Past CRMEP events

Date: 7 October 2021
Title: On the Concept of Ideology – a research seminar with Alex Demirovic (Emeritus, Goethe University, Frankfurt; Senior Fellow, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin)
Venue: online

Date: Wednesday 13 October 2021
Title: The Political Vocation of Philosophy: The 2nd Annual Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture, by
Donatella di Cesare (University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza')  
Venue: British Library Knowledge Centre Theatre
This event was generously supported by the Tom Vaswani Family Educational Trust

Date: Friday 19 November
Title: Otherness as a Kind of Being: A Reading of Plato's Sophist. A Public Lecture by Catherine Malabou (Visiting Professor, CRMEP)
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury WC1

Date: 7 January 2021
Title: Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears: A Reading of the Novel by László F. Földényi – a research seminar with Catherine Malabou (CRMEP)
Venue: Online

Date: 15 January 2021
Title: The Philosophical Essay – a research symposium with Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck, University of London), Stephen Howard (Catholic University of Leuven), Howard Caygill (CRMEP), marking the publication of Howard Caygill's collection of essays, Force and Understanding: Writings on Philosophy and Resistance, edited by Stephen Howard, with an afterword by Jacqueline Rose (Bloomsbury 2020)
Venue: Online

Date: 4 February 2021
Title: Howard Caygill: Art and Earth – Reflections on Planetary Aesthetics – a CRMEP public lecture on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts
Venue: Online.

Date: 11 February 2021
Title: Stella Sandford: Vegetal Philosophy – a CRMEP public lecture on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts
Venue: Online.

Date: 18 February 2021
Title: Peter Osborne: I, You, We, It – Transindividuality, Subject to Contemporaneity – A CRMEP public lecture on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts
Venue: Online.

Date: 25 February 2021
Title: Étienne Balibar: Human Species as a Political Concept – A CRMEP public lecture on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts
Venue: Online

Date: 4 March 2021
Title: Peter Hallward: Disconnect – The Will and its Pacification – A CRMEP public lecture on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts
Venue: Online.

Date: 12 March 2021
Title: Linnaeus, Race and Sex – An international conference in collaboration with the Linnean Society
Speakers:
Malin Ah-King (Stockholm University, Evolutionary Biology and Gender Studies)
Patricia Fara (Cambridge University, History and Philosophy of Science)
Thierry Hoquet (University of Paris X, Philosophy)
Miranda Lowe (Principal Curator (Crustacea) and Museum Scientist, Natural History Museum)
Josias Tembo (Radboud University, NL/University of Pretoria, SA, Philosophy)
Venue: The Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BF. See a recording of the event at the bottom of this Linnean Society webpage.

Date: 18 March 2021
Title: Kyle Moore and Morteza Samanpour (CRMEP PhD candidates): Atheism and Negation in Kojève & Value-Form Theory & Non-Eurocentric Historical Materialism
Venue: Online.

Date: 1 October 2020
Title: Research in Modern European Philosophy – a seminar with Howard Caygill, Peter Hallward, Peter Osborne, Stella Sandford (CRMEP)
Venue: John Goldsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2EE.

Date: 29 October 2020
Title: On the Concept of Political Ontology – a research seminar with Nikolai Mariegaard (Aarhus University/Visiting Researcher CRMEP)
Venue: Online

Date: 19 November 2020
Title: Humans as Animals: A New Life for Evolutionary Philosophy – a research seminar with Peter Woodford (CRMEP)
Venue: Online

Date: 31 January 2020
Title: Foucault's College de France Lectures, The Punitive Society (1972–1973) – a one-day research workshop with CRMEP staff and PhD students.
Venue: John Goldsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE.

Date: 10 February 2020
Title: Radical Thought v. Radical Action: Aristotle's Invention of the Theory-Practice Gap – a research seminar with Mirjam Schaub (University of Art & Design, Halle) 
Venue: John Goldsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE.

Date: 27 February 2020
Title: History, Authority and War – a research seminar with Jessica Feeley, Austin Gross and Nathaniel Wooding (CRMEP PhD candidates)
Venue: John Goldsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE.

