Monday, 16 March 2009

On Campus Accommodation Available

On 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.

Reservations can be made via email: constaff@aber.ac.uk (University Conference Office).

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.

Sunday, 25 January 2009

Registration

To register, please fill in this form and email it to: anotherpolitics09@gmail.com

Call for participation

Politics in terms of self and other is the prevailing conception in the current order, where 
the logic of alterity maintains the ever-present possibility of existential conflict. However, 
recent engagements with Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques 
Derrida, Michel Foucault,Jacques Lacan and Jean-Luc Nancy have drawn attention to 
the prevalence and the importance of a new idea of politics emerging in their work. 
In varied ways these thinkers all attempt to delineate a radically different kind of politics 
that moves towards a conception of politics no longer based on the self-other relation. 
Examples of this include Agamben’s notion of a community of whatever singularities, 
Badiou’s generic extension of humanity, Deleuze’s plane of immanence, Derrida’s 
politics of singularity, Foucault’s idea of concrete freedom and aesthetic of 
self-fashioning, Lacan’s sinthomal naming and Nancy’s politics of the singular plural.

This conference will address in more detail what the exact implications of these 
alternative notions of the subject are for thinking about politics, both by exploring 
connections between philosophical concepts and by examining their relation to 
various social and political practices.

Speakers

Louise Amoore
Claudia Aradau
Martin Coward
Michael Dillon
Kimberly Hutchings
Stewart Motha
Rens Van Munster
Saul Newman
Aletta Norval
Sergei Prozorov
Michael J Shapiro
Veronique Voruz
Caroline Williams