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Nancy Spero, Performance , 1990 27 March | 5.00 - 6.30pm | Room 1, LAHRI (29-31 Clarendon Place) | All welcome! Guest Seminar from Griselda Pollock, and a Wine Reception We are delighted to announce that, for our final session of the semester, we have invited Professor Griselda Pollock (School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds) to lead us through a reading of Anne Emmanuelle-Berger's The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender (2014). In particular, we  will be focusing on the final chapter in Berger's book, 'Roxana's Legacy: Feminism and Capitalism in the West'. Access to the pdf can be found here . In addition to this, Pollock has provided a reading guide to Berger's work, which can be downloaded here . Pollock's guide provides useful theoretical and historical context to Berger's arguments and her source material, so we recommend reading it alongsi...

When : 3:30pm, Thursday 3rd December Where : LHRI Seminar Room 1, 29–31 Clarendon Place ( map ) Text : Hall (1997) The Work of Representation (ch. 3&4, pp. 39–51) ( download ) The last Quilting Points session of the semester is on Thursday the 3rd of December, for which we are reading Stuart Hall's 'The Work of Representation' (1997). Note: we are only reading chapters 3&4—although feel free to read the whole thing! Hall makes a broad analysis of theories of representation, linking the thought of Saussure, Barthes, Foucault, Marx, and Gramsci as they negotiate the relationship between language and society. This text will also prepare us for next semester's reading, in which we will look at the theorists and philosophers who influenced Hall's work. As always, everyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you there. QP

When : 3:30pm, Thursday 19th November Where : LHRI Seminar Room 1, 29–31 Clarendon Place ( map ) Main Text : Hall (1986) The problem of ideology: Marxism without guarantees ( download ) Supplementary Text : Karl Marx and Marxism (Video here ) The Quilting Points reading group continues reading Stuart Hall on Thursday the 19th, with his 1986 paper 'The problem of ideology: Marxism without guarantees'. To supplement the reading there is a documentary about Karl Marx and Marxism, presented by Hall. As ever, Quilting Points is an inter- multi- cross- and counter-disciplinary reading group, and everyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you there. QP

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

We are pleased to announce that Quilting Points' first meeting of the year is approaching. On Wednesday, October 8th, we will kick off what looks to be an exciting year with a discussion of Foucault's " The Subject and Power " from  Critical Inquiry  8.4 (1982). Ben Chwistek (PhD Student in School of Classics and Quilting Points co-director) will be introducing our discussion. Whether you are an avid Foucauldian or simply interested in understanding his work, you are welcome to join us. We will meet in the Leeds Humanities Research Institute from 15:00-17:00, followed by a trip to a local pub. 29-31 Clarendon Place, Leeds Humanities Research Institute