Event overview
CPCT's Research Seminar 2024-25
CPCT’s annual research seminar meets on a regular basis and is open to centre members, graduate affiliates, and other interested staff and students at Goldsmiths and beyond. It aims to serve as a forum for philosophical work and critical conversation at Goldsmiths.
Taking its inspiration from the title of the famous essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, our research seminar this year poses the following question: what is the contemporary university for? By definition “extramoral” in the sense that it is premised on the pursuit of knowledge without the interference of power and authority—the classical loci of which were Church and State—the modern university nevertheless exists in a world driven by profit, riddled with war, and beset with an ever-unfolding polycrisis of environmental, racial, economic, technological, and geopolitical dimensions. What, then, is the role of the university vis-à-vis its extramorality or, indeed, its moral purpose? We wish in particular to interrogate the university’s role in truth-telling and truth-making, inter alia in relation to the era of post-truth, alt-facts, and now AI technologies that seem to have deeply unsettled classical definitions of knowing, certainty, and consciousness, and to questions of whose truth, when and where truth is that emergent pluricentric views of the world have opened up. “Extramoral” is, of course, also a play on the word “extramural,” and we wish to recall the 2010 student-led debates on the university’s purpose when tuition fees were first introduced.
Convened by Julia Ng (j.ng[at]gold.ac.uk), Svenja Bromberg (s.bromberg[at]gold.ac.uk), and Sultan Doughan (s.doughan[at]gold.ac.uk).
This year’s sessions will be hybrid; to participate online, please register at the links below each session on the detailed session plan at https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/. Free and open to the public.
Detailed session plan with links to readings
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 20 Nov 2024 |
4:00pm - 6:00pm See https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/ for details. |
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| 27 Nov 2024 |
4:00pm - 6:00pm See https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/ for details. |
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| 4 Dec 2024 |
4:00pm - 6:00pm See https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/ for details. |
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| 22 Jan 2025 |
4:00pm - 6:00pm See https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/ for details. |
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| 5 Feb 2025 |
4:00pm - 6:00pm See https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/ for details. |
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| 26 Feb 2025 |
4:00pm - 6:00pm See https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/ for details. |
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| 12 Mar 2025 |
4:00pm - 6:00pm See https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/ for details. |
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| 26 Mar 2025 |
4:00pm - 6:00pm See https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/ for details. |
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| 14 May 2025 |
4:00pm - 6:00pm See https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/ for details. |
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| 28 May 2025 |
4:00pm - 6:00pm See https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/ for details. |
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| 11 Jun 2025 |
4:00pm - 6:00pm See https://cpct.uk/2024-2025/ for details. |
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