Marxism & Psychology Research Group (MPRG)

A small number of (unfunded) places remain for a workshop on Alienation and the Environment being held in the Philosophy Department at Liverpool University (February 26th-27th).

Attendance is free but people interested in attending should please contact Victoria Browne (VBrowne@liv.ac.uk) to ensure a place.

The workshop is part of an AHRC-funded research networking project: New Thinking on Alienation.

Information about this project, which will include further workshops on the topics of psychological/self alienation and social/political alienation, may be viewed here: http://www.liv.ac.uk/philosophy/alienation/index.htm

The speakers at the Liverpool workshop are:

Dr Alison Stone (Lancaster), 'Alienation from Nature in Early German Romanticism'
Professor Kate Soper (London Met), 'Environmental Alienation'
Professor John O'Neill (Manchester), 'Objectification, Alienation and Labour'
Dr Simon Hailwood (Liverpool), 'Nature, Estrangement and the Flesh'
Dr Isis Brook (UCLan), 'I'm Losing You Babe'
Dr Ute Kruse-Ebeling (TU Dortmund) 'Alienation from Nature: some conceptual difficulties'
Professor Steven Vogel (Denison), 'On Alienation from the Built Environment'

The workshop schedule and abstracts of the papers may be viewed here: http://www.liv.ac.uk/philosophy/alienation/workshop1details.htm

Dr Simon Hailwood
Senior Lecturer
Department of Philosophy
Liverpool University
7 Abercromby Square
Liverpool L69 7WY
UK

+44 (0)151 794 2794