I received the following announcement today from Samuel Chambers via the Post-Structuralism and Radical Politics Group of the PSA:
A Politics of Contingency: Critical Assessments of the Political Theory of Judith Butler
The Department of Politics and International Relations at Swansea University is pleased to announce a one day international conference on the political theory of Judith Butler. The conference will be held at Swansea University on 12 May. The conference will bring together political theorists in a forum designed to engage with the political thought of Butler, a thinker famous for her contributions to feminism and queer theory but whose contributions to thinking the political have been less well-explored. Speakers will include Dr. Moya Lloyd, Professor Diana Coole, Professor Terrell Carver, Dr. Lisa Disch, and Dr. Samuel A. Chambers.
You can access and/or download the flyer for the conference through this link.
The conference is free and all are welcome.
IMMATERIAL LABOUR, MULTITUDES AND NEW SOCIAL SUBJECTS:
CLASS COMPOSITION IN COGNITIVE CAPITALISM
To be held on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th April 2006 in the Keynes Hall, King’s College, University of Cambridge, with additional events in other venues on Friday 28th April.
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I received the following announcement in an email from Vittorio Morfino this morning:
International Conference
RE-READING CAPITAL: THE LESSON OF LOUIS ALTHUSSER
The conference will be held in Venice at the department of historical studies from the 9th to the 11th of November, 2006. The conference is organised in the context of an intervarsity research project of considerable international interest. The research group, headed by the Università Ca’ Foscari of Venice (Maria Turchetto), has published the Italian edition of the collective work Reading Capital (on the basis of the edition published by PUF, Paris, 1996), the result of seminars held by Louis Althusser and his students at the Ecole Normale in Paris in 1965. The conference has the goal, on the one hand, of evaluating the importance of the turn represented by this reading of Capital in the context of interpretations of Marx; on the other hand, of deepening other aspects of Althusser’s thought and the traditions of his reception. The conference will be articulated in four workshops dedicated to specific arguments, each of which will be organised by a prominent Althusserian scholar, to be held on the days of the 9th and the 10th of November, and in a plenary session to be held on the 11th of November, dedicated to a discussion on Reading Capital.
The following themes will be treated in the workshops on the 9th and the 10th of November
Thursday 9th November (morning):
Althusser and Epistemology (Maria Turchetto);
Thursday 9th November (afternoon):
Althusser: Archive, Chronology, Bibliography (Gregory Elliott);
Friday 10th (morning):
Althusser and the Philosophical Tradition (Vittorio Morfino);
Friday 10th (afternoon):
Althusser and his Contemporaries (Warren Montag).
You can also see this announcement in Italian or French.
Certainly this is an event which I hope to attend.
A symposium on the work of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has started at Long Sunday. I won’t be contributing to this one but I have fond memories of meeting Spivak at a conference in New York in 1999 where she and I chatted about my doctoral thesis on James Mill. Regardless though of my impressions of her personal intellectual generosity, I am broadly in agreement with Warren Montag regarding the transcendentalism of her thesis on how “the subaltern cannot speak”. Warren’s (short!) essay can be found at Cultural Logic.
This morning I received the following in an email from Geoff Goshgarian, translator of the most recent Althusser volumes:
D,
Advance copies of Philosophy of the Encounter just reached Meard Street, and are supposed to make it to Berlin by the end of the week. You have been our main advertiser so far. Please carry on.
Best,
gmg
You can find the best price on the volume at the following link bestbookbuys
Gary Sauer-Thompson attended my seminar at the University of Adelaide last week, and he has been commenting on it. To see the conversation between Gary and I on his blog, click here.
