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-7909@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T223354Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://phildeeplearning.github.io/ DESCRIPTION:
A two-day conference on the philosophy of deep learning\, or ganized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia University)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholar s in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University and the < a href='https://wp.nyu.edu/consciousness/' target='_blank' rel='noopener'> Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness at New York University.
\nThe conference will explore current issue s in AI research from a philosophical perspective\, with particular attent ion to recent work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to brin g together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these system s in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities\, their limi tations\, and their relationship to human cognition.
\nThe conferenc e will focus especially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science ( rather than on topics in AI ethics and safety). It will explore questions such as:
\nA pre-conference debate o n Friday\, March 24th will tackle the question “Do large language models n eed sensory grounding for meaning and understanding ?”. Speakers include < a href='https://www.berggruen.org/people/jacob-browning/' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Jacob Browning (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York U niversity)\, Yann LeCun (New York University)\, and Ellie Pavlick (Brown University / Google AI).
\nWe invite abstract submissions for a few short talk s and poster presentations related to the topic of the conference. Submiss ions from graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Please send a title and abstract (500-750 words) to p hildeeplearning@gmail.com by January 22nd\, 2023 (11.59pm EST).
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https://philevents.org/event/show/106406
\nTick ets: https://ww w.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-45392473 0087.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230327 GEO:+40.729513;-73.996461 LOCATION:Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness @ New York\, NY 10012\ , USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Philosophy of Deep Learning URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-philosophy-of-deep-l earning/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfa\,cognitive science\,conf erence\,language\,mind X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conf erence-tickets-453924730087 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7955@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T223354Z 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-7986@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T223354Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/bi2023/index.html DESCRIPTION:The International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI) serie s has established itself as the world’s premier research conference on Bra in Informatics\, which is an emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplin ary research field that combines the efforts of Cognitive Science\, Neuros cience\, Machine Learning\, Data Science\, Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to explore the main pro blems that lie in the interplay between human brain studies and informatic s research.
\nThe 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’23) provides a premier international forum to bring together research ers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original res earch results\, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and pr actical development experiences on brain Informatics research\, brain-insp ired technologies and brain/mental health applications.
\nThe key th eme of the conference is “Brain Science meets Artificial Intellige nce“.
\nThe BI’23 solicits high-quality original research a nd application papers (both full paper and abstract submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
\nKeynote Speakers
\nMIT\, Massachusetts General Hospital\, USA
\nProfile: Emery Neal Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at M assachusetts General Hospital (MGH)\, and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computational neuroscience\, the Associate Director of t he Institute for Medical Engineering and Science\, and the Director of the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Brown is one of on ly 19 individuals who has been elected to all three branches of the Nation al Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine\, as well as the fir st African American and the first anesthesiologist to be elected to all th ree National Academies.
\nProfessor Bin He
\nCarnegie Mellon University\, USA
\nProfile: Bin He is the Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Professor of the Neur oscience Institute\, and Professor by courtesy of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. He has made significant res earch and education contributions to the field of neuroengineering and bio medical imaging\, including functional biomedical imaging\, noninvasive br ain-computer interface (BCI)\, and noninvasive neuromodulation. His pionee ring research has helped transforming electroencephalography from a 1-dime nsional detection technique to 3-dimensional neuroimaging modality. His la b demonstrated for the first time for humans to fly a drone and control a robotic arm just by thinking about it using a noninvasive BCI. He is an el ected Fellow of International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineerin g (IAMBE)\, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMB E)\, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)\, and IEEE. Dr. He served as a Past President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society\, t he Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering from 201 3-2018\, the Chair of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering from 2018-2021. Dr. He has been a Member of NIH BRAIN Initiati ve Multi-Council Working Group from 2014-2019.
