tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819094511020938872024-03-13T23:46:46.682-07:00Another Politics, Another SubjectDepartment of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, April 20 - 22 2009
Speakers: Michael Dillon, Michael J Shapiro, Kimberly Hutchings, Martin Coward, Veronique Voruz, Sergei Prozorov, Claudia Aradau, Rens Van Munster, Saul Newman, Caroline Williams, Aletta Norval, Louise Amoore, Stewart MothaConference organisershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01330090342918105404noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-881909451102093887.post-60124260338822214042009-03-16T12:10:00.001-07:002009-03-16T12:18:42.771-07:00On Campus Accommodation AvailableOn campus accommodation is available in Penbryn for £21.85 (single room with shared bathroom and breakfast included). The building is 2 minutes walk from the department of International Politics.<div><br /></div><div>Reservations can be made via email: constaff@aber.ac.uk (University Conference Office).<div><br /></div><div>Also a number of B&B's and hotels are available in town - they are all within walking distance (10 to 20 minutes) to Penglais Campus and the department. There is also a regular bus service from town to campus.</div></div>Conference organisershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01330090342918105404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-881909451102093887.post-66784544079722227052009-01-27T09:27:00.000-08:002009-02-09T07:59:17.379-08:00Conference Programme<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.shrani.si/f/2r/lI/kZ51t8V/anotherpoliticsanothersu.doc">Provisional programme</a></span>Conference organisershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01330090342918105404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-881909451102093887.post-40915108134433465082009-01-25T12:33:00.000-08:002009-01-26T11:47:25.427-08:00RegistrationTo register, please fill in this <a href="http://www.shrani.si/f/2M/Fw/4py2jJZi/another-politics.doc">form</a> and email it to: anotherpolitics09@gmail.comConference organisershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01330090342918105404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-881909451102093887.post-19054853407561088362009-01-25T12:04:00.000-08:002009-01-26T02:50:07.981-08:00Call for participation<!--StartFragment--><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Politics in terms of self and other is the prevailing conception in the current order, where </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">the logic of alterity maintains the ever-present possibility of existential conflict. However, </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">recent engagements with Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Derrida, Michel Foucault,Jacques Lacan and Jean-Luc Nancy have drawn attention to </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">the prevalence and the importance of a new idea of politics emerging in their work. </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">In varied ways these thinkers all attempt to delineate a radically different kind of politics </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">that moves towards a conception of politics no longer based on the self-other relation. </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Examples of this include Agamben’s notion of a community of whatever singularities, </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Badiou’s generic extension of humanity, Deleuze’s plane of immanence, Derrida’s </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">politics of singularity, Foucault’s idea of concrete freedom and aesthetic of </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">self-fashioning, Lacan’s sinthomal naming and Nancy’s politics of the singular plural.</span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">This conference will address in more detail what the exact implications of these </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">alternative notions of the subject are for thinking about politics, both by exploring </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">connections between philosophical concepts and by examining their relation to </span></span></span></pre><pre style="text-align:justify"><span style=";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">various social and political practices.</span></span></span></pre><!--EndFragment-->Conference organisershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01330090342918105404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-881909451102093887.post-19043041244185055922009-01-25T12:01:00.000-08:002009-02-26T05:22:03.911-08:00Speakers<div>Louise Amoore</div>Claudia Aradau<div>Martin Coward<div>Michael Dillon<br /><div>Kimberly Hutchings</div><div>Stewart Motha</div><div>Rens Van Munster</div><div>Saul Newman</div><div>Aletta Norval</div><div>Sergei Prozorov</div><div>Michael J Shapiro</div><div>Veronique Voruz<br /></div><div>Caroline Williams<br /></div></div></div>Conference organisershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01330090342918105404noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-881909451102093887.post-74700806734784242802009-01-25T12:00:00.000-08:002009-01-25T12:56:55.041-08:00Conference organisershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01330090342918105404noreply@blogger.com