Event overview
As part of the Visual Cultures Guest Lecture Series, Martin McQuillan and Johanna Callaghan will speak on their work on Derrida's 'The Post Card'.
A presentation of work in progress from AHRC funded filmic countersignature to Jacques Derrida’s “Envois” from 'The Post Card: from Socrates to Freud and Beyond'.
MARTIN McQUILLAN is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, London. His recent publications include 'Deconstruction After 9/11' (London: Routledge, 2008) and 'Roland Barthes, or, The Profession of Cultural Studies' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He is the editor of 'The Politics of Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Other of Philosophy' (London: Pluto Press, 2007), 'Deconstruction Reading Politics' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and 'The Origins of Deconstruction' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and is also series editor for ‘The Frontiers of Theory’ list published by Edinburgh University Press. He works in the spaces between literary theory, art theory, cultural studies and continental philosophy, and writes on the work of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous and Paul de Man.
JOANNA CALLAGHAN is a Senior Lecturer in Video Production at the University of Bedfordshire and a practising artist working primarily in lens-based media. She sits on the executive of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) as Chair of Practice. In 2008 she was awarded an AHRC grant for a film exploring the ideas of Plato and in 2007 a commission from Arts Council England for a photographic installation. Curatorial projects include 'Artists vs Hollywood', an international touring exhibition of artist’s film and video. She has organized symposia on practice led research about issues such as creativity and determinism and narrative and aesthetic translation. She has worked as a director, producer and journalist in film, TV and radio in France, Australia and the UK. Her practice work has been shown in galleries and festivals in London, Sydney, Berlin, Mexico City, Lisbon and Milan and published in The Sunday Times, Art Monthly and Studio International.
Dates & times
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5 May 2011 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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