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    Event Date: 21 May 2013 Room 112 43 Gordon Sq Birkbeck, University of London London WC1H 0PD Birkbeck School of Arts presents: Birkbeck Arts Week 2013 James Shapiro interviews Colin Teevan This event is a conversation between Colin Teeva, a playwright, and Prof James Shapiro an eminent scholar of Renaissance theatre and culture. [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/james-shapiro-interviews-colin-teevan/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/science-and-writing-symposium/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/science-and-writing-symposium/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 13:05:59 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=18320
    Event Date: 20 May 2013 Room 414, Birkbeck Main Building Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HX Birkbeck School of Arts presents: Birkbeck Arts Week 2013 Science and writing symposium Literary works have long trespassed on the terrains of scientific discourse, interrogating the linguistic and ethical limits of scientific thinking and [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/science-and-writing-symposium/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/clayton-littlejohn-the-russellian-retreat/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/clayton-littlejohn-the-russellian-retreat/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 11:51:54 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=18312
Event Date: 20 May 2013 Room 22/26 Senate House University of London London WC1E 7HU The Aristotelian Society presents: Dr Clayton Littlejohn (KCL) – The Russellian Retreat Clayton Littlejohn is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at King’s College London. His publications include Justification and the Truth-Connection (Cambridge University Press, 2012), This is Epistemology (Wiley, [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/clayton-littlejohn-the-russellian-retreat/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/spinoza-and-nietzsche-in-dialogue-2-day-conference/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/spinoza-and-nietzsche-in-dialogue-2-day-conference/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 20:13:53 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=18102
Event Date: 17 – 18 May 2013 Room B01 Clore Management Centre Birkbeck, University of London Torrington Square London WC1E 7HX The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities presents:                           Spinoza and Nietzsche in Dialogue A two-day conference Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in 1881: “I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted! I have a precursor, and what a [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/spinoza-and-nietzsche-in-dialogue-2-day-conference/feed/ 2 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/brian-klug-dealing-with-difference-jews-muslims-and-the-british-left-today/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/brian-klug-dealing-with-difference-jews-muslims-and-the-british-left-today/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 19:56:29 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=18097
  Event Date: 16 May 2013 German Historical Institute 17 Bloomsbury Square Holborn, London WC1A 2NJ The Leo Baeck Institute London presents: A lecture series organised by the Leo Baeck Institute London, the Jewish Museum and the Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt am Main, in cooperation with the German Historical Institute London. This season’s topic will [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/brian-klug-dealing-with-difference-jews-muslims-and-the-british-left-today/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/eric-alliez-duchamp-a-calcutta/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/eric-alliez-duchamp-a-calcutta/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 19:36:29 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=18094
  Event Date: 16 May 2013 Lecture Theatre E002, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, London N1C 4AA The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) and the London Graduate School in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central Saint Martins present: Professor Éric Alliez (Kingston) – Duchamp à Calcutta Duchamp à Calcutta: No, Duchamp [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/eric-alliez-duchamp-a-calcutta/feed/ 1 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/maureen-mackintosh-health-care-commercialisation-a-core-development-issue/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/maureen-mackintosh-health-care-commercialisation-a-core-development-issue/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 09:44:11 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=18252
Event Date: 16 May 2013 Room B01 Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck, University of London Torrington Sq London WC1E 7HX Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies presents: The 3rd Annual Development Studies Lecture: Health care commercialisation: a core development issue Speaker: Professor Maureen Mackintosh (The Open University) Health care is a key sector of all [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/maureen-mackintosh-health-care-commercialisation-a-core-development-issue/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/crisis-creativity-and-the-self-1550-1700/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/crisis-creativity-and-the-self-1550-1700/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 19:26:55 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=18091
Event Date: 14 May 2013 Room 261   Senate House, University of London Malet St London WC1E 7HU   The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at
 Royal Holloway University of London presents: Crisis, Creativity and the Self, 1550–1700 An interdisciplinary study day exploring changing conceptions of subjectivity and creativity in the long seventeenth century, [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/crisis-creativity-and-the-self-1550-1700/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/gary-watson-psychopathy-and-prudential-deficits/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/gary-watson-psychopathy-and-prudential-deficits/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 19:19:13 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=18088
Event Date: 13 May 2013 Room 22/26 Senate House University of London London WC1E 7HU The Aristotelian Society presents: Professor Gary Watson (University of Southern California) – Psychopathy and Prudential Deficits Gary Watson’s area of specialization is moral,  political philosophy and legal philosophy, with a special concentration on the theory of agency and responsibility. More [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/gary-watson-psychopathy-and-prudential-deficits/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/alain-badiou-on-beckett-alberto-toscano-nina-power/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/alain-badiou-on-beckett-alberto-toscano-nina-power/#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 21:38:15 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=18242
on beckett alain badiou editors alberto toscano & nina power “This book is a double first – the first complete collection of all Badiou’s work on Beckett, and the first translation of this important material. Badiou presents a Beckett whose work is the work of philosophy itself – a philosophy in the full sense of [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/alain-badiou-on-beckett-alberto-toscano-nina-power/feed/ 1 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/the-actuality-of-the-absolute-hegel-our-untimely-contemporary/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/the-actuality-of-the-absolute-hegel-our-untimely-contemporary/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 10:05:55 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=17904
Event Date: 10 – 12 May 2013 Room B01 Clore Management Centre Birkbeck, University of London Torrington Square London WC1E 7HX The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities presents: The Actuality of the Absolute: Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary Hegel is the ultimate bête noire of the last two centuries of philosophy:proponents of Lebensphilosophie, existentialists from Kierkegaard [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/the-actuality-of-the-absolute-hegel-our-untimely-contemporary/feed/ 2 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/sanctioned-laughter-humour-war-and-dictatorship-in-twentieth-century-europe/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/sanctioned-laughter-humour-war-and-dictatorship-in-twentieth-century-europe/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 09:34:09 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=17899
Event Date: 10 May 2013 The Wiener Library 29 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DP The Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and the Wiener Library London present: Sanctioned Laughter: Humour, War and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Europe What was the relationship between power and laughter in the fascist and communist dictatorships of the twentieth [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/sanctioned-laughter-humour-war-and-dictatorship-in-twentieth-century-europe/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/max-deeg-between-cultures-the-chinese-buddhist-pilgrim-records/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/max-deeg-between-cultures-the-chinese-buddhist-pilgrim-records/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 22:02:25 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=17926
Event Date: 9 May 2013 
 Royal Asiatic Society 
Stephenson Way 
London NW1 2HD   The Royal Asiatic Society presents: Professor Max Deeg (University of Cardiff) – The Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim Records Talk: Questions: accompanying images:]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/max-deeg-between-cultures-the-chinese-buddhist-pilgrim-records/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/ken-gemes-nietzsche-on-the-value-of-truth/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/ken-gemes-nietzsche-on-the-value-of-truth/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 20:05:19 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=17503
  Department of Philosophy Professor Ken Gemes (Birkbeck) – Nietzsche on the Value of Truth Nietzsche claims that the with the rejection of religious underpinning of the value of truth (the truth as God’s word) we can now raise the question of why and to what extent we should value truth.  He argues that our [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/ken-gemes-nietzsche-on-the-value-of-truth/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/ken-gemes-nietzsche-on-nihilism-and-the-death-of-god/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/ken-gemes-nietzsche-on-nihilism-and-the-death-of-god/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 20:04:26 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=17501
  Department of Philosophy Professor Ken Gemes (Birkbeck) – Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Death of God This lecture introduces Nietzsche as the philosopher of the death of god. Nietzsche claims that we have not yet fully understood the ramifications of the modern rejection of belief in God.  Giving up on belief in God undermines [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/ken-gemes-nietzsche-on-nihilism-and-the-death-of-god/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/slavoj-zizek-the-event-politics-art-ontology/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/slavoj-zizek-the-event-politics-art-ontology/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 09:08:58 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=17895
    Event Date: 9 May 2013 Room B34 Birkbeck Main Building Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HX The Department of Psychosocial Studies presents: Professor  Slavoj Zizek – The Event: Politics, Art, Ontology]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/slavoj-zizek-the-event-politics-art-ontology/feed/ 3 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/molly-andrews-using-narratives-to-study-social-change/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/molly-andrews-using-narratives-to-study-social-change/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 09:01:21 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=17889
Event Date: 8 May 2013 Room 532, Main Building Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street London WC1E 7HX The Birkbeck Institute for Social Research presents: Using Narratives to Study Social Change Doing Critical Social Research This is the fourth in this seminar series. Speaker: Molly Andrews (Professor of Political Psychology UEL , and Co-director of [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/molly-andrews-using-narratives-to-study-social-change/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/romantic-transdisciplinarity-art-and-the-new-conference/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/romantic-transdisciplinarity-art-and-the-new-conference/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 08:35:48 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=17881
                                           Event Date 8 – 9 May 2013 Room 22/26 Senate House University of London London WC1E 7HU Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Presents: ‘Romantic Transdisciplinarity: Art and the New’ Conference 2011–2013 (AHRC 914469) This conference is dedicated to discussion of the transdisciplinary legacies of early German Romanticism in [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/romantic-transdisciplinarity-art-and-the-new-conference/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/after-beyond-the-fragments/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/after-beyond-the-fragments/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 13:38:08 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=17828
Event Date: 3 May 2013 Jeffery Hall Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL The Birkeck Institute for Social Research presents: AFTER, BEYOND THE FRAGMENTS? with Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal & Hilary Wainwright & Max Farrar, Pragna Patel, Rosie Rogers & Sasha Roseneil chaired by Melissa Benn A generation ago Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/after-beyond-the-fragments/feed/ 0 http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/catherine-malabou-whither-materialism-althusserdarwin/ http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/catherine-malabou-whither-materialism-althusserdarwin/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 13:06:07 +0000 rene http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/?p=17823
Event Date: 2 May 2013 Lecture Theatre E002, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, London N1C 4AA The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) and the London Graduate School in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central Saint Martins present: Professor Catherine Malabou (Kingston) – Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin I propose here to interpret the [...]]]> http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/05/catherine-malabou-whither-materialism-althusserdarwin/feed/ 3