Engaging the contemporary : seminar on Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Ranciere : conference review

Abstract

The first ‘Engaging the Contemporary’ seminar took place last year, marking the thirtieth and tenth anniversaries of the deaths of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida respectively. Following in the spirit of this effort, a second seminar took place on the 20th of November 2015, with the aim of exposing its audience to, and dealing with, several elements in the philosophical oeuvre of Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Rancière. Like the previous year, this joint effort of the Departments of Philosophy and English from the Faculty of Arts, in collaboration with the Department of Educational Studies from the Faculty of Education, provided a stimulating discussion of contemporaneous themes, as will be evidenced by the short gloss of the proceedings that follows. Contributors hailed from the universities of Malta, Kingston, Ghent, Roma Tre, and Azad.