[Anthropgrad] RSH Work-in-Progress Seminar - Fred INGLIS

[Sharon Komidar]

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Apologies for cross posting. Many Thanks, Sharon.

 

The Research School of Humanities presents,
A WORK-IN-PROGRESS SEMINAR

1-2.30 pm, Friday 9th May 2008, Theatrette, Old Canberra House

 

Re-enacting a Life: on Writing the Biography of RG Collingwood.

 

Professor Fred INGLIS

Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sheffield, UK.

 

Fred Inglis is presently writing the last chapter of a biography
entitled History Man; the Life of RG Collingwood, which will be
published by Princeton University Press early in 2009.This paper,
written for the occasion at the Research School of Humanities, will
offer a riposte to Collingwood's own strictures on the value of
biographies (especially the biographies of thinkers), and provide
instances of the inextricabiltiy of thought and experience which emerge
from Collingwood's own life. His lifelong intellectual venture was
precisely to instantiate the connectedness of theory and practice, and
this lecture will seek to reenact (in his key concept) and dramatise
their mutual embeddedness in the texture of his writing, his public
politics, his love affair, his fatal illness, and his reckless one-man
sailing in the Channel during the worst storm for forty years.
Collingwood's tragedy was that he died before he completed his life's
work, but his triumph that he announced the advent and necessity of an
historical 'science of human affairs ' with which to supercede the
lethal predominance of mere 'scientism', the bloody old mastodon which
still tramples the campus and gets the money.

 

Fred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University
of Sheffield in the UK. Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at the
University of Warwick, he has been a member of the School of Social
Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and
Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. He
was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, and studied at the
Universities of Cambridge, Southampton and Bristol.  Inglis has
frequently written for The Nation, the New Statesman and The Independent
and contributes regularly to BBC Radio. He is a member of the Fabian
Society and has stood as a Labour Party candidate for the UK Parliament
on four occasions.

 

Convenors: Ken Taylor and Stephen Foster
For general enquiries please contact: 
Phone: 6125 2434
Email: administration.rsh at anu.edu.au 
Web: http://rsh.anu.edu.au/


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