Event Details

Political Theology and Its Discontents Organized by Arthur Bradley (Lancaster University), K. Daniel Cho (Otterbein University) and Boštjan Nedoh (ZRC SAZU)

Programme

Tuesday 26^th March

Lancaster University Campus, Management School Lecture Theatre 5

10.00 Arthur Bradley (Lancaster University), K. Daniel Cho (Otterbein University) and Boštjan Nedoh (ZRC SAZU): Opening remarks

10.30 K. Daniel Cho (Otterbein University): Freud and the Political

11.30 Boštjan Nedoh (ZRC SAZU): Materialist Theory of Happiness: Benjamin, Freud, Lacan

12.30 Antonio Cerella (Nottingham Trent University): Power’s Two Bodies: A Critique of Agamben’s Theory of Sovereignty

1.30 Lunch

3.00 Tadej Troha (ZRC SAZU): Schreber’s Theological Materialism

4.00 Arthur Bradley (Lancaster University): Political theology of the as-if: Freud, Kelsen, Fiction

5. 00 Close

Wednesday 27^th March

Lancaster Castle, Lancaster University Castle Suite

10.30 Peter Klepec (ZRC SAZU): On the Theological Trivialities, Subtleties and Niceties of Neoliberalism

11.30 Charlie Gere (Lancaster University): Bipedality, Premature Birth and Desire

12.30 Emily Laurent-Monaghan (Newcastle University): Which Method is Cartesian? On the “Accumulation of Knowledge”

1.30 Lunch

3.00 Lorenzo Chiesa (Newcastle University): “Theology of Science”: Polytheism, Monotheism, and Science in Lacan (online)

4.00 Agata Bielik-Robson (University of Nottingham): “Religion of the Father”? Judaism as a Politico-Theological Code of Parenticide

5. 00 Close