Reading seminar
Slow reading, guest interventions and careful discussion
The Horizon Seminar brings together researchers, students, practitioners and independent scholars for serious but informal work with difficult texts.
Philosophy · Cultural Theory · Psychology
The Horizon Seminar
A reading seminar in philosophy, cultural theory and psychology, working through primary texts, guest interventions and collective discussion.
About
A reading seminar for primary texts
The Horizon Seminar is a reading seminar for slow, careful work with primary texts across philosophy, cultural theory and psychology.
Each session is organised around a primary text and an invited guest. The guest speaks from their own work and opens a perspective on the text. The group then uses that intervention as a starting point for collective discussion.
The seminar is open to participants who want to read carefully, think across disciplines and discuss difficult texts in a serious but informal setting.
Why Horizon?
A way of orienting thought
A horizon is not a belief system or a final destination. It is a way of orienting thought.
The seminar uses difficult texts, guest interventions and participants’ questions to open new lines of inquiry across philosophy, cultural theory and psychology.
Who organises it?
Thomas Sørensen
The Horizon Seminar was initiated and is organised by Thomas Sørensen.
Thomas Sørensen, cand.pæd.phil, holds a degree in educational philosophy and works across cultural-historical psychology, philosophy, performance theory, education and practice-based educational work.
The seminar is organised as an open space for careful reading, guest interventions and cross-disciplinary discussion.
Thomas Sørensen
Initiator and organiser
tsoerensen@me.com
Format
A concrete seminar format
Primary text
Each session starts from a primary text read in advance.
Guest intervention
An invited guest speaks from their own work and opens a perspective on the text.
Focused discussion
The group uses the intervention as a starting point for collective discussion.
Participation choice
Participants choose whether they attend on location at Aarhus University or online. This helps us plan the right room size.
Sessions
Current and planned seminars
Showing selected current and planned sessions. View the full programme for all confirmed and planned seminars.
Upcoming
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Rehearsing Development
with Dr. Lois Holzman
Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed
Vygotsky, performance, play and social therapeutics as a lens for reading Boal.
Upcoming
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How Does Subject Matter Become Thinkable?
with Dr. Seth Chaiklin
V. V. Davydov, "Basic Propositions of the Dialectical Materialist Theory of Thinking," Chapter 4 in Problems of Developmental Instruction. Reading basis: the whole chapter. Discussion focus: section 7.
A session on Davydov, theoretical thinking and Seth Chaiklin’s cultural-historical approach to subject-matter analysis.
Upcoming
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Theatre, Play and Community
with Dr. Paul Leonard Murray
Primary text to be announced
A session on theatre as community-making, performance and the seriousness of play.
Planned
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Subjectivity Beyond Adaptation: González Rey, Critical Psychology and Social Change
with Dr. Daniel M. Goulart
Primary text to be announced
A discussion of González Rey, subjectivity and development in concrete practices.
Planned
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Creativity, Marginality and Participation
with Professor Bojana Škorc
Primary text to be announced
A session on creativity, development, marginality, participation and the emergence of new meanings in practice.
Planned
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Culture, Mediation and the Design of Development
with Professor Michael Cole
Michael Cole, Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline; selected later papers to be announced
Professor Michael Cole has suggested Cultural Psychology as the core text, with later papers showing the next steps in the inquiry.
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Aarhus University
Institutional affiliation
Hosted by Aarhus University, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences. Organised by Thomas Sørensen.