BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//208.94.116.123//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7950@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T085355Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://sofheyman.org/events/conception-and-its-discontents DESCRIPTION:A conference hosted by the Motherhood and Technology Working Gr oup at the Center for the Study of Social Difference on the theme of “Conc eption and Its Discontents.”\nMedical technologies have radically transfor med the biological and social experience of motherhood. Advances in genomi c and reproductive care\, the circulation of novel kinship structures\, th e entrenchment of existing global networks of power and privilege\, and th e politics of contested bodily sites mark this emerging constellation.\nTe chnological advancements have in particular impacted not just the understa nding of conception\, but the very process by which a human embryo is crea ted\, implanted\, and matured. Egg freezing\, embryo storage\, IVF\, and s urrogacy afford women new freedoms in choosing when and how to become moth ers\, while also raising troubling questions about the pressures of capita lism and the extension of worklife\, as well as the global inequalities pr esent in the experience of motherhood. In addition\, technologies have ari sen allowing for unprecedented control over not just who becomes a mother\ , but what kind of embryo is allowed to be implanted and to grow. Technolo gies such as CRISPR and NIPT have re-introduced the question of eugenics\, radically shifting the very epistemology of motherhood and what it means to be “expecting.” And contemporary abortion debates draw on technology in order to make arguments both for and against access\, with imaging techno logies being instrumentalized in the building of a sympathetic case for th e unborn\, and the very notion of a “heartbeat bill” reliant on the misrea ding of technologies for measuring fetal activity.\nWhile these problems a re urgent today\, questions of conception and technology are by no means r ecent developments. The 18th century saw a flourishing of philosophical an d scientific theories regarding the start of human life and its formation within the womb. Such theories relied on modern technologies\, such as aut opsy\, to atomize and visualize the body. In the 19th and 20th centuries\, eugenic medical science produced theories of reproductive difference betw een differing racial and social groups\, leading to forced sterilization l aws in both the US and in Germany. This long history of racializing the rh etoric of fertility and motherhood continues to influence political debate s on immigration and demographic changes in the present.\nFull conference details and schedule to come. \nPlease email disability@columbia.edu to re quest disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange fo r some accessibility needs DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230508 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230510 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Heyman Center\, 2nd floor common room @ New York\, NY 10027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Conception and Its Discontents URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/conception-and-its-disco ntents/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nA conference hosted by the Moth erhood and Technology Working Group at the Center for the Study of Soc ial Difference on the theme of “Conception and Its Discontents.”
\nM edical technologies have radically transformed the biological and social e xperience of motherhood. Advances in genomic and reproductive care\, the c irculation of novel kinship structures\, the entrenchment of existing glob al networks of power and privilege\, and the politics of contested bodily sites mark this emerging constellation.
\nTechnological advancements have in particular impacted not just the understanding of conception\, bu t the very process by which a human embryo is created\, implanted\, and ma tured. Egg freezing\, embryo storage\, IVF\, and surrogacy afford women ne w freedoms in choosing when and how to become mothers\, while also raising troubling questions about the pressures of capitalism and the extension o f worklife\, as well as the global inequalities present in the experience of motherhood. In addition\, technologies have arisen allowing for unprece dented control over not just who becomes a mother\, but what kind of embry o is allowed to be implanted and to grow. Technologies such as CRISPR and NIPT have re-introduced the question of eugenics\, radically shifting the very epistemology of motherhood and what it means to be “expecting.” And c ontemporary abortion debates draw on technology in order to make arguments both for and against access\, with imaging technologies being instrumenta lized in the building of a sympathetic case for the unborn\, and the very notion of a “heartbeat bill” reliant on the misreading of technologies for measuring fetal activity.
