Dariush M Doust

Selected Public Lectures & Conferences

2018Organiser and Keynote “Nature in All Its States”. Collaboration Beijing Normal University & Center for Research in Continental Philosophy, Shanxi University.
2011-2016Invited lecturer at the international Conference on Value Theory, Beijing Normal University, 2015. Invited lecturer, Beijing University, “on Louis Althusser’s Legacy”. Invited lecturer, University of Politics and Law, Beijing, “An Attempt towards Periodisation of French Radical Thought”, November 2012. Invited lecturer, University of Renmin, “Contextualizing Contemporary Thought in Post-war France”, October 2012. Invited lecturer, University of Fudan, Shanghai, “On Alain Badiou’s Philosophy”, November 2012. Invited lecturer, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, “A General Introduction to Alain Badiou’s Philosophy”. Invited Lecturer Beijing Normal University, Department of Philosophy and Sociology, “Introduction to Post-War Continental Philosophy and Intellectual Trends”, April, 2011. Invited chair for a panel discussion, Symposium “Art and Difference”, in connection to the Exhibition Dis-Identication, organized by Museion, University of Goteborg, participating among others Irit Rogoff, Gertrud Sandqvist, Joseph Massad. Invited lecturer at Peking University, Department of Philosophy, “On Cognitive Capitalism and Visual culture”, April 2011. Invited lecturer at Tsinghua University, Beijing, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, “Converging Spaces and Cultural Politics”, April 2011. 
2009Organiser and presentation at the Conference What Is the Common?, “Space, Masses and the Common”, Kurrents in collaboration with University of Gothenburg, October . 
2009Invited lecturer at Jan Van Eyck Academie. ”Imagination and Materialism – An inquiry into the Contemporary Conditions for a Radical Aesthetics”.  June 2009. 
2007-2008“Reading Kant After Lacan”, Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy, rd Annual Joint Conference, University of Sussex, – September .“On the Concept of Semblance; A Contribution To Politics Of Art” Critical Legal Conference, WALLS, Birkbeck College, University of London, September. 
2006-1997Invited speaker, Symposium Slaget om Europa, Arvet efter Frantz Fanon“, with the contribution, ”Fanon and the conditions of Emancipatory Politics Today”, Socialist Forum/ABF/Arena Gruppen, Stockholm . Invited lecturer. “After Vision”. LIAF Art Biennal, Lofoten, Norway. Invited lecturer. “Exact Vertigo”, Institute for Contemporary Art in Moscow. “Philosophical Reflections On Tendencies In Contemporary Art”, School of Fine Arts, Department of Art History, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lituania, 2004. “Some Remarks on Lacanian Theory of Voice”, Conference Textuality/Musicality. organized by Centre for Cultural analysis, Theory and History, University of Leeds, July 2003. Keynote at conference “The Cooked and the Raw; Art and Anthropology”. Academy of Fine Arts Valand, Goteborg, Paper: “Masks, Shoes and the Object of Art”. Keynote, “Is There Any Other Question?” at the conference The Need of Other Identity, Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, organized by Malmö University College and Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen-Malmö. 2000. “Film and Philosophy”, at Gothenburg Film Festival. Sweden.