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:20240328T232117Z 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
\nstrong>
\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
\n\n\n
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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:20240328T232117Z 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-7814@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://www.telosinstitute.net/telos200/ DESCRIPTION:Keynote Speakers\nJoel Kotkin\, Roger Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange\, California\, and autho r of The New Class Conflict\nMichael Lind\, Professor at the Lyndon B. Joh nson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin\, and a uthor of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite\nSc hedule and Registration\nThe event will take place from 3 pm to 6 pm on Oc tober 14 and from 9 am to 5 pm on October 15. The registration rate is $10 0 for both days and includes a reception on October 14 and lunch on Octobe r 15. Click here to register for the event.\nEvent Description\nIn the las t fifteen years\, the discussion of class has shifted with the rise of the Tea Party and then Trumpism in the United States. Whereas the notion of c lass used to be a left-wing category championed by socialists\, Marxists\, and anarchists\, the critique of class division has now shifted to right- wing denunciations of the managerial class. This shift toward a populist p olitics targeting the new class has long been a topic of discussion in Tel os\, starting with the classic 1975 essay by Alvin Gouldner “Prologue to a Theory of Revolutionary Intellectuals” (in Telos 26) and continuing throu gh Paul Piccone’s work in the early 1990s in essays such as “The Crisis o f Liberalism and the Emergence of Federal Populism” (in Telos 89) and “P ostmodern Populism” (in Telos 103). A search of the Telos archive will unc over literally hundreds of essays that address various aspects of this iss ue. The recent popularizing of the critique of the new class has led to a conflict between the liberal pursuit of redistributive policies and the ex pansion of the welfare state\, on the one hand\, and the populist attempt to disempower governmental managerial elites and dismantle the welfare sta te\, on the other hand. How is the underlying notion of class being define d by the different parties to this debate? What are the political possibil ities\, both on the left and on the right\, that can emerge from the confl ict? Is this conflict leading to a new kind of civil war\, or can we envis ion new solutions?\nIn addition to engaging with these questions\, our eve nt will feature Telos editors\, who will discuss the past and current traj ectories of Telos as well as Telos 200\, devoted to the place of truth at the university.\nTelos has always had a conflicted relationship with unive rsities. On the one hand\, university academics have constituted the prima ry audience and contributors to Telos. On the other hand\, Telos has alway s maintained a distance from university structures\, precisely because of the tie between universities and the managerial class\, and previous speci al issues in Telos 81 and Telos 111 have attempted to address this problem .\nToday\, the situation of universities has become more dire than ever. T rapped between the pressure to provide job training on the one hand and po litical advocacy on the other hand\, the idea of a search for truth sounds hopelessly naive as a description of the task of colleges and universitie s today. Matching the shift of our society toward technocratic and manager ial solutions to problems\, the natural and social sciences have become re cognized authorities based on their claim to being scientific. Yet the aut hority of “science” is misleading in the sense that science never has stra ightforward answers but relies on a method of constant questioning. Scienc e itself cannot be counted on to make policy decisions but can only provid e relevant information for decision makers. Recent pieces in TelosScope by Russell Berman and Mathieu Slama address this issue by looking at the way pandemic policies were dominated by an ideology of “following the science ” that amounted to an abdication of democratic decision-making.\nMeanwhile \, university discussion and debate about decision-making\, traditionally the place of the humanities and social sciences\, have been suppressed in favor of a focus on political engagement. The range of perspectives availa ble for discussion has been reduced\, to the exclusion of those views that might challenge the technocratic bias and the reduction of politics to id entity politics that have become dominant at universities.\nThis narrowing of perspectives has also undermined the research project of the universit y. The exclusion of relevant perspectives in university debates has degrad ed the peer review process in the social sciences and the humanities\, mai ntaining an orthodoxy that favors the reinforcement of previously held vie ws rather than the challenging of such views. Such research can then be ci ted as the “scientific” basis for a set of policy prescriptions that have been agreed upon in advance. Where Max Weber once lamented the transformat ion of the lecture hall into a pulpit\, it is difficult today for academic s to avoid the pressure to either conform to a particular political perspe ctive or\, in rejecting such politicization\, to be forced into an “obstru ctionist” camp.\nIn the midst of these developments\, what is the status o f the idea of truth? Will truth necessarily remain subordinate to politics ? How might the search for truth remain a focus of colleges and universiti es?\nIn addressing these questions\, the 200th issue of Telos features con tributions by Joseph W. Bendersky\, Russell Berman\, Valerie J. D’Erman\, J. E. Elliott\, Wayne Hudson\, Michael Hüther\, Mark G. E. Kelly\, Tim Luk e\, Richard T. Marcy\, Greg Melleuish\, David Pan\, Susanna Rizzo\, and Da vid Westbrook.\nIf you have any questions about the event\, please contact us at telos200@telosinstitute.net.\nTickets: https://www.telosinstitute.n et/telos200/registration/. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221016 GEO:+40.754894;-73.981856 LOCATION:17th flr. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute\, Queens Col lege/CUNY @ 25 W 43rd St\, New York\, NY 10036\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Marking Telos 200: The New Politics of Class URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/marking-telos-200-the-ne w-politics-of-class/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nJoel Kotkin\, Roger Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange\, California\, and author of The New Class Conflict p>\n
Michael Lind\, Profe ssor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University o f Texas at Austin\, and author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite
\nThe event w ill take place from 3 pm to 6 pm on October 14 and from 9 am to 5 pm on Oc tober 15. The registration rate is $100 for both days and includes a recep tion on October 14 and lunch on October 15. Click here to register for the e vent.
\nIn the last fifteen years\, the discussion of class has shifted with the rise of the Tea Party and then T rumpism in the United States. Whereas the notion of class used to be a lef t-wing category championed by socialists\, Marxists\, and anarchists\, the critique of class division has now shifted to right-wing denunciations of the managerial class. This shift toward a populist politics targeting the new class has long been a topic of discussion in Telos\, startin g with the classic 1975 essay by Alvin Gouldner “Prologue to a Theory of Revolutionary Intellectuals” (in Telos 26) and continuing through Paul Piccone’s work in the early 1990s in essays such as “The Crisis of Liberalism an d the Emergence of Federal Populism” (in Telos 89) and “Postmodern Populism” (in Telos 10 3). A search of the Telos archive will uncover literally hundre ds of essays that address various aspects of this issue. The recent popula rizing of the critique of the new class has led to a conflict between the liberal pursuit of redistributive policies and the expansion of the welfar e state\, on the one hand\, and the populist attempt to disempower governm ental managerial elites and dismantle the welfare state\, on the other han d. How is the underlying notion of class being defined by the different pa rties to this debate? What are the political possibilities\, both on the l eft and on the right\, that can emerge from the conflict? Is this conflict leading to a new kind of civil war\, or can we envision new solutions?
\nIn addition to engaging with these que stions\, our event will feature Telos editors\, who will discuss the past and current trajectories of Telos as well as Telos em> 200\, devoted to the place of truth at the university.
\nTelos has always had a conflicted relation ship with universities. On the one hand\, university academics have consti tuted the primary audience and contributors to Telos. On the othe r hand\, Telos has always maintained a distance from university s tructures\, precisely because of the tie between universities and the mana gerial class\, and previous special issues in Telos 81 and Telos 11 1 have attempted to address this problem.
\nToday\, the situation of universities has become more dire than ever. Trapped between the pressure to provide job training on the one hand and political advocacy on the other hand\, the idea of a search for truth sounds hopelessly naive as a description of the task of colleges and univ ersities today. Matching the shift of our society toward technocratic and managerial solutions to problems\, the natural and social sciences have be come recognized authorities based on their claim to being scientific. Yet the authority of “science” is misleading in the sense that science never h as straightforward answers but relies on a method of constant questioning. Science itself cannot be counted on to make policy decisions but can only provide relevant information for decision makers. Recent pieces in Te losScope by Russell Berman and Mat hieu Slama address this issue by looking at the way pandemic policies were dominated by an ideology of “following the science” that amounted to an abdication of democratic decision-making.
\nMeanwhile\, university discussion and debate about decision-makin g\, traditionally the place of the humanities and social sciences\, have b een suppressed in favor of a focus on political engagement. The range of p erspectives available for discussion has been reduced\, to the exclusion o f those views that might challenge the technocratic bias and the reduction of politics to identity politics that have become dominant at universitie s.
\nThis narrowing of perspectives ha s also undermined the research project of the university. The exclusion of relevant perspectives in university debates has degraded the peer review process in the social sciences and the humanities\, maintaining an orthodo xy that favors the reinforcement of previously held views rather than the challenging of such views. Such research can then be cited as the “scienti fic” basis for a set of policy prescriptions that have been agreed upon in advance. Where Max Weber once lamented the transformation of the lecture hall into a pulpit\, it is difficult today for academics to avoid the pres sure to either conform to a particular political perspective or\, in rejec ting such politicization\, to be forced into an “obstructionist” camp.
\nIn the midst of these developments\, what is the status of the idea o f truth? Will truth necessarily remain subordinate to politics? How might the search for truth remain a focus of colleges and universities?
\nIn addressing these questions\, the 200th issue of Telos features contributions by Joseph W. Bendersky\, Russell Berman\, Valerie J. D’Erma n\, J. E. Elliott\, Wayne Hudson\, Michael Hüther\, Mark G. E. Kelly\, Tim Luke\, Richard T. Marcy\, Greg Melleuish\, David Pan\, Susanna Rizzo\, an d David Westbrook.
\nIf you have any q uestions about the event\, please contact us at telos200@telosinstitute.net.
\nTickets: https://www.telosinstitute.net/telos200/registration/ a>.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:conference\,political\,social X-COST:$100 X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.telosinstitute.net/telos200/registration/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7821@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://as.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise/Calendar/events/fall-2022/arts-a nd-pragmatism-.html DESCRIPTION:Advance Registration Required\; RSVP details coming soon\nLa Ma ison Française is pleased to host the second symposium of Arts and Pragmat ism. Join us for two days of fascinating talks and encounters at the inter section of philosophy and artistic practice under the direction of Sandra Laugier and Yann Toma.\nwith the support of Panthéon Sorbonne University\, Politique scientifique program\, Global Works and Society\, Liberal Studi es\, and La Maison Française at New York University.\nFull program details to follow.\n*We are so excited to welcome the general public back to most events at La Maison Francaise of NYU. Instructions for attending events i n-person will be confirmed shortly before each event. Please note that NYU requires all visitors to provide official proof (in English) that they ar e fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. Additional details to fol low. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221024 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221026 GEO:+40.731147;-73.995378 LOCATION:La Maison Française NYU & Zoom @ 16 Washington Mews\, New York\, N Y 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Arts and Pragmatism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/arts-and-pragmatism/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nAdvance Regis tration Required\; RSVP details coming soon
\nLa Maison Française is
pleased to host the second symposium of Arts and Pragmatism. Join us for
two days of fascinating talks and encounters at the intersection of philos
ophy and artistic practice under the direction of Sandra Laugier and Yann
Toma.
\nwith the support of Panthéon Sorbonne University\, Politique
scientifique program\, Global Works and Society\, Liberal Studies\, and La
Maison Française at New York University.
Full program details to follow.
\n*We are so excited to welcome the general public back to m ost events at La Maison Francaise of NYU. Instructions for attending event s in-person will be confirmed shortly before each event. Please note that NYU requires all visitors to provide official proof (in English) that they are fully vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. Additional details to follow.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,pragmatism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7893@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z 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-7909@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://phildeeplearning.github.io/ DESCRIPTION:A two-day conference on the philosophy of deep learning\, organ ized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York Univers ity) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia University)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program at Columbia University and the Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness at New Yor k University.\nAbout\nThe conference will explore current issues in AI res earch from a philosophical perspective\, with particular attention to rece nt work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to bring together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these systems in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities\, their limitations\, a nd their relationship to human cognition.\nThe conference will focus espec ially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science (rather than on top ics in AI ethics and safety). It will explore questions such as:\n\nWhat c ognitive capacities\, if any\, do current deep learning systems possess?\n What cognitive capacities might future deep learning systems possess?\nWha t kind of representations can we ascribe to artificial neural networks?\nC ould a large language model genuinely understand language?\nWhat do deep l earning systems tell us about human cognition\, and vice versa?\nHow can w e develop a theoretical understanding of deep learning systems?\nHow do de ep learning systems bear on philosophical debates such as rationalism vs e mpiricism and classical vs. nonclassical views of cognition.\nWhat are the key obstacles on the path from current deep learning systems to human-lev el cognition?\n\nA pre-conference debate on Friday\, March 24th will tackl e the question “Do large language models need sensory grounding for meanin g and understanding ?”. Speakers include Jacob Browning (New York Universi ty)\, David Chalmers (New York University)\, Yann LeCun (New York Universi ty)\, and Ellie Pavlick (Brown University / Google AI).\nConference speake rs\n\nCameron Buckner (University of Houston)\nRosa Cao (Stanford Universi ty)\nIshita Dasgupta (DeepMind)\nNikolaus Kriegeskorte (Columbia Universit y)\nBrenden Lake (New York University / Meta AI)\nGrace Lindsay (New York University)\nTal Linzen (New York University / Google AI)\nRaphaël Millièr e (Columbia University)\nNicholas Shea (Institute of Philosophy\, Universi ty of London)\n\nCall for abstracts\nWe invite abstract submissions for a few short talks and poster presentations related to the topic of the confe rence. Submissions from graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Please send a title and abstract (500-750 words) to phildeeplearning@gmail.com by January 22nd\, 2023 (11.59pm EST).\n \nh ttps://philevents.org/event/show/106406\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.c om/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-453924730087. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230327 GEO:+40.729513;-73.996461 LOCATION:Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness @ New York\, NY 10012\ , USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Philosophy of Deep Learning URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-philosophy-of-deep-l earning/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nA two-day con ference on the philosophy of deep learning\, organized by Ned Block (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University) and Raphaël Millière (Columbia Uni versity)\, and jointly sponsored by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscien ce program at Columbia University and the Center for Mind\, Brain\, a nd Consciousness at New York University.
