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Carr, G. (2012). "Coins, crests and kings: symbols of identity and resistance in the Occupied Channel Islands." Journal of Material Culture 17: 327-344.
Contact Clare Rowan for a pdf of the reading.

is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon University.

 Jurgen Buchenau (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

‘The Sonoran ‘Dynasty’ and the Revolutionary Regime in Mexico, 1910-1934’

Jurgen Buchenau (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Benoît Dillet (Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent)

'Finitude before finitude: the case of Rousseau-Bougainville-Diderot'
Benoît Dillet (Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent)

Event Poster

Tahiti is synonymous with a long history of exoticism in French thought. Soon after the publication of Bougainville's travel accounts, it quickly became rightly or wrongly the epitome of Rousseau's state of nature, and also led to the development of anthropology before anthropology. In this paper, I attempt to reconstruct the discussion between Rousseau, Bougainville and Diderot about exoticism and otherness, and examine the consequences of the 'discovery' of Tahiti for French thought at the time.

Benoît Dillet holds a PhD in political philosophy from the University of Kent, Canterbury (UK), he is the co-editor of Technologiques: La Pharmacie de Bernard Stiegler (Cécile Defaut, 2013) and The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2013).

Refreshments will be provided.

This is an event of the Travel and Mobility Studies Network: visit for more details