Digest Week 8 Trinity Term 2022

Hegel Reading Group 

The reading sessions have now finished for this term, but we will be holding a one day workshop on 'The social subject: intersubjectivity, psychoanalysis and Hegel' on July 2. See hegelinoxford.wordpress.com for details.

Maison Française d'Oxford Conference | 16 & 17 June | Maison Française d'Oxford & Online

'Michel Serres: Thinking beyond boundaries'

Convened by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincene (Paris I) and Henriette Korthals Altes (MFO)

More details and the programme can be found here.

Michel Serres was a polymath and interdisciplinarian avant la lettre, a poet-philosopher and académicien. Language for him was not simply a means of communication for his ideas; they originated in it, and figures of speech were his figure of thought. Hermes, the angels and the translators that pervade his works are all messengers that build bridges not only between disciplines but also between cultural time periods. This conference brings into dialogue a variety of perspectives from French, British and international scholars who will showcase the relevance of Michel Serres’s thought across a wide range of academic disciplines. It will explore how Michel Serres’s own brand of interdisciplinarity has renewed fields of enquiry as diverse as French studies and English Literature, Philosophy and the History of Science, Geography and Ecocriticism, Translation and Migration Studies.

Scientific and Organising Committee: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne), Henriette Korthals Altes (MFO), Mogens Laerke (CNRS/MFO), Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS).

Workshop: ‘Paternalism and Groups’ | 16 &17 June | In person

This workshop focuses on policies designed to promote the health of groups. We will investigate the extent to which such interventions can be carried out ‘against the will of’ or ‘for the sake of’ those subject to them, given the diversity of preferences and interests within large populations.

If you would like to attend, please email phppproject@gmail.com to register. For further details see: https://paternalismhealthpublicpolicy.org/.

Maison Française d'Oxford Conference | 16 & 17 June | Maison Française d'Oxford & Online

'Michel Serres: Thinking beyond boundaries'

Convened by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincene (Paris I) and Henriette Korthals Altes (MFO)

More details and the programme can be found here.

Michel Serres was a polymath and interdisciplinarian avant la lettre, a poet-philosopher and académicien. Language for him was not simply a means of communication for his ideas; they originated in it, and figures of speech were his figure of thought. Hermes, the angels and the translators that pervade his works are all messengers that build bridges not only between disciplines but also between cultural time periods. This conference brings into dialogue a variety of perspectives from French, British and international scholars who will showcase the relevance of Michel Serres’s thought across a wide range of academic disciplines. It will explore how Michel Serres’s own brand of interdisciplinarity has renewed fields of enquiry as diverse as French studies and English Literature, Philosophy and the History of Science, Geography and Ecocriticism, Translation and Migration Studies.

Scientific and Organising Committee: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne), Henriette Korthals Altes (MFO), Mogens Laerke (CNRS/MFO), Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS).

Workshop: ‘Paternalism and Groups’ | 16 &17 June | In person

This workshop focuses on policies designed to promote the health of groups. We will investigate the extent to which such interventions can be carried out ‘against the will of’ or ‘for the sake of’ those subject to them, given the diversity of preferences and interests within large populations.

If you would like to attend, please email phppproject@gmail.com to register. For further details see: https://paternalismhealthpublicpolicy.org/.