[Sigcrit-l] Alain Badiou at UCLA; Lacan and Spinoza

[Ron Day]

FYI.  For all of you in LA or the West Coast of the US.   Forwarded from a
different list.  --RD

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Alain Badiou will be in Los Angeles giving three talks on Lacan and
philosophy
as well as participating in a conference on Spinoza (along with Slavoj
Zizek,
Judith Butler, and Etienne Balibar), all events being on the UCLA campus.
Here's the info for the Lacan talks.

--> THREE LECTURES ON LACAN AND PHILOSOPHY
--> Mary Thomas
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2/4/03 (Tues)  through 2/6/03   (Thur)
 THREE LECTURES ON LACAN AND PHILOSOPHY
 5:00PM until 7:00PM
 In: ROYCE 236

Please join us for three lectures on LACAN AND PHILOSOPHY
  to be given in ROYCE 236 by

  ALAIN BADIOU
  Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Paris-VIII,
  the École Normale Supérieure, and the Collège international
  de philosophie in Paris

  TUESDAY 2/4 LACAN AND THE REAL 5-7 PM

  WEDNESDAY 2/5 LACAN'S ANTI-PHILOSOPHY 3-6 PM

  THURSDAY 2/6 FOR AN AESTHETIC OF THE CURE 5-7 PM


  Trained as a mathematician, Alain Badiou is one of the most
  original French philosphers today. Influenced by Plato,
  Hegel, Lacan, and Deleuze, he is an outspoken critic of
  both the analytic and postmodern schools of thought. Badiou
  has written numrous major works of philosophy, including
  THEORY OF THE SUBJECT; BEING AND EVENT; MANIFESTO FOR
  PHILOSOPHY; ETHICS: AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL;
  SAINT PAUL: THE FOUNDATION OF UNIVERSALISM; and LITTLE
  HANDBOOK OF INAESTHETICS. He has also written several
  novels and plays, including AHMED LE SUBTIL, PORTULANS, and
  CALME BLOC ICI-BAS.

  Co-sponsors:

  THE CENTER FOR EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES
  THE DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES
  THE CENTER FOR MODERN AND COMTEMPORARY STUDIES
  THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
  THE UC IRVINE CRITICAL THEORY EMPHASIS

 -- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer at humnet.ucla.edu)
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 For more information, contact cjs at humnet.ucla.edu
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Assistant Professor
Library and Information Science Program
Wayne State University
ronday at wayne.edu
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