Date: 29 February 2020
Title: Thinking Art – a one-day international conference in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London. Sessions on with Materialisms, Digital & Poetic; Art and Labour; Social Ecologies; Instabilities of Form. Speakers:

• Caroline Bassett (Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge)
• Dave Beech (Chelsea, UAL & Valad Academy, Gothenburg)
• Ayesha Hameed (Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths)
• Jaleh Mansoor (Art History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
• Ludger Schwarte (Philosophy, Art Academy, Dusseldorf)
• Keston Sutherland (Poetics, University of Sussex)
• Giovanna Zapperi (Art History, University of Tours).

Venue: The Theatre, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), The Mall, SW1Y 5AH

Date: 12 March 2020
Title: The Geography of Truths: Nations, Territories and the History of Philosophy

Organised by the London Historiography of Philosophy Working Group and supported by The British Society for the History of Philosophy and the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) Kingston University.

Jonathan Rée - 'Philosophy and its Nations: the European Triarchy' + Response by Ayse Yuva (Bordeaux-Montaigne).

Karine Chemla, Université Paris 7 / CNRS - 'Reflections on How Practices of Comparison in the History of Science have Shaped Geographies of Truth' + Response by Matt Hare (CRMEP).

Bertrand Binoche, Université Paris 1 - 'Une autre histoire de la philosophie' + Response by Marie Louise Krogh (CRMEP).

Lucie Mercier, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF: UC Berkeley/Paris-8): ‘Warding Off the Ghosts of Race in the Historiography of Philosophy' + Response by Giovanni Menegalle (King's College, London).

Venue: Dickens Room, Queen Elizabeth II building, Coram's Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ.

Date: 4 October
Title: Mario Tronti – Weber and Workers
Venue: Clattern Lecture Theatre, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE.

Date: 4 October
Title: Weber's Vocations – A Research Workshop with Elettra Stimilli (Philosophy, University of Rome), Alberto Toscano (Sociology, Goldsmiths) and Howard Caygill (CRMEP, Kingston University)
Venue: John Goldsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE.

Date: 17 October

Title: Natural History, Transcendental Logic and Race – a Research Seminar with Stella Sandford (CRMEP, KU)
Venue: John Goldsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE.

Date: 1 November
Title: Authority, Depoliticization, Dehumanization – A one-day Research Workshop, with:

• Natacha Israël (Philosophy, University of Rennes),
• John Wolfe Ackerman (Critical Theory, Kent)
• Austin Gross (CRMEP, KU)
• Connal Parsley (Law, Kent).

Venue: John Goldsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE.

Date: 17 January
Title: Professor Catherine Malabou (CRMEP, Kingston) – Is Science the Subject of Philosophy? Miller, Badiou and Derrida
Venue: CRMEP 'Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and Culture', in collaboration with the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (IMCC), University of Westminster, no. 1: the University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW.

Date: 24 January
Title: Lucy Bond (IMCC, Westminster) / Professor Howard Caygill (CRMEP, Kingston) – Is Memory the Basis of History (After Trump)?
Venue: CRMEP 'Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and Culture', in collaboration with the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (IMCC), University of Westminster, no. 2: the University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW.

Date: 7 February
Title: Professor Stella Sandford (CRMEP, Kingston) – Reason in Reverse - Kant and Freud on Faults
Venue: CRMEP 'Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and Culture', in collaboration with the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (IMCC), University of Westminster, no. 3: the University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW.

Date: 28 February
Title: Dr Radha D'Souza (Westminster School of Law) & Professor Peter Hallward (CRMEP, Kingston) – What's Wrong with Human Rights?
Venue: CRMEP 'Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and Culture', in collaboration with the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (IMCC), University of Westminster, no. 4: the University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW.

Date: 14 March
Title: Professor Etienne Balibar (CRMEP, Kingston) – On Socialist Cosmopolitanism
Venue: CRMEP 'Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and Culture', in collaboration with the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (IMCC), University of Westminster, no. 5: the University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW.

Date: 28 March
Title: Dr David Cunningham and Professor Peter Osborne (CRMEP, Kingston) – Poetics of Contemporary Art
Venue: CRMEP 'Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and Culture', in collaboration with the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture (IMCC), University of Westminster, no. 6: the University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW.

