Autumn Term 2008

Week 1: 3.30 p.m., Wednesday 1 October, CGU2
Centre for Reasoning Research Seminar
Dr Julia Tanney (University of Kent), ‘Ryle’s Regress and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science’

Week 1: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 1 October, CGU4
Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar
Professor Peter Read (University of Kent), ‘From a Spectre to a Sceptre: Alberto Giacometti and Francis Ponge’
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Week 1: 10.30 a.m., Saturday 4 October, various locations
Argument Day

Week 2: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 8 October, CGU4
Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar
Elaine Morley (University of Kent), 'The Monster and the Maiden: An Unfinished Portrait: Towards a Reassessment of Iris Murdoch's and Elias Canetti's Relationship'

Week 3: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 14 October, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Professor Richard Norman (University of Kent), ‘What Do Religious Believers Believe?’

Week 3: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 15 October, KLT5
Centre for Modern European Literature Inaugural Lecture
Professor Ritchie Robertson (University of Oxford), ‘Jesuits, Jews and Thugs: Myths of Conspiracy and Infiltration from Dickens to Thomas Mann’
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Week 3: 5.15 p.m., Thursday 16 October, KLT3
Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies Guest Lecture
Professor Neal Norrick (Universität des Saarlandes), 'Humour in Spoken Language'

Week 3: 3.00 p.m., Friday 17 October, Maths Lecture Theatre
Centre for Reasoning Research Seminar
Dr David Corfield (University of Kent), ‘Narrative and the Rationality of Mathematical Research Programmes’

Week 4: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 22 October, SECL Staff Common Room
Centre for Modern European Literature Book Launch
Ben Hutchinson (ed.), Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘The Book of Hours’: A New Translation with Commentary, trans. Susan Ranson (Camden House, 2008)
Peter Read, Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of Memory (University of California Press, 2008)
Peter Read and Claude Debon, Les Dessins de Guillaume Apollinaire (Buchet - Chastel, 2008)
Shane Weller, Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

Week 5: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 28 October, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Josh Johnstone (University of British Columbia), ‘Aesthetic and Ethical Narration’

Week 5: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 29 October, CGU4
Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar
Dr David Ayers (University of Kent), 'Art and Philosophy in the Work of Alain Badiou'
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Week 6: 3.30 p.m., Wednesday 5 November, CGU2
Centre for Reasoning Research Seminar
Barry Richards, ‘Singular Propositions’

Week 6: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 5 November, KLT5
SECL Distinguished Lecture
Baroness Onora O’Neill, ‘Reasoning about Trust’
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Week 7: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 11 November, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Helen Frowe (University of Sheffield), ‘A Practical Account of Self-Defence’

Week 7: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 12 November, KLT5
SECL Popular Lecture
Dr Axel Stähler (University of Kent), ‘Screaming "Black" Murder: Crime Fiction and the Construction of Ethnic Identities’
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Week 7: 5.30 p.m., Thursday 13 November, GLT1
SECL Archaeological Fieldwork Lectures
Dr Helen Gittos and Dr Gabor Thomas (University of Reading), 'The Anglo-Saxon Site of Lyminge and the Early Monasteries of South-East England'
Dr Evangelos Kyriakidis (University of Kent), 'Minoan Peak Sanctuaries in Crete: New Perspectives from the 2008 Season'
Dr Luke Lavan (University of Kent), 'Ostia, Port of Rome in Late Antiquity: The Forum of the Heroic Statue, as Seen through Excavation and Survey'
Dr Steve Willis (University of Kent), 'Fieldwork in Lincolnshire in 2008: Exploring the Prehistoric and Roman Landscape, Settlement and Economy'

Week 8: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 18 November, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Professor Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland), 'The Morality and Immorality of Jokes'

Week 8: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 19 November, KLT5
Centre for Modern European Literature Distinguished Lecture
Dr Andy Martin (University of Cambridge), ‘Only One Really Serious Philosophical Problem: The Sartre-Camus Dialogue’
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Week 8: 1.00 p.m., Thursday 20 November, SECL Staff Common Room
Launch of the interdisciplinary journal Skepsi

Week 9: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 25 November, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Professsor Jon Williamson (University of Kent), ‘Mechanistic Theories of Causality’

Week 10: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 2 December, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Professor Laurence Goldstein (University of Kent), ‘Opacity and Vagueness’

Week 10: 3.30 p.m., Wednesday 3 December, CGU2
Centre for Reasoning Research Seminar
Lawrence C. Paulson (University of Cambridge), ‘The Relative Consistency of the Axiom of Choice Mechanized Using Isabelle/ZF‘

Week 10: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 3 December, KLT5
SECL Double Lecture
Dr Alexander Sarantis (University of Oxford), ‘The Fall of the Roman Empire: The Military Explanation’, and Dr Elias Khamis (University of Oxford), ‘Classical Antiquity under Islam?: Syria–Palestine, 650–750'

Week 11: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 9 December, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Dr Alan Thomas (University of Kent), ‘Another Particularism: Reason, Status and Defaults’

Week 12: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 17 December, CGU4
Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar
Dr James Fowler (University of Kent), ‘Prudes, Libertines and Diminishing Returns: Sade’s Justine and Juliette’
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Spring Term 2009

