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-7724@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/politicalconcepts10thanniversary DESCRIPTION:
A conference celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Politi cal Concepts Journal.
\nFriday\, February 4th
\n1:30 – Lay of the Land
\nAnn Stoler
\nJacques Lezra
\nJ.
M. Bernstein
\nMichael Sawyer
2:00 – 4:00 – Panel I
\nEm
ily Apter – Ecosophy
\nAxelle Karera – Anthropocene
\nModerator:
J.M. Bernstein
4:30 – 6:30 – Panel II
\nJacques Lezra – Cop<
br />\nRocío Zambrana – Coloniality
\nModerator: Susan Buck-Morss
Saturday\, February 5th
\n11:00 – 1:00 – Panel
III
\nÉtienne Balibar – Communism
\nNeni Panourgiá – Dis-Contin
uities
\nModerator: Michael Sawyer
2:00 – 4:00 – Panel IV
\nBarbara Nagel – Domestic Violence
\nAndreas Kalyvas – Oligarchy\nModerator: Emily Apter
4:30 – 6:30 – Panel V
\nAdi Ophi
r – Divine Violence
\nAbou Farman – Terminality
\nModerator: Ann
Stoler
Registered attendees will receive the zoom link via email.
\nPresented by the Philosophy Department and Anthropology Department at The New School for Social Research.
\nSince 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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11:00am: Cinzia Arruzza and James Dodd\, Greetings and Intro duction
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Part 1. Celebrating Ross Poole
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11:05-12:35am: Ben Nienass\, “The Force of Memory” and Basak Ertur\, “Lea rning to Live with Ghosts”
\n\n
12:35-12:40 pm: Coffee Break< /p>\n
\n
12:40-1:30 pm: Roundtable Discussion
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P articipants:
\nOmri Boehm\, Lynne Segal and Mick Taussig
\np>\n
1:30-3:30 pm: Lunch Break
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Part 2. Celebrating Ber nard Flynn
\n\n
3:30-6:00pm: Roundtable Discussion on the Wor k of Bernard Flynn
\n\n
Participants:
\nPeg Birmingham\ , James Dodd\, Frank Chouraqui\, and Simon Critchley
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Ext ernal visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newschool.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors .
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Audience members must show proof of a full COVID-19 va ccination series (and booster if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/ politicsandmemory#rsvp.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221007 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221008 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Politics and Memory. Celebrating Bernard Flynn and Ross Poole URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/politics-and-memory-cele brating-bernard-flynn-and-ross-poole/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/politicsandmemory#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7874@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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-7814@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://www.telosinstitute.net/telos200/ DESCRIPTION:Joel 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-7893@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/104578 DESCRIPTION:Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon began as a multidisci plinary\, web-based journal in which an assemblage of contributions focuse d on a single concept with the express intention of re-situating its meani ng in the field of political discourse. By reflecting on what has remained unquestioned or unthought in that concept\, this all-around collection of essays seeks to open pathways for another future—one that is not already determined and ill-fated.
\nFrom this forum for engaged scholarship\ , a succession of academic conferences have sprung as a space for conversa tion and constructive debate\, including last year’s Political Concepts Gr aduate Conference. Organized by students of the Departments of Anthropolog y\, Philosophy\, and Politics at the New School for Social Research\, Poli tical Concepts invites graduate students from all fields of study to parti cipate in our upcoming graduate student conference in Spring 2023. Held at NSSR over March 24-5\, the conference will serve as a workshop of ideas o n the multiplicity of powers\, structures\, problems\, and orientations th at shape our collective life.
\nBecause Political Concepts does not predetermine what does or does not count as political\, the conference wel comes essays that fashion new political concepts or demonstrate how concep ts deserve to be taken as politically significant. Papers should be dedica ted to a single political concept\, like an encyclopedia entry\, but the a nalysis of the concept does not have to abide to traditional approaches. S ome of the concepts contended with in last year’s vibrant conference inclu ded abolition\, survival\, statistics\, solitude\, resentment\, statistics \, dependence\, imaginary\, and solidarity. Other examples can be found in the published papers on thePolitical Concepts website.
\nThe confer ence will take the format of a series of panels across two days. Panels wi ll contain two presenters whose papers are thematically and theoretically related — creating a space for critical engagement between the authors\, a s well as with other attendees. Each presenter will have 25 minutes to pre sent their paper\, along with 40 minutes for discussion at the end. This y ear\, there will be a faculty roundtable with NSSR professors serving on t he Political Concepts editorial board\, namely\, Ann Laura Stoler\, Jay M. Bernstein\, and Andreas Kalyvas.
\nAbstracts should be no longer th an 750 words in a pdf format\, and prepared for blind review\, so please e nsure that your abstract is free from any identifying personal details. Ab stracts must be submitted through this google form by December 15\, 2022 E ST. Any inquiries can be sent to politicalconceptsNSSR@gmail.com.
\nApplicants must be advanced graduate students and their concept must be a central part of a longer-term project in order to be accepted. Results wil l be informed in January.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230326 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:New School tbd @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Political Concepts Graduate Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/political-concepts-gradu ate-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfp\,conference\,political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7909@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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-7877@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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
\nHow 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:20240329T153826Z 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).
\n\n
https:/ /philevents.org/event/show/109301
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-8024@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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
How does objectivity shape power\, and how does power shape objectivity?
\nWelcome to “Unmasking Object ivity: A Critical Examination of the Nexus between Universal Truth Claims and Emergent Power Structures\,” a conference that plunges into the intric ate relationship between knowledge and power. In this conference\, we will uncover how epistemological standpoints intersect with systems of coercio n\, marginalization\, and oppression. Our topic extends to alternative vis ions of knowledge\, truth\, and learning\, offering the potential for shar ed beliefs while addressing the adverse impacts of entrenched power struct ures.
\nHow have claims to absolute\, objective\, or scientific trut h driven oppression through ideologies like religious absolutism\, colonia lism\, technocracy\, and scientific sexism and racism? Contemporary debate s further emphasize the significance of this intersection.
\nOur dis course will also scrutinize epistemic injustice\, examining whether univer salist epistemologies privilege specific knowledge systems while silencing valid alternatives. We aim to shed light on social and political issues o verlooked by dominant knowledge frameworks through inclusive dialogues. Th is conference fosters critical exploration and inclusive discourse\, drawi ng on interdisciplinary studies in philosophy\, sociology\, and political theory.
\nTogether\, we will assess the ethical implications of our epistemological practices and explore pathways to creating more equitable systems of knowledge and social learning. Join us at “Unmasking Objectivit y” as we navigate the intricate web of knowledge and power\, aiming for a just and inclusive future where the notion of objectivity is both scrutini zed and harnessed for social transformation.
\n\n\n\nDemocracy 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-8088@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/116434 DESCRIPTION:Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon began as a multidisci plinary\, web-based journal in which an assemblage of contributions focuse d on a single concept with the express intention of re-situating its meani ng in the field of political discourse. By reflecting on what has remained unquestioned or unthought in that concept\, this all-around collection of essays seeks to open pathways for another future—one that is not already determined and ill-fated.
\nFrom this forum for engaged scholarship\ , a succession of academic conferences have sprung as a space for conversa tion and constructive debate\, including its Graduate Conference at the Ne w School for Social Research organized by students of the Departments of A nthropology\, Economics\, Philosophy\, Politics\, and Sociology. Political Concepts invites graduate students from all fields of study to participat e in our upcoming conference in Spring 2024. Held at NSSR over March 29-30 \, the conference will serve as a workshop of ideas on the multiplicity of powers\, structures\, problems\, and orientations that shape our collecti ve life.
\nBecause Political Concepts does not predetermine what doe s or does not count as political\, the conference welcomes essays that fas hion new political concepts or demonstrate how concepts deserve to be take n as politically significant. Papers should be dedicated to a single polit ical concept\, like an encyclopedia entry\, but the analysis of the concep t does not have to abide to traditional approaches. Some of the concepts c ontended with in previous years’ vibrant conferences included abolition\, survival\, catastrophe\, resentment\, money\, dependence\, trans\, imagina ry\, and solidarity. Other examples can be found in the published papers o n the Political Concepts website.
\nAbstracts should be no longer th an 750 words in a pdf format\, and prepared for blind review\, so please e nsure that your abstract is free from any identifying personal details. Pl ease title your abstract with your concept. Abstracts must be submitted th rough this google form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyVC0H0L SpcyJ3QpcbAvZjEkcUYoS-TCp0kPc6ObTg4YFSiQ/viewform) by December 7\, 2023 ES T. Any inquiries can be sent to politicalconceptsNSSR@gmail.com.
\nA pplicants must be advanced graduate students and their concept must be a c entral part of a longer term project in order to be accepted. Results will be informed in January.
\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240329 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240331 GEO:+40.736024;-73.993635 LOCATION:New School tbd @ 5th Ave & E 14th St\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Political Concepts Graduate Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/political-concepts-gradu ate-conference-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7644@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/lawphilosophy/colloquium DESCRIPTION:The Colloquium in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by L iam Murphy\, Samuel Scheffler\, and Jeremy Waldron\, two of whom will host in any given year.
\nEach week on Thursday a legal theorist or mora l or political philosopher presents a paper to the group\, which consists of students\, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU\, a nd faculty from other universities. The choice of subject is left to the p aper’s author\, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subjects \, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme for the term as a whole\, though in past years certain central topics wer e canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. The Colloquium aims\, not to pur sue any particular subject\, but to explore new work in considerable depth and so allow students to develop their own skill in theoretical analysis.
\nEach week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this pa ge\, and participants are expected to have read it.
\nThe public sessions of the colloquium will take place on Thursdays\, in Le ster Pollock Colloquium Room\, Furman Hall\, 9th floor\, from 4:00 to 7:0 0 pm.
\nColloquium 2021
\nP rofessors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
\nSeptember 2nd< br />\nKim Ferzan\, University of Pennsylvania\, Law
\nRethinking Credit for Time Served
\nSeptember
9th
\nLiam Murphy\, NYU
International Responsibility for Global Environment Harm: Collective and Individual
\nSeptember 17th ( Friday 2.0
0-5.00)
\nMoshe Halbertal\, NYU
September 23rd
\nJeff McMahan\, Oxford
September 3
0th
\nEmma Kaufman\, NYU Law
October 7th
\nRick Pildes\,
NYU Law
October 14th
\nSamuel Scheffler\, NYU
Octobe
r 21st
\nSteve Darwall\, Yale\, Philosophy
October 28th
\nChris Kutz\, University of California\, Berkeley\, Law
November
4th
\nAnthony Appiah\, NYU
November 11th
\nJohann Frick\
, University of California\, Berkeley\, Philosophy
November 18th\nTeresa Bejan\, Oxford
\nDecember 2nd
\nRuth Chang\, Oxfor
d
The Colloquium in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by L iam Murphy\, Samuel Scheffler\, and Jeremy Waldron\, two of whom will host in any given year.
\nEach week on Thursday a legal theorist or mora l or political philosopher presents a paper to the group\, which consists of students\, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU\, a nd faculty from other universities. The choice of subject is left to the p aper’s author\, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subjects \, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme for the term as a whole\, though in past years certain central topics wer e canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. The Colloquium aims\, not to pur sue any particular subject\, but to explore new work in considerable depth and so allow students to develop their own skill in theoretical analysis.
\nEach week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this pa ge\, and participants are expected to have read it.
\nThe public sessions of the colloquium will take place on Thursdays\, in Le ster Pollock Colloquium Room\, Furman Hall\, 9th floor\, from 4:00 to 7:0 0 pm.
\nColloquium 2021
\nP rofessors Liam Murphy and Samuel Scheffler
\nSeptember 2nd< br />\nKim Ferzan\, University of Pennsylvania\, Law
\nRethinking Credit for Time Served
\nSeptember
9th
\nLiam Murphy\, NYU
International Responsibility for Global Environment Harm: Collective and Individual
\nSeptember 17th ( Friday 2.0
0-5.00)
\nMoshe Halbertal\, NYU
September 23rd
\nJeff McMahan\, Oxford
September 3
0th
\nEmma Kaufman\, NYU Law
October 7th
\nRick Pildes\,
NYU Law
October 14th
\nSamuel Scheffler\, NYU
Octobe
r 21st
\nSteve Darwall\, Yale\, Philosophy
October 28th
\nChris Kutz\, University of California\, Berkeley\, Law
November
4th
\nAnthony Appiah\, NYU
November 11th
\nJohann Frick\
, University of California\, Berkeley\, Philosophy
November 18th\nTeresa Bejan\, Oxford
\nDecember 2nd
\nRuth Chang\, Oxfor
d
Abstract. The Noble Lie proposed by Plato for the J ust City in Republic III has been much misunderstood. Its agenda is twofol d: to get the citizens of the City to see their society as a natural entit y\, with themselves as all ‘family’ and akin\; and to get the Guardians in particular to make class mobility\, on which the justice of the City depe nds\, a top priority. Since the second is taken to depend on the first\, t he Lie passage amounts to an argument (1) that the survival of a just comm unity depends on the existence of social solidarity between elite and mass \, which allows for full class mobility and genuine meritocracy\; (2) that this solidarity in turn depends on an ideology of natural unity\; and (3) that such ideologies are always false. So the Lie really is a lie\, but a necessary one\; as such it poses an awkward ethical problem for Plato and \, if he is right\, for our own societies as well.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T173000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom\, possibly in person @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rachel Barney (U Toronto)\, “The Ethics and Politics of Plato’s Nob le Lie” URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rachel-barney-u-toronto- the-ethics-and-politics-of-platos-noble-lie/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7755@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/cornelwestimperialdecay DESCRIPTION:Please join Cornel West\, 2021-2022 Presidential Visiting Scholar at The New School\, for a publ ic in-person lecture\, “Philosophy in Our Time of Imperial Decay.”
\nWelcome by Dwight A. McBride\, New School President
\nModerated by Simon Critchley\, H
ans Jonas Professor of Philosophy
PLEASE NOTE: Proof of va ccination and a booster are required for campus access\; no exceptions wil l be granted. You must remain masked during the event. You will receive ad ditional information about this closer to the event date.
\nDr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Sem inary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer\, as well as c ourses in Philosophy of Religion\, African American Critical Thought\, and a wide range of subjects — including but by no means limited to\, the cla ssics\, philosophy\, politics\, cultural theory\, literature\, and music.< /p>\n
Dr. West is the former Professor of the Practice of Public Philoso phy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics\, Race Matters and Democracy Matters\, and for his memoir\, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book\, Black Prophetic Fire \, offers an unflinching look at nineteenth and twentieth-century Afr ican American leaders and their visionary legacies.
\nDr. West is a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show\, CNN\, C-Span and Democracy Now. He has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to kee p alive the legacy of Martin Luther King\, Jr. – a legacy of telling the t ruth and bearing witness to love and justice.
\n“Training the Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith and the Epistolary Novel “
\nLauren Kopajtic
\nFordham University
\nBrooklyn Public Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in the greater Brooklyn area to discuss their work with a general audience\, hosted by the Brooklyn Public Library. Its goal is to raise awareness of t he best work on philosophical questions of interest to Brooklynites\, and to provide a civil space where Brooklynites can reason together about the philosophical questions that matter to them.
\nIf you’re interested in finding out more\, or if you’d like to give a talk\, please e-mail Ian Olasov at his first and last name at gmail.com.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220527T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220527T204500 GEO:+40.672511;-73.9682 LOCATION:Info Commons Lab\, Brookly Public Library @ 10 Grand Army Plaza\, Brooklyn\, NY 11238\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Olufemi Taiwo: On climate colonialism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/olufemi-taiwo-on-climate -colonialism/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:climate\,political\,science END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7779@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:http://ingemarpatricklinden.com/ DESCRIPTION: DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220529T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220529T200000 GEO:+40.67888;-73.968242 LOCATION:Unameable Books @ 615 Vanderbilt Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11238\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Case against Death: Ingemar Patrick Linden URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-case-against-death-i ngemar-patrick-linden/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:death END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7834@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanarchafeminism DESCRIPTION:Book Panel with:
\nChiara Bottici (NSSR a nd Lang College)\, Judith Butler (UC Berkeley and NSSR) and Romy Opperman (NSSR a nd Lang College).
\nAbstract:
\nHow can we b e sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How can we en visage a feminism that doesn’t turn into yet another tool for oppression? By arguing that there is no single arche explaining the oppression of wome n and LGBTQI+ people\, Chiara Bottici proposes a radical anarchafeminist p hilosophy inspired by two major claims: that there is something specific t o the oppression of ‘the second sexes’\, and that\, in order to fight that \, we need to untangle all other forms of oppression and the anthropocentr ism they inhabit. On the basis of a Spinozist philosophy of transindividua lity\, Anarchafeminism calls for a decolonial and deimperial attitude and for a renewed awareness of the somatic communism connecting all different life forms on the planet. In this revolutionary vision\, feminism does not mean the liberation of the lucky few\, but liberation of the planet from both capitalist exploitation and an anthropocentric politics of domination . Either the entire planet\, or none of us will be free.
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External visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outli ned here: https://www.newschool.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors< /a>.
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Audience members must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and booster if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.
\nSponsored by the NSSR Philosophy Department & The Gende r and Sexualities Studies Institute (GSSI)
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanarch afeminism.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Book Panel: Chiara Bottici\, Anarchafeminism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/book-panel-chiara-bottic i-anarchafeminism/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:feminism\,gender\,political\,sexuality X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanarchafemini sm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7824@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://fordham-soc-pol-philosophy.weebly.com/ DESCRIPTION:Abstract:
\nAs a specific form of rig hts insecurity the revocability of reproductive rights manifests contradic tory understandings (privative and productive) of the political status of pregnancy.
\nI ask how and why we should understand reproductive rig hts as revocable\, giving a broad meaning to the term “revocability\,” and suggesting a conjoined vocabulary that includes conditionality\, exceptio nality\, and disqualifying qualification.
\nI ask: what kind of gram mar might help us understand more specifically how the concurrent action o f conflicting combinations of power (such as sovereignty\, discipline\, se curity\, necropower\, and neoliberal expectation) coordinate together in r elation to reproductive rights-bearing\, and how heterogeneous combination s of power also produce a mutual disruptiveness\, even auto-critique\, man ifesting as conflictual embodiment.
\nExternal visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newschoo l.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors.
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Audienc e members must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and boost er if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philosophy colloquiumpennydeutscher#rsvp.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221020T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Revokable Rights and their Grammar of Power: Post Roe\, Post Foucau lt. Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern U) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/revokable-rights-and-the ir-grammar-of-power-post-roe-post-foucault-penelope-deutscher-northwestern -u/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:feminism\,language\,political X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutsche r#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7880@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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-7894@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2022/11/8/social-and-politi cal-philosophy-workshop-michael-omoge-alberta-epistemic-injustices-in-phil osophical-practices-african-and-western DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Social and Political Philosophy Workshop
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T183000 GEO:+40.77103;-73.985096 LOCATION:Plaza View Room\, 12th Floor @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023 \, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Epistemic Injustices in Philosophical Practices: African and Wester n. Michael Omoge (Alberta) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/epistemic-injustices-in- philosophical-practices-african-and-western-michael-omoge-alberta/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7896@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar DESCRIPTION:Book 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-7917@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2023/1/31/fordham-workshop- in-social-and-political-philosophy-with-lynn-huffer DESCRIPTION:Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy presents Lynn Huffer\, “ Anthropocene Extinction: Ethics in 99 Fragments”
\nMeetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022-23\, we will hol d hybrid meetings: participants can attend in-person at the Lincoln Center campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If interested in atte nding\, contact jeflynn@fordham.edu< /a>\, sahaddad@fordham.edu\, eislekel@fordham.edu\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zoom details will b e sent out prior to each meeting.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230131T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230131T184500 GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539 LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Lynn Huffer\, “ Anthropocene Extinction: Ethics in 99 Fragments” URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/lynn-huffer-anthropocene -extinction-ethics-in-99-fragments/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7954@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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-7938@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/gwengrewal DESCRIPTION:Book discussion on Gwenda-lin Grewal’s\, Thinking A bout Death in Plato’s Euthydemus. A Close Reading and New Translation (OUP 2022)
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Speakers:
\nGwenda-lin Grewal (NSSR)
\nCinzia A
rruzza (NSSR)
\nNicholas Pappas (CUNY)
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Thinking of Death places Plato’s Euthydemus among the dialo gues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philo sophy’s fate arrives in the form of Socrates’ encounter with the two-heade d sophist pair\, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus\, who appear as if they are t he ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes’ Thinkery. The pair vacillate bet ween choral ode and rhapsody\, as Plato vacillates between referring to th em in the dual and plural number in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal’s close readi ng explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair’s back-and-fort h arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersi ve remove from reality\, thinking simulates death even as it cannot concei ve of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme \, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of bei ng disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy’s t enuous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration through Crito’s implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the At henian laws-and in the drama itself\, which appears to take place in Hades . Thinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thi nking: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city’ s sophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities\, nuances\, and wit in ways that substantially expand the reader’s access to the dialogue’s myste ries.
\nThe 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-7939@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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-7976@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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-7926@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2023/3/21/fordham-workshop- in-social-and-political-philosophy-with-desiree-valentine DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Ph ilosophy.
\nMeetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 202 2-23\, we will hold hybrid meetings: participants can attend in-person at the Lincoln Center campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If interested in attending\, contact je flynn@fordham.edu\, sahaddad@for dham.edu\, eislekel@fordham.edu< /a>\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Z oom details will be sent out prior to each meeting.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230321T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230321T183000 GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539 LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Desiree Valentine URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/desiree-valentine/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7998@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumfeminismas DESCRIPTION:The speaker will explain the meaning of concepts of movement s such as communism\, liberalism\, and republicanism. Then she will argue how these concepts were used as guides to praxis by focusing first on repu blicanism and Kant. Finally\, she will articulate her concept of feminist imaginaries focusing on how the sediments of historical time have enabled different struggles for emancipation.
\n“Feminism as a Concept of Movement: the Sediments of the Historical Reorganization of F eminist Imaginaries” presented by Mari a Pia Lara
\nDTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Feminism as a Concept of Movement: the Sediments of the Historical Reorganization of Feminist Imaginaries. Maria Pia Lara URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/feminism-as-a-concept-of -movement-the-sediments-of-the-historical-reorganization-of-feminist-imagi naries-maria-pia-lara/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:feminism\,political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7927@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2023/4/18/fordham-workshop- in-social-and-political-philosophy-with-elvira-basevich DESCRIPTION:
Presented by the Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Ph ilosophy
\nMeetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022 -23\, we will hold hybrid meetings: participants can attend in-person at t he Lincoln Center campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If i nterested in attending\, contact jef lynn@fordham.edu\, sahaddad@ford ham.edu\, eislekel@fordham.edu a>\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zo om details will be sent out prior to each meeting.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T183000 GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539 LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Care Ethics at the Intersection of Race: Conceptualizing Women’s Ca re Work in the Black Counter-Public. Elvira Basevich URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/care-ethics-at-the-inter section-of-race-conceptualizing-womens-care-work-in-the-black-counter-publ ic-elvira-basevich/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8023@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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-8029@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/lawphilosophy/colloquium DESCRIPTION:Colloquium 2023
\nProfessors Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy
\nSeptember 7th
\nBonni
e Honig\, Brown University
\nFatal Forgiveness: Eurip
ides\, Austin\, Arendt\, Cavell
September 14th
\nJeremy W
aldron\, NYU
September 21st
\nAlice Crary\, The New School
September 28th
\nDavid Enoch\, University of Oxford
Oct
ober 5th
\nGina Schouten\, Harvard University
October 12th
\nDaryl Levinson\, NYU
October 19th
\nBarbara Levenbook\,
North Carolina State University
October 26th
\nRob Howse\, NY
U
November 2nd
\nTrevor Morrison\, NYU
November 9th\nJohn Goldberg\, Harvard University
\nNovember 16th
\nCour
tney Cox\, Fordham University
November 30th
\nJuliana Bidadan
ure\, Stanford University
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The Colloquium in Legal\, Poli tical\, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nag el in 1987. It is the original model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The C olloquium is now convened by Liam Murphy\, Samuel Scheffler\, and Jeremy W aldron\, two of whom will host in any given year.
\nEach week on Thu rsday a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group\, which consists of students\, faculty from the Law School an d other departments of NYU\, and faculty from other universities. The choi ce of subject is left to the paper’s author\, within the general boundarie s of the Colloquium’s subjects\, and the discussions are therefore not con nected by any structured theme for the term as a whole\, though in past ye ars certain central topics were canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. Th e Colloquium aims\, not to pursue any particular subject\, but to explore new work in considerable depth and so allow students to develop their own skill in theoretical analysis.
