Thursday 18 October 2012

Seminar series: The Revolutionary Foundations of Modern Political Thought

Brunel Social and Political Thought Research Group Seminar Series 2012/13 

The Revolutionary Foundations of Modern Political Thought

 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 2012/13: ‘The Revolutionary Foundations of Modern Political Thought’. This seminar series aims to explore the ways in which revolutionary politics, movements and events, and responses to them, have shaped and transformed the vocabulary of modern political thought. Brunel, national and international scholars will explore these themes in thinkers and movements ranging from the early modern period to contemporary radical political thought, in political and social theory, philosophy, film and literature.

 Term 1
 Thursday 25th October 2012, 3pm, Room H002
 Peter D. Thomas (Brunel University) The Idea of Communism and the Question of Organisation

Wednesday 31st October 2012, 12:30pm, Room LC015 (Co-sponsored by Politics and History Departmental Seminar)
Filippo del Lucchese (Brunel University) Jura communia as anima imperii: the Symptomatic Relationship between Law and Conflict in Spinoza

Thursday 22nd November 2012, 3pm, Room H002
 Luca Basso (University of Padua) Politics and Conjuncture: Marx and 1848

 Friday 30th November 2012, 3pm, Room GB251
Stella Sanford (Kingston University) Locke, Balibar and the Political Subject

Wednesday 12th December 2012, 1pm, Room LC264 (Co-sponsored by Politics and History Departmental Seminar)
 Gareth Dale (Brunel University) The Growth Paradigm: A Critique

 Thursday 13th December 2012, 3pm, Room H002
Dr Maïa Pal (University of Sussex) Historical Materialism and International Law: Developing Legal Agency in Political Marxism

Wednesday 19th December 2012, 4pm, Room LC264 (Co-sponsored by Politics and History Departmental Seminar)
 Thomas Linehan (Brunel University) Modernism and British Socialism

 Term 2

Thursday 17th January 2013, 3pm, Room H002
 Fabrizio Fasulo (University of Palermo) Raniero Panzieri and the Workers’ Inquiry: the Perspective of Living Labour and the Function of Science

Thursday 24th January 2013, 3pm, Room H002
 Giorgio Cesarale (University of Rome La Sapienza) Traces of Hegel: Reflection and Social Theory

 Thursday 7th February 2013, 3pm, Room H002
Matthijs Krul (Brunel University) The Value of Value: On the Significance of Concepts of Value for Economic History

Wednesday 20th February 2013, 3pm, GB266
 Andrea Bardin (Brunel University) From Man to Matter: Marx after Simondon

Wednesday 27th February 2013, 4pm, Room H002
Alex Callinicos (King’s College London) Deciphering Capital

 Thursday 7th March 2013, 3pm, Room H002
Neil Davidson (University of Strathclyde) Political and Social Revolutions in Historical Perspective: from the Dutch Revolt to the Arab Spring

Wednesday 13th March 2013, 1pm, Room LC264 (Co-sponsored by Politics and History Departmental Seminar)
 Nathaniel Boyd (Brunel University) “Who Thinks Concretely?” Hegel’s Critique of Political Abstraction

Thursday 14th March 2013, 3pm, Room H002
 Alex Demirovic (University of Basel and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung) Marxism and Foucault

Wednesday 20th March 2013, 3pm, LC008
 Chiara Bottici (The New School) Democracy and the Spectacle. On Rousseau’s Homeopathic Method

29th-31st May, 2013, Brunel University, International Conference (Organised by Filippo del Lucchese)
 Machiavelli’s The Prince: Five Centuries of History, Conflict, and Politics
Speakers include Antonio Negri, Etienne Balibar, John McCormick, John Najemy and Warren Montag

 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>

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