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Event Date: 28 September 2012

Room 414

Birkbeck Main Buliding

Birkbeck, University of London

Malet Street, Bloomsbury

London WC1E 7HX

The Birkbeck Institute for Social Research

presents

Citizenship, Gender and Diversity

Seminar to mark the launch of a major new trans-European feminist book series – Citizenship, Gender and Diversity – published by Palgrave and edited by Beatrice Halsaa, Sasha Roseneil and Sevil Sümer. The seminar will present the first two books in the series, which both emanate from the FEMCIT project, an EU FP6 integrated project which ran from 2007-2011:

Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: women’s movements, gender and diversity (eds. Beatrice Halsaa, Sasha Roseneil and Sevil Sümer)

and

Majority-Minority Relations in Contemporary Women’s Movements: Strategic Sisterhood (Line Nyhagen Predelli and Beatrice Halsaa)

Leading feminist scholars, Nickie Charles, Gabriele Griffin, Gail Lewis, Anne Phillips and Lynne Segal, will offer their responses to the issues raised by the two books, and the seminar will be followed by a celebratory drinks reception.

Programme:

Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: women’s movements, gender and diversity – short talks by editors and authors
Introduction to the book – Beatrice Halsaa (University of Oslo), Sasha Roseneil (Birkbeck), Sevil Sümer (University of Bergen)

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• Sabine Strasser (University of Vienna) – Rethinking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe

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• Sasha Roseneil (Birkbeck) – Remaking Intimate Citizenship in Multicultural Europe

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• Solveig Bergman (University of Oslo) – Remaking Social Citizenship in Multicultural Europe

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• Joyce Outshoorn (University of Leiden) – Remaking Bodily Citizenship in Multicultural Europe

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• Monica Threlfall (London Metropolitan University)  – Remaking Political Citizenship in Multicultural Europe

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• Madeleine Kennedy-Macfoy (University of Oslo) – Remaking Citizenship from the Margins

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Minority-Majority Relations in Contemporary Women’s Movements – short talks by the authors

short talk by Line Nyhagen Predelli (Loughborough University) and Beatrice Halsaa (University of Oslo)

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Invited Panel – Responses to the Books
(in order of speaker)

• Nickie Charles (University of Warwick)

• Gabriele Griffin (University of York)

• Gail Lewis (Open University)

• Anne Phillips (London School of Economics)

• Lynne Segal (Birkbeck)

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FEMCIT website

Event Date:  27 September 2012

The Shakespeare Institute

Mason Croft

Church Street

Stratford-upon-Avon

CV37 6HP

The Shakespeare Institute presents:

Professor Michael Dobson (Shakespeare Institute) – A boy from Stratford, 1769-1916

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The Shakespeare Institute

An internationally renowned research institution established in 1951 to push the boundaries of knowledge about Shakespeare Studies and Renaissance Drama. The Shakespeare Institute offers a wide range of innovative postgraduate degrees, including postgraduate research.
During the Autumn and Spring terms, the Institute runs a series of Thursday seminars which are given by members of staff and invited speakers. The seminars start at 2.00pm lasting approximately 45 minutes followed by a question and answer session. University of Birmingham staff and students, and guests are welcome to attend

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Event Date: 17 – 18 September 2011
British Library Conference Centre
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB

The Italian Academies 1525–1700 Project presents:

THE FIRST INTELLECTUAL NETWORKS OF EARLY MODERN EUROPE

This major international conference is being hosted as part of the AHRC funded research project The Italian Academies 1525-1700: the first intellectual networks of early modern Europe.

Academies represent a vital and characteristic dimension of early modern culture.
There were ca. 600 Academies in Italy in the period 1525-1700. Frequently international in membership, and in correspondence with scholars across Europe, they were fundamental to the development of the intellectual networks later defined as the ‘République des Lettres’, and to the dissemination of ideas in early modern Europe. Their membership included pioneering scientists, writers, artists, political thinkers, and representatives of both sexes and all social classes. The interests of the Academies ranged from the humanities, to the figurative and performance arts, natural sciences and medicine; many were interdisciplinary in their outlook and activities.

However, the social and cultural phenomenon of the Italian Academies has hitherto attracted relatively little research due in part to the wide range of their interests and difficulties in accessing relevant information.

The  conference aims to explore research questions raised by the activities of Academies in this period.

Plenary lectures will be given by: Professor Giovanni Muto (Universtita’ Federico II Napoli); Professor emerita Alison Brown (University of London); Professor Virginia Cox (New York University); Professor Paolo Procaccioli (Università della Tuscia, Viterbo)

NB: Presentations are in English and Italian, indicated by   English, and Italian

Programme:

Monday, 17 September 2012

Welcome By Baroness Blackstone (Chairman, British Library)

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Introductory Remarks by Professor Caterina Miraglia (Assesore alla Cultura, Regione Campania)

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Plenary lecture
CHAIR: Charles Hope

Alison Brown – Defining the place of academies in Florentine politics and culture 
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Panel 1A
Pro or/and anti-Medici? Cultural dissidence, dynastical adhesion, and political ambivalence within 16th century

Florentine academies

CHAIR:  Alison Brown

Tommaso Mozzati (Perugia) paper read by Simone Testa – Le Compagnie del Paiuolo e della Cazzuola: strutture associative e integrazione nel governo dei nuovi Medici 
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James Ward (Berkeley, CA) – The Compagnia della Cazzuola as locus of opposition to Medici rule 
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Déborah Blocker (Berkeley, CA) – The Alterati in Medici Florence (1529-ca1620): an accademia privata between cultural dissidence and political service 
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PANEL 1B
Academies in Venice and the Veneto (1)
Venetian academies: politics and publishing.

CHAIR: Filippo de Vivo

Paule Desmouliere (Paris) - Funerary commemoration and early modern academies in the Veneto
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Marco Faini (Urbino) – A ghost academy between Venice and Brescia: philosophical scepticism and religious heterodoxy in the Accademia dei Dubbiosi
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Rosaria Bottari (Messina) – Tra eterodossia religiosa e modelli didattici erasmiani: L’Accademia Parteniana di Splilimbergo (Udine) e l’Accademia Ocricolana di Vicenza
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Panel 1B Audience Questions

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PANEL 2A
The Academies in Florence.

CHAIR: Denis Reidy

Domenico De Martino – Fondazione e motivi iconografici dell’Accademia della Crusca di Firenze
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Maria Pia Paoli - From a civic tradition to a European intellectual network: Florentine academies (16th-18th centuries)
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Panel 2A Audience Questions

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PANEL 2B
Academies in Venice and the Veneto (2)
Institutional identities in the academies of the Veneto

CHAIR: Richard Mackenney

Maurizio Sangalli (Siena) – Between church, university and academies: Paolo Beni in Padua, 1599-1623
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Alex Cittadella- Science and literature in seventeenth-century Venice: the Antonini brothers and the Accademia degli
Sventati in Udine
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Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway, London) – Battles for cultural hegemony between the Venetian Accademia degli Incogniti and Papal Rome under the Barberini
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Panel 2B Audience Questions

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Plenary lecture
CHAIR: Silvia De Renzi

Virginia Cox – Members, muses, mascots: women and Italian academies
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PANEL 3A
Dissent, controversy and the Academies

CHAIR: Letizia Panizza

Emanuela Bufacchi - Ecclesiastical censorship and the Academy of Incogniti
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Germano Pallini – Accademie senesi
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Carla Chiummo – Bronzino e l’Accademia fiorentina
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PANEL 3B
Academies in Venice and the Veneto (3)
Women writing, and love theory in the academies of the Veneto

CHAIR: Abigail Brundin

Alison Smith (Wagner College) – Women and the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona
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Paola Cosentino – Dee, imperatrici, cortigiane: la natura della donna nei romanzi degli Incogniti (Venezia)
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Lisa Sampson (University of Reading) – Gentlemen of Verona and theatrical activities in the Accademia Filarmonica
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Panel 3B Audience Questions

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Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Plenary lecture
CHAIR: John Robertson

Giovanni Muto – “Far beneficio al mondo in generale”. Congiuntura politica e strutture civili a Napoli tra XVI e XVII secolo

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PANEL 4A
The Academies in Naples

CHAIR: Loredana Conti (Sovrintendente ai Beni Librari e Bibliotecari, Regione Campania)

Lorenza Gianfrancesco (Royal Holloway, London) – From Manuscript to Print: the Oziosi and Sileni Neapolitan Academies Tribute to Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain
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Tom Denman (University of Reading) - Literary academies and the image in baroque Naples
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Delphine Montoliu – Oltre lo Stretto: scambi accademici tra intellettuali siciliani e napoletani nel Seicento
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Panel 4A Audience Questions

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PANEL 4B
Bologna and the North

CHAIR: Simone Testa

Rossella Bonfatti (Bologna) – Oralità e società nell’Accademia degli Accesi: “Degli errori d’inclinazione poetica” di Pier Jacopo Martello
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Clizia Gurreri – Nec Longum tempus. L’Accademia dei Gelati tra XVI e XVII secolo
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Maiko Favaro – Tra musica, scienza e riflessione sull’amore: l’Accademia Palladia di Capodistria
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Panel 4B Audience Questions

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PANEL 5A
The Academies in Sicily

CHAIR: Jane Everson (Royal Holloway, London).

Irene Bagni – Il petrarchismo come convenzione letteraria. L’esperienza poetica dell’accademia degli Accesi di Palermo
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Salvatore Bottari – The Accademia della Fucina: culture and politics in 17th-century Messina
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Panel 5A Audience Questions

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PANEL 5B
The Academies in Rome

CHAIR: Clare Robertson

Ambra Moroncini (University of Sussex) – The Accademia della Virtù and Religious Dissent
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Peter M. Lukehart read by Lucy Davis – The Accademia di San Luca between educational and religious reform
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Naomi J. Barker – Cicadas, charivaris and sistra: music in the Accademia dei Lincei
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Panel 5B Audience Questions

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Plenary lecture
CHAIR: Dilwyn Knox

Paolo Proccaccioli - Accademia come palestra e come tribuna. Girolamo Ruscelli sdegnato, ardente, dubbioso, fratteggiano

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PANEL 6A
Literary genres and Academies

CHAIR: Stefano Jossa (Royal Holloway, London)

Lorenzo Sacchini – The Accademia degli Insensati di Perugia (1561-1608 )
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Alberto Roncaccia (Université de Lausanne) – Poeti petrarchisti nel contesto dell’Accademia di Modena
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Panel 6A Audience Questions

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PANEL 6B
Sociability and learned institutions

CHAIR: Lorenza Gianfrancesco (Royal Holloway, London)

Arjan van Dixhoorn – Performative literary culture in late medieval and early modern Europe (1300-1700)
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Natasa Paripovic – The Academic movement in early modern Venetian Dalmatia: the city of Zadar (Croatia)
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Simone Testa (Royal Holloway, London) – Italian Academies – Facebooks. A Work in Progress
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Panel 6B Audience Questions

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Closing remarks by Professor Jane Everson (Royal Holloway, London)

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Event Date: 14 September 2012
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Clore Education Centre, British Museum
Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG

The Royal Anthropological Institute , London presents

The 2012 Henry Myers Lecture

Professor Ian Hacking (Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto) – The Anthropology (and Archaeology) of Numbers

We are, among many other things, the mathematical animal. That is a fact about human nature, a fitting subject for anthropology to address. How did mathematics become possible for a species like ours, in a world like this one? That is a question in ecological history, and prehistory, to which many disciplines are now offering fragmentary answers—cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, neurology, and developmental psychology, for example, but also the history of science. I shall discuss how ethnography and ‘the archaeology of mind’ can contribute to understanding this aspect of being human.

Introduction by  Professor Clive Gamble.

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Event Date: 13 September 2012
The Shakespeare Institute
Mason Croft
Church Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
CV37 6HP

The Shakespeare Institute presents:

Year of Shakespeare Autumn Workshop

The programme for the day is as follows:

Introduction to the project and one another

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Education and the WSF (Tracy Irish)

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Representing history in the WSF (Pete Orford, Will Sharpe)

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The WSF beyond London and Stratford (Alun Thomas, Aneta Mancewicz, Adam Hansen, Monika Smialkowska)

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Cultural identity and cultural politics in the WSF (Steve Purcell, Pete Smith, Kate Rumbold)

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Group discussions and roundtable

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Event Date: 13 and 14 September 2012

Sunley Management Centre

Park Campus,

University of Northampton

Radicalism and New Media Group presents:

A Special Relationship of Hate? 50 years of the Anglo-American Far-Right

2012 is the 50th anniversary of the ‘Cotswold Agreement’ and the corresponding establishment of the World Union of National Socialists under the leadership of the UK’s Colin Jordan and the USA’s George Lincoln Rockwell. Since then, numerous examples of postwar fascist ‘internationalism’ are demonstrated by the interrelated development of British and American far-right ideology, culture, aesthetics and practices – found to represent, in the words of Leonard Weinberg, a leading scholar on this neglected subject, a tightly-knit ‘cultural and political affinity between right-wing extremist groups on both sides of the Atlantic, together with an increasing exchange of ideas, perspectives, forms of organization’ and more. Ranging from music and dress to shared political agendas and strategies, these ‘affinities’ will be expansively traced in this two-day international conference, to be hosted by the University of Northampton’s Radicalism and New Media Research Group (www.radicalism-new-media.org) on 13 and 14 September 2012.

Conference Programme

Thursday 13 September

Welcome and  by Doug Rae, Deputy Dean Social Sciences.

Introduction to the conference by Dr Paul Jackson (Northampton).
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Keynote Talk:

Professor Leonard Weinberg (University of Nevada) – The Far Right in Britain and America, 1962-2012

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Panel 1 – The Impact of the 1960s (Chair: Daniel Köhler)

Professor Clive Webb (University of Sussex) – Enoch Powell and the American Far Right
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Dr Paul Jackson (University of Northampton) – Colin Jordan and American Extremism
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Panel 2 – Networks of Violent Extremism (Chair: Matthew Feldman)

Daniel Köhler (EXIT-Germany) – An Axis of Hate – Recursive Influences and Networks between German, American and British Neo-Nazi Structures. A Case Study
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Mark Littler (University of Manchester) – People like us: Mapping social media linkages between the European and American far-right
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Panel 3 – The English Defence League in Context: (Chair Mark Littler)

Ruari Sutherland (University of Strathclyde) – The EDL in Britain, Scotland and internationally
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Professor Dominic Alessio (Richmond American International University, London) – English Blackshirts for the 21st Century? Comparing the English Defence League and the Italian Squadristi
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Panel 4 – Far Right Cultures (Chair: Paul Jackson)

Dr Anton Shekhovtsov (University of Northampton) – Volksfront: US and UK chapters
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Professor Jérôme Jamin (Université de Liège) – Cultural Marxism in the Anglo-Saxon radical right literature
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Panel 5: Holocaust Denial and the Legacy Of World War Two (Chair: Paul Jackson)

Dr Matthew Feldman, (University of Teesside) – First and Second Wave Fascism: Ezra Pound and British Fascists
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Curtis Bryan Robinson (independent scholar) – The Bubble of Deniability and the Great Mystery of the Third Reich
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Keynote Talk:

Dr Martin Durham (University of Wolverhampton) – The Anglo-American Far Right since the early 1960s

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Friday 14 September 2012

Welcome and introduction by Chris Moore, Executive Dean Social Sciences.

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Keynote Talk:

Leonard Zeskind (Institute for Research & Education of Human Rights) – Tea Parties and Dispossession

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Launch of Far Right Forum

with Laura Pidcock (Show Racism the Red Card), Haroon Khalil (Brighton and Hove City Council) and Dr Paul Jackson (University of Northampton)

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British Police and Community Perspectives on the Far Right

Presentation featuring William Baldet (Northamptonshire Police), Anjona Roy (Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council)

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Demos on the Far Right

Presentation led by Jonathan Birdwell (Demos)

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Show Racism the Red Card on Prejudices in Britain

Presentation by Laura Pidcock and Kate Hollingshead (Show Racism the Red Card)

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Southern Poverty Law Center on the Rising Tide of Hate in the United States

Presentation led by Ryan Lenzand and Mark Potok (Southern Poverty Law Center)

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Searchlight Magazine on the British and US Far Right

Interview with Gerry Gable (Editor, Searchlight) and conference close

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Event Date 12 – 14  September 2012
Queen Mary University of London,
King’s College London and Kingston University

The London Graduate School  presents:

Film-Philosophy Conference 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 conference will take place September 12-14, and will be jointly hosted by King’s College London, Queen Mary, University of London and Kingston University.

Keynote Speakers:

•     Bernard Stiegler (Goldsmiths, University of London;  University of Technology of Compiègne)  and

•     Ken McMullen (Director of Ghost Dance)                    AUDIO HERE

•     Francesco Casetti (Yale University)                              AUDIO HERE

•     Damian Sutton (Middlesex University)                        AUDIO HERE

•     Libby Saxton (Queen Mary, University of London)   AUDIO HERE

Event Date: 5 – 7 September 2012
Manchester Metropolitan University,
All Saints Building, All Saints,
Manchester, M15 6BH

The Society for European Philosophy (SEP) and the Forum for European Philosophy (FEP) 2012 Conference

in association with The London Graduate School

The Society for European Philosophy (SEP) aims to provide a forum for research and teaching in all areas of European philosophy, broadly construed. It provides an opportunity for scholars from any country, and any discipline, to come together and share ideas. Since 1997, the SEP conference has been an important annual event for faculty, post-graduate students and independent scholars of European philosophy throughout the world. Since 2005 the SEP annual conference has been run jointly with the Forum for European Philosophy (FEP), helping to make the three-day conference the largest event of its kind in Europe. This year the joint conference will also run in association with the London Graduate School.

The four keynote events will be recorded and are available here soon after the conference.

Keynote speakers:

Catherine Malabou – It does not have to be like this

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Plenary Panel Session:  New materialities, other deconstructions
Catherine Malabou, Martin McQuillan, Simon Morgan Wortham

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Alphonso Lingis -  The return of subjectivity

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Shaun Gallagher – What can phenomenology tell us about social cognition?

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