Inhabiting Institutions in Britain, 1700-1950 A two-day conference of the Department of History, Royal Holloway University of London, in London on 14 and 15 September 2010 This conference has been recorded and is available as a series of podcasts This two-year research project examines the impact of the design, decoration and furnishing of nineteenth-century residential …
The Government of Self and Other: On Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982/3 Date: 2 December 2010 , 10:00 to 17:00 Location: Bolivar Hall, Kingston University, 54 Grafton Way, London W1 Speakers Mathieu Potte Boneville (Collège International de Philosophie, Paris) John Marks (French, Nottingham University) Johanna Oksala (Philosophy, Dundee University) Miguel de Beistegui …
Update: August 2025. Details of this have long since vanished from the web, but here is a video of Dreyfus discussing Moby Dick uploaded in 2018 Sept. 17 Potter lecture Hubert Dreyfus, “Luring Back the Gods: Polytheism from ‘The Odyssey’ to ‘Moby Dick’” will be the topic of the 49th annual Potter Memorial Lecture at …
The first of 7 videos Giorgio Agamben conducting a seminar on the creation of the subject in the work of of Michel Foucault. Agamben examined the idea of the subject (through a discussion of the role of the author) by contrasting theories of subjectivity between Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot. Agamben discussed the chiasmatic relationship …
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