\nThe conference will explore current issues in AI research from a phi losophical perspective\, with particular attention to recent work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to bring together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these systems in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities\, their limitations\, and their relatio nship to human cognition.
\nThe conference will focus especially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science (rather than on topics in AI ethics and safety). It will explore questions such as:
\nA pre-conference debate on Friday\, March 24th will tackle the question “Do large language models need sensory grounding for m eaning and understanding ?”. Speakers include Jacob Browni ng (New York University)\, David Chalmers (New York University)\, Yann LeCun (New York University)\, and Ellie Pavlick (Brown U niversity / Google AI).
\nWe i nvite abstract submissions for a few short talks and poster presentations related to the topic of the conference. Submissions from graduate students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged. Please send a title and abstract (500-750 words) to phildeeplearning@gmail.com a> by January 22nd\, 2023 (11.59pm EST).
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\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosop hy-of-deep-learning-conference-tickets-453924730087.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfa\,cognitive science\,conf erence\,language\,mind X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/philosophy-of-deep-learning-conf erence-tickets-453924730087 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7993@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Our friends from Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne return f or a third installment of their symposium Arts & Pragmatism: From Ordinary Aesthetics to Post Creation. \nThis day-long symposium will be chaired by Yann Toma and Sandra Laugier. From the organizers:\nWe have noticed it du ring the two previous symposia of our program: the pragmatist philosophy a nd in particular Dewey defends the idea that aesthetics must not only be c onsidered as the search for truths about art and its creations but also as what concerns the experience of the persons with an artwork (a sensitive and active experience). The reception would thus be the dynamic experience of an incarnated observer\, acting\, feeling in his senses and his affect s what is the work and what it makes him feel.\n\nThe political stake of t he pragmatist aesthetics is to make sure that the strong aesthetic experie nces remain open and accessible to the largest public and become even a «m atter of ordinary conversation». It is then a matter of thinking about sha red experience as a transmission of values\, an important phenomenon for t he moral\, political\, “educational” reflection of adults» (Cavell 1979\, 1981\, Shusterman\, Laugier 2019\, 2023\, Gerrits 2020). Thus\, this quest ion of pragmatism addresses societal issues that concern all audiences\, n ot just from a broadcast/transmission perspective. By focusing on experien ce and agency\, this way of approaching pragmatism involves the cultural a udience in a broad way to the point where it engages mediums such as telev ision and in general digital cultures.\nThe concept of Post-Creation\, ins ofar as it plays a form of exteriority to an original Creation\, has all i ts place in a world where the strong aesthetic experiences remain open and accessible to a wider public. It is a question of placing the creation be yond what is biased\, in the heart of a form of Third State of the artisti c act in charge of a heuristic and critical potential\, towards a form ext racted from the zone of influence of the world of the art as such. The ide a of Post-Creation tends towards the universal that would be the fact of c onceiving the creation beyond any not institutionalized academism. We will see how a possible emulation between the ordinary aesthetic and the share d experience of the Post-Creation is articulated and played\, where the ex perience of the creation produces knowledge and transforms what is out of the specific field of perception of the art in so many new acting and refl exive spaces. In that\, the influence of the artistic creation on whole se ctions of the society\, domains of perception until now inaccessible\, bec omes a stake of opening which results from the transformation of a form of ordinary aesthetics in a Post-Creation freed from the aesthetic channels of the contemporary art.\nRead the statement in French\nProgram:\n10:30AM : Opening Yann Toma\, Sandra Laugier and François Noudelmann\n11:00AM – 1: 00PM : Panel I Pragmatism and the Project of an Ordinary Aesthetics\nChair : Yann Toma\nAndrew Brandel (Penn State University) From the Aesthetics o f the Everyday Life to Ordinary Aesthetics.\nBarbara Formis (Panthéon-Sorb onne University) Doings and redoings of the Identical.\nSandra Laugier (Pa nthéon-Sorbonne) Ordinary Creation and Shared Culture.\nEmmanuel Kattan (C olumbia University) What happens when nothing happens: Chantal Akerman\, F rancis Ponge\, Marisa Merz and the emergence of time.\n \n1:00PM – 3:00PM : Lunch Break\n \n3:00PM – 6:00PM : Panel II Pragmatism\, Post-Creation\nC hair : Sandra Laugier\nYann Toma (Artist/Panthéon-Sorbonne University) Pos t-Creation\, a new way of making creation\nThe example of L’Or bleu.\nJung Hee Choi (artist and author of «Manifest Unmanifest») Dream House.\nDa n Thomas (United Nations Global Compact)\, The importance of Art and Perce ption in the Diplomatic Way.\nWarren Neidich (Artist and Founding Director Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art) The Brain Without Organs and the Ecocen e.\nThis event is organized with the support of Université Paris 1 Panthéo n-Sorbonne\, Politique scientifique program\, and La Maison Française at N ew York University\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-pragmatism- from-ordinary-aesthetics-to-post-creation-tickets-596140822247. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230403 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230404 GEO:+40.731169;-73.995381 LOCATION:La Maison Française @ 16 Washington Mews\, New York\, NY 10003\, U SA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Arts & Pragmatism: From Ordinary Aesthetics to Post-Creation URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/arts-pragmatism-from-ord inary-aesthetics-to-post-creation/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nOur friends f rom Université de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne return for a third installment o f their symposium Arts & Pragmatism: From Ordinary Aesthetics to Post C reation.
\nThis day-long symposium will be chaired by Yann Toma and Sandra Laugier. From the organizers:
\nWe have noticed it du
ring the two previous symposia of our program: the pragmatist philosophy a
nd in particular Dewey defends the idea that aesthetics must not only be c
onsidered as the search for truths about art and its creations but also as
what concerns the experience of the persons with an artwork (a sensitive
and active experience). The reception would thus be the dynamic experience
of an incarnated observer\, acting\, feeling in his senses and his affect
s what is the work and what it makes him feel.
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The political stake of the pragmatist aesthetics is to make sure that the stro ng aesthetic experiences remain open and accessible to the largest public and become even a «matter of ordinary conversation». It is then a matter o f thinking about shared experience as a transmission of values\, an import ant phenomenon for the moral\, political\, “educational” reflection of adu lts» (Cavell 1979\, 1981\, Shusterman\, Laugier 2019\, 2023\, Gerrits 2020 ). Thus\, this question of pragmatism addresses societal issues that conce rn all audiences\, not just from a broadcast/transmission perspective. By focusing on experience and agency\, this way of approaching pragmatism inv olves the cultural audience in a broad way to the point where it engages m ediums such as television and in general digital cultures.
\nThe concept of Post-Creation\, insofar as it plays a form of exteriority t o an original Creation\, has all its place in a world where the strong aes thetic experiences remain open and accessible to a wider public. It is a q uestion of placing the creation beyond what is biased\, in the heart of a form of Third State of the artistic act in charge of a heuristic and criti cal potential\, towards a form extracted from the zone of influence of the world of the art as such. The idea of Post-Creation tends towards the uni versal that would be the fact of conceiving the creation beyond any not in stitutionalized academism. We will see how a possible emulation between th e ordinary aesthetic and the shared experience of the Post-Creation is art iculated and played\, where the experience of the creation produces knowle dge and transforms what is out of the specific field of perception of the art in so many new acting and reflexive spaces. In that\, the influence of the artistic creation on whole sections of the society\, domains of perce ption until now inaccessible\, becomes a stake of opening which results fr om the transformation of a form of ordinary aesthetics in a Post-Creation freed from the aesthetic channels of the contemporary art.
\n\nProgram:
\n10:30AM : Opening Yann Toma\, Sandra Lau gier and François Noudelmann
\n11:00AM – 1:00PM : Panel I Pra gmatism and the Project of an Ordinary Aesthetics
\nChair : < /u>Yann Toma
\nAndrew Brandel (Penn State Unive rsity) From the Aesthetics of the Everyday Life to Ordinary Aesthetics.
\nBarbara Formis (Panthéon-Sorbonne University) Doings and redo ings of the Identical.
\nSandra Laugier (Panthéon-Sorbonne) O rdinary Creation and Shared Culture.
\nEmmanuel Kattan (Colum bia University) What happens when nothing happens: Chantal Akerman\, Franc is Ponge\, Marisa Merz and the emergence of time.
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1:0 0PM – 3:00PM : Lunch Break
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3:00PM – 6:00PM : Pane l II Pragmatism\, Post-Creation
\nChair : Sandra La ugier
\nYann Toma (Artist/Panthéon-Sorbonne Universit y) Post-Creation\, a new way of making creation
\nThe example of L’O r bleu.
\nJung Hee Choi (artist and author of «Manifest Unman ifest») Dream House.
\nDan Thomas (United Nations Global C ompact)\, The importance of Art and Perception in the Diplomatic Way.
\nWarren Neidich (Artist and Founding Director Saas-Fee Summer I nstitute of Art) The Brain Without Organs and the Ecocene.
\nThis ev ent is organized with the support of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne\ , Politique scientifique program\, and La Maison Française at New York Uni versity
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,art\,pragmatism X-TICKETS-URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-pragmatism-from-ordinary-ae sthetics-to-post-creation-tickets-596140822247 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7877@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z 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 the brain cope with Complexity? How do we make decisions when confronted with practically infinite streams of information?
\nThe conference showca ses cutting edge research on these questions in Neuroscience and Psycholog y (neural mechanisms of cognitive control\, exploration\, decision-making\ , information demand\, memory and creativity)\, Computer Science (artifici al intelligence of curiosity and intrinsic motivation) and Economics (deci sion making and information demand). Alongside formal presentations\, the conference will encourage ample interactions among faculty\, students and postdocs through informal discussions and poster presentations.
\nSu bmissions for poster presentations and travel awards are due February 15\, 2023. Please visit the call fo r submissions for complete requirements.
