This Friday, November 14, there will be an international workshop on ‘Collectives in Contemporary French Thought’, hosted by the European Philosophy and the History of Ideas research group (EPHI) and the Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin.

To register: please email Sean Bowden.

Speakers include: Prof. James Williams (Dundee); A/Prof. Russell Grigg (Deakin); Dr Simone Bignall (UNSW); and Dr Paul Hammond (Memphis).

Where: Room North 3, Level 2, Building BC, Deakin University, Burwood Campus

When: Friday November 14, 2014, 9am-5.30pm

Program:

9.00-9.10            Welcome

9.10-9.50            Russell Grigg (Deakin), “Thinking about groups psychoanalytically: the four discourses as social bonds”

9.50-10.30          Monte Pemberton, “Maurice Halbwachs and the Collective Memory”

10.30-11.00        Morning tea

11.00-11.40        Mark Howard (Monash), “Banging pots and doors: Rancière’s contempt for the sociology of social movements”

11.40-12.20        Sean Bowden (Deakin), “Thinking about Collective Agency: Insights from Anglo-American and Contemporary French Thought”

12.20-1.20          Lunch

1.20-2.00            Simone Bignall (UNSW), “Postcolonial Negotiations: Group Formation and the Politics of Cooperation”

2.00-2.40            Dale Clisby (Deakin), “Collective action in Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition: answering the critique of Hallward”

2.40-3.20            Paul Hammond (Memphis), “Social Groups as Deleuzian Multiplicities”

3.20-3.50            Afternoon tea

3.50-4.30            Emily Finlay (Monash), “Maurice Blanchot and the Collective Space of the Written Word”

4.30-5.10            James Williams (Dundee), “Collectives, groups and signs”

5.10-5.30            Discussion and close