\nWhile these problems are urgent today\, questions of conception and technology are by no means recent development s. The 18th century saw a flourishing of philosophical and scientific theo ries regarding the start of human life and its formation within the womb. Such theories relied on modern technologies\, such as autopsy\, to atomize and visualize the body. In the 19th and 20th centuries\, eugenic medical science produced theories of reproductive difference between differing rac ial and social groups\, leading to forced sterilization laws in both the U S and in Germany. This long history of racializing the rhetoric of fertili ty and motherhood continues to influence political debates on immigration and demographic changes in the present.
\nFull conference detail s and schedule to come.
\nPlease email disability@columbia.edu to request disability ac
commodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibilit
y needs
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The 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).
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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-7750@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T085355Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY\n \nPresents: L i Zehou on the ‘Deep Structures of Confucianism’\nLead Presenter: Andrew L ambert (College of Staten Island\, CUNY)\nDiscussants: Robert A. Carleo I II (East China Normal University)\, Emma Buchtel (Hong Kong Education Univ ersity)\nABSTRACT: Contemporary Chinese intellectual Li Zehou’s cross-cult ural methodology blends traditional Confucian thought with thinkers such a s Kant and Marx. This seminar addresses the question of culture and its ro le in Li’s thought. Li has made several claims about how a settled cultura l tradition influences the subjects within it. One such claim concerns the existence of ‘deep structures’ of Confucianism\, as outlined in this prep aratory reading. The idea is that culture\, history\, and social practice (collectively\, a tradition) shape human psychology (including the formati on of concepts\, emotions\, and values) in ways not always apparent to the subject. Within the Chinese tradition\, Confucianism constitutes such a d eep structure\, and its effects cannot be captured by textual studies alon e\, nor studies of material culture. Rather\, the deep structure is articu lated in terms of an emergent shared subjectivity. Such traditions can evo lve and ultimately dissolve\; nevertheless\, their effects are deep-rooted . This seminar meeting will aim to identify the parameters of Li’s ambitio us theoretical framework and its plausibility\, and to explore connections with current work in related fields\, such as cultural and empirical psyc hology.\nDATE: March 25\, 2022\nTIME: 6:30 – 8:00 pm EST\nThis seminar wil l take place via Zoom (please scroll down for the full invitation). Below you will find the link to join the meeting. Here is an instruction manual to help you familiarize yourself with the program. In addition to familiar izing yourself with the program’s basic functions\, there are two things w e ask you to do before the meeting can start. First\, you will need to sig n in by typing your name in the chat. Subsequently\, we will have to agree on the privacy policy for the meeting. The privacy policy provided by the Columbia University Seminars Office will be read aloud. To indicate your agreement\, you will raise your virtual Zoom hand in the Participants pane l. In the manual\, you will find step-by-step instructions of how to sign in and to raise your hand. \nNote Regarding Donations: Due to COVID-19\, d onations are only accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giv ing form\, Giving to Columbia.\n \nAccessibility Statement: Columbia Unive rsity encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. The University Seminars participants with dis- abilities w ho anticipate needing accommodations or who have questions about physical access may contact the Office of Disability Services at 212.854.2388 or di sability@columbia.edu. Disability accommodations\, including sign-language interpreters\, are available on request. Requests for accommodations must be made two weeks in advance. On campus\, seminar participants with disab ilities should alert a Public Safety Officer if they need assistance acce ssing campus. \nPLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://universityseminars.colum bia.edu/seminars/comparative-philosophy/ DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T200000 GEO:+40.712775;-74.005973 LOCATION:Zoom @ New York\, NY\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Li Zehou. Deep Structures of Confucianism URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/li-zehou-deep-structures -of-confucianism/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nTHE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSO PHY
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Presents:
Lead Presenter : Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island\, CUNY)
\nDiscussants: Robert A. Carleo III (East China Normal University)\, Emma Buchtel (Hong Kong Education Uni versity)
\nABSTRAC
T: Contemporary Chinese intellectual Li Zehou’s cross-cultural methodo
logy blends traditional Confucian thought with thinkers such as Kant and M
arx. This seminar addresses the question of culture and its role in Li’s t
hought. Li has made several claims about how a settled cultural tradition
influences the subjects within it. One such claim concerns the existence o
f ‘deep structures’ of Confucianism\, as outlined
DATE: March 25\, 2022
\n< p class='gmail-p1'>TIME: 6:30 – 8:00 pm EST< /span>\nThis seminar will t ake place via Zoom (please scroll down for the full invitation). Below you will find the link to join the meeting. Here is an instruction manual to help you familiariz e yourself with the program. In addition to familiarizing yourself with th e program’s basic functions\, there are two things we ask you to do before the meeting can start. First\, you will need to sign in by typing your na me in the chat. Subsequently\, we will have to agree on the privacy policy for the meeting. The privacy policy provided by the Columbia University S eminars Office will be read aloud. To indicate your agreement\, you will r aise your virtual Zoom hand in the Participants panel. In the manual\, you will find step-by-step instructions of how to sign in and to raise your h and.
\nNote Regar ding Donations: Due to COVID-19\, donations are only accepted through Columbia University’s secure online giving form\, Giving to Co lumbia.
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Accessibility Statement: Columbia University encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. The University Seminars parti cipants with dis- abilities who anticipate needing accommodations or who h ave questions about physical access may contact the Office of Disability S ervices at 212.854.2388 or disability@columbia.edu. Disability accommodations\, includi ng sign-language interpreters\, are available on request. Requests for acc ommodations must be made two weeks in advance. On campus\, seminar partici pants with disabilities should alert a Public Safety Officer if they need assistance accessing campus.
\nPLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE: http s://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philosophy/
\n\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Chinese\,comparative\,Confucianism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7711@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T085355Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Independent CONTACT:https://bkpp.tumblr.com/ DESCRIPTION:Brooklyn Public Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in the greater Brooklyn area to discuss their work with a general audience\, hos ted by the Brooklyn Public Library. Its goal is to raise awareness of the best work on philosophical questions of interest to Brooklynites\, and to provide a civil space where Brooklynites can reason together about the phi losophical questions that 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 last name at gmail.com. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220422T204500 GEO:+40.672511;-73.9682 LOCATION:Info Commons Lab\, Brookly Public Library @ 10 Grand Army Plaza\, Brooklyn\, NY 11238\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Justin Garson: On biological function and mental illness URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/justin-garson-on-biologi cal-function-and-mental-illness/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\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:biology\,mind\,psychology\,science END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-7872@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T085355Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philos ophy/ DESCRIPTION:With responses from Timothy Connolly (East Stroudsburg Universi ty)\nABSTRACT: Recent philosophical discussions on compassion focus on the value and the nature of compassion as an emotion. Ancient Asian philosoph ical traditions such as Confucianism and Buddhism\, however\, emphasize co mpassion as a character trait that should be nurtured. This paper examines the insights drawn from these traditions to help inform the nurturing of compassion. For example\, is empathy a necessary tool? What is the role o f love and care? Does self-reflection contribute to the process?\n\n \nDi nner will be kindly offered by the Columbia University Seminars. \nRSVP is required for dinner. Please email Lucilla with eating requirements at lm3 335@columbia.edu. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T193000 GEO:+40.806753;-73.959136 LOCATION:Faculty House\, Columbia U @ 64 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY 100 27\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:How to nurture compassion? Some lessons from Asian philosophical tr aditions. Sin Yee Chan (U Vermont) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/how-to-nurture-compassio n-some-lessons-from-asian-philosophical-traditions-sin-yee-chan-u-vermont/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWith responses from Timothy Connolly (Ea st Stroudsburg University)
\nABSTRACT: Recent philosophical discu
ssions on compassion focus on the value and the nature of compassion as an
emotion. Ancient Asian philosophical traditions such as Confucianism and
Buddhism\, however\, emphasize compassion as a character trait that should
be nurtured. This paper examines the insights drawn from these traditions
to help inform the nurturing of compassion. For example\, is empathy a ne
cessary tool? What is the role of love and care? Does self-reflection co
ntribute to the process?
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Dinner will be kindly offered by the Columbia Univ ersity Seminars. < /p>\n
RSVP is required for di nner. Please email Lucilla with eating requirements at lm3335@columbia.edu.
\n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:Buddhism\,Confucianism END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-8044@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T085355Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U CONTACT:http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/comparative-philoso phy/ DESCRIPTION:What is an appropriate response to humiliating treatments such as insults? This question is not only relevant to today’s discourse but ha s also piqued the curiosity of thinkers in classical Chinese philosophy. T he Warring States period debate regarding whether one’s inner sense of sha me can shield one from insulting situations and from experiencing shame is frequently presented as a one-sided narrative that focuses on the Confuci an texts. Meanwhile\, the views of their rival thinkers\, such as the Daoi st\, legalist\, or much-neglected Songzi (3rd century BCE)\, are rarely th e focus of attention. This paper brings Songzi\, a key player in the debat e of emotions as responses to external triggers\, into the picture and res tores the historical intellectual discourse over the topic of what constit utes an appropriate response to humiliating situations such as insults. Mo re importantly\, I point out the philosophical significance of this debate \, namely how Songzi prompts Xunzi to respond to an ambiguity within the C onfucian doctrine: The early Confucians appear to think that an individual ’s internal virtues can isolate and shield one from hostile external stimu li while also maintaining that the external environment impacts one’s mora l cultivation and moral life in significant ways. Xunzi’s strategic move\, I argue\, is to give credit to both an inner sense of shame and the funct ion of external stimuli in inducing negative emotions\, thus making an imp ortant philosophical concession compared to Confucius and Mencius.\n\n\n\n \nWith responses from Nalei Chen (New York University)\n\n\n\n\n\nWe hope you’ve had restful and productive summers\, and we look forward to seeing you at our upcoming meetings. Below is the list of our scheduled speakers. Please save these dates!\n\nSeptember 15 – Jing Hu (Concordia)\nOctober 1 3 – Bill Waldron (Middlebury)\nOctober 27 – David Wong (Duke)\nDecember 1 – Stephen Angle (Wesleyan)\n\nFurther details will be circulated in due co urse. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T193000 GEO:+40.807536;-73.962573 LOCATION:Philosophy Hall\, Room 716 @ 116th and Broadway\, New York\, NY 10 027\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:War and Shame –A Debate on the Appropriate Response to Insults betw een the Confucians and their Interlocutors. Jing Hu (Concordia University) URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/war-and-shame-a-debate-o n-the-appropriate-response-to-insults-between-the-confucians-and-their-int erlocutors-jing-hu-concordia-university/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nWhat i s an appropriate response to humiliating treatments such as insults? This question is not only relevant to today’s discourse but has also piqued the curiosity of thinkers in classical Chinese philosophy. The Warring States period debate regarding whether one’s inner sense of shame can shield one from insulting situations and from experiencing shame is frequently prese nted as a one-sided narrative that focuses on the Confucian texts. Meanwhi le\, the views of their rival thinkers\, such as the Daoist\, legalist\, o r much-neglected Songzi (3rd century BCE)\, are rarely the focus of attent ion. This paper brings Songzi\, a key player in the debate of emotions as responses to external triggers\, into the picture and restores the histori cal intellectual discourse over the topic of what constitutes an appropria te response to humiliating situations such as insults. More importantly\, I point out the philosophical significance of this debate\, namely how Son gzi prompts Xunzi to respond to an ambiguity within the Confucian doctrine : The early Confucians appear to think that an individual’s internal virtu es can isolate and shield one from hostile external stimuli while also mai ntaining that the external environment impacts one’s moral cultivation and moral life in significant ways. Xunzi’s strategic move\, I argue\, is to give credit to both an inner sense of shame and the function of external s timuli in inducing negative emotions\, thus making an important philosophi cal concession compared to Confucius and Mencius.
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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.
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