The Horizon Seminar
Philosophy · Cultural Theory · Psychology
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Current and planned seminars

The full seminar programme as it currently stands.

Past session

Stalinist Realism and Capitalist Realism

with Professor Ian Parker
Thursday, 7 May 2026
15:00–18:00 CEST
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism

An intervention from critical psychology, psychoanalysis and political organisation.

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Upcoming

Rehearsing Development

with Dr. Lois Holzman
Thursday, 13 August 2026
15:00–17:30 CEST
Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed

Vygotsky, performance, play and social therapeutics as a lens for reading Boal.

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Upcoming

Theatre, Play and Community

with Dr. Paul Leonard Murray
Thursday, 12 November 2026
15:00–17:30 CEST
Primary text to be announced

A session on theatre as community-making, performance and the seriousness of play.

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Planned

Subjectivity Beyond Adaptation: González Rey, Critical Psychology and Social Change

with Dr. Daniel M. Goulart
January/February 2027 · exact date TBA
Time TBA
Primary text to be announced

A discussion of González Rey, subjectivity and development in concrete practices.

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Planned

Creativity, Marginality and Participation

with Professor Bojana Škorc
Date TBA
Time TBA
Primary text to be announced

A session on creativity, development, marginality, participation and the emergence of new meanings in practice.

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Upcoming

How Does Subject Matter Become Thinkable?

with Dr. Seth Chaiklin
Thursday, 8 October 2026
15.00 - 17.30 CET
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.

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Planned

Culture, Mediation and the Design of Development

with Professor Michael Cole
Summer 2027, Date TBA
15:00–18:00 CET
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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