Judith Butler on Arendt 05.03.07 at 6,30

Hannah Arendt and the End of the Nation-State?

Starts: 18:30 - 05 March 2007 | Ends: 20:00 - 05 March 2007

Location: Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building - Goldsmiths

Cost: Free

Judith Butler - Hannah Arendt and the End of the Nation-State? - as part of the Richard Hoggart Lecture Series

Judith Butler is one of the world's leading feminist philosophers. Her work has been translated into many languages and hPublisher concepts have entered into the everyday language of the new sexual politics. "Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter" developed post-structuralism, psycho-analysis and linguistics to query and de-stabilise the gender ideals through which we understand normative sexual identity.

In "The Psychic Life of Power" Butler again uses psycho-analysis to understand melancholia in social and political life, and in "Antigone's Claim" she addresses the constraints of kinship and the undermining of non-normative intimacy. More recently in "Precarious Life" Butler shifts her attention to the emerging patterns of violence and vulnerability in the post 9/11 world and in Giving an Account of the Self she develops an argument for radical dependency on others as necessary for survival. Butler has long been involved in activism and campaigning in feminist and queer politics, she is a regular commentator on social and political affairs, particularly in relation to Israel and Palestine and she has also been concerned of late with issues around secularity, non secularity and religious belief.

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The top pic is of hannah Arendt, the lower pic is of Judith Butler's door. - evidence of cult following may be discerned. I think some people clearly have too much free time - I know its easy to post pics nowadays, even upload from your camera phone (see here), but this door thing is pretty obscure so far as trinketized idolatry goes. Or maybe there is some sort of commentary on dependency upon others implied here, so I suspend judgement.

Marshall Berman - Thursday March 1 2007 5pm

Marshall Berman - March 1st at 5pm

"ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SPECTACLE IN TIMES SQUARE"

Centre for Cultural Studies, the Politics Department and Media and Communications present a special lecture:

by Marshall Berman, author of On The Street and All That's Solid Melts Into Air will speak in the IGLT at Goldsmiths at 5pm

*Thursday, 1 March 2007 : Professor Marshall Berman,
The author of All that's Solid melts into Air' and 'On the Town' will speak at CCS.
*5pm in Goldsmiths Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre.

All welcome.


• Tube Stations: New Cross and New Cross Gate
• Rail network trains via London Bridge to New Cross or New Cross GateStations.
• DLR to Deptford Bridge Station (10 minutes walk).
• Buses from Central London: 21, 36, 136, 171, 172, 177, 225, 321, 343,436, 453.

Marshall Berman holds academic degrees from Columbia University, Oxford and Harvard. Currently he is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center, where he teaches political philosophy and urban studies. He writes frequently for The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Bennington Review, La Jornada, New Left Review, New Politics and the Village Voice Literary Supplement and he serves on the editorial board of Dissent. His main works are The Politics of Authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society, All That is Solid Melts in Air: The Experience of Modernity, Adventures in Marxism, and On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square. He is co-founder of the Center for Workers Education at City College in Upper Manhattan.

On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
Described as a “continuous carnival” and “the crossroad of the world,”Times Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot where imagination and veracity intersect. To esteemed scholar and author Marshall Berman, it is also the flashing, teeming, and strangely beautiful nexus of his life. In this remarkable book, Berman takes us on a thrilling illustrated tour ofTimes Square, revealing a landscape both mythic and real. On the Town is a unique look through the lens of the ideas and works of art that inspired– or were inspired by – this landmark’s allure.

For more info contact: Francisco Carballo, cup01fc@gold.ac.uk