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-7656@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184537Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/icalrepea t.detail/2021/10/08/624/-/cognitive-science-of-religion-workshop DESCRIPTION:
Please note: All events are virtual until o therwise stated.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211008 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211011 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cognitive Science of Religion Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-of-rel igion-workshop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cognitive science\,religion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7730@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184537Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/icalrepea t.detail/2022/03/25/678/-/cognitive-science-of-religion-in-philosophy-an-i nterdisciplinary-workshop DESCRIPTION:Location TBA
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220327 GEO:+40.496976;-74.446506 LOCATION:Zoom\, possibly in person @ 111 Somerset St\, New Brunswick\, NJ 0 8901\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cognitive Science of Religion in Philosophy: An Interdisciplinary W orkshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cognitive-science-of-rel igion-in-philosophy-an-interdisciplinary-workshop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cognitive science\,religion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7735@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184537Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/icalrepea t.detail/2022/05/20/639/-/rutgers-religious-epistemology-conference DESCRIPTION:Contact Toby Bollig
\nTBA
\nLocation TBD
Susan Neiman develops in Evil in Modern Thought: An Alte rnative History of Philosophy (2002\, Princeton: Princeton University Press) a watershed perspective on the longstanding problem of evil\, the perniciously difficult to satisfy “need to find order within those appeara nces so unbearable that they threaten reason’s ability to go on.” The book thereby also presents a radically new perspective on traditional debates within metaphysics. On the occasion of its twentieth anniversary\, we gath er to celebrate her accomplishment and to advance the research program it reflects. Participants will include\, in addition to Neiman herself: Annal ise Acorn\, Frederick Beiser\, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer\, Omri Boehm\, Dan Bru dney\, Caroline Bynum\, Lorraine Daston\, Michael Della Rocca\, Wendy Doni ger\, Wolfram Ellenberger\, John Faithful Hamer\, Carey Harrison\, Patrici a Kitcher\, Philip Kitcher\, Christia Mercer\, Cornel West\, Allen Wood\, and James Wood.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221003 GEO:+40.501353;-74.449403 LOCATION:Hageman Hall - New Brunswick Theological Seminary @ 35 Seminary Pl \, New Brunswick\, NJ 08901\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Evil in Modern Thought at Twenty Workshop URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/evil-in-modern-thought-a t-twenty-workshop/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:evil\,metaphysics\,religion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7842@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184537Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/pvi-conference DESCRIPTION:Distinguished Guest:
\nPeter van Inwag
en (University of Notre Dame)
Speakers:
\nAa
ron Segal (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
\nAlex Rosenberg (Duke Uni
versity)
\nAnna Marmodoro (Durham University & Oxford University)
\nBarry Loewer (Rutgers University)
\nBrian Leftow (Rutgers Univers
ity)
\nDavid Builes (Princeton University)
\nDean Zimmerman (Rut
gers University)
\nErnest Sosa (Rutgers University)
\nJohn Hawth
orne (University of Southern California & Australian Catholic University)<
br />\nLaurie Paul (Yale University)
\nTed Sider (Rutgers University)
\nTrenton Merricks (University of Virginia)
The tentative sc hedule can be found here.
\nThis event is sponsored by the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion and the Department of Philosophy
\nRegistration
\nTo register\ , please inform Esther Goh (esther.goh@rutgers.edu) that you plan to attend.
\nNote: Space is limited\, and non-Rutg ers attendees must provide proof of vaccination (you can email this to Est her or show us on the day itself) or a negative PCR test.
\nTravelling to Rutgers (Plane & Train)
The cl osest airport is EWR (Newark Liberty International Airport). When you are at Newark Airport\, just follow the signs to the monorail “airtrain”. The airtrain will take you to the NJ transit train stop\, and then you can tak e the NJ Transit train (Northeast Corridor Line) to New Brunswick station (It costs $14\; takes approx. 45mins).
\nAnother two nearby airports are JFK (John F. Kennedy International Airport) and LGA (LaGuardia Airpor t). Both are in New York. It takes 1hr+ by taxi or 2hr+ by public transpor t to come to Rutgers.
\nHotels
\nThe closest hotels are “Hyatt Regency New Brunswick” (6mins walk from tra in station) and “The Heldrich Hotel and Conference Center” (8mins walk fro m train station). You can also check out “Rutgers University Inn and Confe rence Center” which is further away.
\nThe best rates for the Hyatt can often be found on hotels.com.
\nQuestions
\nFor any inquiries\, please contact Esther Goh at esther.goh@rutgers.edu.
