21 November 2008 – (HARC) – speaker: Professor David Harvey – Professor Harvey offers a detailed analysis of the current crisis of capitalism, examining – in orthodox Marxist terms – capitalism’s resilient reproductive abilities for continued survival and formulates severe criticism of the system of capitalist circulation of values.
Miriam Leonard – Noah and Noesis: Derrida Between Greek and Jew
12 November 2008 – (HARC) – speaker: Dr. Miriam Leonard – Dr. Leonard looks at Jacques Derrida’s uneasy relationship of his own Jewish identity and the Western philosophical traditions of Judaism and Hellenism.
Catherine Volpihac-Auger – Was Plato a Christian?
5 November 2008 – (HARC) – speaker: Professor Catherine Volpihac-Auger – Plato’s monotheism was much discussed in 17th and 18th century France and this forms the basis of Professor Volpihac-Auger’s comparative analysis of Plato and Socrates during the Enlightenment.