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Putin's war against Ukraine
The outrageous and distressing scenes in Ukraine continue to shock and sadden as we watch events unfold. As an international community, with staff and students from across the world, we condemn the invasion and war in Ukraine. We stand with Ukraine and its people and offer our unqualified support and...
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Start of the CMT Seminar for the second half session 2017
This term's seminar will start on Tuesday, 14 February. We will discuss Donna Haraway's Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke, 2016) and Joan Copjec's Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists (Verso, 2015).
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Programme for the Interdisciplinary Postgrad Symposium online
The programme for the Interdisciplinary Postgrad Programme on June 10th is now online.
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Call for Papers - Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium, June 10, 2016
- Deadline for applications extended to May 20 - Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Symposium for Postgraduate Students from all Colleges, University of Aberdeen on June 10, 2016. Interdisciplinary research is often stated to be “more important than ever.” It can be difficult however to put this ideal into practice, particularly given the...
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Survival: 25th annual conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toron
Professor Christopher Fynsk will be keynote speaker at the 25th annual conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature being held at University of Toronto, 12-15 March 2015 The event is titled Survival, and aims to respond to the need to rethink what survival means today. Exploring topics such as: Freudian death drive; the...
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Video of Ferran Adrià visit to Aberdeen rediscovered!
Ferran Adrià received a doctorate honoris causa in Modern Thought in July 2009. A lunch, hosted by The Centre for Modern Thought was organized at Fyvie Castle, and featured an interview with Adrià. As Adrià explained in the course of what became a veritable “master class” in modern cuisine over...
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CMT Seminar, Spring 2015
The CMT seminar continues this spring (2015) with readings of texts addressed to the idea of the university. Having reviewed the sequence of texts that preceded the founding of the University of Berlin, we are continuing with the topic of education in Nietzsche and Heidegger. Meeting are from 3-5 pm...
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Community Revisited: Nancy, Blanchot, Duras - Professor Leslie Hill, Warwick University
The CMT will be pleased to host Professor Leslie Hill, Warwick University, for a talk entitled “Community Revisited: Nancy, Blanchot, Duras”. The presentation will be on April 24, 2:00pm (location to be announced). Professor Hill is a distinguished scholar in modern French literature and the most highly respected reader of Blanchot. ...
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CMT seminar, spring-summer term 2014
Rethinking Musical Modernism
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CMT Seminar, Autumn-Winter term 2013
This seminar programme completed in December 2013