The SPT Research Seminar is organised every second Wednesday of term in Russell Building 30, 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. All are very welcome!

PROGRAMME SPRING 2010

20 January, Sam Ashenden (Sociology and Politics, Birkbeck)
'Re-problematising Relations of Government and Freedom: Surrogacy and the Legal Regulation of Parenthood'

25 January (Monday), Recognition Workshop, 4.00-6.30pm, Bramber House 254
Heikki Ikäheimo (Macquarie) 'Recognition and Species Being According to Hegel'
Andrew Chitty (Sussex) 'Recognition as the Condition of Freedom'

3 February, Nina Power (Philosophy, Roehampton)
'One-Dimensional Woman: Women, Work and the Illusion of Emancipation'

17 February, Richard Bellamy, (Politics, UCL) 'Dirty Hands and White Gloves'

3 March, Franco "Bifo" Berardi (associate of Guattari and Negri, independent scholar)
'Precarious Rhapsody: Semio-capitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-alpha Generation'

17 March, Fabio Vighi (Cardiff, European Studies) 'Zizek and Marx: Desire, Manque and Surplus'