The SPT Research Seminar is organised every Wednesday of term in Fulton 107, 5-7pm. These seminars are an exciting opportunity to hear work presented by major academics from both Sussex and beyond. A diverse range of themes will be discussed and debated.

They are also a hub for socialising with members of the Centre for Social and Political Thought and Philosophy graduates and staff. All are very welcome! This year we have teamed up with students and staff in University of Brighton and have come up with a great line up of speakers.

THE CENTRE FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT (Sussex) & THE CRITICAL STUDIES RESEARCH GROUP (Brighton)

Joint Research Seminar in Critical Thought,  Autumn 2012

October 3rd Lorna Finlayson (University of Cambridge): 'With radicals like these, who needs conservatives? 'Realism' and 'idealism' in political philosophy'

October 10th Patrick Chalmers (ex-Reuters journalist, activist): Speaking on his book Fraudcast News: How Bad Journalism Supports Our Bogus Democracies

October 17th Paul Davies, 'Returning to the Subject: Emmanuel Levinas in Germany 1940-45'

October 24th Tom Stern (UCL): "Nietzsche's ethics and his conception of amor fati"

October 31st Michael King (University of Reading): Social systems theory and the financial crisis

November 7th Brian O' Connor (University College Dublin):  'Adorno, reason and Freudian theory'

November 19th Simon Glendinning (LSE): "The end of history"

November 28th Seumas Milne (associate editor of The Guardian): Speaking on his new book The Revenge of History

*** Please note that this is a special event in collaboration with the New Left Initiative     to be held in ARTS A1 at the regular time***

December 5th Work in Progress Seminar

SPT RESEARCH SEMINARS SPRING 2012

January 11th Geoffrey M. Hodgson (Hertfordshire): "The Evolution of Morality and the End of Economic Man"

January 18th Andrew Edgar (Cardiff): "The Social Facticity and Autonomy of Sport: Discovering Adorno's Critical Theory of Sport"

January 25th Alana Lentin (Sussex): "Good and Bad Diversity: The Crises of Multiculturalism as a
Crisis of Politics"

February 1st Sean Sayers (Kent): "Marx and Ethics"

February 8th Christopher Norris (Cardiff): title tbc

February 15th Göran Therborn (Cambridge): "Cities of Power: How Power Manifests Itself in Built Forms"

February 22nd Samuel Knafo (Sussex): "Beyond the False Promise of Reflexivity : Towards a Methodology for Critical Theory"

February 29th Sue Currell (Sussex): "Social Work and Eugenic Resettlement in 1930s America: A Case Study in the Failure of Welfare
Politics"

March 7th Graduate work in progress seminar

March 14th Darian Meacham (UWE): "'Être hétérosexual c'est être homosexual médiatement' (and other properly liberal ideas)"

SPT RESEARCH SEMINARS, AUTUMN 2011

October 5^th Welcome Drinks, Lion & Lobster, 20 Sillwood Street, 8pm

October 12^th Gary Browning (Oxford Brookes), "Global Theory from Kant to Hardt and Negri."

October 19^th Denise Ferreira da Silva (Queen Mary), title tbc.

October 26^th Owen Jones (author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class)

November 2^nd Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar

November 9^th Doug Haynes (Sussex), "The Mind of Odysseus: Adorno, Feeling, Happiness."

November 16^th Newton Duarte, (Universidade Estadual Paulista/Sussex), "Art and Education in the Aesthetic Works of Georg Lukacs and Lev Vygotsky."

November 23^rd Martin McQuillan (Kingston), title tbc.

December 1^st Matthew Charles (Kingston), "Walter Benjamin and Critical Pedagogy." (Please note - this seminar is on Thursday, due to industrial action)

December 7^th Bob Brecher (Brighton), "Why There's No Such Thing as Political Terrorism." 

SPT RESEARCH SEMINARS, SPRING 2011

Wednesdays, 5:00-7:00pm, Fulton Building, Room 107
12 January, Chris Allsobrook (Sussex)
Self-Implicating Ideological Criteria: Immanent Circularity/Transcendent Regress

19 January, Tarik Kochi (Sussex)
Recognition and the Other's War

26 January, Mark Devenney (Brighton)
Fear, Desire, and the Suicide Bomber

02 February Judith Butler (Columbia University)
Arendt, Cohabitation and the Dispersion of Sovereignty. Asa Briggs Lecture Theatre*(Philosophy & Centre for German Jewish Studies)

09 February
Chris Arthur (formerly of Sussex)
New Thoughts on the Structural Dialectic in Hegel and Marx

18 February*, Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi (Loyola, Rome) The Missing Link between Theory and Praxis: Models of Resistance against the Administered World in Adorno. *This will be at the Royal Institute of Philosophy Seminar Series: 4:30-6:30pm, Fulton 103.

23 February, Ruth Kinna (Loughborough)
Politics, Ideology and Utopia: A Defence of Utopian Worlds

02 March, Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths)
The End of Reform? On Transitional Programmes and Intransitive Politics

09 March, Peter Thomas (Brunel)
Gramsci and the Autonomy of the Political

16 March, Goran Therborn (Cambridge)
Cities of Power: How Power Manifests Itself in Built Forms

PROGRAMME AUTUMN 2010

Further Seminars: To be Announced.

Speakers for 2010-11 include, Goran Therborn (Cambridge),  Stefano Giachetti Ludovisi (Loyola, Rome), Andrew Chitty (Sussex), Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths), Peter Thomas, Tarik Kochi (Sussex)