The Spontaneity of Freedom hosts an annual workshop: this year, the theme of the workshop will be “sex,” The first in a planned three-year conference series exploring “sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll.”

Due to space and budgetary constraints, attendance at this workshop is by invitation. If you would like to attend, please write to philosophy.spont@ucl.ac.uk and we will accommodate you if possible.

Location: Univeristy College London, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

*Preliminary* Schedule

Tuesday, 7 July

On 7 July, we plan to host an informal pre-conference dinner for participants traveling from abroad. Details TBC.

Wednesday, 8 July

9.00 Breakfast

9.30 Andreja Novakovic (University of California, Berkeley)– Frock Consciousness in The Second Sex

11.15 Nick Clanchy (University of Oxford) – ‘Dreaming of a World Exempt from Meaning’: Roland Barthes on Love

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Ry Smith (Columbia University) – TBA

16.15 Tim Dean (University of Illinois) – Libidinal Economies of Fascism

19.00 Dinner – Location TBC

Thursday, 9 July

9.00 Breakfast

9.30 Francey Russell (Barnard College and Columbia University) – Opacity and Intimacy: Kant on Sex and Friendship

11:15 Elena Comay del Junco (University of Connecticut) – Why Desire Is Better than Sex: Some History

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Elizabeth Holt (University College London) – On Lesbian ‘Sex’

16.15 Keynote: Avgi Saketopoulou (Private Practice / NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis) – TBA

19.00 Dinner – Location TBC

Commentators

Ellie Anderson (Pomona College)

Ayesha Chakravarti (University College London)

Simon Shogry (University of Oxford)

Jeremey David Fix (University of Oxford)

Kirstine La Cour (University of Oxford)

Ann Pellegrini (New York University)

Organisers

Daniela Dover (Rutgers University), Jonathan Gingerich (University College London and Rutgers University), Francey Russell (Barnard College and Columbia University) & David Chandler (University College London)