\nProfessor J ohn Ngai
\nNIH BRAIN Initiative\, USA
\nProfile
Professor Helen Mayberg
\nIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai\, USA
\nProfile
Professor Vinod Goel
\nYork Un iversity\, Canada
\nProfile: Vinod Goel is a profes sor of cognitive neuroscience at York University\, Toronto\, Canada. He co mpleted his PhD in cognitive science at UC-Berkeley\, and received postdoc toral training in neuroscience at the NIH (NINDS) and the Wellcome Departm ent of Cognitive Neurology\, Institute of Neurology\, UCL\, UK. He has mad e significant empirical contributions to our understanding of the roles of prefrontal cortex in real-world problem solving and reasoning\, hemispher ic asymmetry in prefrontal cortex\, and models of rationality\, using the methodologies of fMRI and lesion studies. He has most recently completed a book reconstructing the role of rationality in human behavior entitled “R eason and Less: Pursuing Food\, Sex\, and Politics” (The MIT Press\, 2022) . His current project is to explore the implications of this work on our u nderstanding of reason and legal responsibility.
\nProfessor Amy Kuceyeski
\nCornell University\, USA
\nProfile: Amy Kuceyeski is an Associate Professor of Mathematics an
d Neuroscience in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Computationa
l Biology Department at Cornell University. She is the director of the Com
putational Connectomics (CoCo) Laboratory and the Machine Learning in Medi
cine group at Cornell. Over the past 14 years\, she has been working to un
derstand the human brain using quantitative modeling approaches\, includin
g machine learning\, to map anatomical and physiological characteristics t
o behavior. Specifically\, she is interested in understanding how brains r
ecover from injury so we can devise strategies\, possibly via non-invasive
neuromodulation\, to support natural recovery processes. She also perform
s research at the intersection of biological and artificial neural network
s that aims to understand how human brains process incoming visual informa
tion.
Professor Patrick Purdon
\nHarvard Me dical School\, USA
\nProfile: Patrick L. Purdon\, P h.D.\, is an Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the Nathaniel M. Sims Endowed Chair in Anesthesia Innovation and Bioen gineering at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Purdon received his A.B. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard College in 1996\, his M.S. in Electr ical Engineering from MIT in 1998\, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineerin g from MIT in 2005. Dr. Purdon’s research in neuroengineering encompasses the mechanisms of anesthesia\, Alzheimer’s disease and brain health\, ane sthesia and the developing brain\, neural signal processing\, and the deve lopment of novel technologies for brain monitoring. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed publications\, is an inventor on 16 pending patents\, and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineer ing. Dr. Purdon has won numerous awards\, including the prestigious Natio nal Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award.
\nI mportant Dates
\nPaper Submission and Publ ications
\nFull Paper (Regular):
\n1. 9-12 pages are
strongly encouraged for the regular papers including figures and reference
s in Springer LNCS Proceedings format(https://www.springer.com/us/computer
-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Over length papers will
be charged for 100$ per page.
\n2. All papers will be peer-reviewed a
nd accepted based on originality\, significance of contribution\, technica
l merit\, and presentation quality.
\n3. All papers accepted (and all
workshop & special sessions’ full-length papers) will be published by Spr
inger as a volume of the Springer-Nature LNAI Brain Informatics Book Serie
s(https://link.springer.com/conference/brain).
Abstract (Only for Workshops/Special Sessions):
\nResearch abstracts are encouraged and will be accepted for presentations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentation format. Each abstract submission should include the ti tle of the paper and an abstract body within 500 words. The abstract will not be included in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer.
\nJournal Opportunities:
\nHigh-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fast-track review and publication at the Brain Inf ormatics Journal\, (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/) an interna tional\, peer-reviewed\, interdisciplinary Open Access journal published b y Springer Nature. Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conference paper authors.
\nSpecial Issues & Books Opportunities:
\nWorkshop/special session organizers and BI confere nce session chairs may consider and can be invited to prepare a book propo sal of special topics for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (https://www.springer.com/series/1 5148)\, or a special issue at the Brain Informatics Journal.
