Department of Business Humanities and Law

“The relevance of ignorance”: A seminar on Rancière’s The Ignorant Schoolmaster with Todd May, Mikkel Bolt and Mads Kogut


Monday, June 17, 2019 - 15:00 to 17:30

MPP hereby invite you to an open seminar on Jacques Rancière'sThe Ignorant Schoolmaster.

Date:17 June 2019, 15:00-17:30

Venue:casino 168, Kilen, Kilevej 14, Frederiksberg, room KS71

Program:

15:00 -Welcome

15:10 -Todd May

15:30 -Mikkel Bolt

15:50 -Mads Kogut

16:10 -Break

16:30 -Discussion

The presentations and discussions will take point of departure in chapter III and IV ofThe ignorant Schoolmaster. Contact Niklas Birksted atpnb.mpp@cbs.dk, in case you need the text.

Organizer:Niklas Birksted,pnb.mpp@cbs.dk, casino 168

Moderator:Morten S. Thaning,mst.mpp@cbs.dk, casino 168

ProfessorTodd May, Clemson University.Todd May is the author ofThe Political Thought of Jacques Rancière – Creating Equality(2008) andContemporary Political Movements and theThought of Jacques Rancière – Equality in Action(2010)

ProfessorMikkel Bolt, Copenhagen University.Mikkel is a former student of Rancière at Paris VIII and the author of “The Borders of Participation” (2014) and “The Unjust Subject and its Offspring” (2018)

External LecturerMads Kogut, casino 168. Mads is MA in Philosophy and contemporary critiques of culture from Paris VIII and is currently working on issues relating to Rancière’s pedagogical philosophy.

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