Lewis Gordon and Jane Gordon participated in our Conceptualizing Difference conference in 2021, but this had to be held online due to pandemic restrictions. We are delighted to have the … Continue reading Visit of Lewis Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon
Based on a forthcoming book Citizenship (Routledge, 2024), which has developed over thirty years, we will outline a critical theory of citizenship, with an emphasis on how citizenship institutes power relations and organizes the rights and obligations of those who become its subjects. Whether it is the question of the rights of animals, children, migrants, … Continue reading Engin Isin “Outline of a critical theory of citizenship”
We will be discussing chapters 9, 10 and 16 of 'Willing', which you can find here: The Life of the Mind https://pensarelespaciopublico.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/the-life-of-the-mind-hannah-arendt2.pdf The Zoom meeting link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84992783988?pwd=RzVoSDc2SVBqYmFIcHhhOG1hdEwyUT09
This is the first seminar of a new series on Interdisciplinary Approaches to the City. It is a reading group discussion of the multi-award winning novel The City & The City (2009) by China Miéville. The discussion will be led by PhD student Sam McReavy, who is writing on the novel as part of his … Continue reading The City & The City reading discussion
An interdisciplinary discussion about the origins of western views of burial. Co-hosted with the Death Studies Network. The sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410 shocked the Roman world by revealing the weakness of the Western Roman Empire. Only two years later, St. Augustine wrote the first book of his influential City of God … Continue reading City of God – death and burial