\n(If you are a guest speake
r\, please contact Frederick Choo at frederick.choo@rut
gers.edu for inquiries instead.)
Contact Frederick Choo\, fredrick.choo@rut gers.edu
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230317 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230319 GEO:+40.49747;-74.44717 LOCATION:Seminar Room 524B @ The Gateway\, 106 Somerset St\, New Brunswick\ , NJ 08901\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rutgers Analytic Theology Seminar URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rutgers-analytic-theolog y-seminar/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:religion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7913@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184537Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Rutgers CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/106913 DESCRIPTION:The Center for Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers University is pleased to host an in-person\, working-papers conference on the Psychol ogy and Epistemology of Religious Experience. We are seeking abstracts (15 0-350 words) from those interested in participating. The tentative date is 15-16 April 2023. And the deadline for submission is 28 February 2023. Pa rticipants with accepted submissions will be given hotel accommodations an d a modest honorarium to help defray travel costs.
\nTheme
\nThe overall theme of the workshop is the Psychology and Epistemology of Religious Experiences. Philosophers of religion frequently assign reli gious experiences important epistemic roles\, such as justifying religious beliefs. But religious experiences of the kind philosophers are intereste d in are also studied in other fields as well\, such as psychology and rel igious studies. However\, the psychology and epistemology of religious exp eriences are presumably not independent\; studying them together is likely to be insightful in various ways. To that end\, we are interested in brin ging together scholars working on the psychology and epistemology of relig ious experiences. Potential topics include:
\n· The nature of religious experiences
\n· Taxonomies of religious experiences< /p>\n
· Potential psychological mechanisms and accounts of religio us experience
\n· The relation between perception and religiou s experiences
\n· The epistemology of religious experience
\n· The interactions between the psychology and epistemology of r eligious experience
\n· The relation of cognitive science of r eligion to religious experience
\nAny proposed papers on these topic s\, or similar ones\, are welcome. Papers exploring interdisciplinary appr oaches are also welcome.
\nInstructions
\nPlease submit an abstract (150-350 words)\, long abstract (350-650 words)\, or full pap er to Timothy Perrine at tp654@scarletmail.rutgers.edu. Submission should be prepa red for blind review. In a separate document please provide your name\, in stitutional affiliation (if applicable)\, and contact information. Submiss ion deadline is 28 February\; acceptances will be decided by 5 March\; and the workshop will be held 15-16 April.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230415 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230417 GEO:+40.49747;-74.44717 LOCATION:Center for Philosophy of Religions\, Rutgers @ The Gateway\, 106 S omerset St\, New Brunswick\, NJ 08901\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Psychology and Epistemology of Religious Experiences Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/psychology-and-epistemol ogy-of-religious-experiences-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,epistemology\,mind\,religion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8014@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184537Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://www.telosinstitute.net/conference2024/ DESCRIPTION:Democracy 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-7756@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184537Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2022/3/22/suarez-lecture-br ian-leftow DESCRIPTION:“What is Sin?“
\nBrian Leftow
\nWillian Palstion Chair for the Philosophy of Religion
\nRutgers University
\nPlease 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.
\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-8138@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T184537Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1 DESCRIPTION:
Serving as a response to Aimé Césaire’s call for a universal filled with particularity from his infamous resignation from the French C ommunist Party in 1956\, I focus on the role of culture for a project of u niversal emancipation. To do so\, I follow Sylvia Wynter’s statement that the Négritude movement is an example of a universal and cultural project. Recalling Césaire’s words in “Return to My Native Land\,” culture that ser ves universal emancipation must be “free of the desire to tame but familia r with the play of the world.” To this end\, I develop a conception of cul ture that is both local and universal\, that centers on the importance of what it means to be human\, as life\, as being\, and as experience by read ing culture as necessarily local\, collective\, disenchanted\, and related to play.
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Bio:
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Elisa beth Paquette is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Univ ersity at Buffalo\, SUNY. Her book\, titled Universal Emancipation: Ra ce beyond Badiou (University of Minnesota Press\, 2020)\, engages Fre nch political theorist Alain Badiou’s discussion of Négritude and the Hait ian Revolution to develop a nuanced critique of his theory of emancipation . Currently\, she is working on a monograph on the writings of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter. She is also the Founder of the Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop\, which takes place annually during the summer.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1< /a>.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Culture & Freedom: Thinking Universality with Aimé Césaire and Sylv ia Wynter presented by Elisabeth Paquette URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/culture-freedom-thinking -universality-with-aime-cesaire-and-sylvia-wynter-presented-by-elisabeth-p aquette/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:culture\,freedom X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/cultureandfreedom1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR