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Event Date: 23 May 2012
Windsor Building WIN 1-04
Royal Holloway
Egham, Surrey
TW20 0EX

The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at
 Royal Holloway University of London presents:

What’s Hecuba to him?: Terror, pity and the matter of Troy (from Homer to Alice Oswald)

Professor Marina Warner (Essex) – What’s Hecuba to him?: Terror, pity and the matter of Troy (from Homer to Alice Oswald)

When the First Player dissolves in tears as he recites scenes from the fall of Troy, Hamlet exclaims at the intensity of the actor’s identification, by contrast with his own frozen feelings and incapacity. Hecuba’s tragedy becomes the emblem of empathy, produced more intensely by dramatic representation than by real life.
Recent, near obsessive returns to the Iliad and the matter of Troy, refract current conflicts, and these renderings and revisionings act upon the emotions and attitudes of the spectator and the reader. Marina Warner will explore the way this return to the most ancient war in literature, especially in the work of women writers and artists, makes a claim for the function of art and realigns the question of catharsis.

Marina Warner is Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, and currently visiting professor at NYU Abu Dhabi. She is a writer of fiction, criticism and history, and her many publications include studies of art, myths, symbols and fairy tales, as well as novels and short stories. She is the author of (among others): Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976) a provocative and highly influential study of Roman Catholic adoration of the Virgin Mary; Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (1985); Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time (Reith Lectures) (1994); No Go the Bogey-man: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (1998), a study of the male terror figure from ancient myth and folklore to modern obsessions; Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture (2003); and Phantasmagoria (2006), which traces the ways in which ‘the spirit’ has been represented across different mediums, from waxworks to cinema. Professor Warner was elected a Fellow of the (2006), which traces the ways in which ‘the spirit’ has been represented across different mediums, from waxworks to cinema. Professor Warner was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature| in 1984 and of the British Academy in 2005. In 2008 she was awarded a CBE for services to literature, and is currently President of the British Comparative Literature Association. Her most recent book, Stranger Magic: Charmed States & The Arabian Nights, published by Chatto & Windus in 2011, is a groundbreaking study that shows how magic helped to create the modern world, and how it is still deeply inscribed in the way we think today.

Event Date: 9 March 2012

Beveridge Hall

Senate House, University of London

Malet St

London WC1E 7HU

The Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at
 Royal Holloway University of London presents:

Jacques Rancière in London

Professor Jacques Rancière – Modernity Revisited

Working against simplistic visions of the historical break and the conquest of autonomy which underpin the modernist doxa, the aim is to bring out once again the multiplicity of interweavings that have made up what is called artistic modernity: articulations of heterogeneous temporalities, the diagonals traced between artistic practices separated by their own particular primary material, the constant borrowings by the noble arts from the popular arts, the crossings and tensions between the forms of art and those of everyday experience, and between its paradigms and the modes of interpretation of the common world and of the causality of collective action.

Jacques Rancière is emeritus professor at the University of Paris VIII, where he taught in the Philosophy Department from 1969 to 2000, and visiting professor in several American universities. Most of his work has been devoted to the articulation of politics and aesthetics. Among the books recently translated into English are Staging the People and The Emancipated Spectator (both Verso), Politics of Literature (Polity Press), Mute Speech (Columbia University Press), Chronicles of Consensual Times, Mallarmé and Althusser’s Lesson (all Continuum). His latest book Aisthesis. Scènes du régime esthétique de l’art has recently come out in France (Galilée).

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Welcome by Professor John O’Brien (Royal Holloway) .

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Introduction by Professor Andrew Gibson (Royal Holloway) .

