Dear all
Here's the Autumn programme for the seminar series "Philosophy and the
Humanities", which will take place in Bedford Square (not in Egham!). As
you'll observe, the opening paper will be given by Andrew Bowie and will
include musical examples and be followed by a performance of the Andrew
Bowie Jazz Quartet (or Trio, depending on access!). All are, of course, most
welcome.
Also included are details of a one day conference "Thirty Years After:
Richard Rorty and the Mirror of Nature" which is being run with the generous
support of the Institute of Philosophy.
Finally, one of the participants in the Rorty conference, Albrecht Wellmer,
has agreed to give a supplementary talk in which he'll discuss the lecture
he gave when he received the Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt in 2006
(previous recipients include Ligeti, Derrida, Godard, Boulez and Habermas).
The text of the original lecture "Adorno and the Difficulties of a Critical
Reconstruction of the Historical Present" will be posted on the HARC website
(http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Research/HARC/main.html) soon.
Any inquiries about the series can be addressed to me. More details about
registering for the Rorty conference will be found in due course on the
Institute's events page.
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Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC), Royal Holloway University of
London
Autumn Term 2009
Wednesday 7 October, 4:30-7pm
Andrew Bowie (RHUL) ³Background capabilities and prereflexive awareness²*
Room G3, 11 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3RA
*Presentation will include musical examples and be followed by a performance
by the Andrew Bowie Jazz Quartet
Wednesday 28 October, 4:30-7pm
Jason Gaiger (OU): ³Can there be a universal theory of images?²
Room G3, 11 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3RA
Wednesday 6 November, 4:30-7pm
Albrecht Wellmer (Berlin): "Adorno and the Difficulties of a Critical
Reconstruction of the Historical Present"
Room G3, 11 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3RA
Friday 6 November, all day
Thirty Years After: Richard Rorty and the Mirror of Nature**
Stewart House, London WC1
Confirmed speakers:
Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh)
Bjorn Ramberg (Oslo)
Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins)
Albrecht Wellmer (Berlin)
**This is run in collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy. For further
details contact philosophy@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday 11 November, 4:30-7pm
Denis McManus (Southampton) "Heidegger, Wittgenstein and the Last Judgment"
Room G3, 11 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3RA
Wednesday 2 December, 4:30-7pm
Nina Power (Roehampton) ³Stoney ground but not entirely: Beckett and the
Humanities²
Room G3, 11 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3RA
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Royal Holloway, University of London
Neil.Gascoigne@RHUL.AC.UK
