Seminars: H0.44 on Wednesday mornings, 09:00–11:00

Term one outline

Please download and remember to consult weekly this schedule of focal topics and presentation groups. (Also please check in advance that your name appears in a group in every class Weeks 2–9)

Week 1	Writing in an existential framework: de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième Sexe, tome I: ‘Introduction’ (*students should read this before the seminar*)
Week 2	de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième Sexe, tome I: Part 1: ‘Destin’
Week 3	de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième Sexe, tome I: Part 2: ‘Histoire’
Week 4	de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième Sexe, tome I: Part 3: ’Mythes’ and ‘Conclusion’
Week 5	Irigaray, Je, tu, nous: from ‘Petite annonce’ to ‘“Le side ne passera pas par moi”’
Week 6	Reading Week
Week 7	Irigaray, Je, tu, nous: from ‘Sexes et genres linguistiques’ to end
Week 8	Barthes, Mythologies 1: Spectacle and Identity
Week 9	Barthes, Mythologies 2: Media and social manipulation
Week 10	Barthes, Mythologies 3: Semiotics (plus discussion on ways to compare the texts)

Term two outline

Please download this detailed schedule of our module in Term 2. [Last updated: 20.1.2017]

Week 1	Intellectual context. Please read Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ The Communist Manifesto in preparation for Week 1
Week 2	Badiou, L’Hypothèse communiste
Week 3	Badiou, L’Hypothèse communiste
Week 4	Rancière, Le Partage du sensible
Week 5	Rancière, Le Partage du sensible
Week 6	Reading Week
Week 7	Nancy & Bailly, La Comparution
Week 8	Nancy & Bailly, La Comparution
Week 9	Equality and emancipation in Badiou, Rancière and Nancy
Week 10	Discussion: political practice in Badiou, Rancière and Nancy

Term three outline

Week 2	Revision 1: Term 1 texts
Week 3	Revision 2: Term 2 texts