RICC Reading Group
Reading Group 2010/11
This year's reading group will be on the topic of 'Cosmopolitanisms and Transnationalisms'. The group will meet roughly once a month on Tuesday evenings 3-5pm, and the first meeting is on Tuesdsay 25 October. If you are interested in joining this year's group please email Gwyneth Lonergan.
Reading Group 2009/2010
Topic: "Cosmopolitan Anxieties".
Reading Group 2008/2009
RICC held a reading group exploring the readings below.
Hannah Arendt, "Karl Jaspers: Citizen of the World?" in "Men in Dark Times", NY: Harcort, Brace and Co., 1993, pp. 81-94.
Hannah Arendt, "We refugees", in her book "The Jew as Pariah, NY: Grove, 1978, pp. 55-66.
Hannah Arendt, "The Human Condition", sections 33 and 34.
Selections from Derrida, "On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness"
Hannah Arendt, "Eichman in Jerusalem": Chapter 15 and the Epilogue
Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt, Exchange of Letters on "Eichman in Jerusalem", in Arendt, "The Jew as Pariah" (as above)
Ramadan, Tariq (2004) Western Muslims and the Future of Islam, Oxford University Press,
Chapter 9 Interreligious Dialogue (p. 200-213)
Chapter 10 The Cultural Alternative (p. 214-223)
Rose, Jacqueline (2007) The Last Resistance, Verso, Chapter 7 The Body of Evil: Arendt, Coetzee and 9/11 (p. 139-158), Chapter 14 Holocaust Premises: Political Implications of the Traumatic Frame - with Judith Butler (p. 214-222).
David Harvey (2008) The Right to the City, New Left Review 53 Sep-Oct
Agamben, Giogio. "We Refugees," trans. Michael Rocke
Gilroy, Paul. "Race and the Right to be Human," from After Empire: Melancholia or Convival Culture
Screen debate of Caché (Hidden) (2005) (Michael Haneke).