Investigations of sex differences in the human brain take place on politically sensitive terrain. While some scholars express concern that gendered biases and stereotypes remain embedded in scientific research, others are alarmed about the politicization of science. This talk sets out three kinds of conflicts that can arise in the neuroscience of sex differences: academic freedom versus gender equality; frameworks, background assumptions, and dominant methodologies; and inductive risk and social values. The boundaries between fair criticism and politicization are explored for each kind of conflict, pointing to ways in which the academic community can facilitate fair criticism while protecting against politicization.
Registration is free but required. A registration link will be shared via email with our department mailing lists a few weeks before the event. Please contact Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu if you did not receive a registration link.
What can science teach us about how we perceive and understand art? How can art help us understand ourselves and each other? In this event, the Zuckerman Institute explores the interactions between our brains and the artistic world, finding connections and parallels between art and science.
Event Speakers
Please visit the event webpage to view the speaker list.
Event Information
Free and open to the public, registration is required by January 28, 2022. This event will also be live-streamed. Please email zuckermaninstitute@columbia.edu with any questions.
This talk is part of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series hosted by Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
*Zoom link can be requested if you are not on the email list, please send an email to ap3097@columbia.edu
A conference celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Political Concepts Journal.
Friday, February 4th
1:30 – Lay of the Land
Ann Stoler
Jacques Lezra
J.M. Bernstein
Michael Sawyer
2:00 – 4:00 – Panel I
Emily Apter – Ecosophy
Axelle Karera – Anthropocene
Moderator: J.M. Bernstein
4:30 – 6:30 – Panel II
Jacques Lezra – Cop
Rocío Zambrana – Coloniality
Moderator: Susan Buck-Morss
Saturday, February 5th
11:00 – 1:00 – Panel III
Étienne Balibar – Communism
Neni Panourgiá – Dis-Continuities
Moderator: Michael Sawyer
2:00 – 4:00 – Panel IV
Barbara Nagel – Domestic Violence
Andreas Kalyvas – Oligarchy
Moderator: Emily Apter
4:30 – 6:30 – Panel V
Adi Ophir – Divine Violence
Abou Farman – Terminality
Moderator: Ann Stoler
Registered attendees will receive the zoom link via email.
Presented by the Philosophy Department and Anthropology Department at The New School for Social Research.
Presented by NY German Idealism Workshop
With response from Karen Ng (Vanderbilt)
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Speakers may present either virtually or in-person; the details will be announced for each talk individually. Meetings will convene at the Graduate Center, Room 5382. You may attend any talk from that location (even if the speaker is not physically present). At least for any talk for which the speaker is not physically present, you will also be able to attend virtually from anywhere via Zoom. The provisional schedule is as follows:
Feb 7. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)
Feb 14. Ekaterina Kubyshkina (Campinas)
Feb 21. NO MEETING
Feb 28. Michael Burton (Yale)
Mar 7. David Papineau (King’s)
Mar 14. Wilfrid Hodges (King’s)
Mar 21. Noson Yanofsky (CUNY)
Mar 28. Dongwoo Kim (CUNY)
Apr 4. Jenn McDonald (Columbia)
Apr 11. Justin Bledin (Johns Hopkins)
Apr 18. NO MEETING
Apr 25. Tore Fjetland Øgaard (Bergen)
May 2. Elia Zardini (Madrid)
May 9. Friederike Moltmann (CNRS Nice)
May 16. Mircea Dumitru (Bucharest)
ALL TALKS ARE ON ZOOM, 1-3, NYC TIME
All are hosted by Rebecca Keller and Ryan McElhaney
Zoom links are all announced on the Cognitive Science email list
To subscribe to that list, email davidrosenthal1@gmail.com
Some sessions—not all—are recorded for later access
2/11: Bence Nanay – Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
