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-7887@www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress DTSTAMP:20240328T214816Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:CUNY CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:One of the most challenging aspects of the war in Ukraine is th e way in which the conflict has been constantly shifting in its form. In t he first place\, there is a conventional ground war between Russia and Ukr aine\, in which the identity and will of the two peoples is at stake. Yet Russia has used weapons supplied by Iran\, and Ukraine depends on NATO for its own supplies\, indicating that this war depends on the maintenance an d expansion of alliances. The stability of these alliances in turn depends on a combination of Realpolitik and shared values as the glue that holds them together. This logic of alliances motivates the energy war that Russi a is waging with Europe\, revealing that\, unbeknownst to Europe\, Russian energy policy over the last decade was an early form of the war. Similarl y\, the threat of nuclear war also tests the resolve of NATO\, forcing it to consider the values at stake in the conflict. Is the war about Ukraine’ s sovereignty or the principle of nation-state sovereignty itself? Is it a bout human rights for Ukrainians or the entire human rights project? For R ussia\, is it about self-defense or a pan-Slavic identity? Is it about the protection of Russian minorities in Ukraine or the threat of Western secu larization?\nThe material form of the war—economic\, conventional\, nuclea r—will depend on the way in which the participants on all sides and in all parts of the world come to an understanding about these questions concern ing the moral and spiritual stakes in the war. If it is just a matter of g iving up Ukraine\, then the economic costs for Europe may not be worth the fight\, and Russia’s victory in the energy war could lead to a general NA TO capitulation. But if the freedom and security of central and western Eu rope are also at stake\, then even a severe economic recession would be a small price to pay for the reestablishment of a NATO-dominated security or der. Is freedom worth the risk of annihilation? Is peace worth the indigni ties and repression of authoritarianism? As the most serious global confli ct since World War II\, the war in Ukraine risks going beyond the bounds o f all other forms of war before it. What are the resources that are necess ary for meeting its challenges? How can the shifting forms of the war be c ontained and channeled toward a future lasting peace?\nThese types of ques tions are not specific to the war in Ukraine but arise in any situation of war. Every war forces us to reconsider the character of war and the forms that it can take. In the first place\, the insight that leads to a war is one about the nature of a conflict. War only begins once the parties dete rmine that there is an otherwise irresolvable conflict about the basis of order. The course of a war also results in a practical insight into the fo rm of a postwar order. Peace and stability cannot arrive until all come to an agreement about the new understanding of order. This intertwining of p ractical and theoretical gains means that the time of war is also a time o f shifting manifestations of the forms by which war is fought\, as well as the forms of order to be established by the outcome of the war. The cours e of a war will be decided by our understanding of the kind of world we wa nt to live in\, the risks we are willing to take to establish such a world \, and our belief in its practical possibility. A war will necessarily cha nge in form depending upon where we are in the movement from the conflict of competing ideas to the victory of a particular conception of order. Sin ce the result of the conflict would be an establishment of sovereignty bas ed on some understanding of order\, the conflict is not just a material on e but also a theoretical and spiritual one about the metaphysical basis of order. In the process of war\, insight leads to conflict\, and conflict l eads to insight.\nAt the 2023 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute conference on f orms of war\, we will consider different ways of understanding the relatio nship between conflict and insight in war as well as examples of how the c onceptualization of conflict affects the outbreak\, progress\, and outcome of wars. On the one hand\, we will consider the way in which the experien ce of war\, both on the battlefield and on the home front\, affects the ou tcome of the war. On the other hand\, we will look at how this importance of the experience of war in turn affects the strategy of war. Such strateg izing begins already at the nascent stages of conflict\, before any actual fighting begins\, but in which the possibility of conflict can already le ad to concessions by one side or the other that lead to a transformation o f the basis of order. Similarly\, fears and hopes for the future also dete rmine the course of a war\, helping the participants to end a war by offer ing them a mutually acceptable vision of the terms of peace.\nQuestions in clude:\n\nWhat are the different causes of war in any particular case? How do these causes attain such significance that they become a casus belli? Were there alternatives to war that were not taken?\nIn what situations do es the refusal of war lead to an outcome that is tantamount to surrender i n war? How can the threat of war be used as a political tool?\nTo what ext ent is war a continuation of politics? Or is war the breakdown of politics ?\nHow have different wars been experienced on the battlefield and on the home front? How have the different experiences of war affected the outcome s?\nHow does our understanding of world order affect the turn to war?\nWha t is the relationship between war and peace in terms of international orde r?\nHow do fictional or historical representations of war affect the condu ct of war?\nWhat is the relationship between war and the collective identi ty of a people?\nHow are wars between nation-states linked to their domest ic politics? In what situations does an external enemy create unity or div ision in domestic politics?\nHow is war used as a tool in domestic politic s\, for instance\, as a way to divert attention from domestic political pr oblems?\nWhat are the characteristics of different types of war\, such as limited war\, absolute war\, civil war\, cold war\, proxy war\, phony war\ , trade war\, guerilla war\, war on terror\, nuclear war? What factors lea d to a war being fought in a particular way?\nTo what extent can a represe ntation of war replace a real war\, for instance\, when single combat is s upposed to substitute for the combat of armies\, or when war is televised? \nWhat is the relationship between spiritual concerns and the forms of war ? Are all wars in some sense religious wars?\n\nConference Location\nThe c onference will take place at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institu te in New York City from Thursday\, March 30\, to Saturday\, April 1\, 202 3.\nAbstract Submissions\nPlease note: Abstracts for this conference will only be accepted from current Telos-Paul Piccone Institute members. In ord er to become a member\, please visit our membership enrollment page. Telos -Paul Piccone Institute memberships are valid until the end of the annual New York City conference.\nIf you are interested in making a presentation\ , please submit a 200-word abstract and 50-word bio by December 15\, 2022\ , to telosnyc2023@telosinstitute.net. Please place “The 2023 Telos Confere nce” in the email’s subject line. DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230330 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230402 GEO:+40.736746;-73.820319 LOCATION:John D. Calandra Italian American Institute @ 65-30 Kissena Blvd\, Queens\, NY 11367\, USA SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:2023 Telos Conference: Forms of War URL:https://www.noahgreenstein.com/wordpress/event/2023-telos-conference-fo rms-of-war/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nOne of the most challenging aspects of the war in Ukraine is the way in which the conflict has been constantly shifting in its form . In the first place\, there is a conventional ground war between Russia a nd Ukraine\, in which the identity and will of the two peoples is at stake . Yet Russia has used weapons supplied by Iran\, and Ukraine depends on NA TO for its own supplies\, indicating that this war depends on the maintena nce and expansion of alliances. The stability of these alliances in turn d epends on a combination of Realpolitik and shared values as the g lue that holds them together. This logic of alliances motivates the energy war that Russia is waging with Europe\, revealing that\, unbeknownst to E urope\, Russian energy policy over the last decade was an early form of th e war. Similarly\, the threat of nuclear war also tests the resolve of NAT O\, forcing it to consider the values at stake in the conflict. Is the war about Ukraine’s sovereignty or the principle of nation-state sovereignty itself? Is it about human rights for Ukrainians or the entire human rights project? For Russia\, is it about self-defense or a pan-Slavic identity? Is it about the protection of Russian minorities in Ukraine or the threat of Western secularization?
\nThe mater ial form of the war—economic\, conventional\, nuclear—will depend on the w ay in which the participants on all sides and in all parts of the world co me to an understanding about these questions concerning the moral and spir itual stakes in the war. If it is just a matter of giving up Ukraine\, the n the economic costs for Europe may not be worth the fight\, and Russia’s victory in the energy war could lead to a general NATO capitulation. But i f the freedom and security of central and western Europe are also at stake \, then even a severe economic recession would be a small price to pay for the reestablishment of a NATO-dominated security order. Is freedom worth the risk of annihilation? Is peace worth the indignities and repression of authoritarianism? As the most serious global conflict since World War II\ , the war in Ukraine risks going beyond the bounds of all other forms of w ar before it. What are the resources that are necessary for meeting its ch allenges? How can the shifting forms of the war be contained and channeled toward a future lasting peace?
\nThes e types of questions are not specific to the war in Ukraine but arise in a ny situation of war. Every war forces us to reconsider the character of wa r and the forms that it can take. In the first place\, the insight that le ads to a war is one about the nature of a conflict. War only begins once t he parties determine that there is an otherwise irresolvable conflict abou t the basis of order. The course of a war also results in a practical insi ght into the form of a postwar order. Peace and stability cannot arrive un til all come to an agreement about the new understanding of order. This in tertwining of practical and theoretical gains means that the time of war i s also a time of shifting manifestations of the forms by which war is foug ht\, as well as the forms of order to be established by the outcome of the war. The course of a war will be decided by our understanding of the kind of world we want to live in\, the risks we are willing to take to establi sh such a world\, and our belief in its practical possibility. A war will necessarily change in form depending upon where we are in the movement fro m the conflict of competing ideas to the victory of a particular conceptio n of order. Since the result of the conflict would be an establishment of sovereignty based on some understanding of order\, the conflict is not jus t a material one but also a theoretical and spiritual one about the metaph ysical basis of order. In the process of war\, insight leads to conflict\, and conflict leads to insight.
\nAt t he 2023 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute conference on forms of war\, we will consider different ways of understanding the relationship between conflict and insight in war as well as examples of how the conceptualization of co nflict affects the outbreak\, progress\, and outcome of wars. On the one h and\, we will consider the way in which the experience of war\, both on th e battlefield and on the home front\, affects the outcome of the war. On t he other hand\, we will look at how this importance of the experience of w ar in turn affects the strategy of war. Such strategizing begins already a t the nascent stages of conflict\, before any actual fighting begins\, but in which the possibility of conflict can already lead to concessions by o ne side or the other that lead to a transformation of the basis of order. Similarly\, fears and hopes for the future also determine the course of a war\, helping the participants to end a war by offering them a mutually ac ceptable vision of the terms of peace.
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\nThe conference w ill take place at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York City from Thursday\, March 30\, to Saturday\, April 1\, 2023.
\nPlease note: Abstracts for this conference will only b e accepted from current Telos-Paul Piccone Institute members. In order to become a member\, please visit our membership enrollment page. Telos-Paul Piccone Institut e memberships are valid until the end of the annual New York City conferen ce.
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A 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.
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Brooklyn 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.
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