Date: 23 May
Title: Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto) – Deadlines (Literally). The 1st Annual Gillian Rose Memorial Lecture. Generously supported by the Tom Vaswani Family Educational Trust.
Venue: Kingston Hill Campus, Kingston University

Date: 4 October
Title: Gordon Finlayson (University of Sussex), Solidarity in Adorno's Negative Dialectics
Venue: John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 18 October
Title: Julia Christ (CNRS, Paris/Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt), On Religion and Emancipation
Venue: John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 8 November
Title: Antonia Birnbaum (University of Paris-8), Radical Equality: The Material Reason of Emancipation
Venue: John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 23 November
Title: Marie-Louise Krogh, Luhuna Carvalho and Luke Collison (CRMEP), Movements, Authority and History
Venue: John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 29 November
Title: One-Day Workshop – Tom Bunyard (University of Brighton), Ninon Grangé (University of Paris-8), Lucie Mercier (CRMEP, Kingston University) and Tina Röck (University of Dundee, (Dis)placing Space-Time: Topological Strategies and Abstract Continuities
Venue: Lecture Room, The Warburg Institute, London

Date: 7 December 
Title: One-Day Workshop – Eric Alliez, Antonia Birnbaum, Fabienne Brugère, Howard Caygill, Peter Hallward, Peter Osborne, Frederic Rambeau,  Matthieu Renault, Sanjay Seth, Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc, 'On Post-68 Thought'
Venue: Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Belleville 60, bd de la Villette 75019 Paris

Date: 18 January
Title: Emmanuel Alloa (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), Transparentism: The end of critique
Venue: Room 1008, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 1 February
Title: Herman Siemens (Leiden University), Nietzsche, Kant and the question of constructive conflict
Venue: Room 0001, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 22 February
Title: Michaela Ott (HFBK, Hamburg), Dividuations: Theories of participation
Venue: Room 0001, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 22 March
Title: Ayse Yuva (University of Paris 1), The European Boundaries of Philosophy in the 19th Century: shaping cultural identity through the history of philosophy
Venue: Room 0003, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 4 May
Title: Exemplarity, authority, universalizability: how is a geopolitics of philosophy to be conceptualised?
Venue: Room 0001, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 5 October
Title: Cristina Chimisso (Open University), Normal: Georges Canguilhem on the Medical and the Individual.
Venue: Room 1008, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 23 November
Title: Todd Mei (University of Kent), Exploring an economic turn in phenomenology: Land as hypokeimenon.
Venue: Room 1008, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 8 December
Title: Workshop hosted by CRMEP, Hegel's Logic
Venue: Room 3007, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 12 January
Title: Peter Osborne (CRMEP), Crisis as Form.
Venue: Chelsea Lecture Theatre, University of the Arts London, John Islip Street, London

Date: 26 January
Title: Stella Stanford (CRMEP), The Many Names of Sex.
Venue: Chelsea Lecture Theatre, University of the Arts London, John Islip Street, London

Date: 9 February
Title: Simon Morgan Wortham, Resistances of the Psycho-Political.
Venue: Chelsea Lecture Theatre, University of the Arts London, John Islip Street, London

Date: 23 February
Title: Étienne Balibar (CRMEP), The Multiple and Shifting Borders of Europe.
Venue: Chelsea Lecture Theatre, University of the Arts London, John Islip Street, London

Date: 3 March
Title: Steve Howard and Mijael Jiménez (CRMEP), Kant and Benjamin.
Venue: Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 9 March
Title: Willow Verkerk (CRMEP), Friendship, Love and Women.
Venue: Chelsea Lecture Theatre, University of the Arts London, John Islip Street, London

Date: 9 March
Title: Colin Koopman (University of Oregon, Eugene), Toward a Genealogy of the Informational Person
Venue: Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 23 March
Title: Peter Hallward (CRMEP), Mass Sovereignty and the Eclipse of Representation
Venue: Chelsea Lecture Theatre, University of the Arts London, John Islip Street, London

Date: 6 April
Title: Eric Alliez (CRMEP), Capital's Art of War
Venue: Chelsea Lecture Theatre, University of the Arts London, John Islip Street, London

Date: 12 May
Title: Jussi Palmusaari and Michael Washington (CRMEP), Political Subjects
Venue: Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 29 September
Title: Peter Dews (University of Essex), Theory Construction and Existential Description in Schelling's Treatise on Freedom
Venue: Room 1002, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 13 October
Title: Yuk Hui, Object and relation: An approach to the study of Digital Objects
Venue: Room 5002, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 10 November
Title: Research seminar, Betty Schulz (CRMEP): Madness, Truth and Power in Walter Benjamin; Alex Fletcher (CRMEP): The Essay Form as/in Film.
Venue: Room 5002, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 17 November
Title:  Howard Caygill (CRMEP), Aesthetics and Madness
Venue: Chelsea Lecture Theatre, University of the Arts London, John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU

Date: 1 December
Title: Catherine Malabou (CRMEP), Spinoza and Symbolic Necessity
Venue: Chelsea Lecture Theatre, University of the Arts London, John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU

Date: 15 December
Title: Andrew Benjamin (LGS), On Drawing
Venue: Chelsea Lecture Theatre, University of the Arts London, John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU

Date: 14 January
Title: Gabriela Basterra (New York University), Unconditionality: Kant's Subject of Freedom
Venue: Room 3002, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames

Date: 4 February
Title: Miguel de Beistegui (University of Warwick), The Government of Desire: a Genealogical Perspective
Venue: Room 3002, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames

Date: 11 February
Title: Half-day Workshop on Reading Capital
Speakers: Etienne Balibar, Katja Diefenbach, Peter Hallward, Peter Osborne, Stefano Pippa.
Venue: Swedenborg Society, 20 Bloomsbury Way, London

Date: 1 October
Title: Peter Osborne (CRMEP, Kingston University), Is it Interesting? Judgments of the moderns from Schlegel to Judd and beyond
Venue: Clattern lecture theatre, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 15 October
Title: Sandra Harding (University of California, LA), After Mr Nowhere: New Proper Scientific Subjects
Venue: Room JG4002, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 12 November
Title: Cathrine Bjørnholt Michaelsen (University of Copenhagen), Solitudes
Venue: Room JG5002, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 20 November
Title: One-day Workshop on Fanon and Philosophy
John Narayan (University of Warwick)
Matthieu Renault (University of Paris 8)
Shela Sheikh (Goldsmiths, London)
Howard Caygill (CRMEP)
Lucie Mercier (CRMEP)
Peter Hallward (CRMEP)
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury Way, London

Date: 10 December
Title: Deleuzean Aftereffects: Interventions from Japan
Masaya CHIBA 'The Deleuzian Negativity Revisited'
Kazunori KONDO 'Topos of the Simulacrum - Reading Deleuze from "the Overturning of Platonism"'
Koichiro KOKUBUN 'Middle Voice and Philosophy'
Venue: Room JG2002, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 15 January
Title: Howard Caygill (CRMEP, Kingston University), Philosophical Kafkas
Venue: E003, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

Date: 29 January
Title: Tina Chanter (School of Humanities, Kingston University), Public lecture: Politics of seeing - Freud, Ranciere and art
Venue: E003, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

Date: 12 February
Title: Etienne Balibar (CRMEP, Kingston University / Columbia University, NY), Public lecture: The Idea of a multiversum - logics, cosmology, politics
Venue: E003, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

Date: 26 February
Title: Peter Buse (LGS, Kingston University), public lecture: Clowning and Power
Venue: E003, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

Date: 12 March
Title: Stella Sandford (CRMEP, Kingston University), public lecture: The sex of natural history
Venue: E003, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

Date: 20 March
Title: Professor Peter Osborne and Professor Catherine Malabou, PhD workshop with the Royal Institute for Art (KKH)
Venue: The Studio, Dorich House, 69 Kingston Vale, London
Download the programme (PDF)

Date: 26 March
Title: Peter Hallward (CRMEP, Kingston University), public lecture: Re-educating the educator
Venue: E003, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

Date: 2 October
Title: David Webb (Staffordshire University), From mathematics to ethics in the work of Michel Foucault
Venue: Room JG5002, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 16 October
Title: Mary Beth Mader (Memphis University), Whence intensity? Deleuze and the revival of a concept
Venue: Room JG5002, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 30 October
Title: Frédéric Worms (ENS, Paris), Towards a critical vitalism
Venue: Room JG5002, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 6 November
Title: Riccardo Bellofiore (University of Bergamo) and Tommaso Redolfi Riva, The Neue Marx-Lektüre: putting the critique of political economy back into the critique of society
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Date: 20 November
Title: Prof Peter Osborne (CRMEP), Use! Value! Exchange! Inside and outside relations of exchange
Venue: Lecture Theatre E002, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, London N1C 4AA

Date: 4 December
Title: Prof Catherine Malabou (CRMEP), Relinquishing the transcendental? Speculative realism in question
Venue: Lecture Theatre E002, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, London N1C 4AA

Date: 18 December
Title: Simon Morgan Wortham (the London Graduate School - Kingston University), Realism and psychosis
Venue: Lecture Theatre E002, Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, London N1C 4AA

