CRPLA Seminars 2008-2009
CRPLA events are open to all. The Seminars take place in Social Studies S0.11 and begin at 5.30.
Term 1
Week 2 - 7 October 08: Kathleen Stock, Department of Philosophy, Sussex University,
‘Fantasy,imagination and art’
Week 4 – 21 October 08: Nick Hewlett, Department of French Studies, University of Warwick,
'Badiou, Ranciere and Political Violence'
Week 6 – 4 November 08: Arun Saldanha, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, ‘A
gay science of race: Nietzsche and purity’
Week 8 – 18 November 08: Michael John Kooy, Department of English and Comparative Literary
Studies, 'Romantic Political Theology: Novalis, Adam Müller, Coleridge'
Week 10 – 2 December 08: Dawn Phillips, Department of Philosophy, Warwick, 'Photography and
Causation: Responding to Scruton's Scepticism'
Term 2
Desire in Philosophy, Special Series convened by Professor Miguel Beistegui
Week 2 – 13 January 09: Professor Rudolf Bernet, The Catholic University of Leuven,
'Leibniz on Drives and Desire'
Week 4 – 27 January 09: Professor Renaud Barbaras, Université de Paris 1,
'Phenomenology of life and the problem of intentionality'
Week 6 – 10 February: Dr. Lorenzo Chiesa, The University of Kent, 'Lacan on Desire:
Between Psychoanalysis and Evolutionary Theory'
Week 8 – 24 February 09: Thomas Dutoit, Université de Lille 3
Week 10 – 10 March 09: Catherine Constable – Department of Film and Television Studies,
University of Warwick , ‘Adapting Philosophy: Jean Baudrillard and The Matrix Trilogy’
Term 3
Week 2 – 28 April 09: Daniel Katz, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies,
University of Warwick, 'Schuyler's Thing: The Epistolary Poem'
Week 4 – 12 May 09: Peter Poellner - Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick,
'Nietzschean Freedom"
Week 6 – 26 May 09: Graduate Conference in Philosophy & Literature (10-18:00 in S0.11), with
keynote lecturer John Ferrari, University of California, Berkeley