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-7874@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T202635Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/alifeinthought DESCRIPTION:
9:30am EST OPENING REMARKS
\n< strong>Scott Shushan\, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy \, Sarah Lawrence College
\nDr. Renée T. White\, Pr ovost and Professor of Sociology\, The New School
\nAlice Cr ary\, University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy\, The New School for Social Research
\n9:45-11:15 PHILOSOPHY AS PE DAGOGY
\nKaren Ng (moderator)\, Assoc
iate Professor of Philosophy\, Vanderbilt University
\nRoy Be
n-Shai\, Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, Sarah Lawrence Colle
ge
\nMegan Craig\, Associate Professor of Philosophy
\, Stony Brook University
\nJudith Friedlander\, Pro
fessor Emerita of Anthropology\, Hunter College\, and former Dean of The N
ew School for Social Research
11:30-1:00 PHILOSOPHY AN D THE PUBLIC GOOD
\nSimona Forti (mod
erator)\, Professor of Political Philosophy\, Scuola Normale Superiore\, P
isa\, Italy
\nAxel Honneth\, Jack C. Weinstein Profe
ssor for the Humanities\, Columbia University
\nPhilip Kitche
r\, John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Philosophy\, Columbia Univer
sity
\nJoel Whitebook\, Professor\, Columbia Univers
ity Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
1: 00–2:00pm Lunch Break
\n2:00 REFLECTION
\nCinzia Arruzza\, Associate P rofessor of Philosophy\, The New School for Social Research
\nDavi
d Clinton Wills (moderator)\, Professor\, New York University-Gal
latin
\nMaría Pía Lara\, Professor and Researcher\,
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
\nChiara Bottici\
, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Gender and Sexuality S
tudies\,The New School for Social Research
\nLucius Outlaw\, Jr.\, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy\, Vanderbilt Univers
ity
\nCharles Taylor\, Professor Emeritus of Philoso
phy\, McGill University
4:05-5:35 DEMOCRACY AS A TASK BEFO RE US
\nDmitri Nikulin (moderator)\, Profe
ssor of Philosophy\, The New School for Social Research
\nSey
la Benhabib\, Eugene Meyer Professor of Philosophy and Political
Science. Emerita\, Yale University and Senior Research Fellow\, Columbia L
aw School and Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Theory
\n
\nNancy Fraser\
, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science\, The
New School for Social Research
Organized by Marcia Mo rgan and Scott Shushan in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/alifei nthought#rsvp.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221015 GEO:+40.735498;-73.993501 LOCATION:Starr Foundation Hall @ 63 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A LIFE IN THOUGHT: A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS IN CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/a-life-in-thought-a-seri es-of-conversations-in-celebration-of-the-life-and-work-of-richard-j-berns tein/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/alifeinthought#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7877@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T202635Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/103578 DESCRIPTION:The New School for Social Research Philosophy Department is hosting our annual Graduate Student Conference Ap ril 13-15th 2023 in person in New York City.
\nThis year’s topic is Textures of Change: Social Imaginaries\, Narratives\, and the Poss ibility of Politics.
\nKeynote Speakers:
\nMaría Pía Lara (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)
\nFanny Söderbäck (Södertörn University)
\nEva Von R edecker (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
\nIt has become co mmon for political theorists and philosophers to insist on the necessity o f new imaginaries and narratives. Crises of authority\, financial meltdown s\, and environmental disasters compel us to look for alternative framewor ks and practices. While the urgency of this claim is undeniable\, the conc eptual ground for the creation of new imaginaries and narratives is still unclear. How do we define imaginaries and narratives in relation to our po litical and social life? How can they become normative and generate concep tual and practical shifts? And who is in a position to shape\, direct\, an d take ownership of these emergent conceptions?
\nThis conference fo cuses on the current debate on political imaginaries and narratives to inv estigate some of these questions. As a starting point\, we propose to chal lenge standard Marxist or epistemological approaches to the topic that eit her interpret imaginaries and narratives as ideological projections (a pro duct of false consciousness) or merely as individual\, cognitive faculties . Rather\, we suggest thinking about imaginaries and narratives as larger sensuous and embodied practices that re-orient material structures of domi nation and allow for a reflective rearticulation of collective demands. In particular\, we set out to clarify: the meaning of “imaginaries” and/or “ narratives” as forms of sense-making\; their ability to shift existing dis courses and power relations\; the way in which they foster different ways of feeling\, seeing\, acting-in\, and experiencing the world in a time of crisis\; the way in which they are embedded in artistic and literary pract ices\; and the way in which they address—or fail to address—marginalized s ubjects.
\nWe invite papers that focus on the concepts of “social im aginary” and “narrative\,” as well as on the connection between the two\, and on their political and ethical implications. It is our conviction that a critical understanding of these concepts can only emerge from attending to how they are practically embodied and situated in our practices. In th is spirit\, we welcome\, in addition to papers aimed at conceptual clarifi cation\, papers that provide specific accounts of alternative forms of pra xis\, including (but not limited to) leftist\, feminist\, anti-racist\, de colonial\, abolitionist\, indigenous\, environmentalist\, and utopian imag inaries and narratives.
\nWe are accepting submissions of up to
Please contact socialimaginarynarrative@gmail.com with any queries or subm issions.
\nThe deadline is January 3rd\, 2023
\nBook panel: Anat Matar\, The Pover ty of Ethics (Verso books 2022)
\nParticipants:
\nAnat Matar (Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University)
\nSimon Critchley (Hans Jonas Professor of Philo sophy at NSSR)
\nRaef Zreik (Visiting Fellow at Yal e Law School\, and Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at Ono Academic Co llege)
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Abstract:
\nIt is a common assumption that ethics must serve as the cornerstone of politics. Yet abs tract moral arguments have always been used for justifying all kinds of at rocities\; ethical sensitivity and compassion have been expressed towards particular kinds of victims\, while totally ignoring others.
\nThe l iberal West\, in particular\, continually manifests such blindness. It is horrified by non-Western oppressive methods\, but turns a blind eye to the ir Western equivalents.
\nThe gratification of holding the moral hig h ground consistently serves as a political instrument in the hands of tho se seeking to shore up the existing order.
\nIn The Poverty of Ethic s\, philosopher and activist Anat Matar argues for the conceptual primacy of political discourse over ethics and claims that only the political forc e which stands for equality\, justice and democracy – the Left – can provi de the coordinates for an ethical life under conditions of global injustic e.
\nAppealing to philosophical ideas on the essence of language\, M atar shows how the ethos of the Left\, as it has evolved over years\, unde rlies and gradually forms the basis for ethics.
\nStruggles against slavery\, racism\, colonization and militarization\, protests against expl oitation and the capitalist order\, the feminist movement\, global demands for climate action – all these are primarily motivated by a deep understa nding of Left heritage rather than by abstract ethical requirements or by airy sensitivities. They\, in turn\, shape and reshape our notion of moral it
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.ed u/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium Book panel: Anat Matar “The Poverty of Ethics ” URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/philosophy-colloquium-bo ok-panel-anat-matar-the-poverty-of-ethics/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ethics\,political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7939@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T202635Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/benjaminmorgan DESCRIPTION:In 1931\, Max Horkheimer proposed a model of interdisciplina ry research that remains a benchmark for understanding how cultures functi on and might function better. He imagined an institute “in which philosoph ers\, sociologists\, economists\, historians\, and psychologists are broug ht together in permanent collaboration” (Horkheimer 1993\, 9). The institu te would not work with a single theory but would let data lead to new hypo theses (Horkheimer 1993\, 10). But the work of Horkheimer and colleagues r arely lived up to the 1931 vision of an interdisciplinary\, empirically gr ounded approach to culture. To understand why\, my paper will juxtapose Ho rkheimer’s and Adorno’s history of humanity\, as it is set out in Dialecti c of Enlightenment\, with current research on the development of early hum an cultures by Richard Wrangham\, Sarah Blaffer Hardy\, Kim Sterelny\, Jos eph Henrich and Cecilia Heyes. The comparison with recent research in anth ropology\, sociology\, philosophy\, and cognitive science reveals some of the deep conceptual commitments that limit Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s focus on instrumental reason and conceptual violence. By contrast\, current app roaches jointly suggest that human subjectivity is scaffolded and embedded \; that cooperation is the necessary default for cultural transmission\; t hat learning occurs in context through imitation\; and that customs and in stitutions develop contingently and by accident through processes of coope ration and collaboration. These new insights invite a radical re-thinking of the phenomena Horkheimer and Adorno grouped together as ‘mimesis.’ The resulting picture of environmentally embedded process of cultural evolutio n is a first step towards revitalizing the interdisciplinary potential of the early Frankfurt School\, and suggesting new\, practical\, productive\, and sustainable routes such critique can take in the 21st century.
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Bio:
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Benjamin Mor gan is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford\, and a Fellow of Worcester College. In 2019\, and 2020/21 he was also Visiting Associate Professor of German at Harvard University. He is a uthor of On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western S elf (Fordham UP\, 2013)\, and numerous articles on modernist literature\, film\, and philosophy. He edited\, with Carolin Duttlinger and Anthony Phe lan\, Walter Benjamins Anthropologisches Denken (Rombach\, 2012)\, and wit h Sowon Park and Ellen Spolsky a Special Issue of Poetics Today on “Situat ed Cognition and the Study of Culture” (2017).
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rethinking Critique: Dialectic of Enlightenment and Models of Cultu ral Evolution. Benjamin Morgan URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rethinking-critique-dial ectic-of-enlightenment-and-models-of-cultural-evolution-benjamin-morgan/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8082@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T202635Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:The importance of incorporating value pluralism into a theor y of justice is recognized in many conceptualizations of justice. This plu ralism is often seen as a reason to attend to a range of perspectives\, pe rspectives which can function as a source of information in determining wh ich principles should guide justice. However\, philosophy’s ability to pro perly attend to different perspectives has received extensive attention in the criticisms of various non-ideal theorists\, who argue that ideal-theo retical philosophy runs the risk of excluding important aspects of actual social problems. Taking these criticisms on board\, this paper builds on n on-ideal theory by arguing for a Wittgensteinian family resemblance approa ch to justice. I will explain how this linguistic practice-embedded unders tanding of justice can be a helpful tool for non-ideal theory\, as it can give us insight into why\, in various similar but different cases\, the no tion of justice is seen as applicable. In light of this approach\, I will suggest a reorientation of the pluralist demand towards an empirical start ing point.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T180000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:New School room 1101 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Non-Idea Justice: A Family Resemblance Approach. Nadia ben Hassine (Cambridge) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/non-idea-justice-a-famil y-resemblance-approach-nadia-ben-hassine-cambridge/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:justice\,social\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8052@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T202635Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/marianaortega DESCRIPTION:María Lugones theorizes the notion of resistance in terms of the notion of “trespassing\,” through which “active subjectivity” has the possibility of problematizing normative practices and redrawing maps of p ower. In this presentation\, I highlight the importance of the aesthesic o r the perceptual in Lugones’s view of resistance as developed before her t urn to decolonial feminism. In doing so\, I point to the manner in which t his account of resistance is dependent on a sense of ambiguity inspired by the work of Gloria Anzaldúa. Moreover\, I introduce a notion of aesthetic trespassing in connection to the perception of artworks that discloses th e intimacy between the perceiver and the perceived.
\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Intimacies of Perception and Aesthetic Trespassing. Mariana Ort ega (PSU) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-intimacies-of-percep tion-and-aesthetic-trespassing-mariana-ortega-psu/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/marianaortega#rsvp END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR