QUILTING POINTS:

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

This Wednesday, we will discuss Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's "Biopolitical Production," a chapter from Empire .  Click here  to download the PDF. We hope to interrogate the ways Hardt and Negri interpret and build upon Foucault's work, so feel free to bring relevant Foucault texts to the discussion. Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. Wikimedia Commons Quilting Points co-directors, Ryan Topper and Benjamin Chwistek, will introduce the meeting, which will take place from 15:30-17:30 in the Leeds Humanities Research Institute.

February 11th: 'The Malthus Effect: Population and the Liberal Government of Life' In our second meeting of this semester we will be reading Foucault's concepts of biopolitics and biopower through the lens of Mitchell Dean's essay on Malthus and the Liberal Government of Life. The text will be introduced by David Wingate, PhD Student in the School of Earth and Environment. For anyone who did not make our last session, it is recommended (though not required) that you read Foucault's 'Right of Death and Power over Life'. A link to the text can be found in our previous blog post. In addition to the Foucault text, we will be reading Mitchell Dean's essay, which is available here:  ' The Malthus Effect: Population and the Liberal Government of Life' This semester we will be meeting at the slightly later time of 15:30, and will be finishing at 17:30. As before, we will be meeting in the LHRI Seminar Room. As always, all are welcom...

January 28th: 'Right of Death and Power over Life' The first meeting of 2015 will be on Foucault's 'Right of Death and Power over Life'. This will be the first meeting focusing on the theme of biopower and subjectivity, which we will be building on throughout the semester.  Introducing the text will be Ed Powell, PhD student in the School of English and Ben Chwistek, PhD student in the School of Classics and co-director of Quilting Points. A link to the text can be found here:   'Right of Death and Power over Life' This semester we will be meeting at the slightly later time of 15:30, and will be finishing at 17:30. As before, we will be meeting in the LHRI Seminar Room. Benjamin Chwistek and Ryan Topper Directors, Quilting Points 2014/2015

Our final meeting of 2014 is on December the 17th. We will be reading Foucault's 'Afterword to The Temptation of Saint Anthony '. Introducing the text will be Ryan Topper, PhD student in the School of English and co-director of Quilting Points. A link to the text can be found here:   'Afterword to The Temptation of Saint Anthony ' . As per usual we will meet in the LHRI (29-31 Clarendon Place), from 3-5pm. Ben Chwistek and Ryan Topper Directors, Quilting Points 2014/2015