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 31st 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 1st 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