Thursday 11 September 2025, 5pm, ORB 1:24

Madeleine Chalmers (Leicester), ‘Rogue Vectors: Why ChatGPT Loves French Philosophy’

Tuesday 23 September 2025, 5pm, online.

Arthur Bradley (Lancaster), ‘Genet's Dying Words: Forty Years in Shatila’

With the political technologies cluster.

Monday 1 December 2025, 5pm ORB 1:24

Martin Munro (Florida State University), 'The Further Adventures of MacFanon'.

Semester 2

Thursday 22nd January 2026, Daniel Fraser (UCC PhD seminar) 'Commodity and Desire: Marguerite Duras as Filmmaker'.

Tuesday 27th January 2026, 4pm, Council Chamber and online.

Didier Bigo (Liverpool; Sciences Po): ‘The Future Perfect of Suspicion and Prediction as a Dispositive of Security Today? The Legacy of Foucault’. With the political technologies cluster.

Tuesday 10th February 2026, 4pm, online.

Félix Tréguer (Sciences Po; La Quadrature du Net): ‘Computing Power: AI as a Political Technology’. With the political technologies cluster.

March (date TBC). Cecilia Benaglia (Limerick). Title TBC.