Join artist and Warwick Alumni Olugbemi Moronfolu for this drop-in creative making workshop celebrating Africa Day! Check out more about Olu here: Olugbemi Moronfolu – OurWarwick. This event is in partnership with Warwick Arts Centre. All materials provided. First come first served.

This workshop will explore creative ways to search for work experience including the opportunities in the 'Hidden Job Market' during the first hour, followed by an optional (you need not stay on after the first hour) 30 minutes Q&A.

Speaker: Dirk Meyer (Oxford)

 Talk: The Dialectics Rule: Chinese Philosophy As Seen From *Mìng xùn

 Abstract: This paper looks at the way a philosophical argument is developed in a recently obtained, fourth century manuscript text from the Tsinghua collection of Chǔ Warring States texts, titled *Mìng xùn. The text has a close counterpart in the received tradition (Yì Zhōushū), which classes it as an utterance in the tradition of Shū (Documents), one of the core classics. I analyse the strategies with which meaning is produced in *Mìng xùn and suggest that the text is articulated in a dialectic manner in which the philosophical premise seeks to test itself continuously to avoid becoming doctrine, and thus philosophically void. My choice of a Shū text as an example of philosophically relevant meaning construction in early China challenges current methodology, which anachronistically considers zǐ-type literature (the Masters) as a disciplinary equivalent to Philosophy in ancient Greece. I argue that since philosophically relevant activities are a non-disciplinary praxis in early China, the articulations of this praxis are also not genre specific but found across the foundational literary texts of China.

Colonial Wrongs – Can the former coloniser re-colonise? with Solange Mouthaan.

“I’m afraid that I will look deeper into that rotten war of yours than you do yourselves. That is the destiny of someone from the post-war generation who thinks that his future is determined by the past of his ancestors (The Interpreter of Java, Alfred Birney).” 

My research leave has taken me on a long overdue journey from the Netherlands to Indonesia and the legacy of their colonial relationship. What started off as a descriptive reflection on the manner in which Dutch civil courts addressed colonial wrongs stemming from the extreme violence by the Dutch during the war of independence (or war of decolonisation depending on what side of the story you position yourself) within a transitional justice framework turned into a broader reflection on colonial wrongs, the interaction of time (past, present, future), colonial town planning and environmental harms with a view to examine the notion of colonial environmental wrong and what ‘reparation’ would look like. The above quote helped me make sense of my own positionality within this research and ignite a desire to make sense of the (untold) stories and images and to therefore a different but not unrelated research topic is colonial law and intergenerational trauma. Rather than present a paper, I would welcome your support in discussing these ideas.

This is being planned as a hybrid event and further details on location as well as the MS Team link will be circulated at a later date.

We will be taking the annual postgraduate photograph and hosting a social gathering later in the day.

Photos

Wednesday 25 May 2022 at 12:30
Location: WBS Steps

We will meet at the WBS Steps for our annual class photographs but if it rains heavily we will have to move to R0.21 in Ramphal. The dress code is casual and you will receive digital complimentary group photos once they are ready. We will automatically add this to your Tabula timetable.

Social

Wednesday 25 May 2022 at 7pm
Location: The Slate

Come and join us and your fellow classmates for food, drink and music. Further details are to be confirmed soon. We look forward to seeing you there.

Registration

Please complete the following form with your details as registration is mandatory. Only register if you are going to attend.

Please note: Photography will be taking place at this event, which may be used for marketing purposes (e.g. promotional materials). By registering and attending this event we assume that you are giving your consent to be photographed, however if you do not wish to be photographed, please inform the photographer or a member of Economics staff on the day.

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