\n1. Accepted full papers will be selected to publish in the Brain Informatics Journal upon revision .
\n2. Discount or no article-processing fee will be charged for aut hors of Brain Informatics conference (https://braininformatics.springerope n.com/).
\n3. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are i nvited to prepare a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/spec ial session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Inf ormatics and Health book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230804 GEO:+40.744623;-74.025399 LOCATION:Stevens Institute of Technology @ 1 Castle Point Terrace\, Hoboken \, NJ 07030\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-16th-international-c onference-on-brain-informatics/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfp\,cognitive science\,comm unication\,conference\,information\,mind\,neuroscience END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7863@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T223354Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2022-20 23 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 29th\, 2022
\nChristina Van Dyke (
Barnard College)
\nTitle “I feel it in my fingers\, I feel it in my t
oes: Imaginative Meditation and Experience of Love in Medieval Contemplati
ve Philosophy”
\n4:10-6:00 PM
\n716 Philosophy Hall
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-7963@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T223354Z 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:20240328T223354Z 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-8023@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T223354Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://wp.nyu.edu/centerforbioethics/event/5638/ DESCRIPTION:Yejin Choi is Wissner-Slivka Profess or and a MacArthur Fellow at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is also a senior direct or at AI2 overseeing the project Mosaic and a Distinguished Research Fello w at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. Her resea rch investigates if (and how) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge a nd reasoning\, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning\, and va rious other problems in NLP\, AI\, and Vision including neuro-symbolic int egration\, language grounding with vision and interactions\, and AI for so cial good. She is a co-recipient of 2 Test of Time Awards (at ACL 2021 and ICCV 2021)\, 7 Best/Outstanding Paper Awards (at ACL 2023\, NAACL 2022\, ICML 2022\, NeurIPS 2021\, AAAI 2019\, and ICCV 2013)\, the Borg Early Car eer Award (BECA) in 2018\, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017\, a nd IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2016.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T173000 GEO:+40.728638;-73.993631 LOCATION:NYU room 801 @ 708 Broadway\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Afternoon Talk with Professor Yejin Choi URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/afternoon-talk-with-prof essor-yejin-choi/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,bioethics\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8064@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T223354Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://www.locus29.org/about-1 DESCRIPTION:We are embarking on an inno vative adaptation of J.P. Sartre’s timeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infus ed with elements inspired by Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialism\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while d elving into the realms of speech and movement improvisation.
\n< p class='font_8 wixui-rich-text__text'>Through this innovative production\, we aim to challenge and provoke audi ences\, encouraging deep introspection and dialogue about our existence an d the choices we make. We believe that the combination of Sartre’s piercin g insights and Plato’s philosophical foundations will create a unique thea trical experience that will resonate with both enthusiasts of classic lite rature and fans of contemporary performance art.\nWe are embarking on an inno vative adaptation of J.P. Sartre’s timeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infus ed with elements inspired by Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialism\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while d elving into the realms of speech and movement improvisation.
\n< p class='font_8 wixui-rich-text__text'>Through this innovative production\, we aim to challenge and provoke audi ences\, encouraging deep introspection and dialogue about our existence an d the choices we make. We believe that the combination of Sartre’s piercin g insights and Plato’s philosophical foundations will create a unique thea trical experience that will resonate with both enthusiasts of classic lite rature and fans of contemporary performance art.\nWe are embarking on an inno vative adaptation of J.P. Sartre’s timeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infus ed with elements inspired by Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialism\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while d elving into the realms of speech and movement improvisation.
\n< p class='font_8 wixui-rich-text__text'>Through this innovative production\, we aim to challenge and provoke audi ences\, encouraging deep introspection and dialogue about our existence an d the choices we make. We believe that the combination of Sartre’s piercin g insights and Plato’s philosophical foundations will create a unique thea trical experience that will resonate with both enthusiasts of classic lite rature and fans of contemporary performance art.\nThe 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 BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8124@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T223354Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/mindethicspolicy/events DESCRIPTION:Join u s for a special live taping of the Clearer Thinking podcast. Host Spencer Greenberg and guest Jeff Sebo will discuss the moral status of insects and AI systems\, as well as other thorny questions in global pr iorities research.
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About the speakers
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Jeff Sebo is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies\, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics\, Medical Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Law\, Director of the Animal Studies M.A. Program\, Director of the Mind\, Ethics\, and Po licy Program\, and Co-Director of the Wil d Animal Welfare Program at New York Univ ersity. He is the author of S aving Animals\, Saving Ourselves (2022) a nd co-author of Chimpanzee Rights (2018) and span>Food\, Animals\ , and the Environment (2018). He is also an executive committee member at the NYU Center for Environmental and Anim al Protection\, a board member at Minding Animals International\, an advis ory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society\, a senior researc h fellow at the Legal Priorities Project\, and a mentor at Sentient Media.
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Spencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a focus on improving human well-being. He’s the founder of < span class='C9DxTc aw5Odc '>ClearerThinking.org\, which provides 70 free\, digital tools to help people make better decisions and improve their lives\, as well as the host of the Clearer Th inking podcast. Spencer is also the founder of Spark Wave\, an organi zation that conducts psychology research and builds psychology-related pro ducts designed to help benefit the world. He has a Ph.D. in applied math f rom New York University\, with a specialty in machine learning\, and his w ork has been featured by numerous major media outlets\, including The Wall Street Journal\, the Independent\, the New York Times\, Gizmodo\, and mor e.
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Thank you to Effective Altruism New York City for their generous s upport of this event.
\nTickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/ e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueNASskgr5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform. p> DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T200000 GEO:+40.730098;-73.995693 LOCATION:Jurow Hall\, Silver Center @ 31 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 1000 3\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Moral Status of Insects and AI Systems\, and Other Thorny Quest ions in Global Priorities Research. Jeff Sebo and Spencer Greenberg URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-moral-status-of-inse cts-and-ai-systems-and-other-thorny-questions-in-global-priorities-researc h-jeff-sebo-and-spencer-greenberg/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,bioethics\,ethics X-TICKETS-URL:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueNASskgr 5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8140@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T223354Z 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?
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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 BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8141@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T223354Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/stephanesymons DESCRIPTION:In the final part of The Human Condition (1958) Han nah Arendt turns to the danger of ‘world- alienation’. Based on a variety of discoveries and evolutions that are constitutive of modernity (globaliz ation\, Protestantism\, the invention of the telescope)\, modern man has a dopted an Archimedean\, external position vis-à-vis the world. According to Arendt\, this ‘view from without’ has gradually jeopardized the experie nce of a shared world\, endangering the foundation of all meaning-giving a ctivities.
\nMy talk can be considered as a reply to Arendt’s pessim istic account of modern ‘world-alienation’. It builds on the idea that som e of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century (Ernst Jünger \, Georg Lukács\, Ernst Bloch\, Theodor Adorno\, Walter Benjamin\, Aby Wa rburg\, Sigmund Freud) did not equate the loss of a shared world with the loss of meaning. Rather\, the conceptual framework of a substantial part o f early twentieth century German philosophy centers on the exploration of a productive opposition\, negation or fragmentation of the world. From the perspective of these thinkers\, the world’s ‘durability’ (Arendt) is not simply a source of shared meaning since it can be experienced as the mark of its indifference to change and renewal.
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Stéphane Symons is Full Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leuven\, Belgium. His research is focused on interwar German thought (Frankfurt School) and postwar French philosop hy (structuralism and post-structuralism).
\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240404T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Concept of World-Alienation in Twentieth Century German Thought – presented by Stéphane Symons URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-concept-of-world-ali enation-in-twentieth-century-german-thought-presented-by-stephane-symons/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:existentialism\,German X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/stephanesymons END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR