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Upcoming seminars
Unless otherwise noted, all times are for Saturday, 10am-2pm and are held at The Bourse, 111 South Independence Mall East, Suite 500, Philadelphia (5th Street between Market and Chestnut). Map.
November 9 “For Education: The College Classroom as Concrete Utopia,” Glenn Wallis
November 14, Thursday, 5-9pm “Environmental Emergency and Capitalism,” Zach Walsh
November 23 “Why Marx Matters,” Gabriel Rockhill. In collaboration with the Critical Theory Workshop
December 7 “Revolutionary Pessimism: On Political Action Without Expectation,” Scott Ritner
February 8 “What Does Jacques Lacan Say About…?,” Patricia Gherovici
Pending (titles are tentative)
TBA “Gilles Deleuze on Politics,” John Paetsch
TBA “Black Bloc/White Riot, AK Thompson
TBA “Rebellious Mourning,” Cindy Milstein
TBA “Buddhism in Ruin,” (online) Glenn Wallis
TBA “Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression, and Pain,” Clelia Rodríguez
Past seminars
2019
“Don’t Worry. Be Happy! Feeling Good, Bad, and Everything In Between,” Thomas Conners
“Buddhism in Ruin,” Glenn Wallis
“Ritual and Resistance,” Cleo Kearns
“Aesthetics: Toward a Radical History,” Gabriel Rockhill
“The Culture of Revolt,” AK Thompson
“How Living Well Matters in the Pursuit of Knowledge,“ Lisa Miracchi
2018
“Money and Metaphysics,” Joshua Ramey
“Anarchism and its Aspirations,“ Cindy Milstein
“Night Moves: Poetry at Present,” John Paetsch (To be rescheduled)
“Unlearning: Radical Education Theory,” Glenn Wallis
“Gilles Deleuze: Larval Subjects, Lost Time,” John Paetsch
“Darkness,” Glenn Wallis
“You must change your life: Rilke’s Poetics of Immanence,” Ulrich Baer
“Speculum of Pain: Buddhism on Illness,” Pierce Salguero
“Contemporary French Philosophy: A Primer,” Gabriel Rockhill
“Is This How It Ends? On Human Stupidity and the Meagre Promise of the Epoché,“Glenn Wallis
“Cultural Narratives and National Identities,” Alan Nadel
“How To Find What Isn’t Lost,” Akilesh Ayyar
2017
“Meditation: Self and Society,” Glenn Wallis
“Alienation and Its Antidotes: A Workshop on the Thought of François Laruelle,” Anthony Paul Smith
“Buddhism in the Age of Trump,” Glenn Wallis
“Philosophical Concepts for Thinking,” Glenn Wallis
“Critical Introduction to Buddhist Thought,” Glenn Wallis