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Event Date 18 January

Institut Français

17 Queensberry Place

London SW7

Almanya – Welcome to Germany

A film by Yasemin Samdereli

Germany | 2011 | col | 97 mins | dir. Yasemin Samdereli, with Vedat Erincin, Fahri Yardim, Rafael Koussouris, Denis Moschitto | cert. tbc | in German & Turkish with English subtitles

‘Who or what am I – a German or a Turk?’, asks six-year old Cenk Yilmaz. The film offers an answer by taking the arrival of the one-millionth ‘guest worker’ in Germany on 10 September 1964 as its narrative starting point. This heart-warming comedy about Hüseyin Ylimaz and his family imagines labour migration as a magical tale of German hospitality and successful Turkish integration.

Introduction by Professor Daniela Berghahn (Royal Holloway)

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Q&A with Yasemin and Nesrin Samdereli

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Event Date: 26 May 2011
Room S274/275
Stewart House
32 Russell Square
London, WC1B 5DN

Time, Politics and Becoming:

A One-Day Conference on William E. Connolly’s A World of Becoming

One of the leading voices in political theory today, for over three decades William E. Connolly has systematically brought the critical insights of Nietzsche and Foucault, Bergson and Deleuze, complexity theory, radical neuroscience, and more to bear on questions of individual and collective identity, the role of faith in public political life, the problematic nature of territorial sovereignty in a globalized age, the changing nature of transnational capitalism, and the micropolitics of affective experience. A World of Becoming (Duke University Press, 2011) is onnolly’s most recent contribution to the development of a pluralist politics and ethics appropriate to a world composed of open and complex systems, existing on different temporal egisters and interacting in ways that can engender profound but sometimes unpredictable changes. This conference will interrogate this book and Connolly’s thought more generally from the perspectives of geography, philosophy, critical legal studies, international relations, andpolitical theory.

William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His The Terms of Political Discourse (1974) received the biennial Lippincott Award in 1999 for the “best book in political theory still influential fifteen or more years after publication.” He is also author of Identity\Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox (1991), The Augustinian Imperative: A Reflection on the Politics of Morality (1993), The Ethos ofPluralization (1995), Why I am not a Secularist (1999), Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (2002), Pluralism (2005), and Capitalism and Christianity: American Style (2008).

This event is organized by the Contemporary Political Theory Reading Group (CPTRG) at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Department of Politics, University of Exeter, with the support of Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) and Faculty of History and Social Sciences.

PROGRAMME

OPENING REMARKS: Nathan Widder.

PANEL I: Agency and Master

Clayton Chin - Connolly’s Questions: Ontology, Mastery, and Becoming.
(AUDIO HERE)

Kimberly Hutchings – Against Geist: Hegel, Feminism and Expressive Sovereignty
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Rory Rowan – A Political Cosmology?: The world beyond the ‘long line of death
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Chair: Jane Bennett

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PANEL II: The Ethical Sensibility of William E. Connolly

Terrell Carver – Evil Eye for the Nice Guy (AUDIO HERE)

Victoria Ridler – The Torsion of Meaning: exploring the forces impelling us to cultivate sensibility in the work of William Connolly (AUDIO HERE)

Chair: Dario Castiglione

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PANEL III: Immanence, Transcendence, Becoming

Robin Dunford - Immanence and Transcendence: A Matter of Faith?
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Stuart Elden – Of: Becoming-World (AUDIO HERE)

Craig Lundy – The Movement and Rest in William E. Connolly’s Conception of Becoming
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Chair: Nathan Widder

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CLOSING ADDERSS

William E. Connolly – Two Images of Becoming: Whitehead, Nietzsche, and Cosmopolitics
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Event Date: 26 May 2011
Room S274/275
Stewart House
32 Russell Square
London, WC1B 5DN

Time, Politics and Becoming:

A One-Day Conference on William E. Connolly’s A World of Becoming

One of the leading voices in political theory today, for over three decades William E. Connolly has systematically brought the critical insights of Nietzsche and Foucault, Bergson and Deleuze, complexity theory, radical neuroscience, and more to bear on questions of individual and collective identity, the role of faith in public political life, the problematic nature of territorial sovereignty in a globalized age, the changing nature of transnational capitalism, and the micropolitics of affective experience. A World of Becoming (Duke University Press, 2011) is onnolly’s most recent contribution to the development of a pluralist politics and ethics appropriate to a world composed of open and complex systems, existing on different temporal egisters and interacting in ways that can engender profound but sometimes unpredictable changes. This conference will interrogate this book and Connolly’s thought more generally from the perspectives of geography, philosophy, critical legal studies, international relations, andpolitical theory.