\nFree and open to the public. Registration is required and will open shortly. All in-person attendees must follow Columbia’s COV ID-19 policies. Visitors will be asked to provide proof of COVID-19 va ccination. Online attendees will receive a Zoom link. Please email events@zi.columbia.edu with any quest ions.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,decision theory\,mind\,psych ology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7986@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/bi2023/index.html DESCRIPTION:The International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI) series h as established itself as the world’s premier research conference on Brain Informatics\, which is an emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field that combines the efforts of Cognitive Science\, Neuroscie nce\, Machine Learning\, Data Science\, Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to explore the main proble ms that lie in the interplay between human brain studies and informatics r esearch.\nThe 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’23) p rovides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and pr actitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research resu lts\, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical de velopment experiences on brain Informatics research\, brain-inspired techn ologies and brain/mental health applications.\nThe key theme of the confer ence is “Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence“.\nThe BI’23 solicits high-quality original research and application papers (both full paper an d abstract submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to:\n \nTrack 1: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Brain Science\nTrack 2: Human Information Processing Systems\nTrack 3: Brain Big Data Analytic s\, Curation and Management\nTrack 4: Informatics Paradigms for Brain and Mental Health Research\nTrack 5: Brain-Machine Intelligence and Brain-Insp ired Computing\n\nKeynote Speakers\nProfessor Emery N. Brown\nMIT\, Massac husetts General Hospital\, USA\nProfile: Emery Neal Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachuse tts General Hospital (MGH)\, and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and prof essor of computational neuroscience\, the Associate Director of the Instit ute for Medical Engineering and Science\, and the Director of the Harvard– MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. Brown is one of only 19 ind ividuals who has been elected to all three branches of the National Academ ies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine\, as well as the first Africa n American and the first anesthesiologist to be elected to all three Natio nal Academies.\nProfessor Bin He\nCarnegie Mellon University\, USA\nProfil e: Bin He is the Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Professor o f the Neuroscience Institute\, and Professor by courtesy of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. He has made signi ficant research and education contributions to the field of neuroengineeri ng and biomedical imaging\, including functional biomedical imaging\, noni nvasive brain-computer interface (BCI)\, and noninvasive neuromodulation. His pioneering research has helped transforming electroencephalography fro m a 1-dimensional detection technique to 3-dimensional neuroimaging modali ty. His lab demonstrated for the first time for humans to fly a drone and control a robotic arm just by thinking about it using a noninvasive BCI. H e is an elected Fellow of International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)\, American Institute of Medical and Biological Enginee ring (AIMBE)\, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)\, and IEEE. Dr. He se rved as a Past President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology S ociety\, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineerin g from 2013-2018\, the Chair of the International Academy of Medical and B iological Engineering from 2018-2021. Dr. He has been a Member of NIH BRAI N Initiative Multi-Council Working Group from 2014-2019.\nProfessor John N gai\nNIH BRAIN Initiative\, USA\nProfile: John J. Ngai\, Ph.D.\, is the Di rector of the NIH’s Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechn ologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Dr. Ngai earned his bachelor’s degree in chemi stry and biology from Pomona College\, Claremont\, California\, and Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasade na. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and at the Columbia Univer sity College of Physicians and Surgeons before starting his faculty positi on at the University of California at Berkeley. During more than 25 years as a Berkeley faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has trained 20 undergraduate stude nts\, 24 graduate students and 15 postdoctoral fellows in addition to teac hing well over 1\,000 students in the classroom. His work has led to the p ublication of more than 70 scientific articles in some of the field’s most prestigious journals and 10 U.S. and international patents. Dr. Ngai has received many awards including from the Sloan Foundation\, Pew Charitable Trusts\, and McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. As a faculty member \, Dr. Ngai has served as the director of Berkeley’s Neuroscience Graduate Program and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. He has also provided exte nsive service on NIH study sections\, councils and steering groups\, inclu ding as previous co-chair of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Consorti um Steering Group. Dr. Ngai oversees the long-term strategy and day-to-day operations of the NIH BRAIN Initiative as it strives to revolutionize our understanding of the brain in both health and disease.\nProfessor Helen M ayberg\nIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai\, USA\nProfile: Helen Mayb erg is a neurologist recognized for her neuroimaging studies of brain circ uits in depression and their translation to the development of deep brain stimulation as a novel therapeutic for treatment resistant patients. Born and raised in Southern California\, she received a BA in Psychobiology fro m UCLA and a MD from the University of Southern California\, then trained in Neurology at Columbia’s Neurological Institute in New York and did a re search fellowship in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins. She had early acad emic appointments at Johns Hopkins and the University of Texas Health Scie nces Center in San Antonio\, held the inaugural Sandra Rotman Chair in Neu ropsychiatry at the University of Toronto\, the first Dorothy C. Fuqua Cha ir in Psychiatric Imaging and Therapeutics at Emory University and is now the Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics at the Icahn School of Medi cine where she is founding Director of the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics. She is a member of the both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine as well as the National Aca demy of Inventors and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\nProfessor Vi nod Goel\nYork University\, Canada\nProfile: Vinod Goel is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at York University\, Toronto\, Canada. He completed his PhD in cognitive science at UC-Berkeley\, and received postdoctoral t raining in neuroscience at the NIH (NINDS) and the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology\, Institute of Neurology\, UCL\, UK. He has made signi ficant empirical contributions to our understanding of the roles of prefro ntal cortex in real-world problem solving and reasoning\, hemispheric asym metry in prefrontal cortex\, and models of rationality\, using the methodo logies of fMRI and lesion studies. He has most recently completed a book r econstructing the role of rationality in human behavior entitled “Reason a nd Less: Pursuing Food\, Sex\, and Politics” (The MIT Press\, 2022). His c urrent project is to explore the implications of this work on our understa nding of reason and legal responsibility.\nProfessor Amy Kuceyeski\nCornel l University\, USA\nProfile: Amy Kuceyeski is an Associate Professor of Ma thematics and Neuroscience in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Computational Biology Department at Cornell University. She is the directo r of the Computational Connectomics (CoCo) Laboratory and the Machine Lear ning in Medicine group at Cornell. Over the past 14 years\, she has been w orking to understand the human brain using quantitative modeling approache s\, including machine learning\, to map anatomical and physiological chara cteristics to behavior. Specifically\, she is interested in understanding how brains recover from injury so we can devise strategies\, possibly via non-invasive neuromodulation\, to support natural recovery processes. She also performs research at the intersection of biological and artificial ne ural networks that aims to understand how human brains process incoming vi sual information.\nProfessor Patrick Purdon\nHarvard Medical School\, USA \nProfile: Patrick L. Purdon\, Ph.D.\, is an Associate Professor of Anaest hesia at Harvard Medical School and the Nathaniel M. Sims Endowed Chair in Anesthesia Innovation and Bioengineering at Massachusetts General Hospita l. Dr. Purdon received his A.B. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard Coll ege in 1996\, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1998\, and hi s Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2005. Dr. Purdon’s research in neuroengineering encompasses the mechanisms of anesthesia\, Alzheimer’ s disease and brain health\, anesthesia and the developing brain\, neural signal processing\, and the development of novel technologies for brain mo nitoring. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed publications\, is an inve ntor on 16 pending patents\, and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Purdon has won numerous awards\, including the prestigious National Institutes of Health Director’s New In novator Award.\nImportant Dates\n\n15 April 2023: Full paper submission de adline\n\n\n20 April 2023: Workshop proposal deadline\n\n\n10 May 2023: Ab stract presentation submission deadline\n\n\n30 May 2023: Final paper and abstract acceptance notification\n\n\n20 Jun 2023: Accepted paper and abst ract registration deadline\n\n\n1-3 Aug 2023: The Brain Informatics Confer ence\n\nPaper Submission and Publications\nFull Paper (Regular):\n1. 9-12 pages are strongly encouraged for the regular papers including figures and references in Springer LNCS Proceedings format(https://www.springer.com/u s/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Over length pa pers will be charged for 100$ per page.\n2. All papers will be peer-review ed and accepted based on originality\, significance of contribution\, tech nical merit\, and presentation quality.\n3. All papers accepted (and all w orkshop & special sessions’ full-length papers) will be published by Sprin ger as a volume of the Springer-Nature LNAI Brain Informatics Book Series( https://link.springer.com/conference/brain).\nAbstract (Only for Workshops /Special Sessions):\nResearch abstracts are encouraged and will be accepte d for presentations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentat ion format. Each abstract submission should include the title of the paper and an abstract body within 500 words. The abstract will not be included in the conference proceedings to be published by Springer.\nJournal Opport unities:\nHigh-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fast-t rack review and publication at the Brain Informatics Journal\, (https://br aininformatics.springeropen.com/) an international\, peer-reviewed\, inter disciplinary Open Access journal published by Springer Nature. Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conference p aper authors.\nSpecial Issues & Books Opportunities:\nWorkshop/special ses sion organizers and BI conference session chairs may consider and can be i nvited to prepare a book proposal of special topics for possible book publ ication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (htt ps://www.springer.com/series/15148)\, or a special issue at the Brain Info rmatics Journal.\nPoster-Conference Publication\n1. Accepted full papers w ill be selected to publish in the Brain Informatics Journal upon revision. \n2. Discount or no article-processing fee will be charged for authors of Brain Informatics conference (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/). \n3. The organizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepa re a book proposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics and He alth book series (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).\n \nhttps://phile vents.org/event/show/109301 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230804 GEO:+40.744623;-74.025399 LOCATION:Stevens Institute of Technology @ 1 Castle Point Terrace\, Hoboken \, NJ 07030\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The 16th International Conference on Brain Informatics URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-16th-international-c onference-on-brain-informatics/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe Internati onal Conference on Brain Informatics (BI) series has established itself as the world’s premier research conference on Brain Informatics\, which is a n emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research field that com bines the efforts of Cognitive Science\, Neuroscience\, Machine Learning\, Data Science\, Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, and Information and Communi cation Technology (ICT) to explore the main problems that lie in the inter play between human brain studies and informatics research.
\nThe 16t h International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’23) provides a premier international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields for presentation of original research results\, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experie nces on brain Informatics research\, brain-inspired technologies and brain /mental health applications.
\nThe key theme of the conference is “< strong>Brain Science meets Artificial Intelligence“.
\nThe BI’23 solicits high-quality original research and application papers (both full paper and abstract submissions). Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
\nKeynote Speakers
\nProfessor Emery N. Bro wn
\nMIT\, Massachusetts General Hospital\, USA
\nPro file: Emery Neal Brown is the Warren M. Zapol Professor o f Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospit al (MGH)\, and a practicing anesthesiologist at MGH. At MIT he is the Edwa rd Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and professor of computati onal neuroscience\, the Associate Director of the Institute for Medical En gineering and Science\, and the Director of the Harvard–MIT Program in Hea lth Sciences and Technology. Brown is one of only 19 individuals who has b een elected to all three branches of the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine\, as well as the first African American and the first anesthesiologist to be elected to all three National Academies.
\nProfessor Bin He
\nCarnegie Mellon University\ , USA
\nProfile: Bin He is the Trustee Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, Professor of the Neuroscience Institute\, and Pr ofessor by courtesy of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mel lon University. Dr. He has made significant research and education contrib utions to the field of neuroengineering and biomedical imaging\, including functional biomedical imaging\, noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI )\, and noninvasive neuromodulation. His pioneering research has helped tr ansforming electroencephalography from a 1-dimensional detection technique to 3-dimensional neuroimaging modality. His lab demonstrated for the firs t time for humans to fly a drone and control a robotic arm just by thinkin g about it using a noninvasive BCI. He is an elected Fellow of Internation al Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)\, American Instit ute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)\, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)\, and IEEE. Dr. He served as a Past President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society\, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering from 2013-2018\, the Chair of the I nternational Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering from 2018-2021. Dr. He has been a Member of NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Gr oup from 2014-2019.
\nProfessor John Ngai
\nN IH BRAIN Initiative\, USA
\nProfile: John J. Ngai\, Ph.D.\, is the Director of the NIH’s Brain Research Through Advancing Inn ovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. Dr. Ngai earned his bachelor ’s degree in chemistry and biology from Pomona College\, Claremont\, Calif ornia\, and Ph.D. in biology from the California Institute of Technology ( Caltech) in Pasadena. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and at t he Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons before starting his faculty position at the University of California at Berkeley. During m ore than 25 years as a Berkeley faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has trained 20 u ndergraduate students\, 24 graduate students and 15 postdoctoral fellows i n addition to teaching well over 1\,000 students in the classroom. His wor k has led to the publication of more than 70 scientific articles in some o f the field’s most prestigious journals and 10 U.S. and international pate nts. Dr. Ngai has received many awards including from the Sloan Foundation \, Pew Charitable Trusts\, and McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. A s a faculty member\, Dr. Ngai has served as the director of Berkeley’s Neu roscience Graduate Program and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. He has also provided extensive service on NIH study sections\, councils and steer ing groups\, including as previous co-chair of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Ce ll Census Consortium Steering Group. Dr. Ngai oversees the long-term strat egy and day-to-day operations of the NIH BRAIN Initiative as it strives to revolutionize our understanding of the brain in both health and disease.< /p>\n
Professor Helen Mayberg
\nIcahn School of M edicine at Mount Sinai\, USA
\nProfile: Helen Maybe rg is a neurologist recognized for her neuroimaging studies of brain circu its in depression and their translation to the development of deep brain s timulation as a novel therapeutic for treatment resistant patients. Born a nd raised in Southern California\, she received a BA in Psychobiology from UCLA and a MD from the University of Southern California\, then trained i n Neurology at Columbia’s Neurological Institute in New York and did a res earch fellowship in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins. She had early acade mic appointments at Johns Hopkins and the University of Texas Health Scien ces Center in San Antonio\, held the inaugural Sandra Rotman Chair in Neur opsychiatry at the University of Toronto\, the first Dorothy C. Fuqua Chai r in Psychiatric Imaging and Therapeutics at Emory University and is now t he Mount Sinai Professor of Neurotherapeutics at the Icahn School of Medic ine where she is founding Director of the Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics. She is a member of the both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine as well as the National Acad emy of Inventors and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
\nYork University\, Canada
\nP rofile: Vinod Goel is a professor of cognitive neuroscien ce at York University\, Toronto\, Canada. He completed his PhD in cognitiv e science at UC-Berkeley\, and received postdoctoral training in neuroscie nce at the NIH (NINDS) and the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology\ , Institute of Neurology\, UCL\, UK. He has made significant empirical con tributions to our understanding of the roles of prefrontal cortex in real- world problem solving and reasoning\, hemispheric asymmetry in prefrontal cortex\, and models of rationality\, using the methodologies of fMRI and l esion studies. He has most recently completed a book reconstructing the ro le of rationality in human behavior entitled “Reason and Less: Pursuing Fo od\, Sex\, and Politics” (The MIT Press\, 2022). His current project is to explore the implications of this work on our understanding of reason and legal responsibility.
\nProfessor Amy Kuceyeski
\nCornell University\, USA
\nProfile: Amy Kuceye ski is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Neuroscience in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Computational Biology Department at Cor nell University. She is the director of the Computational Connectomics (Co Co) Laboratory and the Machine Learning in Medicine group at Cornell. Over the past 14 years\, she has been working to understand the human brain us ing quantitative modeling approaches\, including machine learning\, to map anatomical and physiological characteristics to behavior. Specifically\, she is interested in understanding how brains recover from injury so we ca n devise strategies\, possibly via non-invasive neuromodulation\, to suppo rt natural recovery processes. She also performs research at the intersect ion of biological and artificial neural networks that aims to understand h ow human brains process incoming visual information.
\nProfe ssor Patrick Purdon
\nHarvard Medical School\, USA
\nProfile: Patrick L. Purdon\, Ph.D.\, is an Associate Prof essor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and the Nathaniel M. Sims E ndowed Chair in Anesthesia Innovation and Bioengineering at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Purdon received his A.B. in Engineering Sciences fr om Harvard College in 1996\, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT i n 1998\, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from MIT in 2005. Dr. Pu rdon’s research in neuroengineering encompasses the mechanisms of anesthes ia\, Alzheimer’s disease and brain health\, anesthesia and the developing brain\, neural signal processing\, and the development of novel technologi es for brain monitoring. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed publicatio ns\, is an inventor on 16 pending patents\, and is a Fellow of the America n Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Purdon has won nu merous awards\, including the prestigious National Institutes of Health Di rector’s New Innovator Award.
\nImportant Dates
\nPaper Submission and Publications
\nF ull Paper (Regular):
\n1. 9-12 pages are strongly encouraged for the
regular papers including figures and references in Springer LNCS Proceedi
ngs format(https://www.springer.com/us/computer-science/lncs/conference-pr
oceedings-guidelines). Over length papers will be charged for 100$ per pag
e.
\n2. All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted based on origin
ality\, significance of contribution\, technical merit\, and presentation
quality.
