Philosophy » Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and The Arts Events, 2019/2020

13/10 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA Reading Group: Philosophy in a Time of Crisis

Donna McIntyre — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 21:36:37 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 13 Oct '20

27/10 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA Reading Group: Philosophy in a Time of Crisis

Donna McIntyre — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 21:39:23 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 27 Oct '20

24/11 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA Reading Group: Philosophy in a Time of Crisis

Donna McIntyre — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 21:40:57 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 24 Nov '20

08/12 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA Reading Group: Philosophy in a Time of Crisis

Donna McIntyre — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 21:42:53 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 08 Dec '20

08/06 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA/CPKEP Joint Event: Naomi Waltham-Smith Book Launch

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 08:56:57 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 08 Jun '21

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Naomi Waltham-Smith's new book:

Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life (Fordham University Press, 2021)

Commentators: Lynn Turner (Goldsmiths), Erin Graff Zivin (University of Southern California), Julie Napolin (The New School), Michael Gallope (Minnesota), and Daniele Lorenzini (Warwick)

With responses by Naomi Waltham-Smith (Warwick)

https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823294879/shattering-biopolitics/

Follow this link to register for the Zoom Meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcOCppzMvG9YekJM2llCNXEiqxiab2oF9

21/06 2pm-3:30pm: CRPLA & Environmental Humanities Network: Reading Group on Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 18 May 2021 14:24:47 GMT

When: 2pm - 3:30pm, Mon, 21 Jun '21

28/06 2pm-3:30pm: CRPLA & Environmental Humanities Network: Reading Group on Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 18 May 2021 14:24:47 GMT

When: 2pm - 3:30pm, Mon, 28 Jun '21

15/03 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA Seminar: Lorenzo Serini (Warwick), "Friedrich Nietzsche: Cheerful Thinker and Writer. A Reflection on Cheerfulness and the Style(s) of Philosophy"

Donna McIntyre — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 15:25:14 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 15 Mar '22

Where: R0.14 (and on Teams)

The theme of cheerfulness in Nietzsche's philosophy has recently been at the centre of an important debate in the literature between Robert Pippin (2010) and Lanier Anderson and Rachel Cristy (2017). Engaging with these scholars, I will consider three major questions: (1) What is cheerfulness? (2) What is its value for philosophy? (3) Is Nietzsche a cheerful thinker and writer? If yes, in what sense? As insinuated by the title of this presentation, I propose that it is possible to argue that starting from his middle writings Nietzsche thinks and writes cheerfully in some of his works, including a number of significant ones.

In person and on Teams:

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20/04 2:30pm-4:30pm: The Warwick Dinner Party

Donna McIntyre — Thu, 05 May 2022 09:38:53 GMT

When: 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Wed, 20 Apr '22

Where: Faculty of Arts Building Atrium

This is a collective-creative project, taking place as part of the Warwick Resonate Campus Festival. The Dinner Party is a showcase for concrete presentation of ideas, questions, and speculation about food and meals, past, present and future. Contact eileen.john@warwick.ac.uk for more information about how to participate.

24/05 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA Symposium: Celebrating Beistegui and Poellner

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 04 May 2022 17:04:27 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 24 May '22

Where: S0.20 / Teams

CRPLA will celebrate the Warwick careers of our long-time Philosophy colleagues, Professor Miguel Beistegui and Professor Peter Poellner, by enjoying talks from them, followed by discussion and a reception. There will be Teams access to the talks: Click here to join the meeting

Professor Beistegui will follow up on the CRPLA reading group that he led in Autumn 2020:

“On the Manifold Meaning of Crisis: Deviation, Exception, Contradiction, Extinction”

Professor Poellner will introduce us to his new book from Oxford UP:

'Précis of Value in Modernity'

11/10 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA Book Symposium on Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé, A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature after Wittgenstein

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 09:11:09 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 11 Oct '22

Where: A0.23 (Soc Sci) and on Teams

Hybrid event:

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24/10 5:30pm-7pm: MAP/CRPLA Film Screening: The Milk of Sorrow (2009, dir. Claudia Llosa)

Donna McIntyre — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:59:08 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Mon, 24 Oct '22

Where: S0.19

18/11 1pm-6pm: CRPLA Workshop: In Celebration of Marcel Proust

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:26:06 GMT

When: 1pm - 6pm, Fri, 18 Nov '22

Where: FAB0.08

Talks by Peter Boxall, Joshua Landy, Patrick Bray and Jeremiah Tillman.

