The Future of Feminism

in Academic Service - Archive by rene on June 6th, 2013

Event Date: 6 June 2013
Room B34, Main Building
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX

The Birkbeck Institute for Social Research presents:

The Future of Feminism

A discussion with Nancy Fraser, Lynne Segal and Nina Power
Chaired by Sasha Roseneil

Nancy Fraser’s major new book Fortunes of Feminism traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the1970s and anticipates a new – radical and revitalized – phase of feminist thought and action.

Join Nancy Fraser, Lynne Segal and Nina Power as they discuss the future of feminism – what has already been and gone, the challenges that we face going forward, as well as the need for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism able to take us into the next phase and, in particular, address the current global economic crisis.

Nancy Fraser is Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research, Einstein Fellow of the city of Berlin, and holder of the “Global Justice” Chair at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris. Her books include Redistribution or Recognition; Adding Insult to Injury; Scales of Justice; Justice Interruptus; and Unruly Practices.

Lynne Segal is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College. Her books include Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism; Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men; and Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure. She co-wrote Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism with Sheila Rowbotham and Hilary Wainwright.

Nina Power is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University and the author of One-Dimensional Woman.

Sasha Roseneil is Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, and Professor of Sociology and Social Theory in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She is also Professor II in the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo. Her recent books include Beyond Citizenship? Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging, and Social Research after the Cultural Turn (edited with Stephen Frosh) and Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: women’s movements, gender and diversity (edited with Beatrice Halsaa and Sevil Sumer).

Introduction by Sasha Roseneil (Birkbeck).

Nancy Fraser:

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Lynne Segal:

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Nina Power:

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Alain Badiou on Beckett – Alberto Toscano & Nina Power

in Academic Service - Archive by rene on May 12th, 2013

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 the word, which works to reduce experience to its essential determinations. Rejecting the stereotype view of Beckett as the dark existentialist of abandoned existence, Badiou focuses rather on what he calls the ‘hidden poem’ in the prosody and themes of Beckett’s work. For Badiou, philosophy expresss itself immanently in culture through the ‘procedures of truth’ manifested in science, art, politics and love.” (Publisher’s blurb)

This book has been out of print for a while and the publishers have gone out of business, so the editors have asked us to make the publication available in .pdf (not a very good one, sorry). You can download this here

download Badiou on Beckett (.pdf)

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Defend the Right to Protest 2012 National Conference: Austerity, Injustice and the Power of Protest

in Academic Service - Archive, conference by rene on October 14th, 2012

Event Date: 14 October 2012
University of London Union
Malet St
London WC1

Defend the Right to Protest 2012 National Conference

AUSTERITY, INJUSTICE & THE POWER OF PROTEST

Across the world people are resisting austerity. They also have to confront violent tactics by the police and the draconian use of the law.

In Britain students demonstrating against fees were subject to kettling and mounted horse charges. In Quebec the authorities responded to an all out strike with emergency laws.

Governments are attempting to undermine effective protest at a time of unprecedented cuts. Faced with public sector strikes, Coalition ministers threatened to introduce more hard line anti-trade union laws. Such attacks also take place against a wider context of injustice and clampdown involving stop and search, police racism and deaths in custody. They include the use of protester “ASBOs”, pre-crime arrests and other infringements of civil liberties as seen around the Royal Wedding and the Olympics.

This conference will take place as people prepare for an autumn of struggle: the TUC march against austerity, the NUS education demonstration and strikes in the private and public sector. It will examine the nature of the current attacks on protest, what laws and tactics are being employed and why. It will look at how protest movements have confronted these challenges in the past and discuss the future of resistance here and internationally. Practical workshops will also inform people of their rights and how to run a defence campaign.

The plenary sessions and some of the workshops have been recorded. You will be able to listen to them below:

Opening Plenary: Resisting the Clampdown – Policing in the Age of Austerity

Introduction by Susan Matthews (DtRtP national secretary).