\n3. All papers accepted (and all workshop & special session
s’ full-length papers) will be published by Springer as a volume of the Sp
ringer-Nature LNAI Brain Informatics Book Series(https://link.springer.com
/conference/brain).
Abstract (Only for Workshops/Special Sessions) :
\nResearch abstracts are encouraged and will be accepted for prese ntations in an oral presentation format and/or poster presentation format. Each abstract submission should include the title of the paper and an abs tract body within 500 words. The abstract will not be included in the conf erence proceedings to be published by Springer.
\nJournal Opportunit ies:
\nHigh-quality BI conference papers will be nominated for a fas t-track review and publication at the Brain Informatics Journal\, (https:/ /braininformatics.springeropen.com/) an international\, peer-reviewed\, in terdisciplinary Open Access journal published by Springer Nature. Discount or no open access article-processing fee will be charged for BI conferenc e paper authors.
\nSpecial Issues & Books Opportunities:
\nWor kshop/special session organizers and BI conference session chairs may cons ider and can be invited to prepare a book proposal of special topics for p ossible book publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics & Health Book Series (https://www.springer.com/series/15148)\, or a special issue at the Brain Informatics Journal.
\nPoster-Conference Public ation
\n1. Accepted full papers will be selected to publish in the Brain Informatics Journal upon revision.
\n2. Discount or no article-processing fee will be charged for authors of Brain Informatics c onference (https://braininformatics.springeropen.com/).
\n3. The org anizers of Workshops and Special-Sessions are invited to prepare a book pr oposal based on the topics of the workshop/special session for possible bo ok publication in the Springer-Nature Brain Informatics and Health book se ries (http://www.springer.com/series/15148).
\n\n
https://philevents.org/event/show/ 109301
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,cfp\,cognitive science\,comm unication\,conference\,information\,mind\,neuroscience END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8000@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/110241 DESCRIPTION:Richard J. Bernstein first encountered John Dewey’s pragmatist naturalism as a graduate student at Yale University\, where “Dewey’s natu ralistic vision of the relation of experience and nature—how human beings as natural creatures are related to the rest of nature—spoke deeply to me. ” This early enthusiasm for Dewey’s naturalistic vision never left him. Du ring the final years of his long life\, Bernstein finished two books that return to issues of pragmatist naturalism.\n· His Pragmatic Naturali sm: John Dewey’s Living Legacy (2020)\, traces differing versions of Dewey an naturalism in the works of contemporary philosophers\, including Robert Brandom\, John McDowell\, Richard Rorty\, Wilfrid Sellars\, Peter Godfrey -Smith\, Philip Kitcher\, Bjorn Ramberg\, David Macarthur\, Steven Levine\ , Mark Johnson\, Robert Sinclair\, Huw Price\, and Joseph Rouse.\n· In his final book\, The Vicissitudes of Nature (2022)\, Bernstein clarifie s his own pragmatist naturalism in relation to the thinking of earlier mod ern philosophers: Spinoza\, Hume\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, and F reud.\nThis conference will critically assess and expand the legacy of Ber nstein’s final pragmatic naturalism as expressed in these two books. Accep ted papers will be collected for publication.\nThe New York Pragmatist For um\nPaper topics may include: \n● Bernstein’s discussion of Dewey’s t hinking in relation to contemporary philosophers’ formulations of naturali sm in Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewey’s Living Legacy.\n● Bernstein’ s interpretation of an earlier thinker’s understanding of naturalism or na ture in The Vicissitudes of Nature (Spinoza\, Hume\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, or Freud).\n● A larger theme or problem that brings one of these Bernstein’s texts into conversation with philosophical naturalism \, either particular expressions or conceptual issues.\n● The consequ ences of one or both of these texts for questions of naturalism in relatio n to wider social and political questions\, e.g.\, democracy\, praxis\, cr itique.\nAbstracts: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to tara@newschool.edu.\nSubmission Deadline: May 22\, 2023 \nNYPF Conference Committee:\nSergio Gallegos\, John Jay College of Criminal Justice\nJudit h Green\, Fordham University\nBrendan Hogan\, New York University\nTara Ma strelli\, New School for Social Research\nDavid Woods\, New York Universit y DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231001 GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539 LOCATION:Fordham University at Lincoln Center @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 11 3 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Nature’s Vicissitudes: Richard J. Bernstein’s final pragmatic natur alism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/natures-vicissitudes-ric hard-j-bernsteins-final-pragmatic-naturalism/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nRichard J. Be rnstein first encountered John Dewey’s pragmatist naturalism as a graduate student at Yale University\, where “Dewey’s naturalistic vision of the r elation of experience and nature—how human beings as natural creatures are related to the rest of nature—spoke deeply to me.” This early enthusiasm for Dewey’s naturalistic vision never left him. During the final years of his long life\, Bernstein finished two books that return to issues of prag matist naturalism.
\n· His Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewe y’s Living Legacy (2020)\, traces differing versions of Deweyan natur alism in the works of contemporary philosophers\, including Robert Brandom \, John McDowell\, Richard Rorty\, Wilfrid Sellars\, Peter Godfrey-Smith\, Philip Kitcher\, Bjorn Ramberg\, David Macarthur\, Steven Levine\, Mark J ohnson\, Robert Sinclair\, Huw Price\, and Joseph Rouse.
\n· I n his final book\, The Vicissitudes of Nature (2022)\, B ernstein clarifies his own pragmatist naturalism in relation to the thinki ng of earlier modern philosophers: Spinoza\, Hume\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, and Freud.
\nThis conference will critically assess and expand the legacy of Bernstein’s final pragmatic naturalism as expressed i n these two books. Accepted papers will be collected for publication.
\nThe New York Pragmatist Forum
\nPaper topics may include:
\n● Bernstein’s discussion of Dew ey’s thinking in relation to contemporary philosophers’ formulations of na turalism in Pragmatic Naturalism: John Dewey’s Living Legacy.
\n● Bernstein’s interpretation of an earlier thinker’s understandi ng of naturalism or nature in The Vicissitudes of Nature (Spinoza \, Hume\, Kant\, Hegel\, Marx\, Nietzsche\, or Freud).
\n● A la rger theme or problem that brings one of these Bernstein’s texts into conv ersation with philosophical naturalism\, either particular expressions or conceptual issues.
\n● The consequences of one or both of these texts for questions of naturalism in relation to wider social and politic al questions\, e.g.\, democracy\, praxis\, critique.
\nAbstr acts: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to tara@newschool.edu.
\nSubmission Deadlin e: May 22\, 2023
\nNYPF Conference Committee:
\nSerg io Gallegos\, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
\nJudith Green\,
Fordham University
\nBrendan Hogan\, New York University
Tara Mastrelli\, New School for Social Research
\nDavid Woods\, New York University
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfa\,conference\,naturalism\,pragmatism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8024@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://sofheyman.org/events/beyond-polarization-epistemic-distorti on-and-criticism DESCRIPTION:Individuals support forms of domination with varying levels of understanding that they are doing so. In many cases\, those very structure s of domination distort our conceptions of them through mechanisms such as motivated reasoning\, implicit bias\, affected ignorance\, false consciou sness\, and belief polarization. These various epistemic distortions\, in turn\, cause social conflict\, notably by promoting political polarization . Those worried by social conflict have spent a great deal of energy decry ing the increasingly polarized contexts in which we live. However\, episte mic distortions in our sociopolitical beliefs also misrepresent\, maintain systems of domination and prevent human needs from being met.\nThis works hop aims to go beyond pronouncements such as ‘we are polarized’ or that ‘p artisanship is on the rise\,’ and begin to think through epistemic distort ions at the individual and intersubjective levels\, the role of criticism and critique in facilitating belief and social change\, and the idea of re conciliation\, by asking questions such as:\n\nIn what ways are individual beliefs about domination/social structures epistemically distorted?\nWhat explains why social beliefs are epistemically distorted?\nWhat are the no rmative upshots of epistemic distortion for social relationships like ally ship\, comradeship\, and friendship?\nOught polarization be remedied? Whic h epistemic resources and theoretical frameworks avail themselves of emanc ipatory potential?\n\nConvenors\nEge Yumuşak is a philosopher\, specializi ng in epistemology\, the philosophy of mind\, and social & political philo sophy. She received a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2022. H er research examines political disagreement—its material foundations\, psy chological and social manifestations\, and epistemic properties. She is cu rrently writing a series of articles on the nature and significance of cla shes of perspective in social life.\nNicolas Côté is a postdoctoral resear cher at the University of Toronto. His research is mainly in normative eth ics and social choice theory\, but they also dabble in applied ethics and issues of practical rationality. Côté’s doctoral dissertation work focuses on the measurement of freedom\, especially on axiomatic approaches to the measurement question\, and on how deontic concerns for protecting individ ual rights interact with welfarist concerns for improving the general welf are. Côté’s current research focuses on the ethics of decision-making unde r radical uncertainty.\nInvited speakers:\nSabina Vaccarino Bremner\; Dani ela Dover\; Cain Shelley\nInvited commentators\nTBA DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231109 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Heyman Center\, 2nd foor common room @ 116th and Broadway\, New Yo rk\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Beyond Polarization: Epistemic Distortion and Criticism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/beyond-polarization-epis temic-distortion-and-criticism-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nIndividuals s upport forms of domination with varying levels of understanding that they are doing so. In many cases\, those very structures of domination distort our conceptions of them through mechanisms such as motivated reasoning\, i mplicit bias\, affected ignorance\, false consciousness\, and belief polar ization. These various epistemic distortions\, in turn\, cause social conf lict\, notably by promoting political polarization. Those worried by socia l conflict have spent a great deal of energy decrying the increasingly pol arized contexts in which we live. However\, epistemic distortions in our s ociopolitical beliefs also misrepresent\, maintain systems of domination a nd prevent human needs from being met.
\nThis workshop aims to go be yond pronouncements such as ‘we are polarized’ or that ‘partisanship is on the rise\,’ and begin to think through epistemic distortions at the indiv idual and intersubjective levels\, the role of criticism and critique in f acilitating belief and social change\, and the idea of reconciliation\, by asking questions such as:
\nConvenors
\nEge Yumuşak is a philosopher\, specializing in epistemology\, the philosophy of mind \, and social & political philosophy. She received a PhD in Philosophy fro m Harvard University in 2022. Her research examines political disagreement —its material foundations\, psychological and social manifestations\, and epistemic properties. She is currently writing a series of articles on the nature and significance of clashes of perspective in social life.
\nNicolas Côté is a postdoctoral researcher at the University o f Toronto. His research is mainly in normative ethics and social choice th eory\, but they also dabble in applied ethics and issues of practical rati onality. Côté’s doctoral dissertation work focuses on the measurement of f reedom\, especially on axiomatic approaches to the measurement question\, and on how deontic concerns for protecting individual rights interact with welfarist concerns for improving the general welfare. Côté’s current rese arch focuses on the ethics of decision-making under radical uncertainty. p>\n
Invited speakers:
\nSabina Vaccarino Bremner \; Daniela Dover\; Cain Shelley
\nInvited commentators
\nTBA
How 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\nDemocracy is often presented as the sine qua non of politics today. Yet our ow n democratic political orders across the West consistently fail to deliver the desiderata they promise to provide. Does this failure arise in part f rom the theoretical insufficiency of conventional diagnoses of democracy’s challenges and ills? As the primaries for the 2024 U.S. presidential elec tion open\, we invite participants to consider critically the status of de mocracy with an eye toward the concerns that have defined Telos over its 5 5-year history.
\nThe main advantage of democracy over other politic al forms is that\, by allowing broader participation in decision-making\, it prevents domination of the many by the few. In theory\, it also fosters decision-making that is comparatively effective and meaningful by allowin g views and information from the many to be communicated efficiently to po litical leaders\, while also holding the latter to account for their actio ns. At the same time\, a major difficulty of democracy is that the rule by the many requires some procedure for translating a multitude of opinions into unified decisions and action. In addition\, precisely by exercising i ts majority will\, the many can trammel the integrity of the individual—th e key threat that liberalism seeks to hold at bay.
\nThese advantage s—and\, especially\, these challenges—have produced two competing visions of democracy in the contemporary West. Their division reflects differences about the politics of representation and decision-making. On one hand\, l iberals view democracy as the following of appropriate procedures for chan neling the opinions of the multitude through the election of representativ es. On the other hand\, populists might disregard such procedural restrict ions to arrive at outcomes that are acclaimed by the people directly.
\nWhile both sides nod to the importance of the popular will\, both are in fact willing to denigrate it. The liberal camp reacts in horror when d emocratic elections result in the election of populists\, who are said to lack proper governing expertise\, as in the 2016 victory of Donald Trump. The populist camp charges conspiracy when electoral results fail to reflec t their own conception of the people’s will\, as in Trump’s reaction to hi s 2020 ouster. Depending on which camp is describing the times\, the false mediator of popular will is either the demagogue or the bureaucrat—Telos has long opposed both.
\nDifferent narratives\, in turn\, have taken hold about democracy’s present challenges. From the point of view of the liberal proceduralist critique of demagogues\, the means of moving from a multiplicity of opinions to a unified decision inevitably involves discour se within a public sphere. This discourse depends on a common understandin g of historical facts\, as well as a public sphere that allows different p erspectives to face each other in debate. In our contemporary world\, howe ver\, the breakdown of previous limits to accessing the public sphere has led to an inability to arrive at a consensus on the difference between fac t and fiction\, as well as an increasing tendency of citizens to exist wit hin a social media echo chamber of their own views\, undermining the commo n ground that a public sphere presupposes.
