london lectures
With five major universities, dozens of specialists, and innumerable institutes, London is lecture rich. The city hosts many great thinkers, and many great speakers. Here's your chance to find out which is which, and hopefully find they go together. It's also a golden opportunity to stray off the syllabus ... which is, frankly, how new syllabuses are made.
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For a huge selection of talks across london, we recommend : The Lecture List
For philosophy specific talks, this is a good place to start: The Institute of Philosophy
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Wednesday 21 November (3.30-5pm) :
Rethinking Literary History: Idealism, Realism and Modernism
Building on the argument in Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism, this talk will suggest that we will solve a number of nagging problems in literary history if we think of the period from 1870 to 1914 in European literature as a period of crisis, that is to say, as a period in which the old paradigm ( idealism) is slowly giving way to the new (modernism). I will also suggest that we should distinguish between early modernism, high modernism and late modernism, and show that realism is not modernism's other.
Location : Room 152, Birkbeck Main Building, Malet St.
KINGS COLLEGE PHILOSOPHY SOCIETY
Wednesday 21 November (6pm) : How Philosophers Die
Simon Critchley, whose interests include the supposed conflict between analytical and continental philosophy talks on the concept of death in philosophy, and how philosophers themselves have died.
Location : Philosophy Department, in the basement .. somewhere
Monday 26 November (6.30-8pm) : Hurricane Katrina: Natural and Social Aspects
In these talks, John Protevi, from the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University, discusses the natural and social aspects of Hurricane Katrina, using concepts derived from the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. In the first talk, he shows how in their ontology a hurricane is a paradigm example of the way complex systems organize themselves. In the second talk, he uses their political philosophy to discuss the racialized panic by which government officials stopped the ongoing rescue effort of and by fellow citizens in favour of occupying New Orleans by force in a military operation.
Location : Room D502, Clement House, LSE
KINGS COLLEGE PHILOSOPHY SOCIETY
Wednesday 28 November (6pm) : The Nature Of Reason
The philosopher J.R Lucas gives a probing account of the nature of reason and its role in thinking from philosophy to science.
Location : The Philosophy Building, Kings
Thursday 29 November (1.15-2.30pm) : Intolerance in the Ivory Tower
Free speech is under attack around the world by a return to political, religious and anti-terrorism dogma. At the front line of vulnerability are scholars working in countries where free speech is under threat. In this event, the dangers to such scholars is analysed by specialists and scholars with first-hand experience of the problems.
Location : Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
Thursday 29 November (12.30-2pm) :
Jean-Jacques Lecercle in conversation with Alan Montefiore
Jean-Jacques Lecercle works in philosophy of language, philosophy of literature and Victorian literature, especially nonsense literature. He is the author of The Violence of Language (Routledge, 1991), Philosophy of Nonsense (Routledge 1994), Interpretation as Pragmatics (Macmillan, 1999) Deleuze and Language (Palgrave 2002), The Force of Language (with Denise Riley, Palgrave 2002) and A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Brill, 2006).
Location : Room J116, Cowdray House, LSE