PG "Work In Progress" Seminar
TBC FOR 2026/27Postgraduate Work-In-Progress SeminarA weekly seminar for Philosophy postgraduates to present their in-progress work, followed by a well-spirited trip to the pub. OverviewThe WIP provides a risk-free and supportive space for postgraduates to present their work and receive feedback from other graduates and faculty.
Attendance optional but highly recommended. All postgraduates are welcome to present or attend -- whether MA, MPhil, PhD, Visitors, etc. Useful InfoThe WIP is a unique opportunity for graduates to develop their presenting and writing skills, take risks, test out ideas, and receive constructive feedback from peers.
Presentations need not be watertight or polished pieces at all. You are encouraged to present work at all stages of the writing process. "Should I present?"1. If you are a postgraduate, then you should present. 2. You are a postgraduate. 3. Therefore, you should present. |
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CRPLA Seminar: Al铆rio Karina (果冻传媒), 'Truth Objects'
Abstract: Drawing upon Barthes鈥� S/Z and the passing narrative, this essay examines the problem of determinacy and verification as it emerges differently in racial and sexual paradigms. Considering both the racialist and sexualist problems of conjugating surface and essence, it attends to how the difference between race and sex as objects of knowledge is an effect of their co-constitution, with each paradigm offering a partial resolution to the problem posed by the other鈥檚 limit. The problem suffered by racialism as a knowledge regime—the lack of a verificatory object or explanatory mechanism—is a problem of its doubled falseness and political necessity, a doubling that requires that sexualism鈥檚 imperfect verificatory object be treated as a definition, and one interior to race and sex alike.