Identities and Ethics Reading Group

Bronwyn Davies Institute of Advanced Studies/ Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor Spring-Summer 2010, Working with the Centre for Narratives and Transformative Learning (CeNTraL) in the Graduate School of Education and across the ‘Identities’ University Research theme

Identity and Ethics Reading Group

March - April 2010
Venue, room 408, Graduate School of Education, 35 Berkeley Square
Starts March 5th 2-4pm,
(also 3 more x 2 hour slots in weeks beginning March 8th, March 15th, March 22nd, March 29th - this group will close in week one and times weeks 2-4 will be negotiated within the group)

If you wish to take part in the Pierre Rivierre project the reading group is strongly recommended.


Weekly readings

1) Butler, J. Against ethical violence. In Butler, J. Giving an Account of oneself. Fordham University Press 2005
2) Badiou, A. Does man exist? and Does the other exist? In Ethics. An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. Verso 2001.
3) Butler, J. Responsibility. In Butler, J. Giving an Account of oneself Fordham University Press 2005
4) Foucault, M. (2000). ‘An interview with Michel Foucault’. In Faubion, J. (Ed.). Essential works of Foucault 1954—1984, Volume 3, Michel Foucault: Power (pp. 239—297). London: Penguin Books.
5) Davies, B. et al Embodied women at work in neoliberal times and places, and Truly wild things: interruptions in the disciplinary regimes of neoliberalism in (female) academic work. In Davies and Gannon, Doing Collective Biography. Open University Press, 2006.

Please register with Fai Leung w.f.leung@bristol.ac.uk, if you wish to take part in the reading group. Places are limited. The readings will be made available.