Public lecture entitled “Why is sexual difference relevant for philosophy?”, Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, USA, 11 November 2017. A well-attended public event at which we presented to the general public some of the specificities of the psychoanalytic concept of sexuality, as well as its implications for philosophical and other kinds of reflection. The lecture also touched upon some of the socially relevant themes (identity politics, sexual difference) on which the (dis)ontological perspective and method can throw some new and interesting light.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 42730285Alenka Zupančič Žerdin is co-editor of the “Short Circuits” series at MIT Press, editor of the Analecta series at the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, co-editor of the International Journal of Badiou Studies and the International Journal of Žižek Studies. Members of the project group are on the editorial boards of the Slovene journals Filozofski vestnik and Problemi, as well as the following journals: Debates y combates (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Política común (Mexico City, Mexico), Continental Thought and Theory: A Journal of Intellectual Freedom (Canterbury, New Zealand), and the Serbian Architectural Journal (Belgrade, Serbia). Jelica Šumič Riha is editor of the Philosophica series published by Založba ZRC, the publishing arm of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The Analecta and Philosophica series include works by Slovenian authors and translations of classical and contemporary philosophy.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
One of the great merits of Lacan’s thesis “the unconscious is politics” lies in it emphasising the deadlocks that the subject faces in a universe of the inexistent Other. Contrary to what might be expected, the inexistence of the Other is not in and of itself a liberating factor for the subject, since the latter is caught up in the metonymic displacements of a discourse that knows no end. Yet in opening the perspective of the not-all, Lacan indicates at the same time the possibility of a fundamentally different politics, one which is not restricted to the subversion of the master’s closure by uncovering its radical contingency.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 39189549Since 2009, Alenka Zupančič Žerdin has been a visiting professor at the prestigious European Graduate School based in Switzerland. Its lecturers include some of the most distinguished theorists of our time, e.g. Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, Boris Groys, Manuel De Landa, and Jean-Luc Nancy.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
Members of the project group lecture at the Graduate School of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, in the Comparative Studies of Ideas and Cultures programme, philosophy module. Jelica Šumič Riha is head of the programme. In their lectures, they present the results of their own research work and discuss other philosophical currents and findings. Their research and pedagogical work are thus brought together into a sensible whole.
D.10 Educational activities