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:20240328T095710Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/politicalconcepts10thanniversary DESCRIPTION:A conference celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Political Concepts Journal.\nFriday\, February 4th\n1:30 – Lay of the Land\nAnn Stol er\nJacques Lezra\nJ.M. Bernstein\nMichael Sawyer\n2:00 – 4:00 – Panel I\n Emily Apter – Ecosophy\nAxelle Karera – Anthropocene\nModerator: J.M. Bern stein\n4:30 – 6:30 – Panel II\nJacques Lezra – Cop\nRocío Zambrana – Colon iality\nModerator: Susan Buck-Morss\nSaturday\, February 5th\n11:00 – 1:00 – Panel III\nÉtienne Balibar – Communism\nNeni Panourgiá – Dis-Continuiti es\nModerator: Michael Sawyer\n2:00 – 4:00 – Panel IV\nBarbara Nagel – Dom estic Violence\nAndreas Kalyvas – Oligarchy\nModerator: Emily Apter\n4:30 – 6:30 – Panel V\nAdi Ophir – Divine Violence\nAbou Farman – Terminality\n Moderator: Ann Stoler\nRegistered attendees will receive the zoom link via email.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by the Philosophy Department and Anthro pology Department at The New School for Social Research. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220206 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:ZOOM - see site for details @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Political Concepts 10th Anniversary Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/political-concepts-10th- anniversary-conference/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nA conference celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Political Concepts Journal.
\n< p>Friday\, February 4th\n1:30 – Lay of the Land
\nAnn Stoler
\nJacques Lezra
\nJ.M. Bernstein
\nMichael
Sawyer
2:00 – 4:00 – Panel I
\nEmily Apter – Ecosophy
\n
Axelle Karera – Anthropocene
\nModerator: J.M. Bernstein
4:30
– 6:30 – Panel II
\nJacques Lezra – Cop
\nRocío Zambrana – Colo
niality
\nModerator: Susan Buck-Morss
Saturday\, Febr uary 5th
\n11:00 – 1:00 – Panel III
\nÉtienne Balibar
– Communism
\nNeni Panourgiá – Dis-Continuities
\nModerator: Mic
hael Sawyer
2:00 – 4:00 – Panel IV
\nBarbara Nagel – Domestic
Violence
\nAndreas Kalyvas – Oligarchy
\nModerator: Emily Apter
4:30 – 6:30 – Panel V
\nAdi Ophir – Divine Violence
\nA
bou Farman – Terminality
\nModerator: Ann Stoler
Registered a ttendees will receive the zoom link via email.
\nPresented by t he Philosophy Departm ent and Anthrop ology Department at The New School for Social Research.
\nSince Plato\, western philosophy has been set down a path pave d by a disavowal of the sensuous\, bracketed material bodies\, and delimit ed aesthetic conceptions\, leaving human beings and their built environmen ts separated from the natural world. Such exclusions have left philosophy ill-equipped to deal with the various environmental crises we currently fa ce\, as economic rationality and utilitarian logic further de-animate the world and sharpen the human/nature distinction. Even the concept “environm ent” often\, and ironically\, brings with it implicit anthropocentric assu mptions\, conceptualizing\, and thereby separating\, the human as independ ent 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 a nd other environmental catastrophes. To avoid ambiguities and clarify our understanding\, we must ask: what role does Nature play within our theorie s and practices concerning so-called Environmental Philosophy? Furthermore \, what spaces\, practices\, and questions are made possible when we broad en our understanding of “environment” to include a more robust conceptuali zation of the natural world and how the human being ought to be contextual ized within it?
\nThis conference asks how we might reorient the lan guage and practices of philosophy in a way that can enable us to adequatel y respond to ongoing environmental crises. As a starting point\, we propos e a need to reimagine the concepts “human\,” “nature\,” and “environment\, ” as well as the reciprocal relations that constitute them. To recognize h umans as natural organisms\, we must reevaluate the sensuous\, the materia l\, and the aesthetic and the roles they play in our attempts to construct \, understand\, and preserve our environment(s). How should we make sense of our practices and our relations to those with whom we share our surroun dings? 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\, music\, film\, design—to bett er bring Environment\, and thus the world\, into view? In the spirit of th is\, we invite paper as well as project submissions from current graduate students in any discipline.
\nPossible Topics:
\n● Environmental Aesthetics: Re-Considering Beauty + the Sublim e
\n● Environmental Justice + Restorative Justice + Transform ative Justice
\n● Environmental Ethics + Sustainable Practice s
\n● Diversity + Biodiversity
\n● Capitalism an d Climate
\n● Eco-phenomenology
\n● Eco-deconstr uction
\n● Environmental Racism/Racist Environments
\n● Ecofeminist conceptions of nature
\n● Land Rights and Property Relations
\n● Posthumanism + Object Ontologies
\n● Afrofuturism + Technological Utopias
\n● Enviro nmental Ethics In Narratives
\n● Mastery of Nature in Philoso phy
\n● Anarcho-primitivism
\n● Queer and Trans Ecologies
\n● Local and Global Ecologies
\n● Reg ionalisms and Globalisms in the Ecological Imagination
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\nConfirmed Conference Keynotes:
\nSa ndra Shapshay\, CUNY Graduate Center\, New York
\nEmanuele Coccia\, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)\, Paris
\nThis conference will be held at th e New School for Social Research in New York City from Thursday\, April 14 \, to Saturday\, April 16. While we (tentatively) plan to hold the confere nce primarily in-person we would also like to provide a hybrid option for those who would prefer to participate remotely. Following the conference\, on Sunday\, April 17\, all participants and attendees are invited to part icipate 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).
\n< strong>Call for Papers: Submission Procedure:
\nPlease subm it complete papers (Word Limit: 3500) and an abstract of 250 words or less by January 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) or PDF to WithInEnvironments@g mail.com. Please prepare your submission for blind review by removing any identifying information from the body of the paper. In your email plea se include your name\, affiliation\, and paper title. Notification of acce ptance will be sent by January 15.
\nCall for Projects: Subm ission Procedure:
\nPlease submit a project description (Wo rd Limit: 1000) by December 1st in the form of a Word attachment (.docx) t o WithInEnvir onments@gmail.com\, as well as:
\nFor Visual Arts projects: subm it 5 images of your work as .jpeg.
\nFor Performing Arts projects: s ubmit video/ audio of your work in .mp4 format
\nPlease prepare your submission for blind review by removing any identifying information. In y our email please include your name\, affiliation\, and project title. Noti fication of acceptance will be sent by January 15.
\nIf you have any questions please email WithInEnvironments@gmail.com
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11:00am: Cinz ia Arruzza and James Dodd\, Greetings and Introduction
\n\n
P art 1. Celebrating Ross Poole
\n\n
11:05-12:35am: Ben Nienass \, “The Force of Memory” and Basak Ertur\, “Learning to Live with Ghosts”< /p>\n
\n
12:35-12:40 pm: Coffee Break
\n\n
12:40-1:3 0 pm: Roundtable Discussion
\n\n
Participants:
\nOmri B oehm\, Lynne Segal and Mick Taussig
\n\n
1:30-3:30 pm: Lunch Break
\n\n
Part 2. Celebrating Bernard Flynn
\n\n< p>3:30-6:00pm: Roundtable Discussion on the Work of Bernard Flynn\n
\n
Participants:
\nPeg Birmingham\, James Dodd\, Frank Choura qui\, and Simon Critchley
\n\n
External visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newschoo l.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors.
\n\n
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/politicsandmemory#rsvp.
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:20240328T095710Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/alifeinthought DESCRIPTION: 9:30am EST OPENING REMARKS\nScott Shushan\, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, Sarah Lawrence College\nDr. Renée T. White\, Pr ovost and Professor of Sociology\, The New School\nAlice Crary\, Universit y Distinguished Professor of Philosophy\, The New School for Social Resear ch\n9:45-11:15 PHILOSOPHY AS PEDAGOGY\nKaren Ng (moderator)\, Associate Pr ofessor of Philosophy\, Vanderbilt University\nRoy Ben-Shai\, Assistant Pr ofessor of Philosophy\, Sarah Lawrence College\nMegan Craig\, Associate Pr ofessor of Philosophy\, Stony Brook University\nJudith Friedlander\, Profe ssor Emerita of Anthropology\, Hunter College\, and former Dean of The New School for Social Research\n11:30-1:00 PHILOSOPHY AND THE PUBLIC GOOD\nSi mona Forti (moderator)\, Professor of Political Philosophy\, Scuola Normal e Superiore\, Pisa\, Italy\nAxel Honneth\, Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities\, Columbia University\nPhilip Kitcher\, John Dewey Profess or Emeritus of Philosophy\, Columbia University\nJoel Whitebook\, Professo r\, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research\n1 :00–2:00pm Lunch Break\n2:00 REFLECTION\nCinzia Arruzza\, Associate Profes sor of Philosophy\, The New School for Social Research\n2:10-3:50 PHILOSOP HY IN A PLURALIST SPIRIT\nDavid Clinton Wills (moderator)\, Professor\, Ne w York University-Gallatin\nMaría Pía Lara\, Professor and Researcher\, Un iversidad Autónoma Metropolitana\nChiara Bottici\, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies\,The New School fo r Social Research\nLucius Outlaw\, Jr.\, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philo sophy\, Vanderbilt University\nCharles Taylor\, Professor Emeritus of Phil osophy\, McGill University\n4:05-5:35 DEMOCRACY AS A TASK BEFORE US\nDmitr i Nikulin (moderator)\, Professor of Philosophy\, The New School for Socia l Research\nSeyla Benhabib\, Eugene Meyer Professor of Philosophy and Poli tical Science. Emerita\, Yale University and Senior Research Fellow\, Colu mbia Law School and Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Theory\nRain er Forst\, Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy\, Goethe Universit y Frankfurt am Main\nNancy Fraser\, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science\, The New School for Social Research\nOrganiz ed by Marcia Morgan and Scott Shushan in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research. \n\n\n\nTickets: htt ps://event.newschool.edu/alifeinthought#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-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n9:3 0am EST OPENING REMARKS
\nScott Shushan\, Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy\, Sarah Lawrence College
p>\n Dr. Renée T. White\, Provost and Professor of Soci
ology\, The New School Alice Crary\, University D
istinguished Professor of Philosophy\, The New School for Social Research<
/p>\n 9:45-11:15 PHILOSOPHY AS PEDAGOGY
\nRoy Ben-Shai\, Assistant
Professor of Philosophy\, Sarah Lawrence College
\nMegan Cra
ig\, Associate Professor of Philosophy\, Stony Brook University\nJudith Friedlander\, Professor Emerita of Anthropol
ogy\, Hunter College\, and former Dean of The New School for Social Resear
ch
11:30-1:00 PHILOSOPHY AND THE PUBLIC GOOD< /em>
\nSimona Forti (moderator)\, Professor of Poli
tical Philosophy\, Scuola Normale Superiore\, Pisa\, Italy
\n
Axel Honneth\, Jack C. Weinstein Professor for the Humanities\, C
olumbia University
\nPhilip Kitcher\, John Dewey Pro
fessor Emeritus of Philosophy\, Columbia University
\nJoel Wh
itebook\, Professor\, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalyt
ic Training and Research
1:00–2:00pm Lunch Break
\n2:00 REFLECTION
\nCinzia Arruzza\, Associate Professor of Philosophy\, Th e New School for Social Research
\n2:10-3:50 PHILOSOPHY IN A PLURALIST SPIRIT
\nDavid Clinton Wills (m
oderator)\, Professor\, New York University-Gallatin
\nMaría
Pía Lara\, Professor and Researcher\, Universidad Autónoma Metrop
olitana
\nChiara Bottici\, Associate Professor of Ph
ilosophy and Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies\,The New School for
Social Research
\nLucius Outlaw\, Jr.\, W. Alton Jon
es Professor of Philosophy\, Vanderbilt University
\nCharles
Taylor\, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy\, McGill University
4:05-5:35 DEMOCRACY AS A TASK BEFORE US
\n
\nSeyla Benhabib\, Euge
ne Meyer Professor of Philosophy and Political Science. Emerita\, Yale Uni
versity and Senior Research Fellow\, Columbia Law School and Columbia Cent
er for Contemporary Critical Theory
\nRainer Forst\,
Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy\, Goethe University Frankfur
t am Main
\nNancy Fraser\, Henry A. and Louise Loeb
Professor of Political and Social Science\, The New School for Social Rese
arch
Organized by Marcia Morgan and Scott Shushan in c ollaboration with the Department of Philosophy at The New School for Socia l Research.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/alifeinthought#rsvp.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/alifeinthought#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7893@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T095710Z 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 multidiscipli nary\, web-based journal in which an assemblage of contributions focused o n a single concept with the express intention of re-situating its meaning in the field of political discourse. By reflecting on what has remained un questioned or unthought in that concept\, this all-around collection of es says seeks to open pathways for another future—one that is not already det ermined and ill-fated.\nFrom this forum for engaged scholarship\, a succes sion of academic conferences have sprung as a space for conversation and c onstructive debate\, including last year’s Political Concepts Graduate Con ference. Organized by students of the Departments of Anthropology\, Philos ophy\, and Politics at the New School for Social Research\, Political Conc epts invites graduate students from all fields of study to participate 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 on the mult iplicity of powers\, structures\, problems\, and orientations that shape o ur collective life.\nBecause Political Concepts does not predetermine what does or does not count as political\, the conference welcomes essays that fashion new political concepts or demonstrate how concepts deserve to be taken as politically significant. Papers should be dedicated to a single p olitical concept\, like an encyclopedia entry\, but the analysis of the co ncept does not have to abide to traditional approaches. Some of the concep ts contended with in last year’s vibrant conference included abolition\, s urvival\, statistics\, solitude\, resentment\, statistics\, dependence\, i maginary\, and solidarity. Other examples can be found in the published pa pers on thePolitical Concepts website.\nThe conference will take the forma t of a series of panels across two days. Panels will contain two presenter s whose papers are thematically and theoretically related — creating a spa ce for critical engagement between the authors\, as well as with other att endees. Each presenter will have 25 minutes to present their paper\, along with 40 minutes for discussion at the end. This year\, there will be a fa culty roundtable with NSSR professors serving on the Political Concepts ed itorial board\, namely\, Ann Laura Stoler\, Jay M. Bernstein\, and Andreas Kalyvas.\nAbstracts should be no longer than 750 words in a pdf format\, and prepared for blind review\, so please ensure that your abstract is fre e from any identifying personal details. Abstracts must be submitted throu gh this google form by December 15\, 2022 EST. Any inquiries can be sent t o politicalconceptsNSSR@gmail.com.\nApplicants must be advanced graduate s tudents and their concept must be a central part of a longer-term project in order to be accepted. Results will 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-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nPolitical Con cepts: A Critical Lexicon began as a multidisciplinary\, web-based journal in which an assemblage of contributions focused on a single concept with the express intention of re-situating its meaning in the field of politica l discourse. By reflecting on what has remained unquestioned or unthought in that concept\, this all-around collection of essays seeks to open pathw ays for another future—one that is not already determined and ill-fated. p>\n
From this forum for engaged scholarship\, a succession of academic conferences have sprung as a space for conversation and constructive debat e\, including last year’s Political Concepts Graduate Conference. Organize d by students of the Departments of Anthropology\, Philosophy\, and Politi cs at the New School for Social Research\, Political Concepts invites grad uate students from all fields of study to participate in our upcoming grad uate student conference in Spring 2023. Held at NSSR over March 24-5\, the conference will serve as a workshop of ideas on the multiplicity of power s\, structures\, problems\, and orientations that shape our collective lif e.
\nBecause Political Concepts does not predetermine what does or d oes not count as political\, the conference welcomes essays that fashion n ew political concepts or demonstrate how concepts deserve to be taken as p olitically significant. Papers should be dedicated to a single political c oncept\, like an encyclopedia entry\, but the analysis of the concept does not have to abide to traditional approaches. Some of the concepts contend ed with in last year’s vibrant conference included abolition\, survival\, statistics\, solitude\, resentment\, statistics\, dependence\, imaginary\, and solidarity. Other examples can be found in the published papers on th ePolitical Concepts website.
\nThe conference will take the format o f a series of panels across two days. Panels will contain two presenters w hose papers are thematically and theoretically related — creating a space for critical engagement between the authors\, as well as with other attend ees. Each presenter will have 25 minutes to present their paper\, along wi th 40 minutes for discussion at the end. This year\, there will be a facul ty roundtable with NSSR professors serving on the Political Concepts edito rial board\, namely\, Ann Laura Stoler\, Jay M. Bernstein\, and Andreas Ka lyvas.
\nAbstracts should be no longer than 750 words in a pdf forma t\, and prepared for blind review\, so please ensure that your abstract is free from any identifying personal details. Abstracts must be submitted t hrough this google form by December 15\, 2022 EST. Any inquiries can be se nt to politicalconceptsNSSR@gmail.com.
