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-7763@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T075355Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://withinenvironments2022.weebly.com/ DESCRIPTION:
Since Plato\, western philosophy ha s been set down a path paved by a disavowal of the sensuous\, bracketed ma terial bodies\, and delimited aesthetic conceptions\, leaving human beings and their built environments separated from the natural world. Such exclu sions have left philosophy ill-equipped to deal with the various environme ntal crises we currently face\, as economic rationality and utilitarian lo gic further de-animate the world and sharpen the human/nature distinction. Even the concept “environment” often\, and ironically\, brings with it im plicit anthropocentric assumptions\, conceptualizing\, and thereby separat ing\, the human as independent from the surrounding world and reinforcing the human/nature divide. As a result\, our (mis)understandings of “nature” and “environment” may make us insensitive to and perpetuate\, rather than address\, climate change and other environmental catastrophes. To avoid a mbiguities and clarify our understanding\, we must ask: what role does Nat ure play within our theories and practices concerning so-called Environmen tal Philosophy? Furthermore\, what spaces\, practices\, and questions are made possible when we broaden our understanding of “environment” to includ e a more robust conceptualization of the natural world and how the human b eing ought to be contextualized within it?
\nThis conference asks ho w we might reorient the language and practices of philosophy in a way that can enable us to adequately respond to ongoing environmental crises. As a starting point\, we propose a need to reimagine the concepts “human\,” “n ature\,” and “environment\,” as well as the reciprocal relations that cons titute them. To recognize humans as natural organisms\, we must reevaluate the sensuous\, the material\, and the aesthetic and the roles they play i n our attempts to construct\, understand\, and preserve our environment(s) . How should we make sense of our practices and our relations to those wit h whom we share our surroundings? How can we re-situate the human with/in the environment? Do we have the right tools to guide these investigations? How might philosophy look beyond itself—to literature\, architecture\, mu sic\, film\, design—to better bring Environment\, and thus the world\, int o view? In the spirit of this\, we invite paper as well as project submiss ions from current graduate students in any discipline.
\nPos sible Topics:
\n● Environmental Aesthetics: Re-Consi dering Beauty + the Sublime
\n● Environmental Justice + Resto rative Justice + Transformative Justice
\n● Environmental Eth ics + Sustainable Practices
\n● Diversity + Biodiversity
\n● Capitalism and Climate
\n● Eco-phenomenology
\n● Eco-deconstruction
\n● Environmental Racism/Ra cist Environments
\n● Ecofeminist conceptions of nature
\n● Land Rights and Property Relations
\n● Posthumani sm + Object Ontologies
\n● Afrofuturism + Technological Utopi as
\n● Environmental Ethics In Narratives
\n● Ma stery of Nature in Philosophy
\n● Anarcho-primitivism
\n● Queer and Trans Ecologies
\n● Local and Global Ecol ogies
\n● Regionalisms and Globalisms in the Ecological Imagi nation
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Confirmed Conference Key notes:
\nSandra Shapshay\, CUNY Graduate Center\, New York< /p>\n
Emanuele Coccia\, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EH ESS)\, Paris
\nDates and Location:
\nThis con ference will be held at the New School for Social Research in New York Cit y from Thursday\, April 14\, to Saturday\, April 16. While we (tentatively ) plan to hold the conference primarily in-person we would also like to pr ovide a hybrid option for those who would prefer to participate remotely. Following the conference\, on Sunday\, April 17\, all participants and att endees are invited to participate in a conference hike in Cold Spring\, NY (about an hour and a half north of NYC and accessible by the Metro North commuter train).
\nCall for Papers: Submission Procedure:
\nPlease submit complete papers (Word Limit: 3500) and an abs tract of 250 words or less by January 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) or PDF to WithInEnvironments@gmail.com. Please prepare your submission for blind review by removing any identifying information from the body of the paper. In your email please include your name\, affiliation\, and paper t itle. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 15.
\nPlease submit a project description (Word Limit: 1000) by December 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) to WithInEnvironments@gmail.com\, as well as:
\nFor Visual Arts projects: submit 5 images of your work as .jpeg.
\nFor P erforming Arts projects: submit video/ audio of your work in .mp4 format p>\n
Please prepare your submission for blind review by removing any ide ntifying information. In your email please include your name\, affiliation \, and project title. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 1 5.
\nIf you have any questions please email WithInEnvironments@gmail.com
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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-8010@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T075355Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://nightinthelibrary.com/comingsoon DESCRIPTION:2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop\, an d the beginning of a sonic\, cultural and socio-political revolution that changed the U.S. and the world. To commemorate the anniversary\, Brooklyn Public Library will present NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY: THE PHILOSOPHY O F HIP-HOP on Saturday\, June 17th\, from 7 pm – 2 am at Central Library.
\nJoin us for this FREE event that will ta ke over the entire Central Library building to celebrate hip-hop culture p ast\, present and future\, with keynote addresses\, live DJs\, film screen ings\, discussions\, debates and contemplative engagements. BPL invites yo u to celebrate hip-hop and spend a NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY.< /p>\n
Co-curated by LeBrandon Smith and Kelly Harrison. The Dilemma Seri es is curated by April R. Silver\, founder of AKILA WORKSONGS.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230617T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230618T020000 GEO:+40.672501;-73.968126 LOCATION:Central Library @ 10 Grand Army Plaza\, Brooklyn\, NY 11238\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Night in the Library: The Philosophy of Hip-Hop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/night-in-the-library-the -philosophy-of-hip-hop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,culture\,music\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8049@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T075355Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/daniellecelermajeralicecrary DESCRIPTION:The violence already systematically inflicted on other earth beings (animals and the environment)\, and intensifying today intensified through ecological collapse and climate change\, is ‘in plain sight’. Yet entrenched epistemic and institutional barriers impede its being register ed in ways proportionate to its gravity. While in recent years\, philosoph ers and social theorists have done a good job at explaining why\, to use t wo familiar example\, glass walls to abattoirs don’t stop people eating me at\, and data on climate change does not catalyse mass mobilization\, we h ave been less adept at delivering our analysis in ways that both illuminat e and transform the many sites of dangerous inertia.
\nThrough the e xperience of living through the Black Summer wildfires\, Danielle Celermajer decided to philosophize the impact of climate catastro phe on animals and the environment through the genre of creative non-ficti on. The result was Summertime\; Reflections on a Vanishing Future \, a book that grounds arguments about what ethics and responsibility to o ther earth beings means in the era of climate catastrophe in the immediate experiences of the members of the multispecies community with whom she li ves. In this conversation\, Celermajer and Professor Alice Crary strong> will take Summertime as their starting point to reflect on questio ns of ethics\, language\, and the responsibility of theorists in the midst of ecological collapse.
\nBios:
\nDa nielle Celermajer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney\, Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and leads the Multispecies Justice project. Her books include Sins of the Nation an d the Ritual of Apology and The Prevention of Torture\, A Cultura l History of Law in the Modern Age\, The Subject of Human Rights< /em>\, and Institutional Transformations. Through the experience of living through the black summer bushfires with a multispecies community \, she began writing about a new crime of our age\, Omnicide. Her book Sum mertime\; Reflections on a Vanishing Future (Penguin Random House\, 2021) considers the more-than-human experience of climate catastrophe.
\nT ickets: https://event.newschool.edu/daniel lecelermajeralicecrary#rsvp.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Writing Other Earth Beings into Ethics in the Age of Climate Catast rophe. Danielle Celermajer URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/writing-other-earth-bein gs-into-ethics-in-the-age-of-climate-catastrophe-danielle-celermajer/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:environmental X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/daniellecelermajeralicecrary#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8138@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T075355Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1 DESCRIPTION:Serving as a response to Aimé Césaire’s call for a universal filled with particularity from his infamous resignation from the French C ommunist Party in 1956\, I focus on the role of culture for a project of u niversal emancipation. To do so\, I follow Sylvia Wynter’s statement that the Négritude movement is an example of a universal and cultural project. Recalling Césaire’s words in “Return to My Native Land\,” culture that ser ves universal emancipation must be “free of the desire to tame but familia r with the play of the world.” To this end\, I develop a conception of cul ture that is both local and universal\, that centers on the importance of what it means to be human\, as life\, as being\, and as experience by read ing culture as necessarily local\, collective\, disenchanted\, and related to play.
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Bio:
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Elisa beth Paquette is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Univ ersity at Buffalo\, SUNY. Her book\, titled Universal Emancipation: Ra ce beyond Badiou (University of Minnesota Press\, 2020)\, engages Fre nch political theorist Alain Badiou’s discussion of Négritude and the Hait ian Revolution to develop a nuanced critique of his theory of emancipation . Currently\, she is working on a monograph on the writings of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter. She is also the Founder of the Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop\, which takes place annually during the summer.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1< /a>.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Culture & Freedom: Thinking Universality with Aimé Césaire and Sylv ia Wynter presented by Elisabeth Paquette URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/culture-freedom-thinking -universality-with-aime-cesaire-and-sylvia-wynter-presented-by-elisabeth-p aquette/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:culture\,freedom X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8140@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T075355Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/eyoewara DESCRIPTION:This talk reads contemporary debates about structural racism and US history from the perspective of philosophical questions about iden tity and difference. While many people have argued that America needs to c ome to terms with or “work through” the racism in its history that has sha ped and continues to shape its present structures\, it remains difficult t o explain what connects this past and the present. Are we talking about on e racism with many different past and present forms? Or are there multiple racisms that only share some similar features? In this talk\, I draw atte ntion to how these divisions play out particularly in contemporary Black S tudies and argue that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze can offer us resour ces for thinking about these questions through his discussions of repetiti on. I argue that understanding our conversations about structural racism a nd history as conversations about a racism that repeats\, can help us to b etter understand why racism seems to reappear\, how to think its disparate forms together\, and what presuppositions operate in many attempts to “wo rk through” the past.
\nBio: Eyo Ewara is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His teaching and re search explores the relationships between 20th Century Continental Philoso phy\, Critical Philosophy of Race\, and Queer Theory. His work has appear ed in Theory and Event\, Puncta\, Philosophy Today\, Critical Philosophy o f Race\, Political Theology\, and other venues. His current research proje ct is particularly interested in engaging work in Continental Philosophy\, Queer Theory\, and Black Studies to address questions of identity and dif ference amongst concepts of race\, forms of racism\, and forms of anti-rac ism. How can we better account for the relations between at times radicall y disparate concepts\, structures\, and practices such that they can all s pecifically and recognizably be called racial? What might our account of t hese relations say about our ability to address racism’s harms?
\nTi ckets: https://event.newschool.edu/eyoewara.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Strange Returns: Racism\, Repetition and Working Through the Past presented by Eyo Ewara URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/strange-returns-racism-r epetition-and-working-through-the-past-presented-by-eyo-ewara/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:history\,race X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/eyoewara END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR