Events

2012 - 2013

Date: 19 September 2008
Description: New Radical Subjectivities: Re-Thinking Agency for the 21st Century - This one day conference explored recent articulations of subjectivity and political agency in critical theory and cultural studies, mapping their deliberate opposition to the dangerously de-politicised models of subjectivity associated both with the ascent of neo-liberalism and economic globalisation, and with postmodern and poststructuralist theorisations of subjectivity that elide the critique of capitalism.

Date: 01 January 2009
Description: On Sovereignty - This mini-conference explored recent interrogations of the notion of sovereignty, drawing on Rousseau, Hegel, Carl Schmitt , Jacques Derrida, Hardt and Negri and Alain Badiou to situate contemporary, often deterritorialised and biopolitical modes of sovereignty in the context of globalisation and post-9/11 geopolitics.

Date: 07 - 08 September 2009
Description: Psychoanalysis and the Posthuman - This two-day international and interdisciplinary conference sought to interrogate the surprising omission, within the field known as 'posthumanism', of the critical value of psychoanalytic theory.

Date: 01 January 2010
Description: Feminist Workshops - Drawing on the shared pedagogical and political experiences brought together by the Feminism and Teaching Network, these workshops utilise mainstream media coverage of women's issues in order to stimulate debate, providing a way in to the relevance of the history of feminism, it various theoretical strands and political achievements, and current forms of feminist political praxis.

Date: 08 - 09 April 2011
Description: Feminism and Teaching Symposium - This two-day symposium invited feminist activists, artists, teachers and academics to explore the relationship between feminism and teaching across disciplines as diverse as Sociology, Education, Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, Cultural Studies, Applied Linguistics, Law, Gender Studies and Women's Studies.

Date: 28 - 29 April 2011
Description: Spaces of Alterity: Conceptualising Counter-Hegemonic Sites, Practices and Narratives - This two-day event explored the theoretical responses to growing concerns over such issues as spatial privatisation, commodification and homogenisation, surveillance, extra-legal spaces, social and political 'non-spaces', and the loss of common or public spaces.

Date: 14 July 2011
Description: The Freudian Robot - This workshop provided the opportunity for staff and postgraduate students connected to the Centre for Critical Theory as well as the Science, Technology and Culture group, to engage directly with the author of 'The Freudian Robot' (Chicago: 2010), Professor Lydia Liu of Columbia University

Date: 19 October 2011
Location:: Club Lounge (B2), Staff Club, UP
Description: Welcome Event for New Academic Staff and Researchers (Arts & Social Sciences)

Date: 16 December 2011
Description: Vital Theory - This annual postgraduate-led one day symposium aims to produce an innovative and informal space in which to explore and develop current trends in critical theory, as well as more personal considerations of the ways in which theory can illuminate our lives outside of the university.

Date: 18 January 2012
Location:: Clive Granger A41
Description: Judith 'Jack' Halberstam will be visiting the Centre for Critical Theory and we've dedicated a full day to Jack's latest book The Queer Art of Failure

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