Past Events
A list of workshops and talks hosted by the MSCP
June 2023: One less philosopher - A symposium on Samuel Beckett
Participants: Arka Chattopadhyay, Caitlyn Lesiuk, Merlyn Gwyther-McCuskey, Eloise Mignon, Julie Forsyth, Conall Cash, Jon Roffe, Lillian Phillips, Justin Clemens
November 2022: 150 Years of Tragedy - Nietzsche, Art, Philosophy
Convened by Paris Lettau and Vincent Le with INDEX-JOURNAL
Participants: Paris Lettau, Vincent Le, Rex Butler, Ursula Cornelia de Leeuw, Caitlyn Lesiuk, Vanessa Lemm, Ian McLean, Justin Clemens
October 2022: Alain Badiou’s The Immanence of Truths
Participants: John Cleary, Justin Clemens, Caitlyn Lesiuk, Jon Roffe, Bryan Cooke, Antonia Pont, Russell Grigg, Ali Alizadeh, Robyn Adler, Eloise Mignon, Daniel Lopez
December 2021: Infinity Wars: Spinoza vs Hegel
Participants: Luara Karlson-Carp, Caitlyn Lesiuk, Janice Richardson, Jon Rubin, Inja Stracenski, Brendan Duncan, Daniel Lopez, Gregory Marks
March 2020: Platonisms and Ideas
Participants: Jon Roffe, Luara Karlson-Carp, John Cleary, AJ. Bartlett
February 2020: On the Possibility of a Pop (or Pulp) Philosophy - Robin Mackay
September 2018: Three Lectures: Mallarmé Resolved: The Supreme Reading of Un Coup de dés
Participants: Justin Clemens, Robert Boncardo, Christian R. Gelder
January 2018: Technology and Subjectivity
Participants: Bryan Cooke, Lauren Bliss, Jon Roffe, Janice Richardson
December 2017: Conference - Technology, Knowledge, Truth
Participants: Ray Brassier, Anne Sauvagnargues, Gregg Flaxman, Robyn Adler, Agon Hamza, John Cleary, Tom Ford, Cat Moir, Joe Hughes, Allan James Thomas, Sigi Jottkandt, Jessica Whyte, Knox Peden, Campbell Jones, Nick Heron, Janice Richardson, Jon Rubin, Alison Ross, Robert Boncardo, Daniel Ross, Jon Roffe, Mark G. E. Kelly, Emma Black, Russell Grigg, Alex Ling, Bryan Cooke, Adam Nash, Justin Clemens, A. J. Bartlett, Ali Alizadeh, Cindy Zeiher
August 2017: What is Education?
Participants: AJ Bartlett, Jessica Whyte, Justin Clemens, Bryan Cooke
January 2017: The Crisis of Democratic Politics - A Discussion with Marcel Gauchet
Co-organised by Social Imaginaries, an international journal of social theory and political philosophy, and hosted by RMIT.
Participants: Marcel Gauchet, Natalie J. Doyle, John Rundell, Peter Murphy, AJ Bartlett
December 2016: On the Ends of History
Participants: Emily Finlay, Justin Clemens, Robert Boncardo, Jess Marian, Mark Hewson, Ali Alizadeh, Robyn Adler, Bryan Cooke
July 2016: Popular Sovereignty and Political Will
Participants: Prof Peter Hallward, Mark Kelly, Nicholas Heron, Jessica Whyte, Jon Roffe, Robert Boncardo, Bryan Cooke
October 2015: Mini Seminar Series
Participants: Chris Watkin, Maurita Harney, Martin Black, Matthew Sharpe
Nov 2014: Badiou Melbourne 2014
Participants: Prof Alain Badiou, Sigi Jottkandt, Ali Alizadeh, Knox Peden, Louise Burchill, Jon Roffe, Alex Ling
April 2014: Lacan Deleuze Badiou Symposium
Participants: AJ Bartlett, Justin Clemens and Jon Roffe
Nov 2013: Graham Harman in conversation with Jon Roffe
Winter 2013: Heidegger
Participants: Mark Wrathall, Jeff Malpas, David Rathbone, Andrew Inkpin, Marylin Stendara, Sean Ryan
Spring 2012: Agamben
Participants: Jessica Whyte, Justin Clemens, Nick Heron, Bryan Cooke, AJ Bartlett
Spring 2011: Interpretations of Nietzsche
Participants: Jon Roffe, Matthew Sharpe, Ashley Woodward, Sean Ryan, David Rathbone, Carolyn D’Cruz, Mark Tomlinson
Spring 2010: Humanism and Anti-Humanism
Participants: Cameron Shingleton, Geoff Boucher, Matthew Sharpe, Andrea Leon-Montero, Bryan Cooke, Ricki Sebold
Autumn 2010: Body, Soul Organism: Leibniz
Participants: Sean Bowden, Jon Roffe, Paul Redding, Marc Hiatt, Simon Duffy
Spring 2009: The Future of the University
Participants: James Field, Sherah Bloor, Bryan Cooke, Jason Freddi, Marc Hiatt, Matthew Sharpe
Autumn 2009: Why Philosophy?
Participants: James Garrett, Jon Roffe, Bryan Cooke, Paul Daniels, Mark Tomlinson