22/11 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA - Mead Gallery Roundtable on Radical Landscapes

Donna McIntyre — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 07:37:18 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 22 Nov '22

Roundtable discussion of the Radical Landscapes Exhibition at the Mead Gallery (opens 7 October). Commentators: David Bather Woods, Diarmuid Costello, Chris Earley, Nadine Elzein, Nick Lawrence, Danielle Stewart

21/06 3pm-5pm: On Bad Art - CRPLA Panel Online

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 30 May 2023 09:24:51 GMT

When: 3pm - 5pm, Wed, 21 Jun '23

Presenters: Mélissa Thériault (Université du Québec á Trois Rivières), Matthew Strohl (University of Montana), and Celia Coll (University of Hertfordshire)

03/07 4:30pm-6pm: Art in Art - CRPLA talks and party

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:53:48 GMT

When: 4:30pm - 6pm, Mon, 03 Jul '23

Where: FAB2.43

12/10 5pm-7pm: CRPLA Event - Heather Altfeld and Troy Jollimore: ‘Dreams and Journeys: Two California Writers’

Donna McIntyre — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 08:46:59 GMT

When: 5pm - 7pm, Thu, 12 Oct '23

Where: R0.04

Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts

Thursday 12 October, R0.04, 5-7pm

Heather Altfeld and Troy Jollimore: ‘Dreams and Journeys: Two California Writers’

Heather Altfeld is a poet and essayist. She teaches in the Honors Program and for the Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities at California State University, Chico. Altfeld's first book, The Disappearing Theatre, won the 2015 Poets at Work Prize. She is the 2017 recipient of the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America and the 2015 recipient of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Conjunctions Magazine, Aeon, Orion Magazine, Narrative, ZYZZYVA, Poetry Northwest, and others.

Altfeld's second book of poems, Post-Mortem, was selected for the 2019 Orison Prize. Spanning ages and species and cultures, it pays tribute to the passing glory of this planet and all that our hands have made. Eric Pankey writes, "Post-Mortem is a brilliant, baroque, and word-crazed collection of poems. While the primary mode of the poems is elegiac (many taking as their forms obituaries, autopsies, and kaddishes), one cannot help but delight in Altfeld's reverie and in the breadth and depth of her inquiry, her exploration, her katabasis as she leads us like Virgil through a stunning and elaborate posthumous world."

Troy Jollimore is the author of three books of philosophy and four books of poetry, and the editor of the forthcoming book, The Virtue of Loyalty (Oxford University Press, 2024). He received the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry in 2007, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013; his third poetry collection, Syllabus of Errors, was selected by the New York Times as one of the ten best poetry collections of 2015. His philosophical work often centers on personal relationships and the emotional phenomena they involve, particularly as related to friendship, romantic love, and various forms of loyalty.

He has also published on topics including admirable immorality, the ethics of terrorism, practical reasoning and the nature of instrumental reason, grief, anxiety, philosophy of poetry, and the philosophical dimensions of depictions of love in such films as Her, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rear Window, and Vertigo. In his essays and reviews for mainstream nonacademic publications he has addressed topics including relations between religion and science, questions regarding quality of life and competing conceptions of the good life, issues of political resistance and individual conscience in morally imperfect societies, the value of humanities-based education, and the increasing glorification of strictly quantitative, "data-driven" evaluative practices at the expense of qualitative evaluation and appreciation.

Heather and Troy will read from their work, followed by a conversation.

24/10 5:30pm-7pm: CANCELLED - CRPLA Event - Antal Bokay: ‘Hysteria-Criticism and Paranoia-Criticism: Surrealism's Adventures with Psychoanalysis and the Mysteries of the Soul’

Donna McIntyre — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:52:49 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 24 Oct '23

Where: R0.14

Surrealism, a major movement of late modernism in the 1920s and 1930s, showed an enigmatic parallel with and interest in psychoanalysis as the poets, painters and novelists tried to open a new depth of personal self-understanding. They were “loving Freud madly”: they studied psychoanalysis, Breton and Dalí visited Freud, and they integrated the basic ideas of psychoanalysis into their literary and theoretical discourses. Breton put the dream and automatism at the centre and developed a kind of hysteria-criticism, while Dalí introduced a more radical paranoia-criticism in his theories and creative work. Dalí’s work showed important parallel ideas with the psychoanalysis of the early Jacques Lacan. Dalí in 1938 visited Freud in London and took with him his freshly finished picture “The Metamorphosis of Narcissus”. This major painting is an excellent summary of his paranoia-criticism. The structuring of the picture, and the act of imagining the world through a paranoid-critical method, creates a surrealistic-hallucinatory psycho-analysis, and speaks of Dali’s narcissistic lacks and excesses as well as our own.