Date: 16 January
Title: Tina Chanter (Humanities, Kingston University), Ranciere, politics and art
Venue: Room JG5002, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 17 February
Title: Lucie Mercier (CRMEP) and Iain Campbell (CRMEP), Serres and Deleuze
Venue: Room 3003, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 27 February
Title: Daniel Whistler (University of Liverpool), Utopia, abstraction and the critique of religion
Venue: Room JG5002, John Galsworthy building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 13 March

Title: Nina Power (Roehampton University), Philosophy and the collective
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Date: 27 March
Title: John Macarthur (University of Queensland), Kurt Schwitters and Walter Benjamin: The Modernity of the Baroque and Romanticism
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Date: 22 May
Title: Althusser and Marx, Stefano Pippa (CRMEP), 'Practice and contingency in the late Althusser' and Andres Saenz de Sicilia (CRMEP), 'Dynamics of Subsumption'
Venue: Room JG5002, Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2EE

Date: 29 May
Title: Philosophical Dictionary of Untranslatables conference
Eric Alliez (CRMEP/Paris 8)
Emily Apter (New York University)
Etienne Balibar (CRMEP/Columbia)
Jacques Lezra (New York University)
Stella Sandford (CRMEP)
Michael Wood (Princeton University)
Venue: 12 Bloomsbury Square, London

Date: 12 June
Title: Freud and philosophy conference
Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck, University of London)
Philippe Van Haute (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Stella Sandford (CRMEP, Kingston University)
Venue: Room G04, 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck, University of London

Date: 12 July
Title: Symposium: Everything is Somehow Included
Patrice Maniglier, (University of Paris X)
Paul Elliman (artist)
Katharine Stout (ICA)
Pier Vittorio Aureli (Berlage Institute)
Andy Merrifield (Cambridge)
Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths)
Emily Pethick (The Showroom)
John Roberts (Wolverhampton University)
Gail Day (University of Leeds)
Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), The Mall, London SW1

Date: 3 October
Title: Knox Peden (University of Queensland), The Politics of Disenchantment
Venue: PR JG1002, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2EE

Date: 18 October
Title: Symposium on Gillian Rose's Hegel Contra Sociology, Thinking in the Severe Style
Venue: Bolivar Hall, Venezuelan Embassy, 54 Grafton Way, London WC1

Date: 21 October
Title: Professor Melanie Sehgal (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder), Whitehead's Metaphysics as Situated Metaphysics
Venue: Kingston University, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 14 November
Title: Hammam Aldouri 'Sublation and Self-Sublation in Hegel', George Tomlinson 'Marx's Capital and Historical Time'
Hegel and Marx Workshop
Venue: Kingston University, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 21 November
Title: Dr Jan Voelker (Free University, Berlin), On Public Reason and Emancipation
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH

Date: 31 January
Title: Philosophy and the Black Panthers, Howard Caygill (CRMEP)
Venue: Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London N1 4AA

Date: 7 February
Title: The Singularity of Literary Cognition, Samuel Weber (LGS)
Venue: Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London N1 4AA

Date: 21 February
Title: A Thought of/from the Outside, Etienne Balibar
Venue: Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London N1 4AA

Date: 7 March
Title: Auto-immune Narcissism, Simon Morgan Wortham
Venue: Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London N1 4AA

Date: 21 March
Title: A Critical Theory of Sex, Stella Sandford
Venue: Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London N1 4AA

Date: 18 April
Title: The Postconceptual Condition: A Report on Art, Peter Osborne (CRMEP)
Venue: Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London N1 4AA

Date: 2 May
Title: Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin, Catherine Malabou (CRMEP)
Venue: Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London N1 4AA

Date: 16 May
Title: Duchamp à Calcutta, Éric Alliez (CRMEP)
Venue: Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London N1 4AA

Date: 23 May
Title: Lars von Trier and the Fear of Philosophy, Scott Wilson
Venue: Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London N1 4AA

Date: 30 May
Title: Vitalism or Voluntarism? Peter Hallward
Venue: Granary Building, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London N1 4AA

