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When : 3:30–5:30pm, Thursday 5th November Where : LHRI Seminar Room 1, 29–31 Clarendon Place ( map ) Main Text : Hall (1980) Encoding/decoding ( download ) Supplementary Text : Stuart Hall: representation & the media (1997) (Video here , or here ) ( Transcript ) The Quilting Points reading group continues reading Stuart Hall with his influential essay 'Encoding/decoding'. As a supplementary text we have Hall's excellent 1997 video lecture 'Representation & the media'. As always, everyone is welcome to attend, regardless of discipline or department. We look forward to seeing you there. QP

When : 3:30–5:30pm, Thursday 22nd October Where : LHRI Seminar Room 1, 29–31 Clarendon Place ( map ) Main Text : Hall (1993) What is this "black" in black popular culture? ( download ) Supplementary Text : Stuart Hall: race, the floating signifier (1997) (Video here , here , or here ) ( transcript ) The Quilting Points reading group continues reading Stuart Hall with his 1993 paper 'What is this "black" in black popular culture?' As a supplementary text we have Hall's 1997 video lecture 'Race: the floating signifier', a brilliantly clear and engaging lecture which comes highly recommended. As always, everyone is welcome to attend, regardless of discipline or department. We look forward to seeing you there. QP

Time : 3:30–5:30pm Date : Thursday 8th October 2015 Venue : SR01, Leeds Humanities Research Institute, 29–31 Clarendon Place ( campus map ) Main Text : Hall (2011) The neo-liberal revolution ( download ) Supplementary Text : Hall & O'Shea (2013) Common-sense neoliberalism ( download ) Each year Quilting Points conducts a close and critical reading of an influential thinker, examining a number of texts and fostering interdisciplinary critique. Everyone is welcome to attend, regardless of discipline or background, and all are invited to join the discussion. This year we take the work of Stuart Hall: cultural theorist, sociologist, public intellectual, and figurehead of British cultural studies. Over the course of the semester we will cover a cross section of Hall’s corpus, beginning with his last peer-reviewed article ‘The neo-liberal revolution’ (2011). We will also provide supplementary texts in the form of interviews, video lectur...

Our next meeting is Wednesday, May 20th. We will discuss Giorgio Agamben's "The State of Exception as a Paradigm of Government," which you can download here . Ryan Topper and Benjamin Chwistek, Quilting Points directors, will introduce the discussion. Agamben in Pasolini's The Gospel According to St Matthew We will meet in the Leeds Humanities Research Institute from 15:30-17:30. As always, all are welcome. Ben Chwistek and Ryan Topper Directors, Quilting Points 2014/2015

April 22nd: Michel Foucault, 'Parresia' Our first meeting back after the Easter break will be on April 22nd. In it we will be discussing the recently translated ' Parresia ' by Michel Foucault. Introducing the discussion will be Andrea Basso, PhD student in the School of Classics. We will meet in the Leeds Humanities Research Institute from 15:30-17:30. As always, all are welcome. Ben Chwistek and Ryan Topper Directors, Quilting Points 2014/2015

Easter Break Leeds University is currently on Easter Break, and so are we. We will be back on April 22nd with more exciting discussions. If you have any discussions about our upcoming meetings, please email us on:  quiltingpoints@gmail.com or find us on Twitter @LeedsTheory   In the meantime, enjoy the break, this girl clearly is.

In our next meeting, we will discuss Achille Mbembe's "Necropolitics," a critique of Foucauldian sovereignty. You can download the PDF  here . Dr. Sam Durrant (Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature) will introduce our discussion. We will meet in the Leeds Humanities Research Institute from 15:30-17:30. As usual, all are welcome. Ryan Topper and Ben Chwistek Directors, Quilting Points 2014/2015