BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//208.94.116.123//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7950@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T194306Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://sofheyman.org/events/conception-and-its-discontents DESCRIPTION:
A conference hosted by the Motherhood and Technology Working Group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference on the theme of “Conception and Its Discontents.”
\nMedical technologies have radically transformed the biological and social experience of motherhood. Advances in genomic an d reproductive care\, the circulation of novel kinship structures\, the en trenchment of existing global networks of power and privilege\, and the po litics of contested bodily sites mark this emerging constellation.
\nTechnological advancements have in particular impacted not just the under standing of conception\, but the very process by which a human embryo is c reated\, implanted\, and matured. Egg freezing\, embryo storage\, IVF\, an d surrogacy afford women new freedoms in choosing when and how to become m others\, while also raising troubling questions about the pressures of cap italism and the extension of worklife\, as well as the global inequalities present in the experience of motherhood. In addition\, technologies have arisen allowing for unprecedented control over not just who becomes a moth er\, but what kind of embryo is allowed to be implanted and to grow. Techn ologies such as CRISPR and NIPT have re-introduced the question of eugenic s\, radically shifting the very epistemology of motherhood and what it mea ns to be “expecting.” And contemporary abortion debates draw on technology in order to make arguments both for and against access\, with imaging tec hnologies being instrumentalized in the building of a sympathetic case for the unborn\, and the very notion of a “heartbeat bill” reliant on the mis reading of technologies for measuring fetal activity.
\nWhile these problems are urgent today\, questions of conception and technology are by no means recent developments. The 18th century saw a flourishing of philos ophical and scientific theories regarding the start of human life and its formation within the womb. Such theories relied on modern technologies\, s uch as autopsy\, to atomize and visualize the body. In the 19th and 20th c enturies\, eugenic medical science produced theories of reproductive diffe rence between differing racial and social groups\, leading to forced steri lization laws in both the US and in Germany. This long history of racializ ing the rhetoric of fertility and motherhood continues to influence politi cal debates on immigration and demographic changes in the present.
\nFull conference details and schedule to come.
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How can we know what it’s like to be someone else? Cl assical Indian philosophers found the answer in theater\, arguing that it’ s not just a form of entertainment\, but a source of knowledge of other mi nds. In this talk\, I’ll explore how this theme is developed in Śrī Śaṅkuk a (c. 850 CE) and examine the reasons his views were rejected in the later tradition. I’ll argue that those reasons are unsound\, and that we can se e why by turning to contemporary studies of the relationship between knowl edge and luck.
\nJonardon Ganeri is the Bimal. K. M atilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is a philosopher whose work draws on a variety of philosophical tradit ions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind\, metaphysics an d epistemology. His books include Attention\, Not Self (2017)\, a study of early Buddhist theories of attention\; The Concealed Art of the Soul (2012)\, an analysis of the idea of a search for one’s true self\; Virtual Subjects\, Fugitive Selves (2020)\, an analysis of Fernando Pessoa’s philosophy of self\; and Inwardness: An Outsiders’ Guide (2021)\, a review of the concept of inwardness in literature\, film\, poetry\, and philosophy across cultures. He joined the Fellowship o f the British Academy in 2015\, and won the Infosys Prize in the Humanitie s the same year\, the only philosopher to do so.
\nThis series is cur ated and co-presented by Brooklyn Public Philosophers\, aka Ian Olasov.
\nGenerative art made with algorithms has existed since the ea rly days of computing in the 1960s. In recent years\, a new strand of gene rative art has emerged: AI-generated art\, which leverages the recent prog ress of artificial intelligence to create artworks. Unlike old-fashioned g enerative art\, AI-generated art is not produced with an explicit set of p rogramming instructions provided by human artists\; instead\, it involves training an algorithm on a dataset so that it can later produce artworks ( images\, music\, or video clips) using its own internal parameters that ha ve not been explicitly defined by a human. This process raises fascinating questions at the intersection of computer science\, art history\, and the philosophy of art. At a superficial level of analysis\, AI-generated art seems to offload much of the creative impetus of art production to the mac hine\, requiring minimal intervention from the artist. On closer inspectio n\, however\, it involves a novel process of curation at two key stages: u pstream in the selection of the dataset on which the algorithm is trained\ , and downstream in the selection of the outputs that should qualify as ar tworks. Instead of replacing human artists with computers\, AI-generated a rt can be understood as a new kind of collaboration between mind and machi ne\, both of which contribute to the aesthetic value of the final artwork.
\nThis seminar will bring together AI artists and philosophers to e xplore the significance of this new mode of art production. It will discus s the implications of AI-generated art for the definition of art\, the nat ure of the relationship between artists and tools\, the process of digital curation\, and whether AI systems can be as creative as humans.
\nFree and open to the public. Registration is required via Eventbrite. Re gistered attendees will receive an event link shortly before the seminar b egins.
\nThis event is hosted by the Presidential Scho lars in Society and Neuroscience as part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series.
\nThe Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability ac commodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event\, please con tact us at scienceandsocie ty@columbia.edu or (212) 853-1612 at least 10 days in advance of the e vent. For more information\, please visit the campus accessibility webpage.
\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-ai- is-changing-artistic-creation-tickets-404716165947.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T153000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Online @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:How AI Is Changing Artistic Creation URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/how-ai-is-changing-artis tic-creation/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,computation\,technology X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-ai-is-changing-artistic-crea tion-tickets-404716165947 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8107@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T194306Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.columbia.edu/events/artificial-history-natu ral-intelligence-thinking-machines-descartes-digital-age DESCRIPTION:David Bates\, in conversation with Stefanos Geroulano and Joanna Stalnaker
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e are both in control of and controlled by our bodies—autonomous and yet a
utomatic. This entanglement\, according to David W. Bates\, emerged in the
seventeenth century when humans first built and compared themselves with
machines. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant to Turing\, Bates
reveals how time and time again technological developments offered new wa
ys to imagine how the body’s automaticity worked alongside the mind’s auto
nomy. Tracing these evolving lines of thought\, David Bates discusses his
new book\, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence\, which
offers a new theorization of the human as a being that is dependent on tec
hnology and produces itself as an artificial automaton without a natural\,
outside origin.
\nDavid Bates is Professor of Rheto
ric at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on the
history of legal and political ideas\, and the relationship between techno
logy\, science\, and the history of human cognition.
Stefa nos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and Prof essor of European Intellectual History at NYU. He usually writes about con cepts that weave together modern understandings of time\, the human\, and the body. His new book is a history of the concepts\, images\, and science s of human origins since 1770\, forthcoming from Liveright Press as Th e Invention of Prehistory: Empire\, Violence\, and Our Obsession with Huma n Origins in 2024.
\nJoanna Stalnaker< /strong> is Professor of French at Columbia. She works on Enlightenment ph ilosophy and literature\, with a recent interest in how women shaped the E nlightenment. Her new book\, The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philos ophers Facing Death\, will be published by Yale University Press in t he Walpole series.
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