런던대학(University of London)의 버벡 칼리지 소재 <버벡 인문학 연구소>의 금년 일정이 두드러진다. 에티엔 발리바르(Etienne Balibar)와 샌더 길먼(Sander Gilman)을 5년간 초빙하여 교수진도 더욱 강화되었다. 참고로 아래에 사이트에 소개된 발리바르의 약력을 옮겨놓는다. 최근 그의 활동이 가장 자세하게 소개되어 있는 것 같다. (그 나이에 그 많은 데를 어떻게 돌아다니는지 원...-_-)
※ 발리바르 약력
Etienne Balibar is Professorial Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Emeritus Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Paris 10 Nanterre and Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine (USA). Etienne Balibar also teaches seminars at the Centro Franco-Argentino de Altos Estudios de la Universidad de Buenos-Aires (Argentina) and the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University of New-York. He is author or co-author of numerous books including Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser) (1965), On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1976), Race, Nation, Class. Ambiguous Identities (Verso, 1991, with Immanuel Wallerstein), Masses, Classes, Ideas (Routledge, 1994), The Philosophy of Marx (Verso 1995), Spinoza and Politics (Verso 1998), Politics and the Other Scene (Verso, 2002), We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship (Princeton, 2004). He is also a contributor of the Dictionnaire Européen des Philosophies (sous la direction de Barbara Cassin, 2004). Forthcoming are Extreme Violence and the Problem of Civility (The Wellek Library Lectures 1996), and Citoyen Sujet, Essais d'anthropologie philosophique (Presses Universitaires de France). Etienne Balibar is a member of Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (Paris), with a particular interest in the rights of migrants and asylum seekers. He is co-founder of Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and acting chair of Association Jan Hus France.
아래는 연초(3~5월)의 연구소 일정이다. 이런 사람들을 이렇게 모아놓을 수 있는 컨퍼런스라니...이래서 해외 통신원이 필요한 듯-_-
On the Idea of Communism - Conference
“It’s just the simple thing that’s hard, so hard to do.”(B.Brecht)
The year of 1990 stands for the triple defeat of the Left: the retreat of the social-democratic Welfare State politics in the developed First World, the disintegration of the Soviet-style Socialist states in the industrialized Second World, and the retreat of emancipatory movements in the Third World. A certain epoch was thereby over, the epoch which began with the October Revolution and was characterized by the Party-State form of organization. Does this mean that the time of radical emancipatory politics is over?
In recent years, there are multiple signs which indicate the need for a new beginning. The utopia of the 1990, the Fukuyamaist “end of history” (liberal-democratic capitalist as the finally found natural social order) died twice in the first decade of the XXIst century. While the 9/11 attacks signaled its political death, the financial crisis of 2008 signals its economic death. In these new conditions, the task is not only to reflect on new strategies, but to radically rethink the most basic coordinates of emancipatory politics. One should go well beyond the rejection of the Party-State Left in its “Stalinist” form – a common place today -, and extend this rejection to the entire field of the “democratic Left” as the strategy to reform the system from within its representative-democratic state form. Much more than the debacle of the Really-Existing Socialism, the defeat of 1990 was the final defeat of this “democratic Left.” This defeat raises the question: is “Communism” still the name to be used to designate the horizon of radical emancipatory projects? In spite of their theoretical differences, the participants share the thesis that one should remain faithful to the name “Communism”: this name is potent to serve as the Idea which guides our activity, as well as the instrument which enables us to expose the catastrophes of the XXth century politics, those of the Left included.
The symposium will not deal with practico-political questions of how to analyze the latest economic, political, and military troubles, or how to organize a new political movement. More radical questioning is needed today - this is a meeting of philosophers who will deal with Communism as a philosophical concept, advocating a precise and strong thesis: from Plato onwards, Communism is the only political Idea worthy of a philosopher.
Speakers:
Judith Balso, Alain Badiou, Bruno Bosteels, Terry Eagleton, Peter Hallward, Michael Hardt, Jean-Luc Nancy, Toni Negri, Jacques Ranciere, Alessandro Russo, Alberto Toscano, Gianni Vattimo, Wang Hui, Slavoj Zizek [연사들의 면면이 바디우(와 그에 친화적인 인물들), 네그리&하트, 이글턴, 랑시에르, (Angelaki 단골 인터뷰어) 홀워드, 바티모, 지젝에 왕후이(汪暉)까지 다채롭다-UK]
Registration essential - please go to http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/news/communism/newsitem_view
Friday 13th March, Saturday 14th March & Sunday 15th March
Venue: Logan Hall, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL
Jean-Luc Nancy - Masterclass 'On Democracy'
Monday 16th March 12 - 3pm Room B36 Birkbeck Main Building
Free - no registration
Thinking with Spinoza: Politics, Philosophy and Religion
- 2 day conference
Does religious pluralism undermine political co-operation? Does religion differ from superstition? What is the scope of philosophical knowledge? Can it live alongside religious faith? How can states combine pluralism with solidarity? How deeply does political co-operation depend on imagined narratives? These and other themes of Spinoza’s seminal Theologico-Political Treatise will be discussed.
Speakers:
Etienne Balibar (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities), Spinoza’s Three Gods and the Modes of Communication
Don Garrett (New York University), Spinoza’s ‘Promising’ Ideas: Contract and Covenant in the Theologico-Political Treatise
Moira Gatens (University of Sydney), Spinoza, Feuerbach and George Eliot
Susan James (Birkbeck College), When does Truth Matter? The Politics of Spinoza’s Philosophy
Warren Montag (Occidental College), Lucretius Hebraizant: Spinoza’s reading of Ecclesiastes
Pierre-Francois Moreau (Ecole Normale Supérieure des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon), From Scripture to Nations. Spinoza’s Theory of History in the Theologico-Political Treatise
Thursday 7th May and Friday 8th May Room B35 Birkbeck Main Building
Registration essential. Credit card booking available soon. To pay by cheque please contact Julia Eisner j.eisner@bbk.ac.uk
예정되어 있는 모든 일정 소개는 아래를 참조.
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/activities/