In celebration of Black History Month, MAP and PhilSoc will be co-hosting a film screening of the documentary ‘The Stuart Hall Project’ (2013), written and directed by Black British artist and writer John Akomfrah.

Tuesday 15th October, 18:00-20:00

Strand Campus, S -1.27 (wheelchair accessible)

Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-born British philosopher, critical theorist, sociologist, and Marxist. He is considered one of the founding figures of the ‘New Left’ political movement of the 60s and 70s, as we as central to the development of Cultural Studies in Britain. The documentary looks at Hall’s life from colonial Jamaica to British intellectual, exploring themes of identity, diaspora, post-coloniality, and what it meant to be Black and British during the 70s.

The film screening is open to all!

If you are non-King’s student you will need to book a ticket on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-stuart-hall-project-film-screening-tickets-75169129891

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1359864710849465/

A new series of the Phenomenology Reading group starts next Wednesday, 9^thOctober: 15:00-16:00 in the Emeritus Room (PB508). The group will cover papers that connect the detailed descriptions of phenomenology with systematic debates from analytic philosophy. Anyone is welcome!

For the first week, we will discuss Hubert Dreyfus’ seminal 2005 paper Overcoming the Myth of the Mental: How Philosophers can Profit from the Phenomenology of Everyday Expertise. (download from JSTOR here). For those short on time but still wanting to join, there is a 6-page version from 2006 published in Topoi.

For a list of suggested readings, or if the time and date are not suitable for you, as well as any other questions, do not hesitate to contact Gregor Bös.

KCL MAP reading group will be meeting 13:00 – 14:00 next Wednesday, 9th October, in Activity room E, KCLSU (Bush House, South East Wing). The reading is ‘Reparations and Racial Inequality’, by Derrick Darby, University of Kansas (see file/abstract below). The reading group is open to all — staff, students, PGTs and PGRs, within and external to the department. All are welcome to attend!

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Abstract: A recent development in philosophical scholarship on reparations for black chattel slavery and Jim Crow segregation is reliance upon social science in normative arguments for reparations. Although there are certainly positive things to be said in favor of an empirically informed normative argument for black reparations, given the depth of empirical disagreement about the causes of persistent racial inequalities, and the ethos of ‘post-racial’ America, the strongest normative argument for reparations may be one that goes through irrespective of how we ultimately explain the causes of racial inequalities. By illuminating the interplay between normative political philosophy and social scientific explanations of racial inequality in the prevailing corrective justice argument for black reparations, I shall explain why an alternative normative argument, which is not tethered to a particular empirical explanation of racial inequality, may be more appealing.

February 16th 2018 (Small Committee Room, King’s Building)– Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins), Spinoza on Transcendence

King’s History of Philosophy Seminar will meet regularly through the academic year at King’s College London.  The Seminar aims to promote discussion of methods and approaches to the History of Philosophy as well as of thinkers and topics within the tradition.  We wish to encourage contextual and interdisciplinary perspectives, and welcome researchers in disciplines such as History, Theology, and Political Theory as well as Philosophy.  Meetings take place on Fridays from 11am to 1pm.  All welcome. For inquiries contact John Callanan (john.callanan@kcl.ac.uk or Clare Carlisle (clare.carlisle@kcl.ac.uk).

Marking the 20th anniversary of Peter Winch’s death, this major international conference brings together leading academics from around the world to examine the legacy of Peter Winch’s work and to reassess its relevance to contemporary issues. Participants will draw on both Winch’s published work and also unpublished materials contained in the Winch archives. Topics to be discussed include: political philosophy, ethics, and the philosophies of Spinoza and Wittgenstein. The conference is generously supported by the Mind Association and the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value at the University of Pardubice.

Speakers: Marina Barabas (CAS / Pardubice), Ondřej Beran (Pardubice), Michael Campbell (Pardubice), David Cockburn (Wales), Alice Crary (NSSR), Helen Geyer (Weimar), Lars Hertzberg (Åbo), Drew Johnson (Independent), Olli Lagerspetz (Åbo), David Levy (Edinburgh), Michael McGhee (Liverpool), Tony Milligan (KCL / Pardubice), Rupert Read (UEA), Lynette Reid (Dalhousie), Duncan Richter (VMI), Sean Stidd (WSU), Craig Taylor (Flinders), Mark Theunissen (New School), Sarah Tropper (AAU Klagenfurt), Carolyn Wilde (Bristol)

Dates: June 30 – July 2

Full Programme: http://filosofie.upce.cz/data/File/winch-conference-program.pdf

Venue: Room K-1.56, King’s Building, King’s College London

Admission: Free, but please register by e-mailing winchconf@gmail.com

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