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Survival - The CRMEP Graduate Conference 2023

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Time: 10.00am - 6.30pm
Venue: John Galsworthy Building JG 0001 , Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE
Price: free

Survival - The CRMEP Graduate Conference 2023

Keynote Speakers: Peter Hallward (CRMEP, Kingston University) & Gargi Bhattacharyya (University of East London) 

Programme 

10.00am Registration 

10.30am Introductory Remarks: Chris Jones (CRMEP, Kingston University) 

10.40am Keynote Speaker 1: Peter Hallward (CRMEP, Kingston University) 

               ‘Whatever it takes?' 

11.40am Break 

11.45am Panel 1: Surviving and Witnessing  

 Isabel Jacobs (Queen Mary University of London) 

'Surviving (in) Dark Times: Rachel Bespaloff's Method of Facing the War' 

 Eva-Maria Aigner (University of Vienna) 

Laps de temps": The "interval of survival" and the "terrible time" of Survivance in Derrida and Blanchot' 

Sebastián  Rodríguez Cárdenas (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Sapienza Università di Roma)  

'Survive as a witness or Survive as a Number:  On becoming a life-trace or a trace-life' 

1.15pm–2.00pm  Lunch  

2.00–3.30pm  Panel 2: Escape/Negation/Withdrawal 

Cristina Matei (CRMEP, Kingston University) 

"Anyone Who is Not Cold Must Feel Condemned": Bourgeois Coldness and Survival in Adorno' 

Alex Alvarez Taylor (Complutense University, Madrid) 

'Escaping or Negating Hell: Suicide and Critical Theory' 

Dante Philip  

'Writing in Bed: Political Contradictions of Withdrawal and Survival in an Exhausted Epoch' 

3.30pm Break: Tea & coffee 

3.45–5.15pm  Panel 3: Strategy/Future  

Chris James Newlove (CRMEP, Kingston University) 

'Foucault's Neoliberalism: Civil War as Capitalist Strategy' 

Inka Maria V.Hiltunen (Irvine University) 

'The Crisis of Democracy: Investigating Responses from Different Sites' 

Tiger Xiaofeng Liu (CRMEP, Kingston University) 

'Survivalism: The Cultural Logic of Late Environmentalism" 

5.15pm Break  

5.30pm Keynote speaker 2:  Gargi Bhattacharyya (University of East London) 

‘The Beast Changes Shape but the Violence Stays the Same : Why it is Worth Staying Curious about Racial Capitalism' 

6.30pm  End 

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Contact: Survival - The CRMEP Graduate Conference
Email: survivalcrmep@gmail.com

Directions

Directions to John Galsworthy Building JG 0001 , Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE:

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