Week 13: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 20 January, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Dr Paul Coates (University of Hertfordshire), 'The Multiple Contents of Experience'

Week 13: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 21 January, Grimond Lecture Theatre 3
SECL Distinguished Lecture / SDFVA Leverhulme Lecture
Professor Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland), 'Key Concepts in Aesthetics: The Aesthetic'

Week 14: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 28 January, Marlowe Lecture Theatre 1
SECL Distinguished Lecture
Dr Dorothy J. Thompson (University of Cambridge), ‘Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt’

Week 15: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 3 February, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Dr Nils Kurbis (University College London / University of Kent), 'Aristotle on Non-Contradiction'

Week 15: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 4 February, Marlowe Lecture Theatre 1
SECL Popular Lecture
Professor Robin Gill (University of Kent), 'Should Assisted Dying Be Legalized?'
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Week 16: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 10 February, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Dr Katrien Schaubroeck (University of Leuven),

Week 16: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 11 February, Grimond Lecture Theatre 3
SECL Distinguished Lecture / SDFVA Leverhulme Lecture
Professor Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland), 'Key Concepts in Aesthetics: The Artwork'

Week 17: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 17 February, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Dr Susan Haack (University of Miami),

Week 17: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 18 February, Grimond Lecture Theatre 3
SECL Distinguished Lecture / SDFVA Leverhulme Lecture
Professor Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland), 'Key Concepts in Aesthetics: Artform'

Week 18: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 25 February, Marlowe Lecture Theatre 1
SECL Distinguished Lecture
Professor David McLellan, ‘Religion and Politics: Private Matters?’
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Week 19: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 3 March, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Dr Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham), 'Free Will and Agent Probabilities'

Week 19: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 4 March, CGU4 (Gulbenkian)
Centre for Modern European Literature Distinguished Lecture
Professor Dirk Oschmann (Jena), ‘“Motion is Madness”: How the Idea of Motion Transformed Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics’
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Week 20: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 11 March, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Dr Todd Mei (University of Kent), 'The Question of Land and a Hermeneutics of Political Economy'

Week 20: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 11 March, CGU4 (Gulbenkian)
Centre for Modern European Literature Distinguished Lecture
Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania), 'Excessive Form: Is Modernism a Formalism?'
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Week 21: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 18 March, Grimond Lecture Theatre 3
SECL Distinguished Lecture / SDFVA Leverhulme Lecture
Professor Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland), 'Key Concepts in Aesthetics: Artistic Expression'

Week 22: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 24 March, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Dr David Corfield (University of Miami), 'Normative Naturalism'

Week 22: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 25 March, CGU4 (Gulbenkian)
Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar
Dr Charlie Louth (University of Oxford), 'Rilke, Orpheus and the Adonic'
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Week 23: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 1 April, CGU4
Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar
Fabien Arribert-Narce (University of Kent), 'Roland Barthes's Photobiographies: Towards an "Exemption from Meaning"'

Week 24: 12.00 noon, Tuesday 7 April, CNW6
Philosophy Work-in-Progress Seminar
Valérie Aucouturier (University of Kent)

Week 24: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 8 April, Marlowe Lecture Theatre 1
SECL Distinguished Lecture
Dr Peter Hacker (University of Oxford), 'On Having a Mind, Having a Body and Being a Human Being'
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Summer Term 2009

Week 25: 3.00 p.m., Monday 11 May, Marlowe Lecture Theatre 2
AHRC 'Beyond Text' Project: 'Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text, Cognition' Lecture / Centre for Modern European Literature Distinguished Lecture
Professor Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University), 'Phantasmagorias of the Market Place: Citational Poetics in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project'
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Week 26: 12.30 p.m., Wednesday 20 May, SECL Staff Common Room
Professor Sean Sayers (University of Kent), 'Marxism and the Crisis of Capitalism'
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Week 26: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 20 May, CGU4
Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar
Dr Thomas Baldwin (University of Kent), 'The Work of the Spectre in Diderot's Salons'
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Week 27: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 27 May, CGU4
Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar
Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner (University of Kent), 'On Sado-Masochist Paradigms in Kafka's The Trial'
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Week 28: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 3 June, SECL Staff Common Room
SECL Book Launch
Chris Deacy (co-ed.), Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age (Ashgate, 2009)
Arthur Keaveney (co-ed.), Sir William Herbert, Ad Campianum Iesuitam eiusque Rationes Decem Responsio (Georg Olms Verlag, 2009)
Csaba La'da, Greek Documentary Papyri from Ptolemaic Egypt: Corpus Papyorum Raineri, Band XXVIII (de Gruyter, 2008)
Luke Lavan (co-ed.), Technology in Transition, AD 300-650 (Brill, 2008)
Ellen Swift, Style and Function in Roman Decoration: Living with Objects and Interiors (Ashgate, 2009)
Alan Thomas, Thomas Nagel (Acumen, 2008)
Ken Westphal (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit' (Blackwell, 2009)

Week 29: 5.15 p.m., Wednesday 10 June, CGU4
Centre for Modern European Literature Research Seminar
Dr Will Norman (University of Kent), 'The Swiss Nabokov: Pastoral Time and the Cold War in Pale Fire and Ada'
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