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BRUNEL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT RESEARCH SEMINARS – UPDATE NOVEMBER 2013
Wednesday 27th November 2013, 1:00pm, Gaskell Building Room 239
Sara R. Farris (Goldsmiths, University of London)
‘From the Jewish Question to the Muslim Question’
Brunel Social and Political Thought Research Group Seminar Series 2013/14
Re/Dis/Order
Following successful seminar series and international conferences in the last years, the Brunel Social and Political Thought research group will organise another seminar series in 2013/14: ‘Re/Dis/Order’. This seminar series aims to explore the different ways in which the constitution, transformation and negation of political order have been understood by some of the key theorists of modern political thought, from the early modern period to contemporary social and political theory. Seminars are open to all.
Term 1
Wednesday 30th October 2013, 4:00pm, Gaskell Building Room 239
State and Capital
Andrea Bardin (BrunelUniversity)
‘Mechanising the Organic: Hobbes and the Epistemological Revolution in Civil Science’
Matthijs Krul (Brunel University)
‘Neoliberal Visions of Order: Theories of the State in the New Institutional Economic History’
Wednesday 13th November 2013, 1:00pm, Gaskell Building Room 239
Fabio Raimondi (University of Salerno)
‘Althusser, Machiavelli and the Problem of Political Power’
Wednesday 27th November 2013, 1:00pm, Gaskell Building Room 239
Sara R. Farris (Goldsmiths, University of London)
‘From the Jewish Question to the Muslim Question’
Wednesday 11th December 2013, 1:00pm, Gaskell Building Room 239
Fillippo del Lucchese (Brunel University)
‘Machiavelli and Constituent Power’
Term 2
Wednesday 8th January 2014, 1:00pm, Gaskell Building Room 239
Peter D. Thomas (Brunel University)
‘“We Good Subalterns”: Gramsci’s Theory of Political Modernity’
Wednesday 29th January 2014, 1:00pm, Gaskell Building Room 210
Banu Bargu (SOAS)
‘Sovereignty as Erasure’
Wednesday 5th February 2014, 1:00pm, Gaskell Building Room 239
Nathaniel Boyd (Brunel University)
‘Organising the Body Politic: Hegel’s Corporate Theory of State’
Wednesday 19th February 2014, 1:00pm, Gaskell Building Room 239
Jamie Pitman (Brunel University)
‘Castor and Pollux? The Marx-Engels Relationship’
Ebubekir Dursun (Brunel University)
‘“Stubborn, Insociable, Froward, Intractable”: the History of the Excluded in Hobbes’s Leviathan’
Wednesday 5th March 2014, 1:00pm, Gaskell Building Room 239
John Roberts (Brunel University)
‘Beyond Flows, Fluids and Networks: Social Theory and the Fetishism of the Global Informational Economy’
Wednesday 26th March 2014, 1:00pm, Gaskell Building Room 239
Mark Neocleous (Brunel University)
Book Launch
‘War Power, Police Power’
(Edinburgh University Press, 2014)
All seminars take place at Brunel University. Directions to the campus can be found here:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/ campus/directions
For further information, please contact:
Peter Thomas <PeterD.Thomas@brunel.ac.uk>
Visit the Brunel SPT Research Group webpages:
< http://www.brunel.ac.uk/ courses/postgraduate/modern- political-thought-violence- and-revolution-ma>
< http://www.brunel.ac.uk/sss/ politics/research-groups-and- centres/social-and-political- thought>
< http://www.facebook.com/ pages/Brunel-University- Modern-Political-Thought/ 205393026150272?sk=wall>
Other Brunel SPT Activities in 2013/14
Film Screening Series
(Organised in Collaboration with the Isambard Centre for Historical Research)
Paths of Shame: WWI in Cinema
1st October: S. Kubrick, Paths of Glory (1957)
15th October: R. Bernard, Wooden Crosses (1932)
29th October: J. Losey, King and Country (1964)
12th November: J. Renoir, La Grande Illusion (1939)
26th November: F. Rosi, Many Wars Ago (1970)
10th December: D. Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
All screenings in Gaskell Building Room 239 @ 5:30pm
Organised by Alison Carrol and Filippo del Lucchese
For more information, contact:
Alison Carrol <Alison.Carrol@brunel.ac.uk>
Filippo Dellucchese <Filippo.Dellucchese@brunel. ac.uk>
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