The Wheatsheaf Talks are an annual series, and take place in the upstairs room of the Wheatsheaf pub - a favourite of 1930s writers such as George Orwell and Dylan Thomas - at 25 Rathbone Place, W1T 1DG. Talks are open to all Consortium students.

This year’s series of talks is being organised by Consortium students Ben Dawson and Matt Wraith, and consider the fate of ‘the organism’ in recent social theory.

Organics: Between Biology and Politics in Contemporary Social Theory

The second in the series of talks will take place on Tuesday 20 November 2007 at 7pm:

Michael King (Professor of Law, Reading)
Professor King is a leading expert on the increasingly influential work Niklas Luhmann. His paper, ‘The Autopoiesis of Social Systems’ will focus on Luhmann’s uses of biology in his theorisations of autopoietic systems.