William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His The Terms of Political Discourse (1974) received the biennial Lippincott Award in 1999 for the “best book in political theory still influential fifteen or more years after publication.” He is also author of Identity\Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox (1991), The Augustinian Imperative: A Reflection on the Politics of Morality (1993), The Ethos ofPluralization (1995), Why I am not a Secularist (1999), Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (2002), Pluralism (2005), and Capitalism and Christianity: American Style (2008).

This event is organized by the Contemporary Political Theory Reading Group (CPTRG) at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Department of Politics, University of Exeter, with the support of Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) and Faculty of History and Social Sciences.

William E. Connolly - Two Images of Becoming: Whitehead, Nietzsche, and Cosmopolitics

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Event Date: 26 May 2011
Room S274/275
Stewart House
32 Russell Square
London, WC1B 5DN

Time, Politics and Becoming:

A One-Day Conference on William E. Connolly’s A World of Becoming

One of the leading voices in political theory today, for over three decades William E. Connolly has systematically brought the critical insights of Nietzsche and Foucault, Bergson and Deleuze, complexity theory, radical neuroscience, and more to bear on questions of individual and collective identity, the role of faith in public political life, the problematic nature of territorial sovereignty in a globalized age, the changing nature of transnational capitalism, and the micropolitics of affective experience. A World of Becoming (Duke University Press, 2011) is onnolly’s most recent contribution to the development of a pluralist politics and ethics appropriate to a world composed of open and complex systems, existing on different temporal egisters and interacting in ways that can engender profound but sometimes unpredictable changes. This conference will interrogate this book and Connolly’s thought more generally from the perspectives of geography, philosophy, critical legal studies, international relations, andpolitical theory.

William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His The Terms of Political Discourse (1974) received the biennial Lippincott Award in 1999 for the “best book in political theory still influential fifteen or more years after publication.” He is also author of Identity\Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox (1991), The Augustinian Imperative: A Reflection on the Politics of Morality (1993), The Ethos ofPluralization (1995), Why I am not a Secularist (1999), Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (2002), Pluralism (2005), and Capitalism and Christianity: American Style (2008).

This event is organized by the Contemporary Political Theory Reading Group (CPTRG) at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Department of Politics, University of Exeter, with the support of Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) and Faculty of History and Social Sciences.

Craig Lundy - The Movement and Rest in William E. Connolly’s Conception of Becoming

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Event Date: 26 May 2011
Room S274/275
Stewart House
32 Russell Square
London, WC1B 5DN

Time, Politics and Becoming:

A One-Day Conference on William E. Connolly’s A World of Becoming

One of the leading voices in political theory today, for over three decades William E. Connolly has systematically brought the critical insights of Nietzsche and Foucault, Bergson and Deleuze, complexity theory, radical neuroscience, and more to bear on questions of individual and collective identity, the role of faith in public political life, the problematic nature of territorial sovereignty in a globalized age, the changing nature of transnational capitalism, and the micropolitics of affective experience. A World of Becoming (Duke University Press, 2011) is onnolly’s most recent contribution to the development of a pluralist politics and ethics appropriate to a world composed of open and complex systems, existing on different temporal egisters and interacting in ways that can engender profound but sometimes unpredictable changes. This conference will interrogate this book and Connolly’s thought more generally from the perspectives of geography, philosophy, critical legal studies, international relations, andpolitical theory.

