Archive of Activities
This page contains a full list of all CPPE activities since 2004, including events, conferences & workshops, and seminars, lectures & reading groups.
EVENTS, CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
 17-18 November 2011A two-day Workshop with Arkady Plotnitsky 17.11: Continental Philosophy and the Social Sciences 18.11: Epistemology, Probability, Quantum Mechanics |
 8-9 September 2011CPPE Annual Symposium 2011 |
 26-28 May 2011Badiou, Business, Ethics |
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 4 May 2011 Reconsidering Commodities & Markets Symposium |
19-20 May 2011An Afternoon of Practical Criticism
17 November 2010
Chair and Organiser: Peter Armstrong, University of Leicester
Presenters: Thomas Basbøll, Copenhagen Business School, Armin Beverungen, Bristol Business School and Susan Kinsey, University of Wolverhampton
Bodies of Theory Workshop
CPPE 2010 Symposium
8-9 September 2010
Two day symposium where we discussed and debated a multitude of topics.
The Greek volcano: The political economy of austerity and reistance
16 June 2010
Is Resistance Really Futile?
9 March 2010
This workshop analysed a variety of theories of resistance insofar as they have been used to make sense of the realities of the modern workplace. Presentations throughout the day took a variety of conceptual and practical perspectives upon the question of resistance whilst the concluding roundtable attempted to establish common strands of analysis.
CPPE 2009 Symposium
10-11 September 2009
Our 2009 symposium where discussed and debated a multitude of topics.
What Does Wittgenstein Mean?
1-2 June 2009
Two-day workshop
The State of Things
29 April - 1 May 2009
Three day conference on the study of objects and artifacts and the various logics and dispositifs that underlie the formation of their fields of power, while combining them with modern and more classical forms of political economy.
CPPE 2008 Symposium
25-26 September 2008
Two day symposium where we discussed and debated a multitude of topics including Thomas Hobbes, resistance, international aid, comedy, contracts, stock markets, arbitrage, consulting, class composition, the fate of the business school, and much more.
Derrida, Business, Ethics
14-16 May 2008
Three day symposium on business ethics in the light of the work of Jacques Derrida.
The Ethics & Politics of the Real in Organization
21 September 2007
CPPE was pleased to host for the second time a seminar in the series organized by the Discourse Theory & Organization Network. The theme of this one-day workshop was 'The Ethics & Politics of the Real in Organization'. The day consisted of presentations, plus a roundtable discussion.
Symptoms of Organization: Deleuze, Foucault and Clinical Management Studies
1-2 February 2007
CPPE organised this two-day PhD conference on the theme of the critical and the clinical in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault in collaboration with the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School.
Bergson and the Future of Organization Studies
12 December 2006
A one day workshop which sought to explore some of Bergson’s ideas insofar as they might be said to offer insight into a thinking of the future of organization studies.
The Future in The Present: Occupying the Social Factory
2-3 May 2006
A two-day workshop on the meaning of autonomy today, both as a theoretical category and as a practice. Drawing draw together theorists, organizers and activists we considered questions of what class composition, insurgent sociality and autonomous political practice mean (or could mean) today.
Levinas, Business, Ethics
27-29 October 2005
A three day symposium on the work of Emmanuel Levinas and business ethics.
17-18 March 2005
Rethinking Foucault, Rethinking Political Economy
A two day workshop on Foucault and political economy.
Denaturing Darwin
12-14 November 2004
The Denaturing Darwin conference was jointly organised by the CPPE and the Department of Critical Theory and Organisation of the University for Humanistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands, and held at the International School of Philosophy, Amersfoort, The Netherlands.
Approaching Critical Management Studies
1-5 November 2004
In November 2004, the CPPE welcomed doctoral students and staff from the University of Humanistics at Utrecht, for a week of seminars and discussion.
SEMINARS, LECTURES & READING GROUPS
| 8 & 9 February 2012 > Ruud Kaulingfreks 8.2, Seminar: Non-identity and the Inoperative Organizations 9.2, Workshop: The Uselessness of Philosophy |
| Spring 2012 Reading Group: Hume, Caffentzis |
| 25 & 26 January 2012 > Gerry Hanlon 25.1, Seminar: The ‘Google Model' of Production 26.1, Workshop: 'Slipped off its Leash': Labour, Rent and the Crisis of Management Knowledge |
| Autumn 2011 Reading Group Plotnitsky, Deleuze |
| Spring 2011 Reading Group Badiou, Stiegler, Stengers |
Presenter: Matthew Clement, University of the West of England
Assigned Respondent: Stephen Dunne, University of Leicester
Date: 23 February 2011
Presenter: Kenneth Weir, University of Leicester
Date: 2 February 2011
Presenter: Laura Freeman, University of Leicester
Assigned Respondent: Steve Vallance
Date: 19 January 2011
Responses to Crisis: Culture and Finance
Reading and Discussion Group
Exposure: Exploring the Subject of Surveillance
Presenter: Kirstie Ball
Date: 25 March 2009
Move over G8, the G20’s the new star in town! Summitism and Crisis Management in the Global Economy
Presenter: Emma Dowling
Date: 24 March 2009
Presenter: Steve Vallance
Date: 25 February 2009
Presenter: Dimitris Papadopoulos
Date: 21 January 2009
Matter and Memory Reading Group
