Conferences
Recent Conferences
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Spaces of Alterity: Conceptualising Counter-Hegemonic Sites, Practices and Narratives
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27th-28th April 2011 ,University of Nottingham , UK
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Psychoanalysis and the Posthuman Conference, September 7-8th, 2009, The University of Nottingham, Arts Centre
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The Second International DIASPORA Workshop, 'Cultural Transfer', 11-13 December 2008, The University of Hong Kong
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Writing Under Socialism Past & Present: A Comparative Approach, 11 and 12 of July, Machicado Suite, Willoughby Hall, University of Nottingham
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New Radical Subjectivities: Rethinking Agency for the 21st century, 19th September 2008, Staff Club, University Park
Past Conferences
In addition to the above, the Department has organised the following conferences in recent years:
The Departmental Postgraduate Conference in September 2000 was on Representation of Violence and Violence of Representation. The Department also hosted a series of six lectures on Fascism and esthetics between October and December 2000, and a two-day workshop on Gender, Justice and Democracy: Women and Democratisation in Comparative Perspective in March 2001.
Together with the British Council, the Department organised a conference on PostColonialisms/Political Correctnesses in Casablanca, Morocco, in April 2001, and in June 2002 it convened a conference devoted to Michael Hardts and Tony Negris book Empire, which was followed in 2003 by a similar conference on Alain Badiou�s Ethics.
More recent international conferences include: Luce Irigaray, in 2006, in conjunction with the School of Modern Languages, Post-Conflict Cultures: Rituals of Representation, in 2004, Conflict, Culture and the Media, in conjunction with the University of Bologna in 2005, �Conflict and Happiness (Nottingham, 2006), Diaspora(s), held at the University of Queensland in 2006, and a major conference to mark the anniversary of the Falklands Conflict.
All of these conferences, which brought together distinguished academics and non-academics, involved postgraduate students.
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