\nAt the same time\, publ ic debate necessarily implicates values and identities that have an ultima tely mythic basis that cannot be rationally determined. People’s opinions\ , moreover\, are invariably shaped by leaders as much as the people shape what leaders ought to do. Experts lament how this representational dynamic undermines the procedures that govern and channel the representation of t he popular will. Yet the narrative aspect of representation is an ineradic able element of the way in which the popular will coalesces. The process o f narrativized representation will never be an entirely rational one\, and the prominence of media personalities such as Reagan\, Trump\, and Zelens ky as politicians underlines the futility of attempting to rid the public sphere of drama and spectacle.
\nFor the populist\, by contrast\, th e primary threat to democracy lies in bureaucracy. In his 2016 end run aro und the political establishment\, Trump’s electoral success was driven by a broader critique of the administrative state’s undermining of democratic process. The rise of the managerial bureaucratic state that was set in mo tion by the development of the welfare state in the twentieth century has created a class divide between managers and managed that has shifted decis ion-making power over the conditions of everyday life away from individual s and toward government and corporate bureaucracies. Because more and more of our economic and social welfare is under the direct influence of the s tate\, the resultant bloated administrative state has now become prey to a frenzy of lobbyists\, who further distance the people from political deci sion-making. The protections of minority rights that constitute the libera l aspect of today’s democracies have turned communities into special inter ests that lobby administrators to pass on privileges to favored groups. Th e result has been a growing restriction of freedom of expression in the pu blic sphere and an eroding of a unifying basis for constructing a politica l order now dominated by the collusion of bureaucracy with corporations. p>\n
While the liberal critique of demagoguery resorts to more governmen t controls that exacerbate the expansion of bureaucracy\, the populist cri tique of bureaucracy has attempted to dismantle government without conside ring how to establish mechanisms that would take over the functions that b ureaucracies have coopted. Focusing on opposition to government\, the popu list perspective often lacks any sense of alternative institutional struct ures that could remedy the administration and commodification of everyday life.
\nBoth sides have contributed to a polarization of views that threatens the underlying consensus necessary for democratic politics. The political gridlock that has ensued from their diverging diagnoses has mean t that our political orders consistently fail to deliver peace\, prosperit y\, and accountable government. Moreover\, regardless of the rhetoric or c redentials of those in power\, democracy today seems always to leave us wi th broadly the same basic policies\, despite some of them being deeply unp opular.
\nWe invite those who are interested in presenting at the 20 24 Telos Conference to consider critically the status of democracy today b y addressing one or more of the following questions:
\nDemoc ratic Values
\nDemocracy a nd the Administrative State
\nD emocracy and the Public Sphere
\nDemocracy and Religion
\nDemocracy and Authoritarianism
\nAbstract Submissions
\nWh atever specific questions you address\, we invite you to present your anal ysis with an eye toward the long-standing concerns of the Telos-Paul Picco ne Institute and thereby to help develop a trenchant\, independent view of democracy that can inform both critique and practical action within our p resent historical moment. Please submit a short c.v. and an abstract of up to 250 words by October 15\, 2023\, to telosnyc2024@telosinstitute.net an d place “The 2024 Telos Conference” in the email’s subject line. Please di rect questions to Professor Mark G. E. Kelly\, Western Sydney University\, M.Kelly@westernsydney.edu.au.
\nConference Location
\nThe conference will take place at the John D. Calandra Italian A merican Institute in New York City from Friday\, March 22\, to Saturday\, March 23\, 2024.
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:cfp\,conference\,legal\,political\,religion\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8088@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://philevents.org/event/show/116434 DESCRIPTION:Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon began as a 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 its Graduate Conference at the New School f or Social Research organized by students of the Departments of Anthropolog y\, Economics\, Philosophy\, Politics\, and Sociology. Political Concepts invites graduate students from all fields of study to participate in our u pcoming conference in Spring 2024. Held at NSSR over March 29-30\, the con ference will serve as a workshop of ideas on the multiplicity of powers\, structures\, problems\, and orientations that shape our collective life.\n Because Political Concepts does not predetermine what does or does not cou nt as political\, the conference welcomes essays that fashion new politica l concepts or demonstrate how concepts deserve to be taken as politically significant. Papers should be dedicated to a single political concept\, li ke an encyclopedia entry\, but the analysis of the concept does not have t o abide to traditional approaches. Some of the concepts contended with in previous years’ vibrant conferences included abolition\, survival\, catast rophe\, resentment\, money\, dependence\, trans\, imaginary\, and solidari ty. Other examples can be found in the published papers on the Political C oncepts website.\nAbstracts should be no longer than 750 words in a pdf fo rmat\, and prepared for blind review\, so please ensure that your abstract is free from any identifying personal details. Please title your abstract with your concept. Abstracts must be submitted through this google form ( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfyVC0H0LSpcyJ3QpcbAvZjEkcUYoS-TC p0kPc6ObTg4YFSiQ/viewform) by December 7\, 2023 EST. Any inquiries can be sent to politicalconceptsNSSR@gmail.com.\nApplicants must be advanced grad uate students and their concept must be a central part of a longer term pr oject in order to be accepted. Results will be informed in January.\n http s://www.politicalconcepts.org/ DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240329 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240331 GEO:+40.736024;-73.993635 LOCATION:New School tbd @ 5th Ave & E 14th St\, New York\, NY 10011\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Political Concepts Graduate Conference URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/political-concepts-gradu ate-conference-2/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-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 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-7644@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/lawphilosophy/colloquium DESCRIPTION:The Colloquium in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original mo del for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by Liam Murphy\, Samuel Scheffler\, and Jeremy Waldron\, two of whom will host in any given year.\nEach week on Thursday a legal theorist or moral or polit ical philosopher presents a paper to the group\, which consists of student s\, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU\, and faculty from other universities. The choice of subject is left to the paper’s aut hor\, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subjects\, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme for the t erm as a whole\, though in past years certain central topics were canvasse d in several weeks’ discussion. The Colloquium aims\, not to pursue any pa rticular subject\, but to explore new work in considerable depth and so al low students to develop their own skill in theoretical analysis.\nEach wee k’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page\, and particip ants are expected to have read it.\nThe public sessions of the colloquium will take place on Thursdays\, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Room\, Furman Hall\, 9th floor\, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm. \nColloquium 2021\nProfessors Li am Murphy and Samuel Scheffler\nSeptember 2nd\nKim Ferzan\, University of Pennsylvania\, Law\nRethinking Credit for Time Served\nSeptember 9th\nLiam Murphy\, NYU\nInternational Responsibility for Global Environment Harm: C ollective and Individual\nSeptember 17th ( Friday 2.00-5.00)\nMoshe Halber tal\, NYU\nOn Being Human\nSeptember 23rd\nJeff McMahan\, Oxford\nSeptembe r 30th\nEmma Kaufman\, NYU Law\nOctober 7th\nRick Pildes\, NYU Law\nOctobe r 14th\nSamuel Scheffler\, NYU\nOctober 21st\nSteve Darwall\, Yale\, Philo sophy\nOctober 28th\nChris Kutz\, University of California\, Berkeley\, La w\nNovember 4th\nAnthony Appiah\, NYU\nNovember 11th\nJohann Frick\, Unive rsity of California\, Berkeley\, Philosophy\nNovember 18th\nTeresa Bejan\, Oxford\nDecember 2nd\nRuth Chang\, Oxford DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210902T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210902T190000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T160000 GEO:+40.730147;-73.998916 LOCATION:Lester Pollock Colloquium Room\, Furman Hall\, 9th floo @ 245 Sull ivan St\, New York\, NY 10012\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20210909T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20210923T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211007T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211014T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211021T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211028T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211104T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211111T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211118T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20211202T160000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Colloquium in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philosophy URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/colloquium-in-legal-poli tical-and-social-philosophy-7/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe Colloquiu m in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dwork in and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by Liam Murphy\, Samuel Scheffl er\, and Jeremy Waldron\, two of whom will host in any given year.
\nEach week on Thursday a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group\, which consists of students\, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU\, and faculty from other unive rsities. The choice of subject is left to the paper’s author\, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subjects\, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme for the term as a whole\, though in past years certain central topics were canvassed in several week s’ discussion. The Colloquium aims\, not to pursue any particular subject\ , but to explore new work in considerable depth and so allow students to d evelop their own skill in theoretical analysis.
\nEach week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page\, and participants are e xpected to have read it.
\nThe public sessions of the colloquium will take place on Thursdays\, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Roo m\, Furman Hall\, 9th floor\, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
\nProfessors Liam Murphy and S amuel Scheffler
\nSeptember 2nd
\nKim Ferzan\, Univers
ity of Pennsylvania\, Law
Rethinki ng Credit for Time Served
\nSeptember 9th
\nLiam Murphy\, N
YU
Internatio nal Responsibility for Global Environment Harm: Collective and Individual< /a>
\nSeptember 17th ( Friday 2.00-5.00)
\nMos
he Halbertal\, NYU
September 23rd\nJeff McMahan\, Oxford
\nSeptember 30th
\nEmma Kaufman\, N
YU Law
October 7th
\nRick Pildes\, NYU Law
October 14
th
\nSamuel Scheffler\, NYU
October 21st
\nSteve Darwall
\, Yale\, Philosophy
October 28th
\nChris Kutz\, University o
f California\, Berkeley\, Law
November 4th
\nAnthony Appiah\,
NYU
November 11th
\nJohann Frick\, University of California\
, Berkeley\, Philosophy
November 18th
\nTeresa Bejan\, Oxford
December 2nd
\nRuth Chang\, Oxford
The Colloquiu m in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dwork in and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by Liam Murphy\, Samuel Scheffl er\, and Jeremy Waldron\, two of whom will host in any given year.
\nEach week on Thursday a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group\, which consists of students\, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU\, and faculty from other unive rsities. The choice of subject is left to the paper’s author\, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subjects\, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme for the term as a whole\, though in past years certain central topics were canvassed in several week s’ discussion. The Colloquium aims\, not to pursue any particular subject\ , but to explore new work in considerable depth and so allow students to d evelop their own skill in theoretical analysis.
\nEach week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page\, and participants are e xpected to have read it.
\nThe public sessions of the colloquium will take place on Thursdays\, in Lester Pollock Colloquium Roo m\, Furman Hall\, 9th floor\, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm.
\nProfessors Liam Murphy and S amuel Scheffler
\nSeptember 2nd
\nKim Ferzan\, Univers
ity of Pennsylvania\, Law
Rethinki ng Credit for Time Served
\nSeptember 9th
\nLiam Murphy\, N
YU
Internatio nal Responsibility for Global Environment Harm: Collective and Individual< /a>
\nSeptember 17th ( Friday 2.00-5.00)
\nMos
he Halbertal\, NYU
September 23rd\nJeff McMahan\, Oxford
\nSeptember 30th
\nEmma Kaufman\, N
YU Law
October 7th
\nRick Pildes\, NYU Law
October 14
th
\nSamuel Scheffler\, NYU
October 21st
\nSteve Darwall
\, Yale\, Philosophy
October 28th
\nChris Kutz\, University o
f California\, Berkeley\, Law
November 4th
\nAnthony Appiah\,
NYU
November 11th
\nJohann Frick\, University of California\
, Berkeley\, Philosophy
November 18th
\nTeresa Bejan\, Oxford
December 2nd
\nRuth Chang\, Oxford
Abstrac em>t. The Noble Lie proposed by Plato for the Just City in Republic III ha s been much misunderstood. Its agenda is twofold: to get the citizens of t he City to see their society as a natural entity\, with themselves as all ‘family’ and akin\; and to get the Guardians in particular to make class m obility\, on which the justice of the City depends\, a top priority. Since the second is taken to depend on the first\, the Lie passage amounts to a n argument (1) that the survival of a just community depends on the existe nce of social solidarity between elite and mass\, which allows for full cl ass mobility and genuine meritocracy\; (2) that this solidarity in turn de pends on an ideology of natural unity\; and (3) that such ideologies are a lways false. So the Lie really is a lie\, but a necessary one\; as such it poses an awkward ethical problem for Plato and\, if he is right\, for our own societies as well.
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\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7755@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z 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.
\n“Training the Impartial Spectator: Adam Smith and the Epistolary Novel “
\nLauren Kopajtic
\nF ordham University
\nBrooklyn Publ ic Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in the greater Brooklyn area t o discuss their work with a general audience\, hosted by the Brooklyn Publ ic Library. Its goal is to raise awareness of the best work on philosophic al questions of interest to Brooklynites\, and to provide a civil space wh ere Brooklynites can reason together about the philosophical questions tha t matter to them.
\nIf you’re interested in finding out more\, or if you’d like to give a talk\, please e-mail Ian Olasov at his first and las t name at gmail.com.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:climate\,political\,science END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7834@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumanarchafeminism DESCRIPTION:Book Panel with: \nChiara Bottici (NSSR and Lang College)\, Ju dith Butler (UC Berkeley and NSSR) and Romy Opperman (NSSR and Lang Colleg e).\nAbstract: \nHow can we be sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How can we envisage a feminism that doesn’t turn into yet another tool for oppression? By arguing that there is no single arche expl aining the oppression of women and LGBTQI+ people\, Chiara Bottici propose s a radical anarchafeminist philosophy inspired by two major claims: that there is something specific to the oppression of ‘the second sexes’\, and that\, in order to fight that\, we need to untangle all other forms of opp ression and the anthropocentrism they inhabit. On the basis of a Spinozist philosophy of transindividuality\, Anarchafeminism calls for a decolonial and deimperial attitude and for a renewed awareness of the somatic commun ism connecting all different life forms on the planet. In this revolutiona ry vision\, feminism does not mean the liberation of the lucky few\, but l iberation of the planet from both capitalist exploitation and an anthropoc entric politics of domination. Either the entire planet\, or none of us wi ll be free.\n \nExternal visitors must comply with the university’s guest policy as outlined here: https://www.newschool.edu/covid-19/campus-access/ ?open=visitors.\n \nAudience members must show proof of a full COVID-19 va ccination series (and booster if eligible)\, ID\, and remain masked at all times.\nSponsored by the NSSR Philosophy Department & The Gender and Sexu alities Studies Institute (GSSI)\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/phi losophycolloquiumanarchafeminism. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Book Panel: Chiara Bottici\, Anarchafeminism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/book-panel-chiara-bottic i-anarchafeminism/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\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-7824@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://fordham-soc-pol-philosophy.weebly.com/ DESCRIPTION:Meetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022-23\, we will hold hybrid meetings: participants can attend in-person at the Lin coln Center campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If interes ted in attending\, contact jeflynn@fordham.edu\, sahaddad@fordham.edu\, e islekel@fordham.edu\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zoom details will be sent o ut prior to each meeting.\n\n2022-23\n\n\nSeptember 20 – Miguel Vatter (D eakin)\, “Home\, Habitat\, Habitability: Reflections on Planetary Politics ”\nOctober 11 – María Pía Lara (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)\, TBD \nAdditional Meetings TBA DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T184500 GEO:+40.77103;-73.985096 LOCATION:Lincoln Center tbd @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T173000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/workshop-in-social-and-p olitical-philosophy/ X-COST-TYPE:free 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-7880@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/news/celebrating-recent-work-michel e-m-moody-adams DESCRIPTION:Making Space for Justice: Social Movements\, Collective Imagina tion\, and Political Hope\nby Michele M Moody-Adams\nFrom nineteenth-centu ry abolitionism to Black Lives Matter today\, progressive social movements have been at the forefront of social change. Yet it is seldom recognized that such movements have not only engaged in political action but also pos ed crucial philosophical questions about the meaning of justice and about how the demands of justice can be met.\nMichele Moody-Adams argues that an yone who is concerned with the theory or the practice of justice—or both—m ust ask what can be learned from social movements. Drawing on a range of c ompelling examples\, she explores what they have shown about the nature of justice as well as what it takes to create space for justice in the world . Moody-Adams considers progressive social movements as wellsprings of mor al inquiry and as agents of social change\, drawing out key philosophical and practical principles. Social justice demands humane regard for others\ , combining compassionate concern and robust respect. Successful movements have drawn on the transformative power of imagination\, strengthening the motivation to pursue justice and to create the political institutions and social policies that can sustain it by inspiring political hope.\nMaking Space for Justice contends that the insights arising from social movements are critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and effective practice—and should be transformative for political thought as well as for political activism. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T191500 GEO:+40.807325;-73.958831 LOCATION:Heyman Center\, 2nd floor common room @ 74 Morningside Dr\, New Yo rk\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Celebrating Recent Work by Michele Moody-Adams URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/celebrating-recent-work- by-michele-moody-adams/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nMaking Space for Justi
ce: Social Movements\, Collective Imagination\, and Political Hope
\nby Michele M Moody-Adams
From nineteenth-century abolitionism to Black Lives Matter today\, progressive social movements h ave been at the forefront of social change. Yet it is seldom recognized th at such movements have not only engaged in political action but also posed crucial philosophical questions about the meaning of justice and about ho w the demands of justice can be met.
\nMichele Moody-Adams argues th at anyone who is concerned with the theory or the practice of justice—or b oth—must ask what can be learned from social movements. Drawing on a range of compelling examples\, she explores what they have shown about the natu re of justice as well as what it takes to create space for justice in the world. Moody-Adams considers progressive social movements as wellsprings o f moral inquiry and as agents of social change\, drawing out key philosoph ical and practical principles. Social justice demands humane regard for ot hers\, combining compassionate concern and robust respect. Successful move ments have drawn on the transformative power of imagination\, strengthenin g the motivation to pursue justice and to create the political institution s and social policies that can sustain it by inspiring political hope.
\nMaking Space for Justice contends that the insights arising from social movements are critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and effective practice—and should be transformative for political t hought as well as for political activism.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7831@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/colloquium-lectures-2022-20 23 DESCRIPTION:Naked Statistical Evidence and Verdictive Justice DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221027T180000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:716 Philosophy Hall @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Naked Statistical Evidence and Verdictive Justice. Sherri Roush (UC LA) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/sherri-roush-ucla/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nNaked Statist ical Evidence and Verdictive Justice
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:legal\,statistics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7894@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2022/11/8/social-and-politi cal-philosophy-workshop-michael-omoge-alberta-epistemic-injustices-in-phil osophical-practices-african-and-western DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Social and Political Philosophy Workshop DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T183000 GEO:+40.77103;-73.985096 LOCATION:Plaza View Room\, 12th Floor @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023 \, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Epistemic Injustices in Philosophical Practices: African and Wester n. Michael Omoge (Alberta) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/epistemic-injustices-in- philosophical-practices-african-and-western-michael-omoge-alberta/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nPresented by the Social and Political Philosophy Workshop
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7896@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z 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-7897@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar DESCRIPTION:What makes right acts right? A Stoic answer to Ross’s question. \nWhen W.D. Ross poses the question\, “what makes right acts right?” (The Right and the Good ch. 2)\, he is asking a question that is prior to the d eliberative question\, “how do I determine the right thing to do?” The Sto ics recognize this: in De Officiis 1.7\, Cicero says that every inquiry ab out duty has two parts: (1) a theoretical part concerned with the end of g oods and evils\, which addresses such matters as whether all duties are pe rfect\, whether some are more important than others\, and what are the kin ds of duties\, and (2) a practical part which sets out rules (praecepta) b y which our conduct can be made to conform with the end. This paper focus es on (1) and in particular asks Ross’s question about Stoic right actions (kathêkonta).\n \nThe endpoint of Stoic deliberation is determining what token action is the right action. The paper begins with the Stoic distin ction between a thing’s choiceworthiness\, its intrinsic disposition to el icit a choice response in a suitable subject\, and its possession being to -be-chosen. The determination of what is to-be-done is made by weighing ag ainst each other all the values of the relevant action types specified by their content (the so-called ‘intermediate actions’) that are in accordanc e with nature\, as Stoic value theory says that according with nature is a n objective reason to do an action. What constitutes the rightness of the token right action\, and is given in its reasonable defense\, is the same as what constitutes the rightness of a perfect (katorthôma) action. Th e Stoic distinction between right and perfect action depends on the action ’s moral goodness—not rightness—which is due to its causal origin.\nPresen ted by Professor Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University)\nTickets: https://e vent.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Rachana Kamtekar: What makes right acts right? A Stoic answer to Ro ss’s question URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/rachana-kamtekar-what-ma kes-right-acts-right-a-stoic-answer-to-rosss-question/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nW hat makes right acts right? A Stoic answer to Ross’s question.
\nWhen W.D. Ross poses the question\, “what makes right acts righ t?” (The Right and the Good ch. 2)\, he is asking a question that is prior to the deliberative question\, “how do I determine the right thing to do? ” The Stoics recognize this: in De Officiis 1.7\, Cicero says that every i nquiry about duty has two parts: (1) a theoretical part concerned with the end of goods and evils\, which addresses such matters as whether all duti es are perfect\, whether some are more important than others\, and what ar e the kinds of duties\, and (2) a practical part which sets out rules (pra ecepta) by which our conduct can be made to conform with the end. This pa per focuses on (1) and in particular asks Ross’s question about Stoic righ t actions (kathêkonta).
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The endpoint of Stoic deliberat ion is determining what token action is the right action. The paper begin s with the Stoic distinction between a thing’s choiceworthiness\, its intr insic disposition to elicit a choice response in a suitable subject\, and its possession being to-be-chosen. The determination of what is to-be-done is made by weighing against each other all the values of the relevant act ion types specified by their content (the so-called ‘intermediate actions’ ) that are in accordance with nature\, as Stoic value theory says that acc ording with nature is an objective reason to do an action. What constitut es the rightness of the token right action\, and is given in its reasonabl e defense\, is the same as what constitutes the rightness of a perfect (ka torthôma) action. The Stoic distinction between right and perfect actio n depends on the action’s moral goodness—not rightness—which is due to its causal origin.
\nPresented by Professor Rachana Kamtekar (Cornell University) p>\n
Tickets: https://event.newschool.edu/phi losophycolloquiumkamtekar.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,ethics X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/philosophycolloquiumkamtekar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7917@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2023/1/31/fordham-workshop- in-social-and-political-philosophy-with-lynn-huffer DESCRIPTION:Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy presents Ly nn Huffer\, “ Anthropocene Extinction: Ethics in 99 Fragments”\nMeetings a re held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022-23\, we will hold hybrid m eetings: participants can attend in-person at the Lincoln Center campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If interested in attending\, co ntact jeflynn@fordham.edu\, sahaddad@fordham.edu\, eislekel@fordham.edu\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zoom details will be sent out prior to each meet ing. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230131T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230131T184500 GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539 LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Lynn Huffer\, “ Anthropocene Extinction: Ethics in 99 Fragments” URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/lynn-huffer-anthropocene -extinction-ethics-in-99-fragments/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nFordham Works hop in Social and Political Philosophy presents Lynn Huffer\, “ Anthropoce ne Extinction: Ethics in 99 Fragments”
\nMeetings are held on Tuesda ys from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022-23\, we will hold hybrid meetings: particip ants can attend in-person at the Lincoln Center campus or on Zoom. All pa pers are read in advance. If interested in attending\, contact jeflynn@fordham.edu\, sahaddad@fordham.edu\, eislekel@fordham.edu\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zoom details will be sent out prior to each me eting.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7954@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://scienceandsociety.columbia.edu/events/cynthia-bennett-disab ility-accessibility-and-fairness-artificial-intelligence DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to automate and scale sol utions to perennial accessibility challenges (e.g.\, generating image desc riptions for blind users). However\, research shows that AI-bias dispropor tionately impacts people already marginalized based on their race\, gender \, or disabilities\, raising questions about potential impacts in addition to AI’s promise. In this talk\, Cynthia Bennett will overview broad conce rns at the intersection of AI\, disability\, and accessibility. She will t hen share details about one project in this research space that led to gui dance on human and AI-generated image descriptions that account for subjec tive and potentially sensitive descriptors around race\, gender\, and disa bility of people in images. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230206T140000 GEO:+40.841243;-73.940971 LOCATION:Presbyterian Hospital Building (Room PH20-200) @ 622 W 168th St\, New York\, NY 10032\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Cynthia Bennett – Disability Accessibility and Fairness in Artifici al Intelligence URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/cynthia-bennett-disabili ty-accessibility-and-fairness-in-artificial-intelligence/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nArtificial in telligence (AI) promises to automate and scale solutions to perennial acce ssibility challenges (e.g.\, generating image descriptions for blind users ). However\, research shows that AI-bias disproportionately impacts people already marginalized based on their race\, gender\, or disabilities\, rai sing questions about potential impacts in addition to AI’s promise. In thi s talk\, Cynthia Bennett will overview broad concerns at the intersection of AI\, disability\, and accessibility. She will then share details about one project in this research space that led to guidance on human and AI-ge nerated image descriptions that account for subjective and potentially sen sitive descriptors around race\, gender\, and disability of people in imag es.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,ethics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7938@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:New School for Social Research CONTACT:https://event.newschool.edu/gwengrewal DESCRIPTION:Book discussion on Gwenda-lin Grewal’s\, Thinking About Death i n Plato’s Euthydemus. A Close Reading and New Translation (OUP 2022)\n \nS peakers:\nGwenda-lin Grewal (NSSR)\nCinzia Arruzza (NSSR)\nNicholas Pappas (CUNY)\n \nThinking of Death places Plato’s Euthydemus among the dialogue s that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosop hy’s fate arrives in the form of Socrates’ encounter with the two-headed s ophist pair\, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus\, who appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes’ Thinkery. The pair vacillate betwee n choral ode and rhapsody\, as Plato vacillates between referring to them in the dual and plural number in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal’s close reading explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair’s back-and-forth a rguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersive remove from reality\, thinking simulates death even as it cannot conceive of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme\, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of being disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy’s tenu ous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration th rough Crito’s implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the Athen ian laws-and in the drama itself\, which appears to take place in Hades. T hinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thinki ng: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city’s s ophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pa ys careful attention to grammatical ambiguities\, nuances\, and wit in way s that substantially expand the reader’s access to the dialogue’s mysterie s. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230223T200000 GEO:+40.73702;-73.992243 LOCATION:Wolff Conference Room/D1103 @ 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Thinking About Death in Plato’s Euthydemus. URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/thinking-about-death-in- platos-euthydemus/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nBook discussion on Gwenda-lin Grewal’s\, Thinking About Death in Plato’s Euthy demus. A Close Reading and New Translation (OUP 2022)
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\nGwenda-lin
Grewal (NSSR)
\nCinzia Arruzza (NSSR)
\nNicholas Pappas (CUNY)
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Thinking of D eath places Plato’s Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy’s fate arrives in the form of Socrates’ encounter with the two-headed sophist pair\, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus\, who appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes’ Thinkery. The pair vacillate between choral ode and rhapsody \, as Plato vacillates between referring to them in the dual and plural nu mber in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal’s close reading explores how the structur e of the dialogue and the pair’s back-and-forth arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersive remove from reality\, thi nking simulates death even as it cannot conceive of its possibility. Euthy demus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme\, and so emerge as the phil osophical dream and sophistic nightmare of being disembodied from substanc e. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy’s tenuous relationship to polit ical life. This is played out in the narration through Crito’s implied cri ticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the Athenian laws-and in the drama itself\, which appears to take place in Hades. Thinking of death thus bri ngs with it a lurid parody of the death of thinking: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city’s sophistry. Grewal also pro vides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to g rammatical ambiguities\, nuances\, and wit in ways that substantially expa nd the reader’s access to the dialogue’s mysteries.
