05 Apr Upcoming talks and conferences in London and Oxford

Apr 9 – Jun 4
(every two weeks on Tuesday evenings) Verso’s An Introduction to Radical Thinkers
http://www.versobooks.com/events/627-an-introduction-to-radical-thinkers

April 11-12
International Symposium – Within and beyond citizenship: lived experiences of contemporary membership
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/legal-status-international-symposia

April 29
Can the United States Transcend its Racial History? How Immigration, Multiculturalism, Genomics, and the Young Might Create a New American Racial Order – Jennifer Hochschild
http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/seminars 

May 3
Spanning the Atlantic – Sir John Elliott
http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/seminars 

May 3
Eating Ethically: What it is and why it matters – Peter Singer
More information and registration

May 10-12
The Actuality of the Absolute: Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary
Speakers: Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto); Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University Chicago); Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck); Catherine Malabou (Kingston); Frank Ruda (Free University, Berlin); Slavoj Žižek (Birkbeck); Alenka Zupancic (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/the-actuality-of-the-absolute-hegel-our-untimely-contemporary-conference

May 14
Trust in Markets – Professor Lord Plant of Highfield, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy at King’s College London, and member of the House of Lords
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/trust-in-markets
(there’s one next week that i wish i could go to, but i’ll be in LA: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/what’s-it-worth-values-choice-and-commodification)

May 15
RAI Book Launch – Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America
– Peter Andreas
http://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/seminars

June 1-2
Muslims, Multiculturalism and Trust: New Directions
Invited participants include: Rehana Ahmed, Claire Chambers, Sohail Daulatzai, Rumy Hasan, Salah Hassan, Tony Laden, Alana Lentin, Nasar Meer, Tariq Modood, Anshuman Mondal, Peter Morey, Stephen Morton, Jorgen Nielsen, Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Amina Yaqin
http://www.soas.ac.uk

June 6-7
London Conference on Critical thought (free)
(the session streams are listed in a .pdf: LCCT 2013 Call for Papers)
http://londonconferenceincriticalthought.wordpress.com