We are very happy to inform you that the TRANSFER project, submitted in the framework of the 2nd Call of the Adrion Programme (INTERREG VB), has been approved under condition.

Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU is among project partners.

We are kindly inviting you to the first information day for doctoral study 2019/2020 enrolment, that is going to be held on Tuesday, 21st of May 2019 at 5 p.m at Conference room ZRC SAZU, 2 Novi trg street, 1st floor, Ljubljana.

 

Call for enrolment is available at – link.

Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU invites you to public lectures by Assoc. Prof. Jan Völker:

 

Hegel’s Disjunction.

 

On Tuesday, 23rd of April 2019 at 5 p. m.:

1) Platonic Prelude

 

In the first seminar, we will discuss the inscription of difference within a series of terms: This allows us to the situate very generally the function of dialectics, the appearance of the subject, and the structure of the interval.

 

Non-mandatory reading:

• Plato, Sophist, 248a-258e.
• Alain Badiou, L’Un. Descartes, Platon, Kant, Le Séminaire 1983-84, p. 93-142
• Jean-Claude Milner, „The Point of the Signifier“, in: Peter Hallward, Knox Peden (ed.). Concept and Form, vol. one, Key Texts from the Cahiers pour l’Analyse, London/New York: Verso 2012, pp. 107-118.

 

On Wednesday 24th of April 2019 at 5 p. m.:

2) The other Master

 

In the second seminar, we will read Hegel’s famous discussion of the Master-Slave-relation in the Phenomenology. Starting from a discussion within Plato’s Parmenides, we’ll proceed to Hegel, following the traces of another Master without Slave.

 

Non-mandatory reading:
• Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, “Independence and dependence of self-consciousness: Lordship and Bondage“, trans. A.V. Miller, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1977, pp. 119-138.

 

On Thursday 25th of April 2019 at 5 p. m.:

3) Actualities

 

In the third seminar, we will follow Hegel’s discussion of the actuality. We will read the existence of non-being as an obstacle to the actual, demanding for a multiplication of actualities.

 

Non-mandatory reading:

• Hegel, The Science of Logic, Book two, section three: “Actuality”, trans. A.V. Miller, Oxon / New York: Routledge 1969, pp. 529-574.

 

On Friday 26th of April 2019 at 5 p. m.:

4) Eclipse

 

In the fourth seminar, we will bring our discussion back to the moment of philosophy: If philosophy has the subject as its object, are there different philosophies with different objects, set in different actualities? The act of philosophy itself is the eclipse that leads to a multiplication of philosophies and discourses.

 

Non-mandatory reading:

• Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, “Preface: On Scientific Cognition“, trans. A.V. Miller, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1977, pp. 1-45.

 

Assoc. Prof. Jan Völker, Ph.D., is a research associate at the Institute of Fine Arts and Aesthetics at the Berlin University of the Arts. He is visiting lecturer and Associate Professor at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU and at Bard College Berlin. His current work focuses on modern thought between Marx, Freud, Kant, and Hegel. Recent Publications include (as editor and translator) “German Philosophy”, a debate between Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy (MIT, 2018); “Badiou and the German Tradition of Philosophy” (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2019).

 

Lectures will be in English language at Philosophical Institute ZRC SAZU,Novi trg 2, 3rd Floor, Ljubljana.

 

Kindly invited

Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU invites you to public lectures by Fulbright guest Prof. Robert Hauahrt:

 

In the search of American dream.

 

In the series of public lectures he will present the time and circumstances of the creation of the concept of American dream, where he will not only present its history, but also the main sociological reflections of this phenomenon.

 

Reading.

 

Robert Hauhart, Ph.D., J.D., is a professor and former chair of the Department of Society and Social Justice (2010-2013) at Saint Martin’s University. Serving on the faculty since 2006, Dr. Hauhart leads the undergraduate criminal justice and legal studies programs within the liberal arts curriculum. He also acts as pre-law advisor and offers courses within the sociology major. In 2008, he was named Monks of Saint Martin’s Abbey Outstanding Faculty Member. A prolific writer, Dr. Hauhart has published widely. His numerous articles and essays have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly publications. Dr. Hauhart writes and publishes regularly on the topics of criminological theory, social inequality, the American dream, capstone pedagogy, law, literary analysis and criticism.

 

The lectures in English language will be on March 13, April 3 and April 24, 2019 always at 4 p. m. at Mala Dvorana ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4 street, 2nd Floor, Ljubljana.

 

Kindly invited!

Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU, the Philosophical Module, invites you to public lecture by Prof. Isabelle Alfandary:

 

Irreducible Death Drive.

 

In what Freud identifies as the third phase of the theory of drives, he makes the death drive the pivot of the economy of drives. The end of the dominance of the pleasure principle, and the taking over by the death drive, remain no less profoundly puzzling. It is precisely the question of death in the death drive that I would like to address in my lecture, by taking and following to the letter, as much as possible, Freud’s hypothesis-turned-thesis. My presentation will be concerned with examining the status of the death drive within the Freudian economy of instincts, in order to ultimately establish the signification and the sense of death—or at least what Freud means by that—in his theory of drives.

 

The lecture in English language will be on Tuesday, 5th of March 2019 at 5 p. m. at Mala dvorana ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4 street, 2nd Floor, Ljubljana.

