InterCcECT

As school starts anew, InterCcECT looks forward to new conversations and new elements in our circle. In two short weeks, on 24 Jan, join us for the previously scheduled reading group on Quentin Meillassoux’s Divine Inexistence. Contact us for PDF and details.

Shortly thereafter, meet us at UIC for Aesthetics and German Philosophy, a conference sponsored by the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, featuring Robert Pippin, David Wellberry, Karl Ameriks, and Elizabeth Millan. 10 Feb, 9:45am-5pm at UIC Student Center East, 570 S Halsted, Room 302.

Check the calendar for other upcoming events, and let us know: what are your theory goals for the new year?

This month, InterCcECT’s reading series on sovereignty encircles the city.

3-5 Nov, French Theory in Translation centers on Derrida’s final seminars on sovereignty and the death penalty.

16 Nov, UIC’s Publics, Cultures, Practices of Differences working group meets to discuss Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony.

On a different frequency:

For those who missed the Zizek lecture at UIC, a webstream is now available.

4-5 Nov, UofC’s 3CT stages a conference with which the ECT model has some affinity, on “experimental critical attention.”

As always, check the InterCcECT calendar regularly and be sure to  send us any events you’d like to announce or propose.

InterCcECT reminds you of our very special upcoming event with Eric Santner, The Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies at The University of Chicago, discussing his recent work The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty”, this Monday, 24 October, at 6pm.  Contact us for directions.

Sovereignty reigns supreme as theme of theory events around town: beginning 3 November, check out the multi-day, cross-town extravaganza French Theory in Translation. Roundtables, film screenings, and discussions by numerous dignitaries celebrate the publication of Jacques Derrida’s late seminars on sovereignty, The Beast and the Sovereign and The Death Penalty.

This month, InterCcECT directs your attention to several exciting events around Chicago, including our own very special reading group session with Professor Eric Santner. From Foucault to Zizek, psychoanalysis to sovereignty, we hope to see you around town:

14-15 Oct: French-American Conversations on Psychoanalysis at U of C

18 Oct: Foucault Colloquium at DePaul

19 Oct: Class Dismissed – Zizek Reading Group at UIC

21 Oct: Zizek at UIC

24 Oct: InterCcECT reading group, with Eric Santner discussing his work The Royal Remains

26 Oct: “Ghost, Text, Play: Living Within and Without Black Politics” lecture at UIC

And, the ongoing critical experiment: Occupy Wall Street Chicago and beyond.

As always, check the InterCcECT calendar regularly and be sure to  send us any events you’d like to announce.

InterCcECT exhorts you to mark your calendars and open your books: two upcoming events will focus on questions of the state in our time. First, an InterCcECT reading group on Wendy Brown’s Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, in which the renowned feminist political theorist tackles the paradox of proliferating walls in an era of eroding nation-statehood. Second, a companion reading group convened by UIC’s Forum for Research on Law, Politics, & the Humanities, on Democracy In What State?, a recent volume from Columbia University Press that includes reflections by Wendy Brown, Badiou, Ranciere, Zizek, Nancy, Agamben, and Kristin Ross.

We’ll open our doors for Walled States on Tuesday, 23 August, 4pm. The FRLPH group meets Wednesday, 5 October, 3pm, UIC Institute for the Humanities.

Check out the InterCcECT calendar for other upcoming events as the school year commences, and be sure to  contact us with events you’d like to announce.