John McDonnell MP

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Sheila Coleman (Hillsborough Justice Campaign)

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Jules Carey (lawyer representing Ian Tomlinson’s family)

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Darcus Howe (writer and activists)

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Alfie Meadows (student defendant)

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Janet Alder (sister of Christopher Alder)

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Hannah Dee (DtRtP Chair)

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Workshop 1: From Egypt to Quebec – organising Solidarity with Global Protest Movements
facilitated by Nina Power
with Nadine El-Enany (Egyptian activist), Jérémie Bédard-Wien (Quebecoise activist) and Artem Proubnikov (Russian activist) [via Skype]

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Workshop 4: Reading the Riots
facilitated by Sara El Sheek (student defendant)
with Fahim Alam (aquitted defendant and film maker of riotsreframed.com), Sadie King (Stop criminalising Hacknet Youth) and Brian Richardson (campaigning lawyer)

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Closing Plenary: When Fear Changes Sides – The Power of Protest today

Introduction by Rachel Harger (DtRtP).

Tony Kearns (CWU senior deputy general secretary)

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Tony Benn

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Gareth Peirce (campaigning lawyer)

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Marcia & Sam Rigg (Sean Rigg Justice and Change Campaign)

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Owen Jones (author of Chavs – the Demonisation of the Working Class)

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Toni Pearce (NUS VP)

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Dean Harris (We are Waltham Forest)

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Jelena Timotijevic (DtRtP convenor and UCU NEC)

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Transdisciplinary Problematics: Anti-humanism and Gender Study

in Academic Service - Archive, conference by rene on May 17th, 2012

Event Date 17 – 18 May 2012

Day 1: Bolivar Hall,
54 Grafton Way, London WC1.
Day 2: Large Common Room,
Goodenough College,
Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N

Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy

Presents:

Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts

2011–2013 (AHRC 914469)

Workshop 3

Case Studies 2. Transdisciplinary Problematics: Anti-humanism and Gender Study

This two-day workshop will examine the notion of a transdisciplinarity problematic, via the cases of anti-humanism and gender studies. The first day will approach theoretical anti-humanism from the standpoint of its destructive effect upon disciplinary fields in the humanities and as a radical problematisation of the discipline of philosophy in particular. The second day will focus on gender studies as a transdisciplinary problematic and on the transdisciplinary nature of the concept of gender itself. Topics will include the historical reconstruction of ‘gender’ as a boundary-crossing concept; the relation of its conceptual content to its functioning as a general concept across disciplines; the transformation of the disciplines in the humanities by ‘gender’ and gender studies; and the current productivity of ‘gender’.

DAY 1, Thursday 17 May
Bolivar Hall, 54 Grafton Way, London WC1

Anti-humanism

Introduction: Peter Osborne (CRMEP)

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Etienne Balibar (CRMEP/Columbia/Paris X) - Anti-Humanism, and the Question of Philosophical Anthropology
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Response to Balibar by Patrice Maniglier (University of Essex)
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Discussion
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Nina Power (Roehampton University/Royal College of Art) - Is Antihumanism Transdisciplinary?

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David Cunningham (University of Westminster) - Intersciences, Philosophy and Writing
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Response to Cunningham by Simon Morgan Wortham (Kingston University London) and
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DAY 2 Friday 18 May
London House Large Common Room, Goodenough College,
Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1

Gender Studies

Introduction: Stella Sandford (CRMEP)

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Tuija Pulkkinen (Womenís Studies, University of Helsinki) – Disciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in Gender Studies
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Sara Heinamaa (Philosophy, University of Helsinki) – Sex, Gender and Embodiment: A Critique of Concepts
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Discussion
[AUDIO HERE]

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Elsa Dorlin (Political Science, University of Paris VIII)
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Discussion
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Ken Corbett (Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, NYU) - The Transforming Nexus: Psychoanalysis, Social Theory and Queer Childhood
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Response to Corbett
Lynne Segal (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, London)
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Closing discussion

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Ideology Now Conference

in Academic Service - Archive, conference by rene on April 28th, 2012

Event Date: 28 April 2012
Room B04
43 Gordon Square
Birkbeck, University of London
London WC1H 0PD

The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities presents:

Ideology Now – Conference

What is the role of ideology in politics and culture today? With the disappearance of conflict between East and West in the Cold war, and with the apparent blurring of Right and Left in our recent politics, many have declared that ideology is a thing of the past. Politicians use the word ‘ideology’ as an insult. But has ideology really disappeared? And if not, where and how does it now operate? Is the narrative of the death of ideology itself an ideological move? Are there any overt forms of ideology that are still meaningful (environmentalism; neoliberalism; capitalism)? How do covert forms of ideology operate in politics and culture? Is the twenty-first century West more covertly ideological than other eras in history, or other places in the world?

