Slave Owners of Bloomsbury – LBS, UCL
The Legacies of British Slave-ownership project traced the contentious lives and legacies those slave-owners who lived close to the newly-founded UCL and was first shown at UCL to mark Black History Month 2011. Alongside Bloomsbury’s associations with literary and cultural gentility runs a less comfortable story of exploitation and oppression as many British colonial slave-owners […]
My Journey to Bloomsbury – Alexandra Bulat
Where are you from? This is a question many of us were asked at some point in our lives. The majority of people tend to answer this by giving the name of a country, for example, ‘I am from the UK’. Others are more specific, preferring to identify with a region or a city – […]
Who Said What About EU Migration? – Alexandra Bulat
Does the phrase ‘uncontrolled EU migration’ sound familiar to you? We are all probably aware that migration was a key theme in the 2016 EU referendum debates. But what exactly was said about EU migration during the campaign? Who spoke about EU migrants in the UK? Who was given as an example of ‘EU migrant’? […]
When Annie Met Ghandi – Ingenious Purpose
Astonishingly in 1917 the newly elected President of the Indian National Congress was a white elderly English woman. The fiercely free-thinking Annie Besant and Gandhi admired each other hugely, but they disagreed about how to achieve Independence for India. In this short play Annie is anxiously awaiting the arrival of her fellow trailblazer… Presented by […]
The One-Stop-Shop for Mobile EU Citizens
The One-Stop-Shop for Mobile EU Citizens will be an evening of information and celebration in London. Want to know what the present political and legal position is for EU nationals who want to live and work in the UK after Brexit? There will be short workshops and free legal advice. Want to know which London-based […]
LOTS
Doors open from 6pm. sales stand from 6.30pm, event begins at 7.30 and is finished by 10pm. There is no charge. Visitors are welcome, especially from other societies or if you buy something or join as a new member. Meetings are held monthly (except January, July & August).
Nietzsche, Freud and Heidegger on Violence
Summer Term 2017, Tuesdays, 19:00 – 21:00, ten weeks starting 24th April Course Tutor: Keith Barrett. There is an alternative history (yet to be written) of Western philosophy as a response to the problem of violence. We will examine the inception of both Ancient and Modern Western philosophy from this perspective, then study the problem of violence […]
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics
Summer Term 2018, Tuesdays, 18:00 – 20:00, ten weeks starting 24th April Course Tutor: Shahrar Ali. Are we genuinely capable of non-egoistic, altruistic action? What are our responsibilities to future generations? What claim do starving populations have on us? When, if at all, is torture justified? Is free speech an unconditional right? Is whistleblowing an act of […]
Agamben: Language, Death, History
Summer Term 2018, Tuesdays, 17:00 – 19:00, ten weeks starting 24th April Course Tutor: Georgios Tsagdis. The experience of language attests to a split between its abstract purity and its articulated, voiced materiality, in which the very possibility of ethics, politics and history is founded. Moreover, if the human is the animal that speaks, it is also […]