Deleuze workshop
Manchester Metropolitan University
Department of English
And
Department of History, Politics and Philosophy
In association with The Institute of Humanities and Social Science Research (IHSSR)
present a two-day workshop on the philosophy and aesthetics of
Gilles Deleuze
The Engine House (International Anthony Burgess Foundation)
Saturday 24th March – Sunday 25th March 2012
Day One: (Saturday 24th March) – Aesthetics, Politics, Ethics
09.30am – Registration and complimentary refreshments
10.00am – Dr Felicity Colman (Manchester Metropolitan University): The Image of Thought: Affective Politics
11.30am – break
11.45am – Dr David Martin-Jones (St. Andrews): Five hundred years of cine-history: Deleuze and Quijano
1.15pm – Lunch break
2.15pm – Dr Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin): The Ethics of Inhuman Art
3.45pm – 4.00pm – break
4.00pm – Dr Jac Saorsa (Cardiff) : Beyond Logic: Deleuze, the Artist and Creative Practice
5.30 – Finish
5.30 – 7pm – drinks social upstairs at Odder Bar
7.00pm – Conference dinner – Zouk Bar and Grill (a wonderful curry and wine or beer will cost about £20 on the night)
Day Two (Sunday 25th March) – Deleuze and Time
09.30am – Registration and complimentary refreshments
10.00am – Dr Pete Wolfendale (Warwick): Ariadne’s Thread: Temporality and Modality in Deleuze’s Metaphysics
11.30am – break
11.45am – Dr Kelvin Clayton (Staffordshire): Deleuze, time & the emergence of the self’
1.15pm – Lunch break
2.15pm – Prof James Williams (Dundee): Deleuze’s answer to McTaggart: series and disjunctive syntheses
3.45pm – 4.00pm – break
4.00pm – Dr Nathan Widder (Royal Holloway): Deleuze on Bergsonian Duration and Nietzsche’s Eternal Return
5.30 – Finish
Organised by Henry Somers-Hall, Anna Powell and Helen Darby.
Link to abstracts and speaker biographies here.
Join the event on Facebook here.
To register attendance or ask any questions please email Helen Darby
Map showing places to eat near the venue
This event is free to attend.