Last year, the Students’ Philosophy Society’s participation in the Campus Book Fest was a huge success, with two-thirds of all titles stocked sold on the first day. The SPS stand offered students of the University of Malta a wide range of philosophical and literary titles at steeply discounted rates.
For this year's edition of the festival, the Students' Philosophy Society has invited the Provost of the European Graduate School, Prof. Hubertus von Amelunxen, to talk about 'the constellation of the Third, the third meaning, as Roland Barthes had written about the punctum in photography.' It will relate the phenomenological approach by Barthes with the both 'messianic' and 'materialist' approach to photography and the Third occurring in translation and in reproduction as developed by Walter Benjamin. The talk will be followed by a panel discussion on the themes raised, for which Prof. Amelunxen shall be joined by Prof. Vince Briffa, Head of the Department of Visual Arts, and Dr. Clive Zammit, Co-ordinator of the M.Sc in Cognitive Science. The panel will also take questions from the audience.
This event will be held on Wednesday 5 April at 10:00 in the Quadrangle, University of Malta Msida Campus.
This event will be held on Wednesday 5 April at 10:00 in the Quadrangle, University of Malta Msida Campus.
Hubertus von Amelunxen (b. 1958) is a theorist, curator, and artist. He holds the Walter Benjamin Chair at the European Graduate School / EGS, where he teaches Media Philosophy and Cultural Studies. He was born on December 29, 1958, in a town called Bad Hindelang in Bavaria, Germany. He studied Romance Languages and Literature (French, Spanish), German, and Art History in Marburg (Philipps-Universität) and Paris (École Normale Supérieure), and finished his PhD at the University of Mannheim with a thesis on nineteenth century French literature (Allegory and Photography). Professor von Amelunxen was a Founding Director and Professor at the International School for New Media in Lübeck (Germany). Additionally, he is a Senior Visiting Curator for Photography and New Media at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal (Canada).
Vince Briffa is an artist and academic. He produces gallery and site-specific artwork, objects and installations which integrate drawing, painting, text, photography, sculpture and the moving image. He is also a curator of contemporary art exhibitions, writes for various local and international publications and organizes discussions, exhibitions and art residencies. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Central Lancashire in the UK in 2009 and an MA in Fine Arts with distinction from the University of Leeds in 2000. He was also artist in residence at the Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland in 1996.
Clive Zammit is Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Science with the Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences at the University of Malta. His research interests are in Contemporary Philosophy, Consciousness, Identity, Time, Memory, Knowledge and Ethics. At the University of Malta he delivers lectures on Digital Art, the Role of Journalism in Democracy, the Philosophy of Communication, Levinas and Derrida, and the Philosophical Analysis of the Societies of Surveillance.
SPS will be participating in the 2017 edition of the Book Fest between 4-6 April, and will have a large selection from Hackett, Duquesne, Bloomsbury, Delere, and Atropos in stock at up to 35% off retail. SPS members will receive further discounts.