in EM330, [...]

Film-Philosophy Conference 2012 Kingston, KCL and QMUL September 12-14, 2012 http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/index.php/conf/2012 Film-philosophy continues to grow as an important discipline within the fields of both Film Studies and Philosophy. The Film-Philosophy Conference brings together scholars from all over the world to present their research on a broad range of topics within the subject area. The 2012 [...]

Date:   18 June 2012 , 10:00 to 18:00 Location:       Flett Lecture Theatre, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD Fee:    Free Unruly Creatures 2: Creative Revolutions Speakers: Anat Pick (University of East London) Jonathan Burt (Series Editor, ‘Animal’ – Reaktion Books) Erica Fudge (University of Strathclyde) André Dias (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) This is [...]

Catherine Malabou will give her Inaugural Lecture at Kingston University on February 2nd, 2012, 6-8pm. The venue will be the Clattern Lecture Theatre, Penrhyn Road Campus. The lecture is entitled ‘Continental Philosophy and the Brain: Towards a Critical Neuroscience’, and will be presented under the auspices of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy. The [...]

 Julia Reinhard Lupton, ‘The Renaissance Republic of Furniture: From Political Theology to Political Ecology’, Thursday, 8th December 7pm, Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury Way. Julia Reinhard Lupton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, with a joint appointment in Education. In 2010-2011, she is directing UCI’s Program in Jewish Studies. In [...]