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CURRENT MSCP NEWS AND EVENTS
MSCP WINTER SCHOOL 2009 The MSCP Winter School is currently underway. Please feel free to enrol in person at the beginning of each course. Could all participants note that it is important to arrive on time to avoid being locked out of the building, thank you. The Winter School shall run from June 29 until July 17 at the Academic Centre, Newman College, University of Melbourne Parkville Campus.
FULL COURSE DETAILS Further information about the school can be found here.
ENROLMENT Enrolment form available here. Online Enrolment form available here.
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MSCP AUTUMN AND SPRING WORKSHOPS 2009 The MSCP is pleased to announce two new regular free events to the MSCP calendar, the Autumn and Spring workshops. The inaugural Autumn workshop on Friday, 8th of May, was a forum regarding the importance, legitimation and relevance of philosophy today. Details of the Spring Workshop will be available soon.
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MSCP EVENING SCHOOL 2008-9 - Global Warming: Ethics, Science, Politics Global Warming: Science and Politics in Troubled Times Lecturer: Dr Cameron Shingleton (MSCP) Venue: Trades Hall, Carlton Times: Mondays, 6.30 - 8.30, March 16 - June 1 (12 weeks) Prices: $140 (student/unwaged), $180 (waged) Few people would dispute that the issue of climate change raises serious questions for political life, in Australia and the world at large. "Global Warming: Science and Politics in Troubled Times" attempts to articulate some of those questions by looking at the political contexts in which science is practised. It examines in detail the difficulties besetting the relationship between scientific prediction and public policy, the presentation of scientific issues in the media and the broader dilemmas that follow from the fact that mass societies can and do take the pronouncements of scientific experts on faith. The problems will be posed in a local context as well as in the abstract: how can we account for the general unwillingness in a mass democracy such as Australia to address the issue of global warming with the seriousness scientific analysis seems to require?
Further information about this Evening School course can be found here.
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MSCP SUMMER SCHOOL 2009 The MSCP Summer School 2009 has now concluded. Thank you to all participants.
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MSCP EVENING SCHOOL 2008-9 - Global Warming: Ethics, Science, Politics Images of Nature: A Philosophical Introduction to an Environmental Ethics (Lecturer: Dr Cameron Shingleton) Global Warming: The Science and its Implications (Lecturer: Phillip Sutton) Semester 2 2008: Global Warming: An Economic Perspective (Lecturer: Dr Jim Crosthwaite) Semester 1 2009 Global Warming: Science and Politics in Troubled Times (Lecturer: Dr Cameron Shingleton) Further details about the Evening School can be found here.
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LIBIDINAL PHILOSOPHY RESEARCH DAY A special event hosted by The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. In France in the nineteen-sixties and -seventies there appeared a number of fascinating confluences of philosophy and psychoanalysis, including the works of Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and Jacques Lacan, amongst others. Such works often showed a marked influence from Friedrich Nietzsche and his French interpreters such as Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski, who emphasized the role of the body and affect in his thought. What marks out these works as distinctive is the way desire, understood through Freud and Nietzsche as a force which challenges the supposed self-possession and transparency of reason, motivates a reconsideration of what philosophy is, and how it should be pursued. These reconsiderations are played out in a rich variety of philosophical explorations, of topics including the arts and art criticism, politics, linguistics, semiotics, the body, and economics, as well as of philosophical thinking itself and of the production of philosophical texts. In recent times, while the works of many of these thinkers still garner much attention, the specifically libidinal themes they develop are often overlooked or ignored, and stand in danger of being forgotten. This special event seeks to refocus attention on the role of the libido, desire, and affect in the works of these thinkers, with the larger aim of illuminating the relation of desire to philosophy itself, and of questioning what a “libidinal philosophy” – one which takes the implications of the nature of desire for philosophy seriously – can do. Participants: 9am - 5pm A full program will be circulated closer to the day. This is a FREE event, and all are welcome. Some refreshments will be provided.
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Heidegger's Parmenides
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Parrhesia - A Journal of Critical Philosophy
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