\nApplicants must be advanced graduate students and their concept must be a central part of a longer-te rm project in order to be accepted. Results will be informed in January. p>\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfp\,conference\,political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7877@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T095710Z 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 hos ting our annual Graduate Student Conference April 13-15th 2023 in person i n New York City.\nThis year’s topic is Textures of Change: Social Imaginar ies\, Narratives\, and the Possibility of Politics.\nKeynote Speakers:\nMa ría Pía Lara (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)\nFanny Söderbäck (Södert örn University)\nEva Von Redecker (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)\nIt has become common for political theorists and philosophers to insist on the n ecessity of new imaginaries and narratives. Crises of authority\, financia l meltdowns\, and environmental disasters compel us to look for alternativ e frameworks and practices. While the urgency of this claim is undeniable\ , the conceptual ground for the creation of new imaginaries and narratives is still unclear. How do we define imaginaries and narratives in relation to our political and social life? How can they become normative and gener ate conceptual and practical shifts? And who is in a position to shape\, d irect\, and take ownership of these emergent conceptions?\nThis conference focuses on the current debate on political imaginaries and narratives to investigate some of these questions. As a starting point\, we propose to c hallenge standard Marxist or epistemological approaches to the topic that either interpret imaginaries and narratives as ideological projections (a product of false consciousness) or merely as individual\, cognitive facult ies. Rather\, we suggest thinking about imaginaries and narratives as larg er sensuous and embodied practices that re-orient material structures of d omination and allow for a reflective rearticulation of collective demands. In particular\, we set out to clarify: the meaning of “imaginaries” and/o r “narratives” as forms of sense-making\; their ability to shift existing discourses and power relations\; the way in which they foster different wa ys 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 pr actices\; and the way in which they address—or fail to address—marginalize d subjects.\nWe invite papers that focus on the concepts of “social imagin ary” and “narrative\,” as well as on the connection between the two\, and on their political and ethical implications. It is our conviction that a c ritical understanding of these concepts can only emerge from attending to how they are practically embodied and situated in our practices. In this s pirit\, we welcome\, in addition to papers aimed at conceptual clarificati on\, papers that provide specific accounts of alternative forms of praxis\ , including (but not limited to) leftist\, feminist\, anti-racist\, decolo nial\, abolitionist\, indigenous\, environmentalist\, and utopian imaginar ies and narratives.\nWe are accepting submissions of up to 4000 words. Ple ase also submit a brief academic bio.\nPlease contact socialimaginarynarra tive@gmail.com with any queries or submissions.\nThe deadline is January 3 rd\, 2023 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230413 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230416 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:New School Philosophy Dept @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Textures of Change: Social Imaginaries\, Narratives\, and the Possi bility of Politics URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/textures-of-change-socia l-imaginaries-narratives-and-the-possibility-of-politics/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nThe New School for Social Research Philosophy Department is ho sting our annual Graduate Student Conference April 13-15th 2023 in person in New York City.
\nThis year’s topic is Textures of Change: Social Imaginaries\, Narratives\, and the Possibility of Politics.
\nKeynote Speakers:
\nMaría Pía Lar a (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)
\nFanny Söderbäck (< em>Södertörn University)
\nEva Von Redecker (Humboldt-Unive rsität zu Berlin)
\nIt has become common for political theorist s and philosophers to insist on the necessity of new imaginaries and narra tives. Crises of authority\, financial meltdowns\, and environmental disas ters compel us to look for alternative frameworks and practices. While the urgency of this claim is undeniable\, the conceptual ground for the creat ion of new imaginaries and narratives is still unclear. How do we define i maginaries and narratives in relation to our political and social life? Ho w can they become normative and generate conceptual and practical shifts? And who is in a position to shape\, direct\, and take ownership of these e mergent conceptions?
\nThis conference focuses on the current debate on political imaginaries and narratives to investigate some of these ques tions. As a starting point\, we propose to challenge standard Marxist or e pistemological approaches to the topic that either interpret imaginaries a nd narratives as ideological projections (a product of false consciousness ) or merely as individual\, cognitive faculties. Rather\, we suggest think ing about imaginaries and narratives as larger sensuous and embodied pract ices that re-orient material structures of domination and allow for a refl ective rearticulation of collective demands. In particular\, we set out to clarify: the meaning of “imaginaries” and/or “narratives” as forms of sen se-making\; their ability to shift existing discourses and power relations \; the way in which they foster different ways of feeling\, seeing\, actin g-in\, and experiencing the world in a time of crisis\; the way in which t hey are embedded in artistic and literary practices\; and the way in which they address—or fail to address—marginalized subjects.
\nWe invite papers that focus on the concepts of “social imaginary” 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 o f these concepts can only emerge from attending to how they are practicall y embodied and situated in our practices. In this spirit\, we welcome\, in addition to papers aimed at conceptual clarification\, papers that provid e specific accounts of alternative forms of praxis\, including (but not li mited to) leftist\, feminist\, anti-racist\, decolonial\, abolitionist\, i ndigenous\, environmentalist\, and utopian imaginaries and narratives.
\nWe are accepting submissions of up to 4000 words. Pl ease also submit a brief academic bio.
\nPlease contact socialimagin arynarrative@gmail.com with any queries or submissions.
\nThe deadli ne is January 3rd\, 2023
\nHow does objectivity shape power\, and how does power shape ob jectivity?
\nWelcome to “Unmasking Objectivity: A Critical Examinati on of the Nexus between Universal Truth Claims and Emergent Power Structur es\,” a conference that plunges into the intricate relationship between kn owledge and power. In this conference\, we will uncover how epistemologica l standpoints intersect with systems of coercion\, marginalization\, and o ppression. Our topic extends to alternative visions of knowledge\, truth\, and learning\, offering the potential for shared beliefs while addressing the adverse impacts of entrenched power structures.
\nHow have clai ms to absolute\, objective\, or scientific truth driven oppression through ideologies like religious absolutism\, colonialism\, technocracy\, and sc ientific sexism and racism? Contemporary debates further emphasize the sig nificance of this intersection.
\nOur discourse will also scrutinize epistemic injustice\, examining whether universalist epistemologies privi lege specific knowledge systems while silencing valid alternatives. We aim to shed light on social and political issues overlooked by dominant knowl edge frameworks through inclusive dialogues. This conference fosters criti cal exploration and inclusive discourse\, drawing on interdisciplinary stu dies in philosophy\, sociology\, and political theory.
