2nd Brighton-Sussex Postgraduate Colloquium Day in Critical Thought
hosted by the Centre for Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, and the Critical Studies Research Group, University of Brighton
10.30 – 11.30 Panel 1:
Ian Sinclair (Brighton): ‘Reading Rancière’
Toby Lovat (Brighton): ‘Meillassoux on contingency and the absolute’
11.30 – 13.00 Panel 2:
Tim Carter (Sussex): ‘Love and its objects: Thoughts on a passage from Adorno’
Birgit Hofstaetter (Brighton): ‘Thinking with the movement of language: Adorno on music and philosophy’
Aidan Simpson (Sussex): ‘Ernst Bloch, utopia and activism’
13.00 -14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Panel 3:
Jaakko Immonen (Brighton): ‘Merleau-Ponty and Adorno as materialist thinkers’
Alex Elliott (Sussex): ‘Punching Adorno in the face, epistemologically: Possible problems with physical experience in Negative Dialectics’
Dimitri Kladiskakis (Sussex): ‘Social origins and subjectivity: a critique of the state of nature’
16.00 – 17.00 Keynote:
Gordon Finlayson (Sussex): ‘30 years on: Habermas’s Critical Theory and the Problem of Normative Grounds’
All talks will take place in Fulton 203, University of Sussex
