Symposium
Immunity, Health and the Body Politic
Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (CAPPE)
University of Brighton
30th April, 2016
Bramber House, University of Sussex
10:00am
Introduction
10:10am
Andrew Jones, Cardiff University.
Nations as immunological systems and the use of metaphors within immunology.
10.45am.
Tom Frost, University of Sussex
On the Coming Uses of Community and Immunity: Agamben and Esposito in an Age of Nihilism
11.20am.
Mark Devenney and German Primera, CAPPE, University of Brighton
Immunity and Impropriety
11.55am
Joseph Barker, Penn State University
Inoculation, grace and exclusion: Nietzsche’s perspective on the European crisis.
12.30pm
Lunch Break
2:00pm
Melayna Lamb, CAPPE, University of Brighton
Sovereign Violence and Police Power: The Immunitarian logic of Police
2:35pm
Denise Vargiu, University of Bristol
Citizenship deprivation and the political body
3:10pm
Tim Huzar, CAPPE, University of Brighton
Immunity ‘Beyond Biopolitics’
3:45pm
Michael Lewis (Independent Scholar)
Esposito’s Two and Agamben’s Kingdom and the Glory: On the Machine and the Nature of Political Theology
4.30pm
Round Table Discussion
5.30pm
Drinks
The Symposium is free, though place are limited. For more information and to register, please email: G.Primera@brighton.ac.uk
