Seminar on Contemporary Cultural Theory (2)

The Centre for the Humanities in co-operation with the Gender Graduate Programme and Media and Culture Studies hosts a second round of the seminar on Cultural Theory. The seminar is a close-reading seminar, which focuses on texts that are valuable to the humanities as a whole and is open to scholars, students and people working outside of academia.

Theme two: Immanent Spaces, Immanent Times

Our new theme searches for ways in which time and space are not given materialities, as in Newtonian physics, but are actualized and realized through events. From architectonics to science, from philosophy to theories on social complexity, we traverse all parts of academia in order to question these two Aristotelian concepts that have proven themselves so fundamental for thought.

Location: Kromme Nieuwegracht 29 room 023 (sessions 1 and 2), Janskerkhof 13 room 006 (session 3 and 4), Muntstraat 2a room 111 (session 5 and after) in Utrecht

Time: 13:15 – 14:45 (you can bring your lunch)

Organised by: Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Media and Culture Studies), Dr.  Iris van der Tuin (Gender Studies)

Schedule of the reading sessions:

1. December 4 Franco Moretti (2005) Graphs Maps Trees Ch 3. ‘Maps’

2. December 11 no seminar

3. December 18 Bernard Cache (1995) Earth Moves Ch 10 ‘Body and Soul’, Ch 11 ‘Réflexion’ and Ch 12 ‘Mémoire’

4. January 8 Elizabeth Grosz (2005) Time Travels Ch. 10 ‘The Time of Thought’

5. January 15 Henri Bergson (1896) Matter and Memory Ch. 4 ‘The Delimiting and Fixing of Images:  Perception and Matter, Soul and Body’

6. January 22 Manuel DeLanda (2006)  A New Philosophy of Society Ch. 1 ‘Assemblages Against Totalities’ and Ch. 2 ‘Assemblages Against Essences’

7. January 29 Gottfried Leibniz (1714)  ‘Monadology’

8. February 5 Niels Bohr (1955) ‘Science and the Unity of Knowledge’

9. February 12 Karen Barad (2001) ‘Re(con)figuring Space, Time and Matter’

10. February 19 Neil Smith (1992) ‘Jumping Scale’

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