CentreLGS Annual Lecture 2006

Friday 19 May 2006

A lecture by Wendy Brown
Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley, USA

“American Nightmare: Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, and De-democratization”

Abstract: The lecture explores convergences between American neo-conservatism--a fierce political and moral program--and neo-liberalism--an economic and political rationality formally free of moral dress. It explores how these convergences extend the clear-cutting of liberal democratic institutions and the transformation of democratic subjectivity already underway from other sources in the past half century.

Hogg Lecture Theatre, Lecture Theatre 3,
Marylebone Campus, University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS.

The nearest tube station is Baker Street. The building is opposite Madame Tussaud's. A map showing the location is available on multimap.

The CentreLGS Annual Lecture 2006 by Wendy Brown was recorded. Please click on the link below to listen to the Annual Lecture.

Listen to the CentreLGS Annual Lecture 2006 by Professor Wendy Brown

Wendy Brown will also appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme Thinking Allowed on Wednesday 17th May between 16.00 and 16.30. You can listen to this programme on the BBC Radio 4 website.

Annual Lecture Flyer

Biography: Professor Brown received her Ph.D in Political Philosophy from Princeton University in 1983. Her fields of interest include the history of political theory, feminist theory, contemporary critical theories of law, and nineteenth and twentieth century Continental theory. Her books include Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988), States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton, 1995), Politics Out of History (Princeton, 2001), and Left Legalism/Left Critique, co-edited with Janet Halley (Duke, 2002). Her articles appear in a range of European and American journals and anthologies concerned with law, political theory, cultural theory, and feminist thought. She is currently at work on two books, one on contemporary discourses of tolerance and one on the life of critique in Marx's thought. Most recently, she has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and from the Institute for Advanced Study.

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AHRC Centre Co-Ordinator, Eliot College, University of Kent, CT2 7NS. Tel: +44 (0)1227 824474/Fax: +44 (0)1227 827399, or Email centre-lgs@kent.ac.uk.