Structure to Rhizome Conference

CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN MODERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHYMIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY

From Structure to Rhizome

Transdisciplinarity in French thought, 1945 to the present: histories, concepts, constructions

Cine Lumière, The French Institute 17 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2DTtel. 020 7073 1350
16 & 17 April 2010

In the final decades of the twentieth century, the ‘great books’ of postwar French theory transformed study in the humanities in the Anglophone world. These books were all, in one way or another, transdisciplinary in character. Yet their reception has primarily taken place in an array of specific disciplinary contexts, isolated from a broader understanding of the intellectual dynamics, forms, significance and innovative potential of transdisciplinarity itself. This conference aims to redress this situation. Each speaker will reflect on the transdisciplinary functioning of a single concept in French thought since 1945, with respect to a founding text, a particular thinker or a school of thought.

Programme
Friday 16 April
9.30
Registration
10.00
Peter Osborne, Introduction:Transdisciplinarity
10.20
Etienne Balibar, Structure
11.40
Stella Sandford, Sex
12.50
Lunch break
13.45
Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, Science
14.55
Patrick Guyomard, Object a
16.05
Tea/Coffee­­
16.20
Tom Conley, Writing
17.30
Drinks Reception

Saturday 17 April
9.30
Registration
10.00
Alain de Libera, Subject
11.15
François Cusset, Theory
12.30
Lunchbreak
13.30
Michèle Riot-Sarcey, History
14.45
Andrew Barry, Network
16.00
Tea/Coffee
16.15
Éric Alliez, Rhizome
17.30
Close

£45 / £20 students (free to members of the CRMEP, but booking is essential)
Advance registration: please write to Tom Eyers

Cheques should be made payable to ‘ Middlesex University’. Send to: Prof. Peter Osborne, CRMEP, Middlesex University, Trent Park campus, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ, United Kingdom.