William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His The Terms of Political Discourse (1974) received the biennial Lippincott Award in 1999 for the “best book in political theory still influential fifteen or more years after publication.” He is also author of Identity\Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox (1991), The Augustinian Imperative: A Reflection on the Politics of Morality (1993), The Ethos ofPluralization (1995), Why I am not a Secularist (1999), Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (2002), Pluralism (2005), and Capitalism and Christianity: American Style (2008).

This event is organized by the Contemporary Political Theory Reading Group (CPTRG) at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Department of Politics, University of Exeter, with the support of Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) and Faculty of History and Social Sciences.

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Event Date: 26 May 2011
Room S274/275
Stewart House
32 Russell Square
London, WC1B 5DN

Time, Politics and Becoming:

A One-Day Conference on William E. Connolly’s A World of Becoming

One of the leading voices in political theory today, for over three decades William E. Connolly has systematically brought the critical insights of Nietzsche and Foucault, Bergson and Deleuze, complexity theory, radical neuroscience, and more to bear on questions of individual and collective identity, the role of faith in public political life, the problematic nature of territorial sovereignty in a globalized age, the changing nature of transnational capitalism, and the micropolitics of affective experience. A World of Becoming (Duke University Press, 2011) is onnolly’s most recent contribution to the development of a pluralist politics and ethics appropriate to a world composed of open and complex systems, existing on different temporal egisters and interacting in ways that can engender profound but sometimes unpredictable changes. This conference will interrogate this book and Connolly’s thought more generally from the perspectives of geography, philosophy, critical legal studies, international relations, andpolitical theory.

William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His The Terms of Political Discourse (1974) received the biennial Lippincott Award in 1999 for the “best book in political theory still influential fifteen or more years after publication.” He is also author of Identity\Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox (1991), The Augustinian Imperative: A Reflection on the Politics of Morality (1993), The Ethos ofPluralization (1995), Why I am not a Secularist (1999), Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (2002), Pluralism (2005), and Capitalism and Christianity: American Style (2008).

This event is organized by the Contemporary Political Theory Reading Group (CPTRG) at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Department of Politics, University of Exeter, with the support of Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) and Faculty of History and Social Sciences.

Robin Dunford - Immanence and Transcendence: A Matter of Faith?

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Event Date: 26 May 2011
Room S274/275
Stewart House
32 Russell Square
London, WC1B 5DN

Time, Politics and Becoming:

A One-Day Conference on William E. Connolly’s A World of Becoming

One of the leading voices in political theory today, for over three decades William E. Connolly has systematically brought the critical insights of Nietzsche and Foucault, Bergson and Deleuze, complexity theory, radical neuroscience, and more to bear on questions of individual and collective identity, the role of faith in public political life, the problematic nature of territorial sovereignty in a globalized age, the changing nature of transnational capitalism, and the micropolitics of affective experience. A World of Becoming (Duke University Press, 2011) is onnolly’s most recent contribution to the development of a pluralist politics and ethics appropriate to a world composed of open and complex systems, existing on different temporal egisters and interacting in ways that can engender profound but sometimes unpredictable changes. This conference will interrogate this book and Connolly’s thought more generally from the perspectives of geography, philosophy, critical legal studies, international relations, andpolitical theory.

William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His The Terms of Political Discourse (1974) received the biennial Lippincott Award in 1999 for the “best book in political theory still influential fifteen or more years after publication.” He is also author of Identity\Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox (1991), The Augustinian Imperative: A Reflection on the Politics of Morality (1993), The Ethos ofPluralization (1995), Why I am not a Secularist (1999), Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (2002), Pluralism (2005), and Capitalism and Christianity: American Style (2008).

This event is organized by the Contemporary Political Theory Reading Group (CPTRG) at Royal Holloway, University of London and the Department of Politics, University of Exeter, with the support of Royal Holloway’s Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) and Faculty of History and Social Sciences.

Victoria Ridler - The Torsion of Meaning: exploring the forces impelling us to cultivate sensibility in the work of William Connolly

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