05/12 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA Event - Helmut Schmitz: ‘How To Have One's Cake And Eat It: Navid Kermani's Große Liebe, Sufi Mysticism, And Paradoxical Cultural Identities’

Donna McIntyre — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 08:04:46 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 05 Dec '23

Where: R0.14

Navid Kermani’s novel Große Liebe (2014, Love Writ Large) charts the development of a young teenager’s infatuation with an A-level student in the early 1980s in Germany. The love story is refracted through the adult narrator’s reflections and through readings from Sufi mysticism and Nizami’s 12^th ct. epic poem Lailï and Majnûn. This creates a narrative framework in which (Iranian and Muslim) cultural sources and (West German) cultural memory subtly comment on one another, allowing Kermani to ironically undermine both contemporary masculinity and his narrator’s former self as lover while simultaneously reflecting on the cultural and religious traditions of his own background and their relations to a Western tradition of love. The paper examines Kermani’s ironic narrative construction in the context of his construction of a paradoxical cultural identity.

08/03 1pm-5pm: CRPLA Symposium - Critical Theory in the Digital Age

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:27:51 GMT

When: 1pm - 5pm, Fri, 08 Mar '24

Where: S2.77 (the Cowling Room)

Critical Theory in the Digital Age

Friday 8 March 2024, 1 pm – 5 pm, S2.77 (Cowling Room), Social Sciences Building, and on MS Teams

Ever since its beginnings, Critical Theory has been concerned with the constitution of human subjectivity. Its proponents have understood this constitution as a process between individuals and society that changes historically. In this symposium, we will explore how social imperatives today form and deform human faculties – sensually and intellectually – and critically investigate the extent to which the work of early Frankfurt School theorists (Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, and others) enables us to shed light on these contemporary processes.

1 – 1.50 pm	Alexandra Schauer (Institute for Social Research, Goethe University, Frankfurt): ‘Man without a World: On the Disappearance of the Idea of Social Agency’
2 – 2.50 pm	Lars Rensmann (University of Passau): ‘On the Politics of Unreason in the Digital Age: Reading Social Media and Reconfigurations of Authoritarianism with Adorno’
Break
3.10 – 4 pm	Sebastian Tränkle (Free University, Berlin): ‘Deformation or Perfection. On the Dialectic of Aesthetic Self-Formation’
4.10 – 5 pm	Antonia Hofstätter (University of Warwick): ‘Atrophied Images: Childhood as Critique in T.W. Adorno’

Please join us in person or on MS Teams (use this link).

This event is co-organised by the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts and the Warwick Workshop for Interdisciplinary German Studies

Contact: Antonia Hofstätter (antonia.hofstatter@warwick.ac.uk) or Christine Achinger (c.e.achinger@warwick.ac.uk)

22/10 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA/Mead Gallery Panel Discussion - Material World: Contemporary Artists and Textiles

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:42:17 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 22 Oct '24

Where: Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre

Please join us for a panel discussion at the Mead Gallery, reflecting on the works and themes of the Mead autumn exhibition, Material World: Contemporary Artists and Textiles (curated by Hayward Touring).

IMPORTANT! You need to register for this event here: Choose Seats | Warwick Arts Centre

Panelists:

Holly Hendry (contributing artist)

Dr. Jane Partner (literature and material culture scholar and artist, Cambridge)

Dr. Lucy Barry (philosopher and weaver)

Dr. Marta Ajmar (historian of art, craft and design, and museum practitioner, Warwick)

All welcome!

19/11 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA Seminar: Miguel Beistegui (ICREA/UPF), 'Tragedy, Crisis, and the State of Exception: On Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba'

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:46:23 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Tue, 19 Nov '24

Where: S0.20

This talk responds to our historical moment, one defined by a state of chronic crisis and the rise or return of constitutional dictatorships and authoritarian, if not fascistic regimes, for which the state of exception is becoming an increasingly normalised technique of government. This situation calls for a philosophy, and specifically a critique, of crisis. One of my claims will be that when philosophy tries to think its own present, it does so through the schema (if not always the concept) of crisis, which it inherits from ancient medicine and/or tragedy. I will turn to Hamlet as a case study, and to Carl Schmitt’s “modern” and “sovereigntist” reading of Shakespeare’s play. For Schmitt, Hamlet reveals the essence of the political understood as the decision regarding the state of exception. Drawing on the thoughts of W. Benjamin, E. Levinas, and J. Derrida, I will end my talk by trying to rescue an altogether different conception of the exception, rooted not in sovereignty, or the excess of the iustitium in relation to the ius commune, but in justice as the haunting presence of the oppressed.

20/11 5pm-6:30pm: CRPLA/Film &TV Seminar: Eugenie Brinkema (MIT), 'Drabness and Ethics (on the Values of Formalism)'

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:02:03 GMT

When: 5pm - 6:30pm, Wed, 20 Nov '24

Where: FAB0.21 - Cinema

This talk takes as a starting point an aesthetic evaluation that greets the arrival of brutal death squads in Wes Anderson’s 2014 film, The Grand Budapest Hotel: “I find these black uniforms very drab.” Using the problem of drabness, and a reciprocal term that is yoked to it in the film—that of glimmer—Prof. Brinkema considers how problems of cinematic form related to light, saturation, and quality formally articulate an impersonal account of general historical violence and loss. The problem of color—and the aesthetic question of values—thus poses the broader question of the value of formalism as both a reading method and a speculative grappling with ethics and politics.

Eugenie Brinkema is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a status-only Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto, and an associated fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. Her research in film and media studies focuses on violence, affect, sexuality, aesthetics, and ethics. In dialogue with critical theory and continental philosophy, she argues for the speculative value of formalist readings in texts ranging from horror films to works of the new European extremism, from gonzo pornography to contemporary photography. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Angelaki, Camera Obscura, Criticism, differences, Discourse, film-philosophy, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, LIT, qui parle, and World Picture. Her books include The Forms of the Affects (2014) and Life-Destroying Diagrams (2022), both published with Duke University Press. She is currently working on a book about color.

05/12 5:30pm-7pm: PKEP & CRPLA Collaborative Seminar - Paul Kottman (New School), 'Ethics and Contemporary Aesthetic Culture'

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:05:15 GMT

When: 5:30pm - 7pm, Thu, 05 Dec '24

Where: S0.19

10/01 3:30pm-5:30pm: CRPLA Book Symposium: Philosophy of Lyric Voice

Donna McIntyre — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 10:07:52 GMT

When: 3:30pm - 5:30pm, Fri, 10 Jan '25

Where: S0.11

Please join us for a symposium on Karen Simecek's new book, Philosophy of Lyric Voice (Bloomsbury), with commentaries AND poetry, and a response from Dr. Simecek.

Speakers: Celia Coll, David Fearn, Eileen John, and Stacey McDowell.

Poetry: Jasmine GardosiLink opens in a new window, Birmingham Poet Laureate

The book is available on-line through the library: https://0-www-bloomsburycollections-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/monograph?docid=b-9781350240551

09/05 9:30am-5:45pm: IAS Workshop on Music: Perception, Meaning and Metaphysics

Donna McIntyre — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:39:57 GMT

When: 9:30am - 5:45pm, Fri, 09 May '25

Where: IAS Seminar Room C0.02

Follow link Link opens in a new windowto register for the workshop on Eventbrite.

20/10 1pm-2pm: 'I'm Glad I Read It!' Series: David Bather Woods, 'Sailing to Byzantium (via Liverpool): Irish literature as a journey home'

Donna McIntyre — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:22:39 GMT

When: 1pm - 2pm, Mon, 20 Oct '25

Where: S2.73 Philosophy Common Room

Join us this term for I’m Glad I Read It—an informal series where faculty from several departments will discuss a reading experience that they are glad to have had. See webpage for details of speakers and works to be discussed. For students and staff - all are welcome.

27/10 1pm-2pm: 'I'm Glad I Read It': Nick Lawrence - Summer Will Show, by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, by Hannah Proctor

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:31:20 GMT

When: 1pm - 2pm, Mon, 27 Oct '25

Where: S2.73 Philosophy Common Room

03/11 1pm-2pm: 'I'm Glad I Read It' Series: Emma Williams

Donna McIntyre — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:34:43 GMT

When: 1pm - 2pm, Mon, 03 Nov '25

Where: S2.73 Philosophy Common Room

17/11 1pm-2pm: 'I'm Glad I Read It' Series: Emma Mason - 'Nest Box', Simon Armitage

Donna McIntyre — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:32:19 GMT

When: 1pm - 2pm, Mon, 17 Nov '25

Where: S2.73 Philosophy Common Room