Walter Benjamin, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Youth

Co-hosted by the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) and the Institute for Modern & Contemporary Culture (IMCC).

The conference is free and open to all. There is no pre-registration and attendance on the day will be allocated on a “first-come, first-served” basis.

FRIDAY 31st MAY
13:15 – 14:00  Registration (Entrance Hall)
14:00 – 14:30  Welcome (David Cunningham, IMCC, Westminster)
               Introductory Remarks (Matthew Charles, IMCC, Westminster)
14:30 – 15:30  The Life of Students is a Great Transformer (Antonia Birnbaum, Paris 8)
                   Chair: Andrew McGettigan
16:00 – 17:00  Attunement and Interference: Benjamin's Hölderlin Reading (Howard Caygill, CRMEP, Kingston)
                   Chair: Peter Osborne

SATURDAY 1st JUNE
09:45 – 10:30   Registration (Entrance Hall)
10:30 – 11:30   Quo Vadis? Knowing and being in the digital age (Milan Jaros, Newcastle)
                        Chair: Steven Cranfield
12:00 – 13:00   Chockerlebnis and Education: Learning from Modern Experience (Élise Derroitte,
Louvain)
                        Chair: Howard Caygill
14:15 – 15:15   Student as Producer: a pedagogy of the avant-grade; or, how do revolutionary
teachers teach? (Mike Neary, Lincoln)
                        Chair: David Cunningham
15:30 – 17:00   Education as Awakening (Howard Eiland, MIT)
                   Respondent: Peter Osborne (CRMEP, Kingston)
                         Chair: Matthew Charles

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