\nEach week’s paper is posted at leas t a week in advance on this page\, and participants are expected to have r ead it.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T190000 GEO:+40.730147;-73.998916 LOCATION:Lester Pollock Colloquium Room\, Furman Hall\, 9th flr @ 245 Sulli van St\, New York\, NY 10012\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T160000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Colloquium in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philosophy URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/colloquium-in-legal-poli tical-and-social-philosophy-9/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:legal\,political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8076@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://www.fordham.edu/academics/departments/philosophy/department -life/events/ DESCRIPTION:The founder of phenomenology is neither known as a political philosopher nor as an intellectual who publicly expressed his political v iews. However\, this should not lead us to think that Husserl himself or h is thought were completely “unpolitical”. In this talk\, our main claim is that two things are distinctive of Husserl’s approach to politics: First\ , it is of utmost importance for him that politics should be guided by “id eas”\, which means that it should not just engage in realpolitik\, but be regulated by an idealistic\, maybe even utopian picture of how the state a nd the community should be organized. Second\, Husserl grounds “the politi cal”\, i.e.\, the existential basis for organized politics\, in a phenomen ology of communities.
\nIn the final part of the talk\, we will dist inguish different strands in the reception of Husserl’s political philosop hy: one group that creatively expands on Husserl’s ideas on the state\, co mmunity\, and home- and alienworld\; one that expresses reservations about whether Husserlian phenomenology\, for methodological reasons\, at all al lows for genuine political thought\; and one that uses analyses or methods that Husserl developed in a non-political context and employs them in a p oliticizing and critical manner.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231010T183000 GEO:+40.861457;-73.885277 LOCATION:Flom Auditorium Rose Hill Campus @ Bronx County\, Bronx\, NY 10458 \, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The political Husserl: Idealist politics and communal spirit (Dan Z ahavi & Sophie Loidolt) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-political-husserl-id ealist-politics-and-communal-spirit-dan-zahavi-sophie-loidolt/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8064@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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-8052@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/marianaortega#rsvp.
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 BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8124@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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-8143@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/rosauramartinez DESCRIPTION:
Analyzing the Mexican case of collectives of women currently looking for their disappeared relatives due to an escalation of violence related to the so-called War against Drugs that former president Felipe Ca lderón (2006–2012) started\, this essay develops a new conception of poli tics grounded not only on rational thought but also on affect. These colle ctives put forward a materialistic\, feminist\, and performative mode of p olitics. Publicly lamenting their losses and literally digging bodies out of Mexican land\, these women perform and recover the citizenship that the Mexican state has de facto disavowed of them. I propose conceptualizing t hem as “bad victims” since their taking action does not take away their pa in\; rather\, the public exposure of their lament actually turns them into political agents.
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Bio:
\nRosaura Martínez Ruiz is Full Professor of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a member of the National System of Researc hers\, level III. She was coordinator of the research projects “Philosophe rs after Freud” and “Philosophy and Psychoanalysis as Critical Borders of the Political.” She is the author of Freud y Derrida: escritura y psiq ue (2013) and Eros: Más allá de la pulsión de muerte (2017). This last book has been translated into English and published by Fordham University Press (2021). She has coordinated several collective books and published articles on the intersection between psychoanalysis and philosop hy and on the field of the psychopolitical. In 2017 she was awarded the Re search Prize in Humanities by the Mexican Academy of Sciences\; in 2019 sh e was a Fulbright Scholar\; in 2021 she received the Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz UNAM recognition\; and during the Fall 2023 she was the Tinker Visiti ng Professor at Columbia University. She is part of the advisory board of the “International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs” coordinated by Judith Butler.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/ rosauramartinez.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240201T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240201T190000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Mexican Antigones: In Search of a Stolen Mourning\, presented by Ro saura Martinez URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/mexican-antigones-in-sea rch-of-a-stolen-mourning-presented-by-rosaura-martinez/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Latin\,political X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/rosauramartinez END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8109@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://fordham-soc-pol-philosophy.weebly.com/ 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 BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8154@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYC Wittgenstein Workshop
\nIf you wi ll be visiting from outside the New School\, email the workshop to inform the security desk.
\nRoom 1101\, 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003 p> DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240329T180000 GEO:+40.736924;-73.992688 LOCATION:Room 1101 @ Albert and Vera List Academic Center\, New York\, NY 1 0003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Television with Cavell in Mind: the Ethics and Politics of Popular Series. Sandra Laugier URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/television-with-cavell-i n-mind-the-ethics-and-politics-of-popular-series-sandra-laugier/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,political\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8141@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z 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).
\nTickets: h ttps://event.newschool.edu/stephanesymons.
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 BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8111@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T153826Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://fordham-soc-pol-philosophy.weebly.com/ DESCRIPTION: