Department of Philosophy

SPT Research Seminars

THE CENTRE FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT & THE CRITICAL STUDIES RESEARCH GROUP

Joint Research Seminars in Critical Thought, Autumn 2012
Seminars will take place on Wednesdays in Fulton 107, 5.00-7.00pm, University of Sussex

Date	Seminar
3 Oct	Lorna Finlayson (University of Cambridge) 'With radicals like these, who needs conservatives? 'Realism' and 'idealism' in political philosophy'
10 Oct	Patrick Chalmers (ex-Reuters journalist, activist) Speaking on his book Fraudcast News: How Bad Journalism Supports Our Bogus Democracies
17 Oct	TBA
24 Oct	Tom Stern (UCL) “Nietzsche's ethics and his conception of amor fati”
31 Oct	Michael King (University of Reading) Social systems theory and the financial crisis
7 Nov	Brian O’ Connor (University College Dublin) ‘Adorno, reason and Freudian theory’
21 Nov	Simon Glendinning (LSE) “The end of history”
28 Nov	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*
5 Dec	Work in Progress Seminar