Programme:

Introduction by Dr Eliane Glaser (English and Humanities, Birkbeck) .

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Professor Esther Leslie (English and Humanities, Birkbeck) – Ideology and Misery

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Dr Matthew Beaumont (English, UCL) – Ideology and Contagion: the Contemporary Disaster Film

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Esther Leslie, Matthew Beaumont – Audience Questions

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Ferdinand Mount (writer and former head of policy at 10 Downing Street)
Let’s try “The End of Ideology” again?

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Nick Pearce (Director, Institute for Public Policy Research)
A defence of social democratic ideology

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Ferdinand Mount, Nick Pearce – Audience Questions

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Steven Poole (author, Unspeak: Words are Weapons and Guardian columnist)
Cash Value: The Stealth Ideology of Financial Metaphor in Everyday Speech

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Dan Hind (author, The Return of the Public and Common Sense)
From the End of Ideology to the End of an Ideology: Financial Crisis and the Collapse of Common Sense

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Steven Poole, Dan Hind - Audience Questions

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Owen Hatherley (author, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain)
Eyesores, monstrosities and carbuncles: The language of architectural common sense

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Dr Louise Owen (Theatre Studies, Birkbeck)
Right thinking at the National Theatre

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Owen Hatherley, Louise Owen – Audience Questions

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Dr Nina Power (Philosophy, Roehampton)
The Spectre of the “Public”: The Ideology of Law and Order

[AUDIO HERE]
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Professor Renata Salecl (Law, Ljubljana) – Passion for Ignorance

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Nina Power, Renata Salecl – Audience Questions

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Who’s Afraid of Philosophy?

in Academic Service - Archive by fausto on May 19th, 2010

Who’s Afraid of Philosophy?

Event Date: 19 May 2010

Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London,
SW1Y 5AH

In response to the recent plans by Middlesex University to close down its philosophy department, this event seeks to provide a forum to discuss the current conditions under which philosophical research is supported and engaged with; what role does philosophy play in contemporary society, and how should this be appropriately nourished?

Within the context of priority shifts and general cuts to higher education funding, the discussion uses the immediate conditions at Middlesex to consider a broader threat to critical thought, lending a voice to the current debates and protests undertaken by students and tutors at the Middlesex campus.

The panel was chaired by Dr Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths) with interventions by Prof Alexander Garcia Duttmann (Goldsmiths), Prof Peter Osborne (Middlesex), Dr Nina Power (Roehampton University), Prof Alex Callinicos (Kings College), Ali Alizadeh (Middlesex) and others.

Organized by InC (Continental Philosophy Research group).

For more info about the protests ongoing at Middlesex University visit the campaign website .

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Nina Power – Stony Ground but not entirely: Beckett and the Humanities

in Academic Service - Archive by fausto on December 2nd, 2009

The Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway University of London

Date: 2 December 2009

Nina Power (Roehampton) – Stony Ground but not entirely: Beckett and the Humanities

Beckett’s relationship to what we might understand by ‘the Humanities’ is a vexed one. Beckett’s references are often classical (Dante, the Bible, Descartes), and yet he is heralded as the great forerunner of certain kinds of poststructuralist concerns regarding the death of the author, the opacity of meaning, and so on. This paper seeks to situate Beckett in a different relation to the Humanities, via a reading of Beckett’s understanding of humanity itself, that avoids treating his work as either the outcome of a certain kind of old-fashioned education or as a prefiguration of philosophical concerns that all-too-often threaten to subsume his work under the weight of their own (non)meaning.

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infinite thought

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