Postgraduate "Work In Progress" Seminar
Postgraduate Work-In-Progress SeminarA weekly seminar for Philosophy postgraduates to present their in-progress work, followed by a well-spirited trip to the pub. OverviewThe WIP provides a risk-free and supportive space for postgraduates to present their work and receive feedback from other graduates and faculty.
Attendance optional but highly recommended. All postgraduates are welcome to present or attend -- whether MA, MPhil, PhD, Visitors, etc. Useful InfoThe WIP is a unique opportunity for graduates to develop their presenting and writing skills, take risks, test out ideas, and receive constructive feedback from peers.
Presentations need not be watertight or polished pieces at all. You are encouraged to present work at all stages of the writing process. "Should I present?"1. If you are a postgraduate, then you should present. 2. You are a postgraduate. 3. Therefore, you should present. |
NEXT TALKOscar Jenkinson (MA) Kant/Hegel Wednesday 01/07/2026 5pm - 6:15pm S0.08 ORGANISERS |
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CRPLA Seminar: Amy De'Ath (KCL), 'Hidden Abodes and Inner Bonds: Literary Study and Marxist-Feminism'
This talk presents an argument that Marxism can provide much more capacious and flexible tools for feminist analysis than has previously been allowed for, and that the concepts and methods developed in value-theoretical readings of Marx that first emerged in Germany in the 1960s are particularly well suited to reading gendered literary texts. My approach draws in particular on the idea of 鈥渞eal abstraction,鈥� a Marxian concept germane to thinking from the perspective of the whole. Far from helping us to diagnose a case of interpellation by capital鈥檚 narratives, value theory and Marxist-feminism can work in the service of a feminist literary criticism attuned to the highly ambivalent and dialectical ways in which capitalist subjects might 鈥渋dentify.鈥� I offer a brief reading of a poem by Kay Gabriel to suggest that feminist poetry gives us ways to think capitalist abstraction not as sublime other, but as the social synthesis of an exchange in toto that gathers, institutes, and deploys difference wherever it goes.