Walter Benjamin, Pedagogy and the Politics of Youth

Friday 31st May – Saturday 1st June 2013
University of Westminster, London
Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW

Co-hosted by the Institute for Modern & Contemporary Culture (IMCC)
and the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP)

Provisional Schedule:

Friday 31^st May: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London

13:15 – 14:00	Registration (Entrance Hall)
14:00 – 14:30	Welcome Introductory Remarks	David Cunningham Matthew Charles	IMCC, Westminster IMCC, Westminster
14:30 – 15:30	The Life of Students is a Great Transformer	Antonia Birnbaum Chair: Andrew McGettigan	Paris 8
15:30 – 16:00	Break
16:00 – 17:00	Attunement and Interference: Benjamin’s Hölderlin Reading	Howard Caygill Chair: Peter Osborne	CRMEP, Kingston

Saturday 1^st June: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London

09:45 – 10:30	Registration (Entrance Hall)
10:30 – 11:30	Quo Vadis? Knowing and being in the digital age	Milan Jaros Chair: Steven Cranfield	Newcastle
11:30 – 12:00	Break
12:00 – 13:00	Chockerlebnis and Education: Learning from Modern Experience	Élise Derroitte Chair: Howard Caygill	Louvain
13:00 – 14:15	Lunch
14:15 – 15:15	Student as Producer: a pedagogy of the avant-garde; or, how do revolutionary teachers teach?	Mike Neary Chair: David Cunningham	Lincoln
15:15 – 15:30	Break
15:30 – 17:00	Education as Awakening Respondent	Howard Eiland Peter Osborne Chair: Matthew Charles	MIT CRMEP, Kingston

Participants:

Antonia Birnbaum (Paris 8)
Bonheur Justice Walter Benjamin; ‘Between sharing and antagonism: the invention of communism in the early Marx‘
Howard Caygill (CRMEP)
Walter Benjamin: the colour of experience; ‘Also Sprach Zapata: Philosophy and resistance‘
Matthew Charles (Westminster)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: ‘Walter Benjamin’, ‘Lines in class: the ongoing attack on mass education in England’
Élise Derroitte (Université catholique de Louvain)
La critique de la critique. : De la philosophie de l’histoire de Walter Benjamin; ‘“Die Schulereform, eine Kulturbewegung”, on Benjamin’s theory of learning‘
Howard Eiland (MIT)
Walter Benjamin: Early Writings; ‘The Pedagogy of Shadow: Heidegger and Plato‘
Milan Jaros (Newcastle)
‘Pedagogy for Knowledge Recognition and Acquisition: Knowing and Being at the Close of the Mechanical Age‘; ‘To thing or not to thing: Pedagogy of knowledge acquisition in the networked society‘.
Mike Neary (Lincoln)
Student as producer: how do revolutionary teachers teach?; Towards Teaching in Public: Reshaping the Modern University.
Peter Osborne (CRMEP)
Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy: Destruction and Experience; ‘Privatization as Anti-Politics: Interview with Peter Osborne‘

Registration:

The conference is free, open to all and there is no need to pre-register. Attendance on each day will be allocated on a “first come, first served” basis: the registration desk will be open on Friday 31st May from 13:15 – 14:00 and on Saturday 1st June from 9:45 – 10:30 and will be located in the main entrance hall to the University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1b 2UW.

The conference proceedings will begin at 14:00 on Friday and at 10:30 on Saturday and will end at 17:00 on both days. All talks will be held in Fyvie Hall (off the main entrance hall to the University of Westminster building on Regent Street).

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Further Information:

For further information and to be added to the conference mailing list for updates, please contact:
Matthew Charles
M.Charles1@westminster.ac.uk