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Presented by Birkbeck’s Centre
for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Speakers include Slavoj Zizek, Hillis Miller, Jean-Luc Nancy and Alain
Badiou
The Adieu, Derrida series oflectures is the inaugural project of Birkbeck’s
new Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. The Centre, headed
by two leading public intellectuals, Professor Donna Dickenson and Professor
Slavoj Zizek, aims to promote new practices in the study of society
and culture, and to offer a forum to enhance the role of the public
intellectual. It will place Birkbeck at the forefront of current intellectual
debate, with one of the Centre’s major tasks being public intervention
on issues of current importance.
For further information, contact Bonnie Garnett: 020 7631 6794, office@fac-arts.bbk.ac.uk
Provisional Programme:
Friday 6 May, 6.30pm:
Speaker: Jean-Luc Nancy
Title: ‘Mad Derrida’
Venue: Brunei Gallery, SOAS
- Followed at 7.30pm by:
Speaker: Hillis Miller
Title: ‘The Late Derrida’
Venue: Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Wednesday 11 May, 6pm:
Speaker: Jacques Ranciere
Title: ‘Does “Democracy” mean Something?’
Venue: La Lumière Cinema, French Institute
Wednesday 18 May, 6pm:
Speaker: Gayatri Spivak
Title: ‘Responsibility and Remembering’
Venue: Room B01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck
Friday 20 May, 6pm:
Speaker: Slavoj Zizek
Title: ‘Respect for Otherness? No Thanks’
Venue: Room B01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck
Friday 27 May, 6pm:
Film screening: ‘Derrida’
Directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman
Venue: La Lumière Cinema, French Institute
Friday 3 June, 6pm:
Speaker: Etienne Balibar
Title: ‘Constructions and Deconstructions of the Universal’
Venue: La Lumière Cinema, French Institute
Friday 10 June, 6pm:
Speaker: Alain Badiou
Title: ‘The Passion for Inexistence’
Venue: Room B01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck
Friday 17 June, 6pm:
Speaker: Drucilla Cornell
Title: ‘Who Bears the Right to Die’
Venue: Room B01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck
Saturday 18 June, 4pm:
Film screening: ‘GhostDance’
Directed by Ken McMullen
Venue: La Lumière Cinema, French Institute
Series Organisers:
Professor Costas Douzinas, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Birkbeck
Bonnie Garnett, Faculty Administrator, Birkbeck
With the support of the French Institute
This is a provisional list: the final programme will be announced shortly.
Tickets cost £10 per person, per event. For Birkbeck students
and staff, the tickets are priced at £5 per person, per event.
For further information, contact Bonnie Garnett: 020 7631 6794, office@fac-arts.bbk.ac.uk
Sander Gilman at the Centre for Advanced Studies
in the Humanities:
Lecture: Friday 25 February, 6pm
Speaker: Sander Gilman
Title: 'On Men and Fat: A Lost History’
Venue: Room B36, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London
WC1E 7HX
Workshop: Monday 7 March, 2.30pm
Led by Sander Gilman
Title: 'Present Issues in Body Studies',
Venue: Room 153, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London
WC1E 7HX
- Click here for further
details about Sander Gilman's lecture and workshop
For further information, contact Bonnie Garnett: 020 7631 6794, office@fac-arts.bbk.ac.uk
Contact:
Catherine Doherty, Media and Publicity Officer
External Relations, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury,
London WC1E 7HX
Tel 020 7631 6569
Fax 020 7631 6351
Email c.doherty@bbk.ac.uk
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