\nThe COVID-19 pandemic is said to be a once-in-a-century inciden t\, and it brought to us a sense of crisis at various levels. What is a cr isis\, though? Can any unnerving moment or period be called a crisis\, or are there different dimensions of a crisis to which we need to be attentiv e? Is solidarity possible after experiencing a crisis like Covid-19? Can B uddhism make any contribution to facilitating solidarity? This presentatio n explores the meaning and nature of a crisis and our responses to it by d rawing on modern Korean political thinker Pak Ch’iu’s (1909–1949) analysis of crisis and feminist-Buddhist thinker Kim Iryŏp’s (1896–1971) Buddhist philosophy. By doing so\, this presentation considers what social\, politi cal\, existential\, and even religious meaning we can draw from our experi ence of crises\, and what questions these insights present to us. p>\n
With responses from Kars ten Struhl (John Jay College of Criminal Justice\, CUNY)
\n< p class='gmail-p2'>Presented by THE COLUMBIA SOC IETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY\nRSVP is required for dinner. If you would like to participate in our dinner\, a $30 fee is required. Please contact Lucilla at lm3335@colu mbia.edu for further information.
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,comparative\,existentialism\,Korean\,politi cal\,religion\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7939@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z 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-7976@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:This talk will develop the idea that racial identities are best understood as formed through large scale historical events\, and that thi s genesis can only be obscured by disavowals of racial categories as conce ptually mistaken and inevitably morally pernicious. In this sense\, races are formed not simply as ideas\, or ideologies and policies\, as many soc ial constructivists about race argue\, but as forms of life with associate d patterns of subjectivity including\, as a wealth of social psychology ha s shown\, presumptive attitudes and behavioral dispositions (Jeffers 2019\ ; Steele 2010\; Sullivan 2005). Because they are historical formations\, r acial identities are thoroughly social\, contextual\, variegated internall y\, and dynamic. It is history that will alter them\, not merely policy ch anges. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T180000 GEO:+40.748789;-73.984092 LOCATION:CUNY Grad Center 5318 @ 365 5th Ave\, New York\, NY 10016\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Historical Formation of Races. Linda Alcoff URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-historical-formation -of-races-linda-alcoff/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThis talk wil l develop the idea that racial identities are best understood as formed th rough large scale historical events\, and that this genesis can only be ob scured by disavowals of racial categories as conceptually mistaken and ine vitably morally pernicious. In this sense\, races are formed not simply a s ideas\, or ideologies and policies\, as many social constructivists abou t race argue\, but as forms of life with associated patterns of subjectivi ty including\, as a wealth of social psychology has shown\, presumptive at titudes and behavioral dispositions (Jeffers 2019\; Steele 2010\; Sullivan 2005). Because they are historical formations\, racial identities are thoroughly social\, contextual\, variegated internally\, and dynamic. It is history that will alter them\, not merely policy changes.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:history\,race\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7926@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2023/3/21/fordham-workshop- in-social-and-political-philosophy-with-desiree-valentine DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philo sophy.\nMeetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022-23\, we will hold hybrid meetings: participants can attend in-person at the Lincol n Center campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If interested in attending\, contact jeflynn@fordham.edu\, sahaddad@fordham.edu\, eisl ekel@fordham.edu\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zoom details will be sent out prior to each meeting. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230321T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230321T183000 GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539 LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Desiree Valentine URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/desiree-valentine/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nPresented by the Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy.
\nMeetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022-23\, we will hold hybrid meetings: participants can attend in-person at the Lincoln Center campus o r on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If interested in attending\, c ontact jeflynn@fordham.edu\, sahaddad@fordham.edu\, eislekel@fordham.edu\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zoom details will be sent ou t prior to each meeting.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7998@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z 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-7927@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:http://www.fordhamphilosophy.org/events/2023/4/18/fordham-workshop- in-social-and-political-philosophy-with-elvira-basevich DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philo sophy\nMeetings are held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022-23\, we w ill hold hybrid meetings: participants can attend in-person at the Lincoln Center campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If interested in attending\, contact jeflynn@fordham.edu\, sahaddad@fordham.edu\, eisle kel@fordham.edu\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zoom details will be sent out p rior to each meeting. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230418T183000 GEO:+40.770718;-73.98539 LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ Leon Lowenstein Center\, 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Care Ethics at the Intersection of Race: Conceptualizing Women’s Ca re Work in the Black Counter-Public. Elvira Basevich URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/care-ethics-at-the-inter section-of-race-conceptualizing-womens-care-work-in-the-black-counter-publ ic-elvira-basevich/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
Presented by the Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy
\nMeetings a re held on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:45. For 2022-23\, we will hold hybrid m eetings: participants can attend in-person at the Lincoln Center campus or on Zoom. All papers are read in advance. If interested in attending\, co ntact jeflynn@fordham.edu\, sahaddad@fordham.edu\, eislekel@fordham.edu\, or swhitney@fordham.edu. Zoom details will be sent out prior to each meeting.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8023@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://wp.nyu.edu/centerforbioethics/event/5638/ DESCRIPTION:Yejin Choi is Wissner-Slivka Professor and a MacArthur Fellow a t the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the Univer sity of Washington. She is also a senior director at AI2 overseeing the pr oject Mosaic and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethi cs in AI at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates if (and ho w) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning\, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning\, and various other problems in NLP \, AI\, and Vision including neuro-symbolic integration\, language groundi ng with vision and interactions\, and AI for social good. She is a co-reci pient of 2 Test of Time Awards (at ACL 2021 and ICCV 2021)\, 7 Best/Outsta nding Paper Awards (at ACL 2023\, NAACL 2022\, ICML 2022\, NeurIPS 2021\, AAAI 2019\, and ICCV 2013)\, the Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2018\, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017\, and IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2016. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T173000 GEO:+40.728638;-73.993631 LOCATION:NYU room 801 @ 708 Broadway\, New York\, NY 10003\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Afternoon Talk with Professor Yejin Choi URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/afternoon-talk-with-prof essor-yejin-choi/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nYejin Choi is Wissner-Slivka Professor and a MacArthur Fellow a t the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the Univer sity of Washington. She is also a senior director at AI2 overseeing the pr oject Mosaic and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethi cs in AI at the University of Oxford. Her research investigates if (and ho w) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning\, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning\, and various other problems in NLP \, AI\, and Vision including neuro-symbolic integration\, language groundi ng with vision and interactions\, and AI for social good. She is a co-reci pient of 2 Test of Time Awards (at ACL 2021 and ICCV 2021)\, 7 Best/Outsta nding Paper Awards (at ACL 2023\, NAACL 2022\, ICML 2022\, NeurIPS 2021\, AAAI 2019\, and ICCV 2013)\, the Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2018\, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017\, and IEEE AI’s 10 to Watch in 2016.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,bioethics\,mind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8029@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/lawphilosophy/colloquium DESCRIPTION:Colloquium 2023\nProfessors Jeremy Waldron and Liam Murphy\nSep tember 7th\nBonnie Honig\, Brown University\nFatal Forgiveness: Euripides\ , Austin\, Arendt\, Cavell\nSeptember 14th\nJeremy Waldron\, NYU\nSeptembe r 21st\nAlice Crary\, The New School\nSeptember 28th\nDavid Enoch\, Univer sity of Oxford\nOctober 5th\nGina Schouten\, Harvard University\nOctober 1 2th\nDaryl Levinson\, NYU\nOctober 19th\nBarbara Levenbook\, North Carolin a State University\nOctober 26th\nRob Howse\, NYU\nNovember 2nd\nTrevor Mo rrison\, NYU\nNovember 9th\nJohn Goldberg\, Harvard University\nNovember 1 6th\nCourtney Cox\, Fordham University\nNovember 30th\nJuliana Bidadanure\ , Stanford University\n \nThe Colloquium in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philosophy was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the original model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now c onvened by Liam Murphy\, Samuel Scheffler\, and Jeremy Waldron\, two of wh om will host in any given year.\nEach week on Thursday a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group\, which cons ists of students\, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NY U\, and faculty from other universities. The choice of subject is left to the paper’s author\, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s sub jects\, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured theme for the term as a whole\, though in past years certain central topic s were canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. The Colloquium aims\, not t o pursue any particular subject\, but to explore new work in considerable depth and so allow students to develop their own skill in theoretical anal ysis.\nEach week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on this page \, and participants are expected to have read it. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T190000 GEO:+40.730147;-73.998916 LOCATION:Lester Pollock Colloquium Room\, Furman Hall\, 9th flr @ 245 Sulli van St\, New York\, NY 10012\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231026T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T160000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T160000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Colloquium in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philosophy URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/colloquium-in-legal-poli tical-and-social-philosophy-9/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nCollo quium 2023
\nProfessors Jeremy Waldron and Liam Mur phy
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\nJeremy Waldron\, NYU
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\nAlice Crary\, The New School
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\nDavid Enoch\, University of Oxford
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\nBarbara Levenbook\, North Carolina State Unive
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\nCourtney Cox\, Fordham Univers
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The Colloquium in Legal\, Political\, and Social Philoso phy was founded by Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel in 1987. It is the orig inal model for all of NYU Law’s colloquia. The Colloquium is now convened by Liam Murphy\, Samuel Scheffler\, and Jeremy Waldron\, two of whom will host in any given year.
\nEach week on Thursday a legal theorist or moral or political philosopher presents a paper to the group\, which consi sts of students\, faculty from the Law School and other departments of NYU \, and faculty from other universities. The choice of subject is left to t he paper’s author\, within the general boundaries of the Colloquium’s subj ects\, and the discussions are therefore not connected by any structured t heme for the term as a whole\, though in past years certain central topics were canvassed in several weeks’ discussion. The Colloquium aims\, not to pursue any particular subject\, but to explore new work in considerable d epth and so allow students to develop their own skill in theoretical analy sis.
\nEach week’s paper is posted at least a week in advance on thi s page\, and participants are expected to have read it.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:legal\,political\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8060@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://www.facebook.com/brooklynpublicphilosophers/ DESCRIPTION:“Hello friend of talkPOPc!\n\n\nI would like to invite you to o ur amazing happenings on the weekend of Sept 23th and Sept 24th. On both n ights we are holding one-to-one philosophy conversations about censorship in our talkPOPc tent\; these become episodes on our podcast.\n\n\nThe Satu rday\, Sept 23rd event is at the Center for Fiction in downtown Brooklyn ( @courtyard)\, and Montez Radio will be live streaming that one. Which is s uper cool! That’s from 5 pm – 7 pm.\n\n\nOn Sunday\, Sept 24th\, the happe ning is at Tomato Mouse Gallery\, it will be the more full talkPOPc experi ence. This includes the visual artworks and text on the same topic of cens orship (derived from my book Cover Up the Dirty Parts! Cambridge Scholars Press). There will also be of course the always-present talkPOPc conversat ion tent\, with two separate philosophers – Nicholas Whittaker and myself\ , Dena Shottenkirk. The times are 2 pm – 6 pm.\n\n\nThe puppet of course m akes an appearance at both events!\n\n\nIt would be wonderful if you could make either (or both!) of these events. Please sign up for a time on our website. We are sure you would find it both fun and rewarding.\n\n\nHope t o see you!” DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230923T190000 GEO:+40.686898;-73.978588 LOCATION:Center for Fiction @ 15 Lafayette Ave\, Brooklyn\, NY 11217\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Brooklyn Public Philosophers on Cencorship URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/brooklyn-public-philosop hers/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThe founder o f phenomenology is neither known as a political philosopher nor as an inte llectual who publicly expressed his political views. However\, this should not lead us to think that Husserl himself or his thought were completely “unpolitical”. In this talk\, our main claim is that two things are distin ctive of Husserl’s approach to politics: First\, it is of utmost importanc e for him that politics should be guided by “ideas”\, which means that it should not just engage in realpolitik\, but be regulated by an idealistic\ , maybe even utopian picture of how the state and the community should be organized. Second\, Husserl grounds “the political”\, i.e.\, the existenti al basis for organized politics\, in a phenomenology of communities.
\nIn the final part of the talk\, we will distinguish different strands i n the reception of Husserl’s political philosophy: one group that creative ly expands on Husserl’s ideas on the state\, community\, and home- and ali enworld\; one that expresses reservations about whether Husserlian phenome nology\, for methodological reasons\, at all allows for genuine political thought\; and one that uses analyses or methods that Husserl developed in a non-political context and employs them in a politicizing and critical ma nner.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:political END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8064@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://www.locus29.org/about-1 DESCRIPTION:We are embarking on an innovative adaptation of J.P. Sartre’s t imeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infused with elements inspired by Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialism\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while delving into the realms of speech and movement improvisation.\nThrough this innovative production\, we aim to c hallenge and provoke audiences\, encouraging deep introspection and dialog ue about our existence and the choices we make. We believe that the combin ation of Sartre’s piercing insights and Plato’s philosophical foundations will create a unique theatrical experience that will resonate with both en thusiasts of classic literature and fans of contemporary performance art. \n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hell-dialogues-adaptation-of-sar tres-no-exit-with-plato-dialogues-tickets-700614545967?aff=oddtdtcreator. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T210000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231105T193000 EXDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231112T193000 GEO:+40.725304;-73.993264 LOCATION:Sheen Center for Thought & Culture @ 18 Bleecker St\, New York\, N Y 10012\, USA RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T193000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T193000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231105T193000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T193000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231108T193000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T193000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231110T193000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231111T193000 RDATE;TZID=America/New_York:20231112T193000 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Hell Dialogues: Adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit” with el ements of Plato’s Dialogues URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/hell-dialogues-adaptatio n-of-jean-paul-sartres-no-exit-with-elements-of-platos-dialogues/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWe are embarking on an innovative adaptation of J.P. S artre’s timeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infused with elements inspired b y Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialis m\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while delving into the realms of s peech and movement improvisation.
\nThrough this innovative pr oduction\, we aim to challenge and provoke audiences\, encouraging deep in trospection and dialogue about our existence and the choices we make. We b elieve that the combination of Sartre’s piercing insights and Plato’s phil osophical foundations will create a unique theatrical experience that will resonate with both enthusiasts of classic literature and fans of contempo rary performance art.
\nWe are embarking on an innovative adaptation of J.P. S artre’s timeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infused with elements inspired b y Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialis m\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while delving into the realms of s peech and movement improvisation.
\nThrough this innovative pr oduction\, we aim to challenge and provoke audiences\, encouraging deep in trospection and dialogue about our existence and the choices we make. We b elieve that the combination of Sartre’s piercing insights and Plato’s phil osophical foundations will create a unique theatrical experience that will resonate with both enthusiasts of classic literature and fans of contempo rary performance art.
\nWe are embarking on an innovative adaptation of J.P. S artre’s timeless masterpiece\, “No Exit.” Infused with elements inspired b y Plato’s Dialogues\, our play aims to explore the depths of existentialis m\, dark absurdity\, and musical comedy while delving into the realms of s peech and movement improvisation.
\nThrough this innovative pr oduction\, we aim to challenge and provoke audiences\, encouraging deep in trospection and dialogue about our existence and the choices we make. We b elieve that the combination of Sartre’s piercing insights and Plato’s phil osophical foundations will create a unique theatrical experience that will resonate with both enthusiasts of classic literature and fans of contempo rary performance art.
\nWhen W.D. Ros s poses the question “what makes right acts right?” (The Right and the Good\, ch. 2)\, he is asking a question that is prior to\, and has a bearing on\, the practical question “how do I determine the right thing t o do?” The Stoics recognize this. Cicero (De Officio\, where he i s referring to Panaetius’ work Peri Kathêkontos) tells us that e very inquiry about duty has two parts: (1) a theoretical part concerned wi th the end of good and evil deeds\, which addresses such matters as whethe r all duties are perfect (omniane official perfecta sint)\, wheth er some are more important than others\, and what the kinds of duties are\ , and (2) a practical part which sets out rules (praecepta) by wh ich our conduct can be made to conform with the end (De Officiis\, 1.7). While Cicero himself focuses on the second\, this paper seeks the answer to the first part.
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Rachana Kamtekar is a Profess or of Philosophy and Classics at Cornell University and has written on man y topics in ancient philosophy and contemporary moral psychology. Her mono graph\, Plato’s Moral Psychology: Intellectualism\, the Divided Soul a nd the Desire for Good\, was published in 2017. She is currently wor king on the relationship between action and character in ancient Greek eth ics.
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,ethics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8079@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT:https://philosophydayatccny.org/events/ DESCRIPTION:The speaker will be Prof. Lewis Gordon of the University of Con necticut\, on “From Harlem to the World: Philosophy from a Center of the B lack World with Questions for the 21st Century.” Gordon will talk about wo rldliness and public aspects of philosophy\, placing them in the context o f Harlem both at City College and the public world of Africana philosophy from Du Bois to Malcolm X to contemporaries such as Nathalie Etoke. He wil l conclude with a set of questions for 21st century philosophy to consider .\nLewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy a t UCONN-Storrs\; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Stud ies\; Honorary Professor in the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes Universi ty\, South Africa\; and Distinguished Scholar at The Most Honourable PJ Pa tterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at The University of the West Indies\, Mona. He co-edits the journal Philosophy and Global Affairs\, th e Rowman & Littlefield book series Global Critical Caribbean Thought\, and the Routledge-India book series Academics\, Politics and Society in the P ost-Covid World. He is the author of many books\, including\, most recentl y\, Freedom\, Justice\, and Decolonization (Routledge\, 2021) and Fear of Black Consciousness (hardcover\, NY: Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2022\; i n the UK\, London: Penguin Books\, 2022)\, Picador paperback 2023. He is t he 2022 recipient of the Eminent Scholar Award from the Global Development Studies division of the International Studies Association. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T191500 GEO:+40.820047;-73.949272 LOCATION:North Academic Building\, rm 1/201 @ 160 Convent Ave\, New York\, NY 10031\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:From Harlem to the World: Philosophy from a Center of the Black Wor ld with Questions for the 21st Century. Lewis Gordon (UConn) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/from-harlem-to-the-world -philosophy-from-a-center-of-the-black-world-with-questions-for-the-21st-c entury-lewis-gordon-uconn/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n
The speaker w ill be Prof. Lewis Gordon of the University of Connecticut\, on “From Harl em to the World: Philosophy from a Center of the Black World with Question s for the 21st Century.” Gordon will talk about worldliness and public asp ects of philosophy\, placing them in the context of Harlem both at City Co llege and the public world of Africana philosophy from Du Bois to Malcolm X to contemporaries such as Nathalie Etoke. He will conclude with a set of questions for 21st century philosophy to consider.
\nLewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosop hy at UCONN-Storrs\; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies\; Honorary Professor in the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes Univ ersity\, South Africa\; and Distinguished Scholar at The Most Honourable P J Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at The University of the West Indies\, Mona. He co-edits the journal Philosophy and Global Affairs\ , the Rowman & Littlefield book series Global Critical Caribbean Thought\, and the Routledge-India book series Academics\, Politics and Society in t he Post-Covid World. He is the author of many books\, including\, most rec ently\, Freedom\, Justice\, and Decolonization (Routledge\, 2021) and Fear of Black Consciousness (hardcover\, NY: Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2022 \; in the UK\, London: Penguin Books\, 2022)\, Picador paperback 2023. He is the 2022 recipient of the Eminent Scholar Award from the Global Develop ment Studies division of the International Studies Association.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:African\,race\,social END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8052@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z 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\\nMaría 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-8124@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:NYU CONTACT:https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/mindethicspolicy/events DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special live taping of the Clearer Thinking podca st. Host Spencer Greenberg and guest Jeff Sebo will discuss the moral stat us of insects and AI systems\, as well as other thorny questions in global priorities research.\n \nAbout the speakers\n \nJeff Sebo is Associate Pr ofessor of Environmental Studies\, Affiliated Professor of Bioethics\, Med ical Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Law\, Director of the Animal Studies M.A. P rogram\, Director of the Mind\, Ethics\, and Policy Program\, and Co-Direc tor of the Wild Animal Welfare Program at New York University. He is the a uthor of Saving Animals\, Saving Ourselves (2022) and co-author of Chimpan zee Rights (2018) and Food\, Animals\, and the Environment (2018). He is a lso an executive committee member at the NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection\, a board member at Minding Animals International\, an a dvisory board member at the Insect Welfare Research Society\, a senior res earch fellow at the Legal Priorities Project\, and a mentor at Sentient Me dia.\n \nSpencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a foc us on improving human well-being. He’s the founder of ClearerThinking.org\ , which provides 70 free\, digital tools to help people make better decisi ons and improve their lives\, as well as the host of the Clearer Thinking podcast. Spencer is also the founder of Spark Wave\, an organization that conducts psychology research and builds psychology-related products design ed to help benefit the world. He has a Ph.D. in applied math from New York University\, with a specialty in machine learning\, and his work has been featured by numerous major media outlets\, including The Wall Street Jour nal\, the Independent\, the New York Times\, Gizmodo\, and more.\n \nThank you to Effective Altruism New York City for their generous support of thi s event.\nTickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueN ASskgr5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240130T200000 GEO:+40.730098;-73.995693 LOCATION:Jurow Hall\, Silver Center @ 31 Washington Pl\, New York\, NY 1000 3\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Moral Status of Insects and AI Systems\, and Other Thorny Quest ions in Global Priorities Research. Jeff Sebo and Spencer Greenberg URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/the-moral-status-of-inse cts-and-ai-systems-and-other-thorny-questions-in-global-priorities-researc h-jeff-sebo-and-spencer-greenberg/ X-COST-TYPE:external X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nJoin us for a special live taping of the Clearer Thi nking podcast. Host Spencer Greenberg and guest Jeff Sebo will discuss the moral status of insects and AI systems\, as well as other thorny questions in global priorities research. p>\n
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Spencer Greenberg is an entrepreneur and mathematician with a focus on improving human well-bei ng. He’s the founder of ClearerThinking.org\, which provides 70 free\, digital tools to help people make better decisions and improve thei r lives\, as well as the host of the Clearer Thinking podcast. Spencer is also the founder of Spark Wa ve\, an organization that conducts psycho logy research and builds psychology-related products designed to help bene fit the world. He has a Ph.D. in applied math from New York University\, w ith a specialty in machine learning\, and his work has been featured by nu merous major media outlets\, including The Wall Street Journal\, the Indep endent\, the New York Times\, Gizmodo\, and more.
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Thank you to Effect ive Altruism New York City for their generous support of this event.
\nTickets: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueNASsk gr5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:artificial intelligence\,bioethics\,ethics X-TICKETS-URL:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4SgsjvHXCueNASskgr 5p2_ZXRNPh3bouT9NYbgLHtlc7_8A/viewform END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8143@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z 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-8109@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://fordham-soc-pol-philosophy.weebly.com/ DESCRIPTION:Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy\n\nFebruary 6 – Christopher Myers (Fordham) – “Nietzsche and the Politics of the Hist orical Dead”\nMarch 12 – Tracy Llanera (UConn)\nApril 16 – Ashley Bohrer ( Notre Dame) DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T184500 GEO:+40.770289;-73.984571 LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Nietzsche and the Politics of the Historical Dead. Christopher Myer s (Fordham) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/nietzsche-and-the-politi cs-of-the-historical-dead-christopher-myers-fordham/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nVerity Harte is a specialist in ancient philosophy\, with particular research interests in ancient metaphysics\, epistemology and psychology\, especially of Plat o and Aristotle. She is the author of Plato on Parts and Wholes: The M etaphysics of Structure\, and is the editor of several important book s on ancient philosophy.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:ancient\,metaphysics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8110@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://fordham-soc-pol-philosophy.weebly.com/ DESCRIPTION:Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy\n\nFebruary 6 – Christopher Myers (Fordham) – “Nietzsche and the Politics of the Hist orical Dead”\nMarch 12 – Tracy Llanera (UConn)\nApril 16 – Ashley Bohrer ( Notre Dame) DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240312T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240312T184500 GEO:+40.770289;-73.984571 LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Tracy Llanera (UConn) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/tracy-llanera-uconn/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nThis talk rea ds contemporary debates about structural racism and US history from the pe rspective of philosophical questions about identity and difference. While many people have argued that America needs to come to terms with or “work through” the racism in its history that has shaped and continues to shape its present structures\, it remains difficult to explain what connects thi s past and the present. Are we talking about one racism with many differen t past and present forms? Or are there multiple racisms that only share so me similar features? In this talk\, I draw attention to how these division s play out particularly in contemporary Black Studies and argue that the p hilosophy of Gilles Deleuze can offer us resources for thinking about thes e questions through his discussions of repetition. I argue that understand ing our conversations about structural racism and history as conversations about a racism that repeats\, can help us to better understand why racism seems to reappear\, how to think its disparate forms together\, and what presuppositions operate in many attempts to “work through” the past.
\nBio: Eyo Ewara is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His teaching and research explores the relatio nships between 20th Century Continental Philosophy\, Critical Philosophy o f Race\, and Queer Theory. His work has appeared in Theory and Event\, Pu ncta\, Philosophy Today\, Critical Philosophy of Race\, Political Theology \, and other venues. His current research project is particularly interest ed in engaging work in Continental Philosophy\, Queer Theory\, and Black S tudies to address questions of identity and difference amongst concepts of race\, forms of racism\, and forms of anti-racism. How can we better acco unt for the relations between at times radically disparate concepts\, stru ctures\, and practices such that they can all specifically and recognizabl y be called racial? What might our account of these relations say about ou r ability to address racism’s harms?
\nTickets: https://event .newschool.edu/eyoewara.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:history\,race X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/eyoewara END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8154@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z 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
\nIf you will be visiting from outside the New School\, email the workshop to inform the security desk.
\nRoom 1101\, 6 E 16th St\, New York\, NY 10003
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:aesthetics\,political\,wittgenstein END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8141@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z 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.
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\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).
\nTickets: https://event.newschool.edu/ stephanesymons.
X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:existentialism\,German X-TICKETS-URL:https://event.newschool.edu/stephanesymons END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8111@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T232117Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Fordham CONTACT:https://fordham-soc-pol-philosophy.weebly.com/ DESCRIPTION:Fordham Workshop in Social and Political Philosophy\n\nFebruary 6 – Christopher Myers (Fordham) – “Nietzsche and the Politics of the Hist orical Dead”\nMarch 12 – Tracy Llanera (UConn)\nApril 16 – Ashley Bohrer ( Notre Dame) DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T184500 GEO:+40.770289;-73.984571 LOCATION:Fordham Lincoln Center @ 113 W 60th St\, New York\, NY 10023\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Ashley Bohrer (Notre Dame) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/ashley-bohrer-notre-dame / X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\n