 

Isabelle Alfandary is Professor of American Literature and Critical Theory at the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, France, where she teaches American literature, poetry, and critical theory. She is also President of Collège interntional de philosophie. As Directrice de Programme at CipH, her seminars deal with the intersection of philosophy and psychoanalysis. A specialist of American modernism, she is the author of many articles on American poetry and three published monographs on E. E. Cummings (E. E. Cummings. La minuscule lyrique. Belin, 2002) American modernism (Le risque de la lettre: lectures de la poésie moderniste. ENS-Editions, 2012) and Derrida, Lacan: L’écriture entre psychanalyse et déconstruction, Hermann, 2016. She is currently finishing a book on Freud and fiction.

 

Kindly invited!

Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU invites you to public lectures at Philosophical module by Cindy Zeiher:

 

On Wednesday, 27th of February 2019 at 5 p. m.:
Science as Worldview of Psychoanalysis?

This session will consider the relation between science and psychoanalysis. Rather than pondering the perhaps rather redundant question of whether psychoanalysis is a science, we will consider how science and psychoanalysis are (or are not) inclusive of each other. Or rather, should it be that psychoanalysis and science be handled as distinct categories to read the other?

Reading.

 

On Wednesday 13th of March 2019 at 5 p. m.:
Surviving the Linguistic Turn: Love as Category of Psychoanalysis?

Transference is the linchpin to psychoanalytic praxis. That is, without transference, psychoanalysis is merely a category for thinking. While this is certainly not to be underestimated, what enables psychoanalysis to leave its mark is the trace or residue left by of transferential relations. According to Lacan, it is love that makes jouissance kneel to desire. How is it then that we can think love as a specific praxis of psychoanalysis?

Reading.

 

On Wednesday 27th of March 2019 at 5 p. m.:
Lacan’s Fifth and Unfinished Discourse

Lacan’s capitalist discourse is arguably his most contentious: recent commentaries have considered it an elaboration of the Master’s discourse while others call it a ‘fake’. This seminar will consider Lacan’s typology of his final discourse in the characterisation of modern subjectivity.

Reading.

 

On Thursday, 11th of April 2019 at 5 p. m.:
On Refusal: Psychoanalysis, Negation and Politics

This session will consider what it means to refuse as a site for thinking politics. Specifically, we will focus on a psychoanalytic reading of Vladamir Jankelevitch’s position of refusal in two ways: as a position of sovereignty and as an act of politics.

Reading.

 

Cindy Zeiher, Ph.D. is a lecturer in the School of Language, Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her writings and publications are in the areas of Lacanian psychoanalysis, subjectivities, politics, science and social theories. Together with Todd McGowan she has recently edited and contributed to a collection of essays, Can Philosophy Love? Reflections and Encounters (2017, Rowman and Littlefield International) and is now co-authoring a book with Ed Pluth, On Silence: Holding the Voice Hostage (2018, Lacan Palgrave Series). She is also currently editing a collection of essays, Psychoanalytic Reflections on Stupidity and Stupor (currently under consideration with Karnac). She is co-editor and founder of the journal, CT&T: Continental Thought and Theory.

 

Lectures will be in English language at Philosophical Institute ZRC SAZU,Novi trg 2, 3rd Floor, Ljubljana.

 

Kindly invited!

Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU invites you to public lectures by Assoc. Prof. Jan Völker: On Kant.

Lectures will be in English language at Philosophical Institute ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, 3rd Floor, Ljubljana, from Tuesday, January 8 till Friday, January 11, 2019, always at 17.00 Hours.

Kindly invited!

V sredo, 17. oktobra 2018, ob 11. uri, bo Alan Shear javno zagovarjal svojo doktorsko disertacijo na modulu Transformacija moderne misli – filozofija, psihoanaliza, kultura, z naslovom:

 

Martin Heidegger: place and memory in sculpture. A Heideggerian interpretation of the memorial sculptures of Bogdan Bogdanović
(Martin Heidegger: kraj in spomin v skulpturi. Heideggerjevska interpretacija spominskih skulptur Bogdana Bogdanovića).

 

Mentor: red. prof. dr. Aleš Erjavec.

 

Zagovor bo v angleškem jeziku v Mali dvorani ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 4, 2. nadstropje, Ljubljana.

Vljudno vabljeni!

Danes ob 12h na Val 202 pogovor z dr. Juanom Antoniom Belmontejem, španskim arheoastronomom, ki ga je na ZRC SAZU povabil slovenski stanovski kolega, red. prof. dr. Ivan Šprajc iz Inštituta za antropološke in prostorske študije ZRC SAZU. Vabljeni k poslušanju prispevka v živo ali kasneje na objavljeni povezavi.

V četrtek, 20. septembra bo ob 18. uri v Atriju ZRC pogovor o hibridnem značaju državne tvorne, imenovane Jugoslavija in sicer z avtorji in avtoricami prispevkov v zborniku Kulturno življenje kapitalizma v Jugoslaviji, med katerimi sta tudi predvateljici na modulih Antropologija: razumevanje svetotvornih praks in Kulturna zgodovina na Podiplomska šola ZRC SAZU ter raziskovalki na Inštitut za kulturne in spominske študije ZRC SAZU, doc. dr. Ana Hofman in red. prof. dr. Tanja Petrovic. Več v ZRCalniku ZRC SAZU.