Summer Term Events 2010
Annual Lecture Series: Art and the Limits of the Political
A series of three lectures examining the proposition that contemporary art can go beyond transforming our understanding of the political and build new forms of political and social relations
Monday 24 May 2010, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Alexander Duttmann (Professor of Philosphy and Visual Culture, Goldsmiths)
Forum for European Philosophy Annual Lecture Series
Monday 7 June 2010, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Herman Rapaport (Reynolds Professor of English, Wake Forest University)
Forum for European Philosophy Annual Lecture Series
Monday 14 June 2010, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield (Reader in Theory and Philosophy of Art, University of Reading
Forum for European Philosophy Annual Lecture Series
Book launch: Spinoza Today
Thursday 10 June 2010, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Michael Mack (Durham University; author of Spinoza and the Spectres of Modernity)
Susan James (Professor of Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London)
Caroline Williams (Lecturer, Department of Politics, Queen Mary University, London)
Forum for European Philosophy
Thinking in Public: Paths to Extremism
Tuesday 22 June 2010, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Sara Savage (Psychology and Religion Research Group, Cambridge University)
Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist (Sociologist and Deputy Director of Inform, LSE)
icolas Royle (Professor of English, University of Sussex)
Simon Glendinning Chair (LSE)
Forum for European Philosophy with Inform
Lent Term Events 2010
Modernity and the Meaning of Life
Monday 18 January 2010, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Simon Glendinning (LSE)
Edward Skidelsky (University of Exeter)
Forum for European Philosophy Dialogues
Dance, Text, and Translation: Creating a Dialogue
Friday 12 February 2010, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 12:30 - 2:00pm
Jasmin Vardimon (Artistic Director of the Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company)
Professor Helen Thomas (London College of Fashion)
Luc Bovens, Chair
LSE Literary Festival
Literature and the Academic: Literature as a resource for other disciplines
Friday 12 February 2010, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 6:00 - 7:30pm
Richard Bronk (European Institute)
Margot Finn (University of Warwick)
Neil Vickers (Kings College London)
LSE Literary Festival
Counter-Composition: Conversations on Ethics
Wednesday 17 February 2010, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, 6:00 - 7:30pm
Alex Voorhoeve (LSE)
Steve Pyke (Portrait photographer)
Forum for European Philosophy Public Lecture
Peter Hacker in conversation with Severin Schroeder
Wednesday 24 February 2010, NAB 1.15, New Academic Building, 12:30 - 2:00pm
PMS Hacker (University of Oxford)
Severin Schroeder (University of Reading)
Forum for European Philosophy Dialogues
The Neoliberal Subject: on Foucault's 'The Birth of Biopolitics' (1979)
Wednesday 3 March 2010, NAB 1.07, New Academic Building, 7:00 - 8:30pm
Miguel de Beistegui (University of Warwick)
Forum for European Philosophy Re-Visions
The Neoliberal Subject: on Foucault's 'The Birth of Biopolitics' (1979)
Wednesday 10 March 2010, NAB 1.07, New Academic Building, 7:00 - 8:30pm
Miguel de Beistegui (University of Warwick)
Forum for European Philosophy Re-Visions
The Habermas-Rawls Dispute Reconsidered
Thursday 11 March 2010, Room T206, Lakatos Building, Department of Philosophy, 12:30 - 2:00pm
Catherine Audard (Chair, Forum for European Philosophy)
Gordon Finlayson (University of Sussex)
Forum for European Philosophy Dialogues
Michaelmas Term Events 2009
The Strange Friendship of Pauli and Jung: When Physics Met Psychology
Wednesday 7 October 2009, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Arthur I. Miller (University College London)
Forum for European Philosophy Public Lecture
Fiction and Reality: Writing Novels in a World Weirder than Anything You Could Make Up
Thursday 5 November 2009, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, 6:30pm
Lionel Shriver (Novelist and Journalist)
Forum for European Philosophy Provocations
The Philosophy of History
Wednesday 11 November 2009, J116, Cowdray House, 6:00pm
Lea Ypi (Nuffield College, Oxford University)
Forum for European Philosophy Re-Visions: Rethinking Marxism
The Philosophy of Art
Wednesday 18 November 2009, NAB 1.07, New Academic Building, 6:00pm
Lea Ypi (Nuffield College, Oxford University)
Forum for European Philosophy Re-Visions: Rethinking Marxism
Managing Risk and Behaviour in Financial Markets
Wednesday 25 November 2009, Old Theatre, Old Building, 6:30pm
Julia Black (LSE)
Charles Goodhart (LSE)
Michael Power (LSE)
Paul Woolley (FMG, LSE)
Willem Buiter, Chair(European Institute, LSE)
Forum for European Panel Discussion
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Thursday 26 November 2009, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, 6:30pm
Alain de Botton (Philosopher and Entrepreneur)
Forum for European Philosophy Public Lecture
Kant's Two Cosmopolitanisms and Freedom of Speech
Wednesday 2 December 2009, Room TBC, 12:30pm
Peter Niesen (Technische Universitä Darmstadt)
Forum for European Philosophy Public Lecture