The Origin of the Devil
Lecture
Presented by the Humanities Research Centre The devil is normally viewed as a theological or mythological symbol, but in this lecture, Adam Kotsko will argue that the devil is equally a political symbol. And this is because the God of the Hebrew Bible is not only an object of worship, but a…
NSM Semantic Workshop
Conference
Anyone interested in meaning in language is welcome to attend the NSM Semantic Workshop on Friday and Saturday 22-23 July, 2016. The Friday sessions are themed around NSM in theory and practice, and the Saturday sessions (half day only) are about Minimal English and other…
Neoliberalism’s Demons
Lecture
Presented by Adam Kotsko as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series The devil is one of the most enduring Christian theological symbols, a figure that has taken on a life of its own in the culture of secular modernity. In this talk, Adam Kotsko traces the origin of the devil back to his…
Divided Authorities and Dispossessed Peoples: Aesthetic Dimensions of Political and Critical Theory in the 21st Century
Conference
Keynotes Louise Amoore (Durham, UK)Chiara Bottici (New School, NYC) Davide Panagia (UCLA) Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University) Convenors Fiona Jenkins (Philosophy) Desmond Manderson (CASS/Law) Forms of authority inhabit aesthetic events and practices, and equally suffuse…
Master Class: Xianghua, a Sinitic language of Hunan, China: Analysis of its classifier system through the prism of fieldwork techniques
Lecture
The Xianghua language 乡话is an unclassified Sinitic or Chinese language spoken in a remote mountainous area of northwestern Hunan in China, known as Xiangxi (湘西). It has no written form, as is typical of a so-called ‘dialect’, yet appears to preserve a large number of archaic features of Chinese.…
CASS Professorial Lecture Series - Professor Will Christie
Lecture
The College of Arts and Social Sciences' Second Professoriate Lecture of 2016 The opening decades of the nineteenth century, which we know as the Age of Romanticism in Britain, was also the great age of periodical literature – The Periodical Enlightenment – at the centre of which were the…
Bridging the Andean and Amazonian Language Areas: Evidence from contact-induced change and toponymy
Lecture
The Andes and the Amazon have long featured prominently in the literature as linguistic contact zones (Adelaar & Muysken 2004; Dixon & Aikhenvald 1999). Despite the fact that they are geographically contiguous, the two areas have traditionally been discussed separately: publications…