\nTogether\, we will assess the ethical implications of our epistemological practices a nd explore pathways to creating more equitable systems of knowledge and so cial learning. Join us at “Unmasking Objectivity” as we navigate the intri cate web of knowledge and power\, aiming for a just and inclusive future w here the notion of objectivity is both scrutinized and harnessed for socia l transformation.
\n\n\n\n\nPolitical Con cepts: A Critical Lexicon began as a multidisciplinary\, web-based journal in which an assemblage of contributions focused on a single concept with the express intention of re-situating its meaning in the field of politica l discourse. By reflecting on what has remained unquestioned or unthought in that concept\, this all-around collection of essays seeks to open pathw ays for another future—one that is not already determined and ill-fated. p>\n
From this forum for engaged scholarship\, a succession of academic conferences have sprung as a space for conversation and constructive debat e\, including its Graduate Conference at the New School for Social Researc h organized by students of the Departments of Anthropology\, Economics\, P hilosophy\, Politics\, and Sociology. Political Concepts invites graduate students from all fields of study to participate in our upcoming conferenc e in Spring 2024. Held at NSSR over March 29-30\, the conference will serv e as a workshop of ideas on the multiplicity of powers\, structures\, prob lems\, and orientations that shape our collective life.
\nBecause Po litical Concepts does not predetermine what does or does not count as poli tical\, the conference welcomes essays that fashion new political concepts or demonstrate how concepts deserve to be taken as politically significan t. Papers should be dedicated to a single political concept\, like an ency clopedia entry\, but the analysis of the concept does not have to abide to traditional approaches. Some of the concepts contended with in previous y ears’ vibrant conferences included abolition\, survival\, catastrophe\, re sentment\, money\, dependence\, trans\, imaginary\, and solidarity. Other examples can be found in the published papers on the Political Concepts we bsite.
\nAbstracts should be no longer than 750 words in a pdf forma t\, and prepared for blind review\, so please ensure that your abstract is free from any identifying personal details. Please title your abstract wi th your concept. Abstracts must be submitted through this google form (htt ps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyVC0H0LSpcyJ3QpcbAvZjEkcUYoS-TCp0k Pc6ObTg4YFSiQ/viewform) by December 7\, 2023 EST. Any inquiries can be sen t to politicalconceptsNSSR@gmail.com.
\nApplicants must be advanced graduate students and their concept must be a central part of a longer ter m project in order to be accepted. Results will be informed in January.
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7755@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T095710Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/cornelwestimperialdecay DESCRIPTION:Please join Cornel West\, 2021-2022 Presidential Visiting Schol ar at The New School\, for a public in-person lecture\, “Philosophy in Our Time of Imperial Decay.”\nWelcome by Dwight A. McBride\, New School Presi dent\nModerated by Simon Critchley\, Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy\nP LEASE NOTE: Proof of vaccination and a booster are required for campus acc ess\; no exceptions will be granted. You must remain masked during the eve nt. You will receive additional information about this closer to the event date.\nDr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theologi cal Seminary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer\, as we ll as courses in Philosophy of Religion\, African American Critical Though t\, and a wide range of subjects — including but by no means limited to\, the classics\, philosophy\, politics\, cultural theory\, literature\, and music.\nDr. 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 a t nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visi onary 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 var iety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King\, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justic e. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220324T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220324T180000 GEO:+40.735501;-73.997138 LOCATION:New School 12th St. Auditorium @ Johnson Hall\, 66 W 12th St\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cornel West\, “Philosophy in Our Time of Imperial Decay” URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cornel-west-philosophy-i n-our-time-of-imperial-decay/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nPlease join Cornel West\, 2021-2022 Presidential Visiting Scholar at The New School\, for a public in-person lecture\, “Phi losophy in Our Time of Imperial Decay.”
\nWelcome by Dwight A. McBride\, New School President
\nModerated by Simon Critchley\, Hans Jonas Professor of Phil
osophy
PLEASE NOTE: Proof of vaccination and a booster are required for campus access\; no exceptions will be granted. You must rema in masked during the event. You will receive additional information about this closer to the event date.
\nDr. Cornel West is the Die trich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer\, as well as courses in Philosophy of Rel igion\, African American Critical Thought\, and a wide range of subjects — including but by no means limited to\, the classics\, philosophy\, politi cs\, cultural theory\, literature\, and music.
\nDr. West is the for mer Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University a nd Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laud e from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosoph y at Princeton. He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best know n 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 unflinchi ng look at nineteenth and twentieth-century African American leaders and t heir visionary legacies.
\nDr. West is a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show\, CNN\, C-Span and Democracy Now. He has a passion to communica te to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Marti n Luther King\, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
\nBook Panel with:
\nChiara Bottici (NSSR and Lang College)\, Judith Butler (UC Berkeley and NSSR) and Romy Opperman (NSSR and Lang College).
\n< strong>Abstract:
\nHow can we be sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How can we envisage a feminism that does n’t turn into yet another tool for oppression? By arguing that there is no single arche explaining the oppression of women and LGBTQI+ people\, Chia ra Bottici proposes a radical anarchafeminist philosophy inspired by two m ajor claims: that there is something specific to the oppression of ‘the se cond sexes’\, and that\, in order to fight that\, we need to untangle all other forms of oppression and the anthropocentrism they inhabit. On the ba sis of a Spinozist philosophy of transindividuality\, Anarchafeminism call s for a decolonial and deimperial attitude and for a renewed awareness of the somatic communism connecting all different life forms on the planet. I n this revolutionary vision\, feminism does not mean the liberation of the lucky few\, but liberation of the planet from both capitalist exploitatio n and an anthropocentric politics of domination. Either the entire planet\ , or none of us will be free.
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External visitors must com ply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newsc hool.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors.
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Audi ence members must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and bo oster if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.
\nSponsore d by the NSSR Philosophy Department & The Gender and Sexualities Studies I nstitute (GSSI)
\nTickets: https:/ /event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanarchafeminism.
HTML> X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:feminism\,gender\,political\,sexuality X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanarchafemini sm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7875@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T095710Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutscher DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nAs a specific form of rights insecurity the revocabi lity of reproductive rights manifests contradictory understandings (privat ive and productive) of the political status of pregnancy.\nI ask how and w hy we should understand reproductive rights as revocable\, giving a broad meaning to the term “revocability\,” and suggesting a conjoined vocabulary that includes conditionality\, exceptionality\, and disqualifying qualifi cation.\nI ask: what kind of grammar might help us understand more specifi cally how the concurrent action of conflicting combinations of power (such as sovereignty\, discipline\, security\, necropower\, and neoliberal expe ctation) coordinate together in relation to reproductive rights-bearing\, and how heterogeneous combinations of power also produce a mutual disrupti veness\, even auto-critique\, manifesting as conflictual embodiment.\nExte rnal visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined h ere: https://www.newschool.edu/covid-19/campus-access/?open=visitors.\n \n Audience members must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination series (an d booster if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.\nTickets: ht tps://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutscher#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-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nAbstr act:
\nAs a specific form of rights insecurity the revocabi lity of reproductive rights manifests contradictory understandings (privat ive and productive) of the political status of pregnancy.
\nI ask ho w and why we should understand reproductive rights as revocable\, giving a broad meaning to the term “revocability\,” and suggesting a conjoined voc abulary that includes conditionality\, exceptionality\, and disqualifying qualification.
\nI ask: what kind of grammar might help us understan d more specifically how the concurrent action of conflicting combinations of power (such as sovereignty\, discipline\, security\, necropower\, and n eoliberal expectation) coordinate together in relation to reproductive rig hts-bearing\, and how heterogeneous combinations of power also produce a m utual disruptiveness\, even auto-critique\, manifesting as conflictual emb odiment.
\nExternal visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newschool.edu/covid-19/campus-acces s/?open=visitors.
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Audience members must show proof o f a full COVID-19 vaccination series (and booster if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutscher#rs vp.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:feminism\,language\,political X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumpennydeutsche r#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7896@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T095710Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar DESCRIPTION:Book panel: Anat Matar\, The Poverty of Ethics (Verso books 2 022)\nParticipants:\nAnat Matar (Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University)\nSimon Critchley (Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at NSSR) \nRaef Zreik (Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School\, and Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at Ono Academic College)\n \nAbstract:\nIt is a common a ssumption that ethics must serve as the cornerstone of politics. Yet abstr act moral arguments have always been used for justifying all kinds of atro cities\; ethical sensitivity and compassion have been expressed towards pa rticular kinds of victims\, while totally ignoring others.\nThe liberal We st\, in particular\, continually manifests such blindness. It is horrified by non-Western oppressive methods\, but turns a blind eye to their Wester n equivalents.\nThe gratification of holding the moral high ground consist ently serves as a political instrument in the hands of those seeking to sh ore up the existing order.\nIn The Poverty of Ethics\, philosopher and act ivist Anat Matar argues for the conceptual primacy of political discourse over ethics and claims that only the political force which stands for equa lity\, justice and democracy – the Left – can provide the coordinates for an ethical life under conditions of global injustice.\nAppealing to philos ophical ideas on the essence of language\, Matar shows how the ethos of th e Left\, as it has evolved over years\, underlies and gradually forms the basis for ethics.\nStruggles against slavery\, racism\, colonization and m ilitarization\, protests against exploitation and the capitalist order\, t he feminist movement\, global demands for climate action – all these are p rimarily motivated by a deep understanding of Left heritage rather than by abstract ethical requirements or by airy sensitivities. They\, in turn\, shape and reshape our notion of moralit\nTickets: https://event.newschool. edu/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-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nBook panel: Anat Matar\, The Poverty of Ethics (Verso books 2022)
\nParticipants:
\nAnat Matar (Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University)
\nSim on Critchley (Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at NSSR)
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Abstract:
It is a common assumption that ethics mus t serve as the cornerstone of politics. Yet abstract moral arguments have always been used for justifying all kinds of atrocities\; ethical sensitiv ity and compassion have been expressed towards particular kinds of victims \, while totally ignoring others.
\nThe liberal West\, in particular \, continually manifests such blindness. It is horrified by non-Western op pressive methods\, but turns a blind eye to their Western equivalents.
\nThe gratification of holding the moral high ground consistently serve s as a political instrument in the hands of those seeking to shore up the existing order.
\nIn The Poverty of Ethics\, philosopher and activis t Anat Matar argues for the conceptual primacy of political discourse over ethics and claims that only the political force which stands for equality \, justice and democracy – the Left – can provide the coordinates for an e thical life under conditions of global injustice.
\nAppealing to phi losophical ideas on the essence of language\, Matar shows how the ethos of the Left\, as it has evolved over years\, underlies and gradually forms t he basis for ethics.
\nStruggles against slavery\, racism\, coloniza tion and militarization\, protests against exploitation and the capitalist order\, the feminist movement\, global demands for climate action – all t hese are primarily motivated by a deep understanding of Left heritage rath er than by abstract ethical requirements or by airy sensitivities. They\, in turn\, shape and reshape our notion of moralit
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatm atar.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ethics\,political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanatmatar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7939@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T095710Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/benjaminmorgan DESCRIPTION:In 1931\, Max Horkheimer proposed a model of interdisciplinary research that remains a benchmark for understanding how cultures function and might function better. He imagined an institute “in which philosophers \, sociologists\, economists\, historians\, and psychologists are brought together in permanent collaboration” (Horkheimer 1993\, 9). The institute would not work with a single theory but would let data lead to new hypothe ses (Horkheimer 1993\, 10). But the work of Horkheimer and colleagues rare ly lived up to the 1931 vision of an interdisciplinary\, empirically groun ded approach to culture. To understand why\, my paper will juxtapose Horkh eimer’s and Adorno’s history of humanity\, as it is set out in Dialectic o f Enlightenment\, with current research on the development of early human cultures by Richard Wrangham\, Sarah Blaffer Hardy\, Kim Sterelny\, Joseph Henrich and Cecilia Heyes. The comparison with recent research in anthrop ology\, 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 approa ches jointly suggest that human subjectivity is scaffolded and embedded\; that cooperation is the necessary default for cultural transmission\; that learning occurs in context through imitation\; and that customs and insti tutions develop contingently and by accident through processes of cooperat ion and collaboration. These new insights invite a radical re-thinking of the phenomena Horkheimer and Adorno grouped together as ‘mimesis.’ The res ulting picture of environmentally embedded process of cultural evolution i s a first step towards revitalizing the interdisciplinary potential of the early Frankfurt School\, and suggesting new\, practical\, productive\, an d sustainable routes such critique can take in the 21st century.\n \n \nBi o:\n \nBenjamin Morgan is Professor of German and Comparative Literature a t 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 author of On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and t he Modern Western Self (Fordham UP\, 2013)\, and numerous articles on mode rnist literature\, film\, and philosophy. He edited\, with Carolin Duttlin ger and Anthony Phelan\, Walter Benjamins Anthropologisches Denken (Rombac h\, 2012)\, and with Sowon Park and Ellen Spolsky a Special Issue of Poeti cs Today on “Situated 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-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nIn 1931\, Max Horkheimer proposed a model of interdisciplinary research that remains a benchmark for understanding how cultures function and might function bette r. He imagined an institute “in which philosophers\, sociologists\, econom ists\, historians\, and psychologists are brought together in permanent co llaboration” (Horkheimer 1993\, 9). The institute would not work with a si ngle theory but would let data lead to new hypotheses (Horkheimer 1993\, 1 0). But the work of Horkheimer and colleagues rarely lived up to the 1931 vision of an interdisciplinary\, empirically grounded approach to culture. To understand why\, my paper will juxtapose Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s his tory of humanity\, as it is set out in Dialectic of Enlightenment\, with c urrent research on the development of early human cultures by Richard Wran gham\, Sarah Blaffer Hardy\, Kim Sterelny\, Joseph Henrich and Cecilia Hey es. The comparison with recent research in anthropology\, sociology\, phil osophy\, and cognitive science reveals some of the deep conceptual commitm ents that limit Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s focus on instrumental reason and conceptual violence. By contrast\, current approaches jointly suggest tha t human subjectivity is scaffolded and embedded\; that cooperation is the necessary default for cultural transmission\; that learning occurs in cont ext through imitation\; and that customs and institutions develop continge ntly and by accident through processes of cooperation and collaboration. T hese new insights invite a radical re-thinking of the phenomena Horkheimer and Adorno grouped together as ‘mimesis.’ The resulting picture of enviro nmentally embedded process of cultural evolution is a first step towards r evitalizing the interdisciplinary potential of the early Frankfurt School\ , and suggesting new\, practical\, productive\, and sustainable routes suc h critique can take in the 21st century.
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Benjamin Morgan is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford\, and a Fellow of W orcester College. In 2019\, and 2020/21 he was also Visiting Associate Pro fessor of German at Harvard University. He is author of On Becoming God: L ate Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self (Fordham UP\, 2013)\, a nd numerous articles on modernist literature\, film\, and philosophy. He e dited\, with Carolin Duttlinger and Anthony Phelan\, Walter Benjamins Anth ropologisches Denken (Rombach\, 2012)\, and with Sowon Park and Ellen Spol sky a Special Issue of Poetics Today on “Situated Cognition and the Study of Culture” (2017).
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7998@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T095710Z 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 movements s uch as communism\, liberalism\, and republicanism. Then she will argue how these concepts were used as guides to praxis by focusing first on republi canism and Kant. Finally\, she will articulate her concept of feminist ima ginaries focusing on how the sediments of historical time have enabled dif ferent struggles for emancipation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Feminism as a Concept of Movement: the Sediments of the Historical Reorganization of Fe minist Imaginaries” presented by Maria Pia Lara\n\n\n\n\n\n DTSTART;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-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe speaker w ill explain the meaning of concepts of movements such as communism\, liber alism\, and republicanism. Then she will argue how these concepts were use d as guides to praxis by focusing first on republicanism and Kant. Finally \, she will articulate her concept of feminist imaginaries focusing on how the sediments of historical time have enabled different struggles for ema ncipation.
\n“Feminism as a Concept of Movement: the Sediments of the Historical Reorganization of Feminist Imaginaries” prese nted by Maria Pia Lara
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:feminism\,political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8052@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T095710Z 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 th e notion of “trespassing\,” through which “active subjectivity” has the po ssibility of problematizing normative practices and redrawing maps of powe r. In this presentation\, I highlight the importance of the aesthesic or t he perceptual in Lugones’s view of resistance as developed before her turn to decolonial feminism. In doing so\, I point to the manner in which this account of resistance is dependent on a sense of ambiguity inspired by th e work of Gloria Anzaldúa. Moreover\, I introduce a notion of aesthetic tr espassing in connection to the perception of artworks that discloses the i ntimacy between the perceiver and the perceived.\nTickets: https://event.n ewschool.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-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
María Lugones theorizes the notion of resistance in terms of the notion of “trespassing \,” through which “active subjectivity” has the possibility of problematiz ing normative practices and redrawing maps of power. In this presentation\ , I highlight the importance of the aesthesic or the perceptual in Lugones ’s view of resistance as developed before her turn to decolonial feminism. In doing so\, I point to the manner in which this account of resistance i s dependent on a sense of ambiguity inspired by the work of Gloria Anzaldú a. Moreover\, I introduce a notion of aesthetic trespassing in connection to the perception of artworks that discloses the intimacy between the perc eiver and the perceived.
\nTickets: https://event.n ewschool.edu/marianaortega#rsvp.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,political\,social X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/marianaortega#rsvp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8143@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T095710Z 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 lo oking for their disappeared relatives due to an escalation of violence rel ated to the so-called War against Drugs that former president Felipe Calde rón (2006–2012) started\, this essay develops a new conception of politic s grounded not only on rational thought but also on affect. These collecti ves put forward a materialistic\, feminist\, and performative mode of poli tics. Publicly lamenting their losses and literally digging bodies out of Mexican land\, these women perform and recover the citizenship that the Me xican state has de facto disavowed of them. I propose conceptualizing them as “bad victims” since their taking action does not take away their pain\ ; rather\, the public exposure of their lament actually turns them into po litical agents.\n \nBio:\nRosaura Martínez Ruiz is Full Professor of Philo sophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a member of the National System of Researchers\, level III. She was coordinator of the research projects “Philosophers after Freud” and “Philosophy and Psych oanalysis as Critical Borders of the Political.” She is the author of Freu d y Derrida: escritura y psique (2013) and Eros: Más allá de la pulsión de muerte (2017). This last book has been translated into English and publis hed by Fordham University Press (2021). She has coordinated several collec tive books and published articles on the intersection between psychoanalys is and philosophy and on the field of the psychopolitical. In 2017 she was awarded the Research Prize in Humanities by the Mexican Academy of Scienc es\; in 2019 she was a Fulbright Scholar\; in 2021 she received the Sor Ju ana Inez de la Cruz UNAM recognition\; and during the Fall 2023 she was th e Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She is part of the adv isory board of the “International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs” coordinated by Judith Butler.\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/rosaur amartinez. 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-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nAnalyzing the Mexican case of collectives of women currently looking for their disappea red relatives due to an escalation of violence related to the so-called Wa r against Drugs that former president Felipe Calderón (2006–2012) started \, this essay develops a new conception of politics grounded not only on r ational thought but also on affect. These collectives put forward a materi alistic\, feminist\, and performative mode of politics. Publicly lamenting their losses and literally digging bodies out of Mexican land\, these wom en perform and recover the citizenship that the Mexican state has de facto disavowed of them. I propose conceptualizing them as “bad victims” since their taking action does not take away their pain\; rather\, the public ex posure of their lament actually turns them into political agents.
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Bio:
\nRosaura Martínez Ruiz is Full Prof essor of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a member of the National System of Researchers\, level III. She was c oordinator of the research projects “Philosophers after Freud” and “Philos ophy and Psychoanalysis as Critical Borders of the Political.” She is the author of Freud y Derrida: escritura y psique (2013) and Eros : Más allá de la pulsión de muerte (2017). This last book has been tr anslated into English and published by Fordham University Press (2021). Sh e has coordinated several collective books and published articles on the i ntersection between psychoanalysis and philosophy and on the field of the psychopolitical. In 2017 she was awarded the Research Prize in Humanities by the Mexican Academy of Sciences\; in 2019 she 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 Visiting Professor at Columbia Un iversity. She is part of the advisory board of the “International Consorti um of Critical Theory Programs” coordinated by Judith Butler.
\nTick ets: https://event.newschool.edu/rosauramartinez.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Latin\,political X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/rosauramartinez END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8154@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T095710Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYC Wittgenstein Workshop\nIf you will be visi ting from outside the New School\, email the workshop to inform the securi ty desk.\nRoom 1101\, 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003 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-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nPresented by the NYC Wittgenstein Workshop
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\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,political\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8141@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T095710Z 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) Hannah Arendt t urns to the danger of ‘world- alienation’. Based on a variety of discoveri es and evolutions that are constitutive of modernity (globalization\, Prot estantism\, the invention of the telescope)\, modern man has adopted an Ar chimedean\, external position vis-à-vis the world. According to Arendt\, this ‘view from without’ has gradually jeopardized the experience of a sha red world\, endangering the foundation of all meaning-giving activities.\n My talk can be considered as a reply to Arendt’s pessimistic account of mo dern ‘world-alienation’. It builds on the idea that some of the most influ ential thinkers of the twentieth century (Ernst Jünger\, Georg Lukács\, Ernst Bloch\, Theodor Adorno\, Walter Benjamin\, Aby Warburg\, Sigmund Fre ud) did not equate the loss of a shared world with the loss of meaning. Ra ther\, the conceptual framework of a substantial part of early twentieth c entury German philosophy centers on the exploration of a productive opposi tion\, negation or fragmentation of the world. From the perspective of the se 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.\nBio:\nStéphane Symons is Full Professor of Philos ophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leuven\, Belgium. His research is focused on interwar German thought (Frankfurt School) and postwar French philosophy (structuralism and post-structuralism).\nTicket s: https://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-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nIn the final part of The Human Condition (1958) Hannah Arendt turns to the dan ger of ‘world- alienation’. Based on a variety of discoveries and evolutio ns that are constitutive of modernity (globalization\, Protestantism\, the invention of the telescope)\, modern man has adopted an Archimedean\, ext ernal position vis-à-vis the world. According to Arendt\, this ‘view from without’ has gradually jeopardized the experience of a shared world\, end angering the foundation of all meaning-giving activities.
\nMy talk can be considered as a reply to Arendt’s pessimistic account of modern ‘wo rld-alienation’. It builds on the idea that some of the most influential t hinkers of the twentieth century (Ernst Jünger\, Georg Lukács\, Ernst Bl och\, Theodor Adorno\, Walter Benjamin\, Aby Warburg\, Sigmund Freud) did not equate the loss of a shared world with the loss of meaning. Rather\, t he conceptual framework of a substantial part of early twentieth century G erman philosophy centers on the exploration of a productive opposition\, n egation or fragmentation of the world. From the perspective of these think ers\, the world’s ‘durability’ (Arendt) is not simply a source of shared m eaning since it can be experienced as the mark of its indifference to chan ge and renewal.
\nBio:
\nStéphane Symons is F ull Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Universi ty of Leuven\, Belgium. His research is focused on interwar German thought (Frankfurt School) and postwar French philosophy (structuralism and post- structuralism).
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