2/18: No talk—one-week break
2/25: Joshua Myers – Philosophy, New York University
3/4: Nadine Dijkstra – Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London
3/11: Grace Helton – Philosophy, Princeton University
3/18: No talk—one-week break
3/25: Joshua Shepherd – Philosophy, Carleton University and University of Barcelona
4/1: Devin Sanchez Curry – Philosophy, West Virginia University
4/8: Michał Wierzchoń – Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University
4/15: No talk—Spring Break
4/22: Gary Ostertag – Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center
4/29: Jacob Berger – Philosophy, Lycoming College
5/6: Maja Spener – Philosophy, University of Birmingham
5/13: Yair Levy – Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
The CUNY Cognitive Science Speaker Series meets weekly at the CUNY Graduate Center,
Fridays, 1-3 pm, NYC time—currently on Zoom. This file is at: http://bit.ly/cs-talks
For additional information e-mail David Rosenthal <davidrosenthal1@gmail.com>
The Logic and Metaphysics Workshop will be meeting on Mondays from 4:15 to 6:15 (NY time). Speakers may present either virtually or in-person; the details will be announced for each talk individually. Meetings will convene at the Graduate Center, Room 5382. You may attend any talk from that location (even if the speaker is not physically present). At least for any talk for which the speaker is not physically present, you will also be able to attend virtually from anywhere via Zoom. The provisional schedule is as follows:
Feb 7. Guillermo Badia (Queensland)
Feb 14. Ekaterina Kubyshkina (Campinas)
Feb 21. NO MEETING
Feb 28. Michael Burton (Yale)
Mar 7. David Papineau (King’s)
Mar 14. Wilfrid Hodges (King’s)
Mar 21. Noson Yanofsky (CUNY)
Mar 28. Dongwoo Kim (CUNY)
Apr 4. Jenn McDonald (Columbia)
Apr 11. Justin Bledin (Johns Hopkins)
Apr 18. NO MEETING
Apr 25. Tore Fjetland Øgaard (Bergen)
May 2. Elia Zardini (Madrid)
May 9. Friederike Moltmann (CNRS Nice)
May 16. Mircea Dumitru (Bucharest)
2021-22
- September 28 – Colin Koopman (Oregon), “Galton’s Pride: The Resilience of Data-Driven Inequality”
- October 26 – María del Rosario Acosta López (UC Riverside)
- November 9 – Derrick Darby (Rutgers) & Eduardo Martinez (Cincinnati) – “Making Identities Safe for Democracy”
- February 15 – Banu Bargu (UC Santa Cruz)
- March 8 – Gwen Daugs (Fordham)
- April 5 – Delio Vasquez (NYU)
Each colloquium (unless noted below or circumstances change) will be IN PERSON
4:15 P.M. to 6:15 P.M, room TBD
2.16 Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University)
“‘Nótma pí ‘ahíichumay tamáawumal//My mouth is a lonely little mockingbird’: Indigenous
Feminist Reclamation & Transformative Justice”
Co-Sponsored by CUNY GC Minorities and Philosophy
NOTE: this will be a virtual colloquium. A Zoom link will be distributed later.
3.2 David Papineau (Professor of Philosophy of Science, Kings College London)
“Knowledge Norms are Bad for You”
3.9 José Medina (Walter Dill Scott Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University)
“Protest, Silencing, and Epistemic Activism”
Marx Wartofsky Memorial Lecture
3.16 Sylvia de Toffoli (Postdoctoral fellow, Princeton University)
“Successful Transmission of Justification Across Fallacious Arguments”
Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture
3.23 Jake Quilty-Dunn (Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-
Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis)
“Unconscious Rationalization, or: How (Not) to Think about Awfulness and Death”
Alumni Day
3.30 Alexis Wellwood (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Linguistics, University of Southern
California)
“Abstraction and Quantification”
4.6 Derrick Darby (Henry Rutgers Professor of Philosophy)
TBD
4.13 Elizabeth Schechter (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Indiana
University, Bloomington)
TBD
4.27 Matthew Lindauer (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College and the Graduate
Center, CUNY)
“Fruitfulness for Normative Concepts”
5.4 Emmalon Davis (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan)
TBD