BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//208.94.116.123//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7763@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T062657Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://withinenvironments2022.weebly.com/ DESCRIPTION:
Since Plato\, western philosophy ha s been set down a path paved by a disavowal of the sensuous\, bracketed ma terial bodies\, and delimited aesthetic conceptions\, leaving human beings and their built environments separated from the natural world. Such exclu sions have left philosophy ill-equipped to deal with the various environme ntal crises we currently face\, as economic rationality and utilitarian lo gic further de-animate the world and sharpen the human/nature distinction. Even the concept “environment” often\, and ironically\, brings with it im plicit anthropocentric assumptions\, conceptualizing\, and thereby separat ing\, the human as independent from the surrounding world and reinforcing the human/nature divide. As a result\, our (mis)understandings of “nature” and “environment” may make us insensitive to and perpetuate\, rather than address\, climate change and other environmental catastrophes. To avoid a mbiguities and clarify our understanding\, we must ask: what role does Nat ure play within our theories and practices concerning so-called Environmen tal Philosophy? Furthermore\, what spaces\, practices\, and questions are made possible when we broaden our understanding of “environment” to includ e a more robust conceptualization of the natural world and how the human b eing ought to be contextualized within it?
\nThis conference asks ho w we might reorient the language and practices of philosophy in a way that can enable us to adequately respond to ongoing environmental crises. As a starting point\, we propose a need to reimagine the concepts “human\,” “n ature\,” and “environment\,” as well as the reciprocal relations that cons titute them. To recognize humans as natural organisms\, we must reevaluate the sensuous\, the material\, and the aesthetic and the roles they play i n our attempts to construct\, understand\, and preserve our environment(s) . How should we make sense of our practices and our relations to those wit h whom we share our surroundings? How can we re-situate the human with/in the environment? Do we have the right tools to guide these investigations? How might philosophy look beyond itself—to literature\, architecture\, mu sic\, film\, design—to better bring Environment\, and thus the world\, int o view? In the spirit of this\, we invite paper as well as project submiss ions from current graduate students in any discipline.
\nPos sible Topics:
\n● Environmental Aesthetics: Re-Consi dering Beauty + the Sublime
\n● Environmental Justice + Resto rative Justice + Transformative Justice
\n● Environmental Eth ics + Sustainable Practices
\n● Diversity + Biodiversity
\n● Capitalism and Climate
\n● Eco-phenomenology
\n● Eco-deconstruction
\n● Environmental Racism/Ra cist Environments
\n● Ecofeminist conceptions of nature
\n● Land Rights and Property Relations
\n● Posthumani sm + Object Ontologies
\n● Afrofuturism + Technological Utopi as
\n● Environmental Ethics In Narratives
\n● Ma stery of Nature in Philosophy
\n● Anarcho-primitivism
\n● Queer and Trans Ecologies
\n● Local and Global Ecol ogies
\n● Regionalisms and Globalisms in the Ecological Imagi nation
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Confirmed Conference Key notes:
\nSandra Shapshay\, CUNY Graduate Center\, New York< /p>\n
Emanuele Coccia\, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EH ESS)\, Paris
\nDates and Location:
\nThis con ference will be held at the New School for Social Research in New York Cit y from Thursday\, April 14\, to Saturday\, April 16. While we (tentatively ) plan to hold the conference primarily in-person we would also like to pr ovide a hybrid option for those who would prefer to participate remotely. Following the conference\, on Sunday\, April 17\, all participants and att endees are invited to participate in a conference hike in Cold Spring\, NY (about an hour and a half north of NYC and accessible by the Metro North commuter train).
\nCall for Papers: Submission Procedure:
\nPlease submit complete papers (Word Limit: 3500) and an abs tract of 250 words or less by January 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) or PDF to WithInEnvironments@gmail.com. Please prepare your submission for blind review by removing any identifying information from the body of the paper. In your email please include your name\, affiliation\, and paper t itle. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 15.
\nPlease submit a project description (Word Limit: 1000) by December 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) to WithInEnvironments@gmail.com\, as well as:
\nFor Visual Arts projects: submit 5 images of your work as .jpeg.
\nFor P erforming Arts projects: submit video/ audio of your work in .mp4 format p>\n
Please prepare your submission for blind review by removing any ide ntifying information. In your email please include your name\, affiliation \, and project title. Notification of acceptance will be sent by January 1 5.
\nIf you have any questions please email WithInEnvironments@gmail.com
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With responses from Mark Siderits (Illinois State University)
\nABSTRACT: Budd hist philosophers often draw a distinction between two different kinds of truth: conventional truth (saṃvṭi-satya) and ultimate truth (paramārtha-sa tya). Abhidharma Buddhists philosophers typically understand this distinct ion in terms of an ontological distinction between two different kinds of entities: ultimately real entities (paramārtha-sat) and conventionally rea l entities (saṃvṛti-sat). Similar to contemporary philosophical discussion s about ordinary objects\, Buddhist philosophers debate the ontological st atus of conventional entities and the semantics of discourse concerning th em. Mark Siderits (2015\, 2021\, 2022) has influentially argued for an eli minitivist position he calls “Buddhist reductionism” that interprets the A bhidharma position as one that denies conventional entities exist but that retains discourse involving apparent reference to them. However\, in a re cent article Kris McDaniel (2019)\, a prominent defender of ontological pl uralism\, challenges that view by proposing that the Abhidharma Buddhist d istinction between conventional truth and ultimate truth be “defined up” f rom a more basic distinction between two different ways an entity can exis t: conventionally or ultimately. In this paper I argue that Saṃghabhadra’s account of conventional reality and truth does lends itself well to McDan iel’s proposal but I will also argue that the account of conventional and ultimate truth that results differs in important ways from the models he o ffers. I will end by offering a modification of McDaniel’s account of conv entional truth that is derived from Saṃghabhadra’s pluralist ontology. Tha t view will\, unlike the views suggested by both Siderits and McDaniel\, a llow for there to be ultimate truths about what is conventionally true.
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Dinner will be kindly offered by the Columbia University Seminars.
\nRSVP is required for dinner. Please email Lucilla with eating requirements at lm3335@columb ia.edu.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220930T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100 27\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Buddhist Conventional Truth and Ontological Pluralism. Laura P. Gue rrero (William & Mary) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/buddhist-conventional-tr uth-and-ontological-pluralism-laura-p-guerrero-william-mary/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,metaphysics\,truth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8049@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240329T062657Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/daniellecelermajeralicecrary DESCRIPTION:The violence already systematically inflicted on other earth beings (animals and the environment)\, and intensifying today intensified through ecological collapse and climate change\, is ‘in plain sight’. Yet entrenched epistemic and institutional barriers impede its being register ed in ways proportionate to its gravity. While in recent years\, philosoph ers and social theorists have done a good job at explaining why\, to use t wo familiar example\, glass walls to abattoirs don’t stop people eating me at\, and data on climate change does not catalyse mass mobilization\, we h ave been less adept at delivering our analysis in ways that both illuminat e and transform the many sites of dangerous inertia.
\nThrough the e xperience of living through the Black Summer wildfires\, Danielle Celermajer decided to philosophize the impact of climate catastro phe on animals and the environment through the genre of creative non-ficti on. The result was Summertime\; Reflections on a Vanishing Future \, a book that grounds arguments about what ethics and responsibility to o ther earth beings means in the era of climate catastrophe in the immediate experiences of the members of the multispecies community with whom she li ves. In this conversation\, Celermajer and Professor Alice Crary strong> will take Summertime as their starting point to reflect on questio ns of ethics\, language\, and the responsibility of theorists in the midst of ecological collapse.
\nBios:
\nDa nielle Celermajer is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney\, Deputy Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and leads the Multispecies Justice project. Her books include Sins of the Nation an d the Ritual of Apology and The Prevention of Torture\, A Cultura l History of Law in the Modern Age\, The Subject of Human Rights< /em>\, and Institutional Transformations. Through the experience of living through the black summer bushfires with a multispecies community \, she began writing about a new crime of our age\, Omnicide. Her book Sum mertime\; Reflections on a Vanishing Future (Penguin Random House\, 2021) considers the more-than-human experience of climate catastrophe.
\nT ickets: https://event.newschool.edu/daniel lecelermajeralicecrary#rsvp.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Writing Other Earth Beings into Ethics in the Age of Climate Catast rophe. Danielle Celermajer URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/writing-other-earth-bein gs-into-ethics-in-the-age-of-climate-catastrophe-danielle-celermajer/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:environmental X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/daniellecelermajeralicecrary#rsvp END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR