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-7950@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240330T073547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://sofheyman.org/events/conception-and-its-discontents DESCRIPTION:
A conference hosted by the Motherhood and Technology Working Group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference on the theme of “Conception and Its Discontents.”
\nMedical technologies have radically transformed the biological and social experience of motherhood. Advances in genomic an d reproductive care\, the circulation of novel kinship structures\, the en trenchment of existing global networks of power and privilege\, and the po litics of contested bodily sites mark this emerging constellation.
\nTechnological advancements have in particular impacted not just the under standing of conception\, but the very process by which a human embryo is c reated\, implanted\, and matured. Egg freezing\, embryo storage\, IVF\, an d surrogacy afford women new freedoms in choosing when and how to become m others\, while also raising troubling questions about the pressures of cap italism and the extension of worklife\, as well as the global inequalities present in the experience of motherhood. In addition\, technologies have arisen allowing for unprecedented control over not just who becomes a moth er\, but what kind of embryo is allowed to be implanted and to grow. Techn ologies such as CRISPR and NIPT have re-introduced the question of eugenic s\, radically shifting the very epistemology of motherhood and what it mea ns to be “expecting.” And contemporary abortion debates draw on technology in order to make arguments both for and against access\, with imaging tec hnologies being instrumentalized in the building of a sympathetic case for the unborn\, and the very notion of a “heartbeat bill” reliant on the mis reading of technologies for measuring fetal activity.
\nWhile these problems are urgent today\, questions of conception and technology are by no means recent developments. The 18th century saw a flourishing of philos ophical and scientific theories regarding the start of human life and its formation within the womb. Such theories relied on modern technologies\, s uch as autopsy\, to atomize and visualize the body. In the 19th and 20th c enturies\, eugenic medical science produced theories of reproductive diffe rence between differing racial and social groups\, leading to forced steri lization laws in both the US and in Germany. This long history of racializ ing the rhetoric of fertility and motherhood continues to influence politi cal debates on immigration and demographic changes in the present.
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After two g overnment bailouts of the U.S. economy in less than twenty years\, free ma rket ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market: the Hist ory of an Idea\, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis \, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of fre e market thought. Contrary to popular narratives\, early market theorists believed that states had an important role in building and maintaining fre e markets. But in the eighteenth century\, thinkers insisted on free marke ts without state intervention\, leading to a tradition of ideological brit tleness. That tradition only calcified in the centuries that followed. Tra cing the intellectual evolution of the free market from Cicero to Milton F riedman\, Soll argues that we need to go back to the origins of free marke t ideology in order to truly understand it—and to develop new economic con cepts to face today’s challenges.
\nJacob Soll is p rofessor of history and accounting at the University of Southern Californi a. He has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes including two NEH Fello wships\, the Jacques Barzun Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and\, in 201 1\, the MacArthur Fellowship. He also advises political and financial lead ers across the globe to promote accounting standards and financial transpa rency.
\nJoining Jacob Soll to discuss his book will be: <
strong>Pierre Force\, Professor of French and History at Columbia
\; John Shovlin\, Professor of History at NYU\; and
This event is co-spon sored by the Maison Française and the Department of History.
\nTicke ts: https://www.eve ntbrite.com/e/free-market-the-history-of-an-idea-tickets-409932919397.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220912T233000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220913T003000 GEO:+40.807717;-73.961428 LOCATION:East Gallery\, Maison Française @ Buell Hall\, 515 W 116th St\, Ne w York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Free Market: The History of an Idea URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/free-market-the-history- of-an-idea/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:economics X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-market-the-history-of-an-id ea-tickets-409932919397 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7957@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240330T073547Z 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-7951@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240330T073547Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://sofheyman.org/events/an-afternoon-with-judith-butler DESCRIPTION: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?
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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.
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\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).
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\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-8010@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240330T073547Z 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-8138@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240330T073547Z 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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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 END:VCALENDAR