BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//208.94.116.123//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7723@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/graduate-conferences DESCRIPTION:
\nEva Bockenheimer . Frederica Gre goratto . Thimo Heisenberg . Axel Honneth . Rahel Jaeggi . Gal Katz . Frederick Neuhouser . Andreja Novak ovic . Angelica Nuzzo . Johanne s-Georg Schülein . Italo Testa
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220422 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220424 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom\, possibly in person @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:First Nature in Social Philosophy Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/first-nature-in-social-p hilosophy-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7815@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/102042 DESCRIPTION:Is femi nism in crisis? Recently\, in the United States and abroad\, historic even ts rendered ever more precarious the lives and well-being of people margin alized by their sex\, gender\, race\, and class\, often in complexly inter secting and regionally specific ways. The rise of right-wing populism tran snationally and attacks on reproductive rights\, for example\, exacerbate the challenges feminists confront. At the same time\, as external conditio ns shift\, feminism’s own faultlines continue to deepen. Feminism’s rising trans-exclusionary contingent\, certain feminists’ hesitancy to reckon wi th complicity in racial and colonial violence\, and the ongoing cooptation of feminism by neoliberalism signal serious internal fractures.
\nA s feminism faces external and internal pressures\, how can philosophy help us understand this moment of potential crisis and what\, if anything\, ca n philosophy do to address it? To devise answers to these urgent questions \, we welcome contributions that focus on:
\n1. The relation bet ween feminism and philosophy\, including how feminism should intervene in philosophical debates\, and how philosophy should intervene in feminist de bates\;
\n2. Questions concerning the nature and practice of gen der\, sex\, sexuality\, race\, class\, and disability that draw on feminis t literatures or methodologies\;
\n3. Perspectives that integrat e different feminist traditions to build intersectional and transnational feminist coalitions\;
\n4. Analyses of discourses on sex\, gende r\, sexuality\, race\, class\, and disability in media\, law\, and the sci ences\;
\n5. Translating feminist views on sex\, gender\, sexual ity\, race\, class\, and disability into public policy and social advocacy .
\nWe welcome contributions from scholars working in philosophy and who draw on a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Scholars of all ident ities\, especially those from groups underrepresented and/or marginalized in academia\, are encouraged to submit contributions.
\nPlease send anonymized abstracts of up to 500 words to cunygc.philosophy.conference@gmail .com\, along with any questions you may have. The deadline for submiss ions is September 7th.
\nJoel Kotkin\, Roger Hobbs Pr esidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange\, Calif ornia\, and author of The Ne w Class Conflict
\nMi chael Lind\, Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin\, and author of The New C lass War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite
\nThe event will take place from 3 pm to 6 pm on October 14 and from 9 am to 5 pm on October 15. The registration rate is $100 for bot h days and includes a reception on October 14 and lunch on October 15. Click here to register for the event.
\nIn t he last fifteen years\, the discussion of class has shifted with the rise of the Tea Party and then Trumpism in the United States. Whereas the notio n of class used to be a left-wing category championed by socialists\, Marx ists\, and anarchists\, the critique of class division has now shifted to right-wing denunciations of the managerial class. This shift toward a popu list politics targeting the new class has long been a topic of discussion in Telos\, starting with the classic 1975 essay by Alvin Gouldner “Prologue to a Theory of Revolutionary Intel lectuals” (in Telos 26) and continuing through Paul Piccone’s work in the early 1990s in essays such as “ The Crisis of Liberalism and the Emergence of Federal Populism” (in < em>Telos 89) and “Postmodern Populism ” (in Telos 103). A search of the Telos archive wi ll uncover literally hundreds of essays that address various aspects of th is issue. The recent popularizing of the critique of the new class has led to a conflict between the liberal pursuit of redistributive policies and the expansion of the welfare state\, on the one hand\, and the populist at tempt to disempower governmental managerial elites and dismantle the welfa re state\, on the other hand. How is the underlying notion of class being defined by the different parties to this debate? What are the political po ssibilities\, both on the left and on the right\, that can emerge from the conflict? Is this conflict leading to a new kind of civil war\, or can we envision new solutions?
\nIn addition to engaging with these questions\, our event will feature Telos editors\, who will discuss the past and current trajectories of Telos< /em> as well as Telos 200\, devoted to the place of truth at the university.
\nTelos has alway s had a conflicted relationship with universities. On the one hand\, unive rsity academics have constituted the primary audience and contributors to Telos. On the other hand\, Telos has always maintained a distance from university structures\, precisely because of the tie betwee n universities and the managerial class\, and previous special issues in < a href='http://www.telospress.com/store/Telos-81-Fall-1989-p17898236' targ et='_blank' rel='noopener'>Telos 81 and Telos 111 have attempted to address this problem. p>\n
Today\, the situation of universities has become more dire than ever. Trapped between the pressure to provide j ob training on the one hand and political advocacy on the other hand\, the idea of a search for truth sounds hopelessly naive as a description of th e task of colleges and universities today. Matching the shift of our socie ty toward technocratic and managerial solutions to problems\, the natural and social sciences have become recognized authorities based on their clai m to being scientific. Yet the authority of “science” is misleading in the sense that science never has straightforward answers but relies on a meth od of constant questioning. Science itself cannot be counted on to make po licy decisions but can only provide relevant information for decision make rs. Recent pieces in TelosScope by Russell Berman and Mathieu Slama address this issue by looking at the way pandemic policies were dominated by an ideology of “following the science” that amounted to an abdication of democratic decision-making.
\nMeanwhile\, university discussion and debate about decision-making\, traditionally the place of the humanities a nd social sciences\, have been suppressed in favor of a focus on political engagement. The range of perspectives available for discussion has been r educed\, to the exclusion of those views that might challenge the technocr atic bias and the reduction of politics to identity politics that have bec ome dominant at universities.
\nThis n arrowing of perspectives has also undermined the research project of the u niversity. The exclusion of relevant perspectives in university debates ha s degraded the peer review process in the social sciences and the humaniti es\, maintaining an orthodoxy that favors the reinforcement of previously held views rather than the challenging of such views. Such research can th en be cited as the “scientific” basis for a set of policy prescriptions th at have been agreed upon in advance. Where Max Weber once lamented the tra nsformation of the lecture hall into a pulpit\, it is difficult today for academics to avoid the pressure to either conform to a particular politica l perspective or\, in rejecting such politicization\, to be forced into an “obstructionist” camp.
\nIn the midst of these developments\, what is the status of the idea of truth? Will truth necessarily remain subordin ate to politics? How might the search for truth remain a focus of colleges and universities?
\nIn addressing these questions\, the 200th issue of Telos features contributions by Joseph W. Bendersky\, Russell Berman\, Valerie J. D’Erman\, J. E. Elliott\, Wayne Hudson\, Michael Hüth er\, Mark G. E. Kelly\, Tim Luke\, Richard T. Marcy\, Greg Melleuish\, Dav id Pan\, Susanna Rizzo\, and David Westbrook.
\nIf you have any questions about the event\, please contact us at telos200@telosinstitute.net< /a>.
\nTickets: https://www.telosinstitute.n et/telos200/registration/.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221016 GEO:+40.754894;-73.981856 LOCATION:17th flr. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute\, Queens Col lege/CUNY @ 25 W 43rd St\, New York\, NY 10036\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Marking Telos 200: The New Politics of Class URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/marking-telos-200-the-ne w-politics-of-class/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference\,political\,social X-COST:$100 X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.telosinstitute.net/telos200/registration/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7884@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/104470 DESCRIPTION:Our speakers will be Karen Lewis (Columbia)\, Sam Berstler ( MIT)\, Ray Buchanan (Texas/Austin)\, and Elmar Unnsteinsson (UC Dublin and U of Iceland). We will post titles and abstracts for their talks\, along with a schedule of who is speaking when\, soon.
\nIf you are not a f aculty or student at CUNY\, you will have to RSVP for the event at this UR L\, no later than Monday\, November 14th:
\nhttps://forms.gle/KN3YJN aCs5yHPtBP7
\nPlease also be prepared to show proof of vaccination w hen you enter the building.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221118 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221119 GEO:+40.74809;-73.983098 LOCATION:President's Large Conference Room 8201.01 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York \, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Language\, Planning\, and Cooperativity Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/language-planning-and-co operativity-workshop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference\,language\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7958@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://radicalimagination.info/ DESCRIPTION:\n
\n11:00 – 11:30
\nOpening Remarks
11:40 – 1:00
\nLiterature and Social Knowledge
1:00 – 2
:00
\nLunch
2:00 – 3:20
\nLabor and Power
3:30 –
4:50
\nThe Necessity of Philosophy
5:00 – 6:20
\nKnowle
dge Factories
6:30 – 8:00
\nClosing Remarks and Reception
Speakers:
\nPe
ter Bratsis – CUNY
\nB. Ricardo Brown – Pratt Institute
\nMichae
l Denning – Yale
\nMichael Ferlise – Hudson Community College
\n
Barbara Foey – Rutgers University Newark
\nBruno Gulli – CUNY
\n
Josh Kolbo – Institute for the Radical Imagination
\nKristin Lawler –
College of Mt. St. Vincent
\nAndrew Long – Claremont College
\n
Michael Menser – CUNY
\nImmanuel Ness – CUNY
\nMichael Pelias –
LIU – Brooklyn
\nSohnya Sayers – Cooper Union
\nDavid van Arsdal
e – Syracuse University
\nCornel West – Union Theological Seminary
\nDavid Winters – Rutgers University
\nRichard Wolff – New School<
br />\nIvan Zatz – Pratt institute
\nSponsored by the MA Program in Liberal Studies: https://goo.gl/Qz8tLP
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Radical Imagination: https://r adicalimagination.info
\nFor more information: pbratsis@bmcc.cuny .edu
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230303 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230304 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:Skylight Room\, CUNY @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Singularity of Stanley Aronowitz Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-singularity-of-stanl ey-aronowitz-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7955@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/curiosity-creativity- and-complexity DESCRIPTION:How does the brain cope with Complexity? How do we make deci sions when confronted with practically infinite streams of information?
\nThe conference showcases cutting edge research on these questions in Neuroscience and Psychology (neural mechanisms of cognitive control\, exp loration\, decision-making\, information demand\, memory and creativity)\, Computer Science (artificial intelligence of curiosity and intrinsic moti vation) and Economics (decision making and information demand). Alongside formal presentations\, the conference will encourage ample interactions am ong faculty\, students and postdocs through informal discussions and poste r presentations.
\nSubmissions for poster presentations and travel a wards are due February 15\, 2023. Please visit the call for submissions for complete requirements.
\nFree and open to the public. Registratio n is required and will open shortly. All in-person attendees must follow C olumbia’s COVID-19 policies. Visitors will be asked to p rovide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link. Please email events@zi.colu mbia.edu with any questions.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230526 GEO:+40.816847;-73.957958 LOCATION:Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th Floor Lecture Hall) @ 3227 Br oadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Curiosity\, Creativity and Complexity Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/curiosity-creativity-and -complexity-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,decision theory\,mind\,psych ology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8013@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/112490 DESCRIPTION:Keynote: Harry Brighouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison) p>\n
Pedagogy Workshop Leader: TBA
\nLocation: The Graduate Center \, CUNY—New York\, New York
\nAbstracts & Workshop Applications due: July 31st 2023
\nResponses: August 31st 2023
\nOrganizers: Mi chael Greer (CUNY)\, Maria Salazar (CUNY)
\nContact email: gscope.co mmittee@gmail.com
\nThe committee for the Graduate Student Conferenc e on Philosophy of Education (GSCOPE) invites abstracts for papers on the topic of Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Controversy. The theme of the conference & post-conference pedagogy workshop reflects the difficulty in creating and maintaining respectful discourse in higher-education classroo ms\, especially surrounding controversial empirical\, moral\, and politica l issues. Some argue that this is an equity issue. Undergraduate students who come from rural and/or underprivileged areas are more likely to experi ence alienation on campus\, sometimes because they have never been exposed to certain “politically correct” language or ideas\, and sometimes simply because they lack the financial and social capital that their peers have. It seems crucial (and follows from democratic and civic values) to foster safe learning environments for all students\, especially those students w ho are more likely to feel alienated on college campuses and in elite spac es. At the same time\, some argue that the aim of higher education is pure ly epistemological\, and not civic or democratic. Proponents of this view might hold that free speech and academic freedom must be properly protecte d for higher education to perform its proper social function: education. W hat is the appropriate relationship between higher education\, knowledge-p roduction\, teaching\, free speech\, and democracy? How can higher educati on instructors and professors be effective teachers in the light of these relationships?
\nPapers must pertain to higher educationbut maybe ab out anything from interpersonal classroom dynamicstoinstitutional policies to campus controversy. We are particularly interested in papers that expl ore the following topics:
\nWe especially welcome contributions that:
\nAbstracts should:
\n– Outline the paper’s principal
argument(s).
\n– Give a good sense of the paper’s philosophical and/o
r empirical contributions and methods.
\n– Be anonymized.
Pro posal Guidelines:
\nPlease submit abstracts of up to 500 words by mi dnight EST on Monday\, July 31\, 2023.
\nPDF or DOC.X by email to gs cope.committee@gmail.com
\nPost-Conference Pedagogy Workshop
\nThe theme of our conference Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Contro versy is relevant to graduate student educators\, who are routinely u nder-trained and under-equipped to engage with real-life problems they may encounter in the classroom. The lack of training for higher education tea chers is a growing iue in philosophy of education.
\nThis workshop a ttends to this issue by facilitating a space for graduate student educator s to reflect on how to foster good teaching environments for controversial issues\, and be good interlocutors with each other on controversial issue s. The workshop will also touch on promoting equity in classrooms. We will provide workshop participants with a certificate of completion.
\nh ttps://philevents.org/event/show/112546
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231012 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231015 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:GSCOPE 2023: Higher Education\, Democracy\, and Controversy URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/gscope-2023-higher-educa tion-democracy-and-controversy/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfp\,conference\,epistemology\,ethics\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8024@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://sofheyman.org/events/beyond-polarization-epistemic-distorti on-and-criticism DESCRIPTION:Individuals support forms of domination with varying levels of understanding that they are doing so. In many cases\, those very struct ures of domination distort our conceptions of them through mechanisms such as motivated reasoning\, implicit bias\, affected ignorance\, false consc iousness\, and belief polarization. These various epistemic distortions\, in turn\, cause social conflict\, notably by promoting political polarizat ion. Those worried by social conflict have spent a great deal of energy de crying the increasingly polarized contexts in which we live. However\, epi stemic distortions in our sociopolitical beliefs also misrepresent\, maint ain systems of domination and prevent human needs from being met.
\nThis workshop aims to go beyond pronouncements such as ‘we are polarized’ or that ‘partisanship is on the rise\,’ and begin to think through epistem ic distortions at the individual and intersubjective levels\, the role of criticism and critique in facilitating belief and social change\, and the idea of reconciliation\, by asking questions such as:
\nConvenors
\nEge Yumuşak is a philosopher\, specializing in epistemolo gy\, the philosophy of mind\, and social & political philosophy. She recei ved a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2022. Her research exam ines political disagreement—its material foundations\, psychological and s ocial manifestations\, and epistemic properties. She is currently writing a series of articles on the nature and significance of clashes of perspect ive in social life.
\nNicolas Côté is a postdoctoral res earcher at the University of Toronto. His research is mainly in normative ethics and social choice theory\, but they also dabble in applied ethics a nd issues of practical rationality. Côté’s doctoral dissertation work focu ses on the measurement of freedom\, especially on axiomatic approaches to the measurement question\, and on how deontic concerns for protecting indi vidual rights interact with welfarist concerns for improving the general w elfare. Côté’s current research focuses on the ethics of decision-making u nder radical uncertainty.
\nInvited speakers:
\nSabina Vaccarino Bremner\; Daniela Dover\; Cain Shelley
\nInvited commentators
\nTBA
Democracy is often presented as the sine qua non of politics today. Yet our own democratic political orders across the West c onsistently fail to deliver the desiderata they promise to provide. Does t his failure arise in part from the theoretical insufficiency of convention al diagnoses of democracy’s challenges and ills? As the primaries for the 2024 U.S. presidential election open\, we invite participants to consider critically the status of democracy with an eye toward the concerns that ha ve defined Telos over its 55-year history.
\nThe main advantage of d emocracy over other political forms is that\, by allowing broader particip ation in decision-making\, it prevents domination of the many by the few. In theory\, it also fosters decision-making that is comparatively effectiv e and meaningful by allowing views and information from the many to be com municated efficiently to political leaders\, while also holding the latter to account for their actions. At the same time\, a major difficulty of de mocracy is that the rule by the many requires some procedure for translati ng a multitude of opinions into unified decisions and action. In addition\ , precisely by exercising its majority will\, the many can trammel the int egrity of the individual—the key threat that liberalism seeks to hold at b ay.
\nThese advantages—and\, especially\, these challenges—have prod uced two competing visions of democracy in the contemporary West. Their di vision reflects differences about the politics of representation and decis ion-making. On one hand\, liberals view democracy as the following of appr opriate procedures for channeling the opinions of the multitude through th e election of representatives. On the other hand\, populists might disrega rd such procedural restrictions to arrive at outcomes that are acclaimed b y the people directly.
\nWhile both sides nod to the importance of t he popular will\, both are in fact willing to denigrate it. The liberal ca mp reacts in horror when democratic elections result in the election of po pulists\, who are said to lack proper governing expertise\, as in the 2016 victory of Donald Trump. The populist camp charges conspiracy when electo ral results fail to reflect their own conception of the people’s will\, as in Trump’s reaction to his 2020 ouster. Depending on which camp is descri bing the times\, the false mediator of popular will is either the demagogu e or the bureaucrat—Telos has long opposed both.
\nDifferent narrati ves\, in turn\, have taken hold about democracy’s present challenges. From the point of view of the liberal proceduralist critique of demagogues\, t he means of moving from a multiplicity of opinions to a unified decision i nevitably involves discourse within a public sphere. This discourse depend s on a common understanding of historical facts\, as well as a public sphe re that allows different perspectives to face each other in debate. In our contemporary world\, however\, the breakdown of previous limits to access ing the public sphere has led to an inability to arrive at a consensus on the difference between fact and fiction\, as well as an increasing tendenc y of citizens to exist within a social media echo chamber of their own vie ws\, undermining the common ground that a public sphere presupposes.
\nAt the same time\, public debate necessarily implicates values and iden tities that have an ultimately mythic basis that cannot be rationally dete rmined. People’s opinions\, moreover\, are invariably shaped by leaders as much as the people shape what leaders ought to do. Experts lament how thi s representational dynamic undermines the procedures that govern and chann el the representation of the popular will. Yet the narrative aspect of rep resentation is an ineradicable element of the way in which the popular wil l coalesces. The process of narrativized representation will never be an e ntirely rational one\, and the prominence of media personalities such as R eagan\, Trump\, and Zelensky as politicians underlines the futility of att empting to rid the public sphere of drama and spectacle.
\nFor the p opulist\, by contrast\, the primary threat to democracy lies in bureaucrac y. In his 2016 end run around the political establishment\, Trump’s electo ral success was driven by a broader critique of the administrative state’s undermining of democratic process. The rise of the managerial bureaucrati c state that was set in motion by the development of the welfare state in the twentieth century has created a class divide between managers and mana ged that has shifted decision-making power over the conditions of everyday life away from individuals and toward government and corporate bureaucrac ies. Because more and more of our economic and social welfare is under the direct influence of the state\, the resultant bloated administrative stat e has now become prey to a frenzy of lobbyists\, who further distance the people from political decision-making. The protections of minority rights that constitute the liberal aspect of today’s democracies have turned comm unities into special interests that lobby administrators to pass on privil eges to favored groups. The result has been a growing restriction of freed om of expression in the public sphere and an eroding of a unifying basis f or constructing a political order now dominated by the collusion of bureau cracy with corporations.
\nWhile the liberal critique of demagoguery resorts to more government controls that exacerbate the expansion of bure aucracy\, the populist critique of bureaucracy has attempted to dismantle government without considering how to establish mechanisms that would take over the functions that bureaucracies have coopted. Focusing on oppositio n to government\, the populist perspective often lacks any sense of altern ative institutional structures that could remedy the administration and co mmodification of everyday life.
\nBoth sides have contributed to a p olarization of views that threatens the underlying consensus necessary for democratic politics. The political gridlock that has ensued from their di verging diagnoses has meant that our political orders consistently fail to deliver peace\, prosperity\, and accountable government. Moreover\, regar dless of the rhetoric or credentials of those in power\, democracy today s eems always to leave us with broadly the same basic policies\, despite som e of them being deeply unpopular.
\nWe invite those who are interest ed in presenting at the 2024 Telos Conference to consider critically the s tatus of democracy today by addressing one or more of the following questi ons:
\nDemocratic Values
\nDemocracy and the Administrative State
\nDemocracy and the Public Sphere
\nDemocracy and Relig ion
\nDemocracy and Authorit arianism
\nAbstract Submi ssions
\nWhatever specific questions you address\, we invit e you to present your analysis with an eye toward the long-standing concer ns of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute and thereby to help develop a trenc hant\, independent view of democracy that can inform both critique and pra ctical action within our present historical moment. Please submit a short c.v. and an abstract of up to 250 words by October 15\, 2023\, to telosnyc 2024@telosinstitute.net and place “The 2024 Telos Conference” in the email ’s subject line. Please direct questions to Professor Mark G. E. Kelly\, W estern Sydney University\, M.Kelly@westernsydney.edu.au.
\nC onference Location
\nThe conference will take place at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York City from Friday\, March 22\, to Saturday\, March 23\, 2024.
\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240322 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240324 GEO:+40.754894;-73.981856 LOCATION:The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute @ 25 W 43rd St 17th Floor\, New Y ork\, NY 10036\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Democracy Today? URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/democracy-today/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfp\,conference\,legal\,political\,religion\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7880@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/news/celebrating-recent-work-michel e-m-moody-adams DESCRIPTION:
\nby Michele M Moody-Adams
From nineteenth-century abolitionism to Black Lives Matter today\, pr ogressive social movements have been at the forefront of social change. Ye t it is seldom recognized that such movements have not only engaged in pol itical action but also posed crucial philosophical questions about the mea ning of justice and about how the demands of justice can be met.
\nM ichele Moody-Adams argues that anyone who is concerned with the theory or the practice of justice—or both—must ask what can be learned from social m ovements. Drawing on a range of compelling examples\, she explores what th ey have shown about the nature of justice as well as what it takes to crea te space for justice in the world. Moody-Adams considers progressive socia l movements as wellsprings of moral inquiry and as agents of social change \, drawing out key philosophical and practical principles. Social justice demands humane regard for others\, combining compassionate concern and rob ust respect. Successful movements have drawn on the transformative power o f imagination\, strengthening the motivation to pursue justice and to crea te the political institutions and social policies that can sustain it by i nspiring political hope.
\nMaking Space for Justice contend s that the insights arising from social movements are critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and effective practice—and should be tr ansformative for political thought as well as for political activism.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T191500 GEO:+40.807325;-73.958831 LOCATION:Heyman Center\, 2nd floor common room @ 74 Morningside Dr\, New Yo rk\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Celebrating Recent Work by Michele Moody-Adams URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/celebrating-recent-work- by-michele-moody-adams/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7954@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/cynthia-bennett-disab ility-accessibility-and-fairness-artificial-intelligence DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to automate and scale solutions to perennial accessibility challenges (e.g.\, generating image d escriptions for blind users). However\, research shows that AI-bias dispro portionately impacts people already marginalized based on their race\, gen der\, or disabilities\, raising questions about potential impacts in addit ion to AI’s promise. In this talk\, Cynthia Bennett will overview broad co ncerns at the intersection of AI\, disability\, and accessibility. She wil l then share details about one project in this research space that led to guidance on human and AI-generated image descriptions that account for sub jective and potentially sensitive descriptors around race\, gender\, and d isability of people in images.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T140000 GEO:+40.841243;-73.940971 LOCATION:Presbyterian Hospital Building (Room PH20-200) @ 622 W 168th St\, New York\, NY 10032\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cynthia Bennett – Disability Accessibility and Fairness in Artifici al Intelligence URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cynthia-bennett-disabili ty-accessibility-and-fairness-in-artificial-intelligence/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,ethics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7957@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/sexual-and-reproducti ve-justice-vehicle-global-progress DESCRIPTION:This event will feature a thought-provoking panel discussion with sexual and reproductive justice experts on the value of the sexual a nd reproductive justice framework and how it can be applied to diverse sta keholders\, settings\, and contexts. Panelists will also highlight example s from around the world of momentum towards sexual and reproductive justic e.
\nFree and open to the public\; regis tration is required for both in-person and < a class='external' href='https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sexual-reproductive- justice-vehicle-for-global-progress-online-tickets-525885948027' target='_ blank' rel='noopener'>online attendance. For additional information\, please visit the event webpage. Please em ail Malia Maier at mm5352@cumc.c olumbia.edu with any questions. All in-person attendees must follow Co lumbia’s COVID-19 policies.
\nHosted by the Global Health Justice and Governance Program at Columbia University.
\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230213T110000 GEO:+40.816253;-73.958389 LOCATION:Forum\, Columbia University @ 601 W 125th St\, New York\, NY 10027 \, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Sexual and Reproductive Justice: Vehicle for Global Progress URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/sexual-and-reproductive- justice-vehicle-for-global-progress/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:justice\,medical\,reproductive\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sexual-reproductive-justice-vehi cle-for-global-progress-in-person-tickets-523893077297 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7963@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic is said to be a once-in-a-century incident\, and it brought to us a sense of crisis at v arious levels. What is a crisis\, though? Can any unnerving moment or peri od be called a crisis\, or are there different dimensions of a crisis to w hich we need to be attentive? Is solidarity possible after experiencing a crisis like Covid-19? Can Buddhism make any contribution to facilitating s olidarity? This presentation explores the meaning and nature of a crisis a nd our responses to it by drawing on modern Korean political thinker Pak C h’iu’s (1909–1949) analysis of crisis and feminist-Buddhist thinker Kim Ir yŏp’s (1896–1971) Buddhist philosophy. By doing so\, this presentation con siders what social\, political\, existential\, and even religious meaning we can draw from our experience of crises\, and what questions these insig hts present to us.
\nWith responses from Karsten Struhl (John Jay College of Criminal Ju stice\, CUNY)
\nPresented by THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
\nRSVP is required for dinne r. If you would like to participate in our dinner\, a $30 fee is requi red. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@columbia.edu for further information.
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100 27\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy of Crisis and a Question of Solidarity. Jin Y. Park (Ame rican) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-of-crisis-and -a-question-of-solidarity-jin-y-park-american/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,comparative\,existentialism\,Korean\,politi cal\,religion\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7976@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:
This talk will develop the idea that racial identities are b est understood as formed through large scale historical events\, and that this genesis can only be obscured by disavowals of racial categories as co nceptually mistaken and inevitably morally pernicious. In this sense\, ra ces are formed not simply as ideas\, or ideologies and policies\, as many social constructivists about race argue\, but as forms of life with associ ated patterns of subjectivity including\, as a wealth of social psychology has shown\, presumptive attitudes and behavioral dispositions (Jeffers 20 19\; Steele 2010\; Sullivan 2005). Because they are historical form ations\, racial identities are thoroughly social\, contextual\, variegated internally\, and dynamic. It is history that will alter them\, not merely policy changes.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T180000 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 5318 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Historical Formation of Races. Linda Alcoff URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-historical-formation -of-races-linda-alcoff/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:history\,race\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7981@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:swipnyc@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:SWIP–NYC Sue Weinberg Lecture Series
presents:
Grit & Imposter SyndromeJoint Lectures
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nnsylvania)
Talk Title: Interpreting
Obstacles
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Leonie Smith (Unive
rsity of Manchester)
Talk Title: Class\, Academia\, and Imposter Syn
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Friday\, March 17
5–7 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
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The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about o ur place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another\, how we v itally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air\, share the surfaces of the earth\, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to l ive in a social world. What we require to live can also imperil our lives. How do we think from\, and about\, this common bind?
\nIn
Exposing and opposing forms of injustice t hat deny the essential interrelationship of living creatures\, Butler argu es for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that se ek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared w orld.
\nSpeaker
\nJudith Butler is a Distinguished Professor in th e Graduate School at the University of California\, Berkeley. They are the author of several books\, most recently The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (2020). Butler’s previous Columbia University P ress books include Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionis m (2012)\, Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000)\, and Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Cen tury France (1987).
\nRespondents
\nMia Florin-Seft on is a Ph.D. candidate and University Writing Instructor in the English & Comparative Literature Department at Columbia University\, w here she specializes in 20th and 21st-century transatlantic anglophone lit eratures and culture. She is also working on a project that looks at the h istory of sex glands and early history of hormone replacement therapy in t he context of theories of racial degeneration and eugenics post-World War I.
\nProfessor Goyal is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Columbia Unive rsity Medical Center and founding director of the major in Medical Humanit ies. Professor Goyal completed his residency in Emergency Medicine as Chie f Resident while finishing his PhD in English and Comparative Literature. His research interests include the health humanities\, the study of the no vel\, and medical epistemology. His writing has appeared in The Living Handbook of Narratology\, Aktuel Forskning\, Litteratur\, Kultur og Medier\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books\, among oth er places. He is a Co-Founding Editor of the online journal\, Synapsis: A Health Hum anities Journal
\nMa rianne Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent Professor Emeri ta of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Profes sor in the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. She is a membe r of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former President of t he Modern Language Association of America. Along with a group of local sch olars\, artists and activists\, Hirsch is currently co-directing the Zip Code Memory Project\, an initiative that seeks to find art and community-ba sed ways to repair the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus p andemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on Upp er New York City neighborhoods.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230324T173000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Jerome Greene Hall (Law School) Rm 101 @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Judith Butler: On the Pandemic and Our Shared Wor ld URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/an-afternoon-with-judith -butler-on-the-pandemic-and-our-shared-world/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:medical\,phenomenology\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8079@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T191112Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://philosophydayatccny.org/events/ DESCRIPTION:The speaker will be Prof. Lewis Gordon of the University of Connecticut\, on “From Harlem to the World: Philosophy from a Center of th e Black World with Questions for the 21st Century.” Gordon will talk about worldliness and public aspects of philosophy\, placing them in the contex t of Harlem both at City College and the public world of Africana philosop hy from Du Bois to Malcolm X to contemporaries such as Nathalie Etoke. He will conclude with a set of questions for 21st century philosophy to consi der.
\nLewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs\; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies\; Honorary Professor in the Unit for th e Humanities at Rhodes University\, South Africa\; and Distinguished Schol ar at The Most Honourable PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocac y at The University of the West Indies\, Mona. He co-edits the journal Phi losophy and Global Affairs\, the Rowman & Littlefield book series Global C ritical Caribbean Thought\, and the Routledge-India book series Academics\ , Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World. He is the author of many b ooks\, including\, most recently\, Freedom\, Justice\, and Decolonization (Routledge\, 2021) and Fear of Black Consciousness (hardcover\, NY: Farrar \, Straus and Giroux\, 2022\; in the UK\, London: Penguin Books\, 2022)\, Picador paperback 2023. He is the 2022 recipient of the Eminent Scholar Aw ard from the Global Development Studies division of the International Stud ies Association.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T191500 GEO:+40.820047;-73.949272 LOCATION:North Academic Building\, rm 1/201 @ 160 Convent Ave\, New York\, NY 10031\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:From Harlem to the World: Philosophy from a Center of the Black Wor ld with Questions for the 21st Century. Lewis Gordon (UConn) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/from-harlem-to-the-world -philosophy-from-a-center-of-the-black-world-with-questions-for-the-21st-c entury-lewis-gordon-uconn/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:African\,race\,social END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR