On Wednesday February 6th, 6-8pm we will be discussing Kafka’s In the Penal Colony (PDF now available on ‘Texts for reading groups’). This meeting will take not in the usual room but in NG16 (ground floor, North Block), Senate House, Russell Square.
On February 20th we will have the pleasure of hearing Howard Caygill’s paper on this story. Details below. The session will take place from 4-6pm in NG14 (the usual room).
All are welcome – contact rowanboysonATgmail.com for further details, or see the additional pages on this site.
Howard Caygill, Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths, University of London: ‘Escaping the Penal Colony’.
Howard Caygill’s research interests lie in the fields of the history of philosophy, aesthetics and cultural history. He is currently completing a book on the philosophical and medical aspects of the body for Sage Publications, London. His publications include: Levinas and the Political (London, Routledge, 2002) Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience (London, Routledge, 1998), ‘Reading Kant Historically’, Radical Philosophy (2001), and ‘Perpetual Police: Kosovo and the Elision of Police and Military Violence’, European Journal of Social Theory (2001).
