Podcasts in 2010

This keynote lecture was given by Professor Engin Isin at the 'Citizenship without Community' event hosted by CCIG in collaboration with the BISA poststructural politics working group, held on the 10th of May 2010.

Deborah Britzman, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of English at York University, Canada, gave a CCIG keynote lecture within CCIG Forum 12. “Reading Sigmund Freud’s Group psychology today” Freud’s 1921 study, “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego” is used as an occasion for raising a number of conundrums for social theory, education, and psychoanalysis.

In this recent Keynote lecture jointly organised by CCIG, CHERI and OpenSpace, Professor Craig Calhoun, president of the Social Science Research Council gives his views on the future of research funding in higher education.

In this talk, given as part of CCIG Forum 11, Dr Paul Simpson from the University of Keele discusses his recently completed research on performance and public space. Utilising the work of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy the paper discusses how Nancy's work problematises traditional accounts of intersubjectivity.