Date: 4 October
Title: The Difference of Italian Thought, Roberto Esposito (University of Naples)
Venue: Clattern Lecture Theatre, Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 11 October
Title: On Hands: Philosophy and Art's Histories, Andrew Benjamin, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Anniversary Chair, Inaugural Lecture
Venue: Clattern Lecture Theatre, Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 15 October
Title: Dying for Time: From Plato to T.S. Eliot, Martin Hägglund (Harvard University)
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Date: 3 November
Title: Performance and Labour: A Symposium, organised in conjunction with the Department of Art History at University College London (UCL), featuring Randy Martin (New York University) as the keynote speaker
Venue: UCL, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE

Date: 8 November 
Title: Fighting Irresolution, or, How to Act as if One were not Free, Frank Ruda (Free University Berlin)
Venue: Penrhyn Road campus, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 15 November
Title: The Persistence of a Peripheral Position: Contemporary Argentine Art, Juan Rinaldi (CRMEP)
Venue: SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH

Date: 29 November 
Title: Rousseau and Political Will, Peter Hallward (CRMEP)
Venue: Art Workers' Guild, Queens Square, London WC1N 3AT

Date: 13 December
Title: Time and Temporality, After Phenomenology, Catherine Malabou (CRMEP) Peter Osborne (CRMEP) Jean-Michel Salanskis (University of Paris X)
Venue: Bolivar Hall, Grafton Way London W1T 5DL

Date: 2 February
Title: Continental Philosophy and the Brain: Towards a Critical Neuroscience, Inaugural Lecture by Catherine Malabou (CRMEP)
Followed by a reception and book launch
Venue: Clattern Lecture Theatre, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 16 February
Title: Between Interpellation and Immunisation: Althusser, Balibar, Esposito, Warren Montag (Comparative Literature, Occidental College, LA)
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Date: 1 March 
Title: The Meaning of Existence and the Contingency of Sense, Markus Gabriel (Philosophy, University of Bonn)
Venue: Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

Date: 22-23 March 
Title: Transdisciplinarity Project, Workshop 2
Case Studies 1 - Transdisciplinary Texts: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Venue: French Institute, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT

Date: 3 May
Title: The Politics and Philosophy of Marx's Materialism, Cas McMenemin (CRMEP)
Venue: Room JG1008, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 17-18 May
Title: Transdisciplinarity Project, Workshop 3
Case Studies 2 - Transdisciplinary Problematics: Anti-Humanism and Gender Studies
Venue: Bolivar Hall (17th) and Goodenough College (18th)

Date: 24 May
Title:The Female Body and Sexuation: Towards an Understanding of Lacan's Thinking of the Body, Rosa Nogues (CRMEP)
Venue: Room JG1008, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 14-15 June
Title: Postgraduate Conference, Philosophy and the Outside
Venue: Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 19 June 
Title:  A Study Day on Giorgio Agamben's 'The Kingdom and the Glory' with Howard Caygill and Michael Dillon (Universities of Lancaster & Istanbul)
Venue: Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 6 October
Title:  Also Sprach Zapata: Philosophy and Resistance, Inaugural Lecture by Howard Caygill
Including at reception book launches for two volumes from CRMEP events: Eric Alliez and Andrew Goffey, eds, The Guattari-Effect, Continuum, London & NY, 2011; A. Avanesian and L. Skrebowski, eds, Aesthetics and Contemporary Art, Sternberg Press, Berlin & NY, 2011
Venue: Clattern Lecture Theatre, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 13 October
Title: Ontology of the Image, John Lechte (Sociology, Macquarrie University, NSW)
Venue: Room JG3004, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 3 November
Title: An Immemorial Remainder: The Legacy of Derrida, Rodolphe Gasché (Comparative Literature, SUNY, Buffalo)
Followed by reception
Venue: Art Workers Guild, Lecture Hall, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT

Date: 18-19 November
Title: Society for Women in Philosophy

Date: 24 November
Title: The Politics of Monstrosity, Filippo del Luchese (Politics and History, Brunel University)
Venue: Room JG3004, John Galsworthy Building, Penrhyn Road campus, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE

Date: 8-9 December
Title: French philosophy and (anti-)psychiatry

Date: 15 December
Title: Return to Sender: Why Democrats Should Not Accept Rousseau's Letter on the Theatre, Juliane Rebentisch (Philosophy, University of Frankfurt), Followed by reception
Venue: SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, London E8 3RH

Date: 20 January
Title: Hegel's Other Woman: The Figure of Niobe in Hegel's Lectures on Fine Art, Andrew Benjamin (Aesthetics and Critical Theory, Monash University)
Venue: Art Workers Guild Lecture Hall, 6, Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT