With monthly meetings open to all, the “Metamorphoses Seminar” engages in rethinking mimesis as an immanent, embodied and affective force.
Calendar 2022:
Session 5.
February 17. 2023, 4:30 pm CET, online.
Presentation: Giulia Rignano
C. Malabou, Pleasure Erased: chap.1: pp. 6-13; chap.12: pp.90-96; chap 14: pp.105-109.
C. Malabou, “Epigenetic Mimesis”
Zoom link forthcoming
Session 4.
January 26, 2023, 4:30 pm CET, online.
Presentation: Prof. Nidesh Lawtoo, Dr. Isabell Dahms
- Catherine Malabou, “Introduction,” What Should We Do With Our Brain?, Fordham University Press, 2008, pp.3-8.
- Catherine Malabou, “Preface,” Morphing Intelligence, Columbia Press, 2019.
- Jairus Grove, “Something Darkly This Way Comes: The Horror of Plasticity in the Age of Control,” Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 255-258 (last pages).
- Nidesh Lawtoo, “The Plasticity of Mimesis” (chapter 4), in Homo Mimeticus. A New Theory of Imitation, Leuven University Press, 2022,pp. 144-155 (second part).
Session 3.
December 8 2022, 4:30 pm CET (online)
With Nidesh Lawtoo
- Catherine Malabou, “The Example of Plasticity,” Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 309-320.
- Nidesh Lawtoo, “The Plasticity of Mimesis” (chapter 4), in Homo Mimeticus. A New Theory of Imitation, Leuven University Press, 2022,pp. 129-144 (first part).
- Catherine Malabou and Judith Butler, “You Be My Body for Me: Body, Shape and Plasticity,” in A Companion to Hegel, Blackwell, 2011, pp. 633-640.
Session 2.
November 3 2022, 5pm CET (online)
With Henry Dicks: “The Biomimicry Revolution: Contributions to Mimetic Studies”
- Henry Dicks, The Biomimicry Revolution, Columbia University Press, 2023. Preface and introduction. (proofs; please don’t circulate)
Session 1.
October 6th 2022, 5 pm CET (Salons, Institute of Philosophy – KU Leuven & online)
With Nidesh Lawtoo: “Metamorphoses Seminar: Introducing Mimetic Studies”