The Centre for Modern Thought

Co-ordinator Contact: Beth Dynowski bjdynowski@gmail.com

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Found Materials: Centre for Modern Thought & Generator Seminar

Centre for Modern Thought and Generator, Dundee Saturday 29th June 1-4pm

Location: Generator Project Space, 25/26 Mid Wynd Industrial Estate Dundee, DD1 4JG

www.generatorprojects.co.uk

Centre for Modern Thought in collaboration with Generator Projects will hold a discussion and poetry reading in response to Lauren Currie and Valerie Norris’ upcoming exhibition ‘I take into my arms more than I can hold.’ The event will be a conversation between artists and theorists exploring the transformative nature of found materials playing upon the relationship between materialism and temporality. Read more ...

Peter Klepec, Institute of Philosophy, Ljubljana, May 3

Miran Bozovic, University of Ljubljana, May 24

Marcus Wood, Sussex University, June 4

Salvatore Puglia, Independent Artist, July 4, “Phantombilder”

The Centre for Modern Thought

CMT Spring Term 2013 Seminar, Tuesdays, 12.30-2.30pm, Taylor A08, “The Image”

CMT Winter Term 2012 Seminar, Tuesdays, 12.30-3.30pm, Taylor A08, “Finitude”

CMT Summer Term 2012 seminar, Tuesdays, McRobert 265, 12-2 pm: “Kant and the Question of Form”

This term, we will focus on the topic of form, with particular focus on Kant and two responses to his 3rd Critique (from Heidegger and Lyotard)

The course will continue in two parts for the coming few weeks, with the first section devoted to Heidegger’s reading of Kant (via The Basic Problems of Phenomenology and Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics. The second session will continue to be devoted to Kant’s 3rd Critique. Once we have finished the latter text, we will move to “The Origin of the Work of Art”.

The members of the Centre for Modern Thought are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Raoul Ruiz, our beloved friend and mentor. Raoul Ruiz opened doors in the hearts and imaginations of many of us that will not close. Our immediate thoughts are with Valeria Sarmiento as she returns to Chile for the funeral.

This is a terrible loss that we will want to meditate upon as we reconvene this fall in a spirit of commemoration. In the meantime, let us recall the captivating stories and that extraordinary presence of creativity. Let us recall what Raoul sought in the Centre for Modern Thought with his tireless curiosity and the warmth of his immense intellect.

Mort du cinéaste Raoul Ruiz

The event will take place on Monday, May 30, 2:00-5:00 PM, Taylor A36 (We may have to allow this event to run past its closing time.)

CMT will host a conversation with our visitor Sha Xin Wei on the topic of “Morphogenesis and Cultural Dynamics.”

Professor Sha Xin Wei will discuss a unpublished paper he has written with the title, “Topologically Articulating Morphogenesis and Cultural Dynamics.”

Three scholars will join us for this discussion:

Professor Yves Abrioux, Paris

Dr. Stamatia Portanova, Birkbeck College, U. of London

Dr. Thomas Jellis, Oxford University

We welcome visitors to what promises to be a stimulating and challenging discussion. Refreshments will be served.

Friday, May 27 • 2:00pm - 8:00pm
Taylor Building A36 (refreshments provided)

an inquiry of poetry and other arts

a workshop featuring:

Judith Balso, professor of poetry at the European Graduate School (Saas-Fee, Switzerland) and lecturer at the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris) with Nachoem M. Wijnberg, poet and Professor of Cultural Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Amsterdam.

subject and substances:

Archipelago, as concept and the appearance of the Greek figure in Hölderlin’s Hyperion plus Osip Mandelstam and the poetry of Nachoem Wijnberg

The Centre for Modern Thought will host a workshop on the relation between philosophy and poetry on the afternoon of Friday, May 27:

“Finding Grounds: Poetry, Philosophy, and Amity”

This workshop will feature two special guests: Judith Balso, Professor of Poetry at the European Graduate School and Lecturer at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, and Nachoem M. Wijnberg, Poet and Professor of Cultural Entrepreneurship and Management at the University of Amsterdam

We are pleased to announce two successful vivas:

Archie Graham, Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen, has successfully defended his PhD thesis, “School Ethos”

Tyler Griffith, PhD candidate in the History Dept. of Yale University, has successfully defended his M.Litt thesis, “Toward a Pedagogy of Thought”