'Dreaming of a World Exempt from Meaning': Roland Barthes on Love
Nick Clanchy (University of Oxford)

part of: Sex
July 8, 2026, 8:30am - 9:00am
Department of Philosophy, University College London

London
United Kingdom

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Sponsor(s):

  • The Spontaneity of Freedom Research Project

Organisers:

University of California, Los Angeles
University College London
Barnard College

Details

The Spontaneity of Freedom (SPONT), a European Research Council/UKRI-funded project based at University College London, explores forms of human agency and freedom that are not easily captured by models of rational planning or control. SPONT hosts an annual workshop: this year, the theme of the workshop will be “sex,” The first in a planned three-year conference series exploring  “sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll.”

Tentative Schedule 

8 July

9.00 Breakfast

9.30 Andreja Novakovic: Frock Consciousness in The Second Sex

11.15 Nick Clanchy: 'Dreaming of a World Exempt from Meaning': Roland Barthes on Love

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Ry Smith

16.15 Tim Dean 

19.00 Dinner

9 July

9.00 Breakfast

9.30 Francey Russell

11:15 Elena Comay del Junco

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Elizabeth Holt

16.15 Keynote: Avgi Saketopoulou

19.00 Dinner

Commentators

Ellie Anderson

Ayesha Chakravarti 

Alexandra Cole

Jeremey Fix

Kirstine La Cour

Ann Pellegrini

Due to space and budgetary constraints, attendance at this workshop is by invitation. If you would like to attend, please write to [email protected] and we will accomodate you if possible.

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