Mar
28
Thu
Strange Returns: Racism, Repetition and Working Through the Past presented by Eyo Ewara @ Wolff Conference Room/D1103
Mar 28 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

This talk reads contemporary debates about structural racism and US history from the perspective 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 this past and the present. Are we talking about one racism with many different past and present forms? Or are there multiple racisms that only share some similar features? In this talk, I draw attention to how these divisions play out particularly in contemporary Black Studies and argue that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze can offer us resources for thinking about these questions through his discussions of repetition. I argue that understanding 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.

Bio: Eyo Ewara is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His teaching and research explores the relationships between 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race, and Queer Theory.  His work has appeared in Theory and Event, Puncta, Philosophy Today, Critical Philosophy of Race, Political Theology, and other venues. His current research project is particularly interested in engaging work in Continental Philosophy, Queer Theory, and Black Studies to address questions of identity and difference amongst concepts of race, forms of racism, and forms of anti-racism. How can we better account for the relations between at times radically disparate concepts, structures, and practices such that they can all specifically and recognizably be called racial? What might our account of these relations say about our ability to address racism’s harms?

Apr
8
Mon
Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU room 202
Apr 8 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.

During Spring 2024, we will meet on Mondays, 5:30–7:30pm in room 202 of the NYU Philosophy Building (5 Washington Place). Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome.

RSVP: If you don’t have an NYU ID, and if you haven’t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academic year, please RSVP no later than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing your name, email address, and phone number to Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu. This is required by NYU in order to access the building. When you arrive, please be prepared to show government ID to the security guard.

January 22nd
Rose Ryan Flinn (NYU)

January 29th
Zeynep Soysal (Rochester)

February 5th
Karen Lewis (Barnard/Columbia)

February 12th
Willow Starr (Cornell)

February 19th
(No workshop)

February 26th
Jeremy Goodman (Johns Hopkins)

March 4th
Julian Jara-Ettinger (Yale)

March 11th
James Walsh (NYU)

March 18th
(no workshop)

March 25th
Cal Howland (Rutgers)

April 1st
(no workshop)

April 8th
Sam Cumming (UCLA)

April 15th
Eno Agolli (Rutgers)

April 22md
(no workshop)

April 29th
Viola Schmitt (Humbolt University Berlin/MIT)

May 6th
Bob Beddor (Florida)

 

Apr
15
Mon
Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU room 202
Apr 15 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.

During Spring 2024, we will meet on Mondays, 5:30–7:30pm in room 202 of the NYU Philosophy Building (5 Washington Place). Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome.

RSVP: If you don’t have an NYU ID, and if you haven’t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academic year, please RSVP no later than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing your name, email address, and phone number to Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu. This is required by NYU in order to access the building. When you arrive, please be prepared to show government ID to the security guard.

January 22nd
Rose Ryan Flinn (NYU)

January 29th
Zeynep Soysal (Rochester)

February 5th
Karen Lewis (Barnard/Columbia)

February 12th
Willow Starr (Cornell)

February 19th
(No workshop)

February 26th
Jeremy Goodman (Johns Hopkins)

March 4th
Julian Jara-Ettinger (Yale)

March 11th
James Walsh (NYU)

March 18th
(no workshop)

March 25th
Cal Howland (Rutgers)

April 1st
(no workshop)

April 8th
Sam Cumming (UCLA)

April 15th
Eno Agolli (Rutgers)

April 22md
(no workshop)

April 29th
Viola Schmitt (Humbolt University Berlin/MIT)

May 6th
Bob Beddor (Florida)

 

Apr
29
Mon
Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU room 202
Apr 29 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.

During Spring 2024, we will meet on Mondays, 5:30–7:30pm in room 202 of the NYU Philosophy Building (5 Washington Place). Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome.

RSVP: If you don’t have an NYU ID, and if you haven’t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academic year, please RSVP no later than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing your name, email address, and phone number to Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu. This is required by NYU in order to access the building. When you arrive, please be prepared to show government ID to the security guard.

January 22nd
Rose Ryan Flinn (NYU)

January 29th
Zeynep Soysal (Rochester)

February 5th
Karen Lewis (Barnard/Columbia)

February 12th
Willow Starr (Cornell)

February 19th
(No workshop)

February 26th
Jeremy Goodman (Johns Hopkins)

March 4th
Julian Jara-Ettinger (Yale)

March 11th
James Walsh (NYU)

March 18th
(no workshop)

March 25th
Cal Howland (Rutgers)

April 1st
(no workshop)

April 8th
Sam Cumming (UCLA)

April 15th
Eno Agolli (Rutgers)

April 22md
(no workshop)

April 29th
Viola Schmitt (Humbolt University Berlin/MIT)

May 6th
Bob Beddor (Florida)

 

May
6
Mon
Philosophy of Language Workshop @ NYU room 202
May 6 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

We’re a community of philosophers of language centered in New York City. We have a meeting each week at which a speaker presents a piece of their own work relating to the philosophy of language.

During Spring 2024, we will meet on Mondays, 5:30–7:30pm in room 202 of the NYU Philosophy Building (5 Washington Place). Anyone with an interest in philosophy of language is welcome.

RSVP: If you don’t have an NYU ID, and if you haven’t RSVPed for a workshop yet during this academic year, please RSVP no later than 10am on the day of the talk by emailing your name, email address, and phone number to Jack Mikuszewski at jhm378@nyu.edu. This is required by NYU in order to access the building. When you arrive, please be prepared to show government ID to the security guard.

January 22nd
Rose Ryan Flinn (NYU)

January 29th
Zeynep Soysal (Rochester)

February 5th
Karen Lewis (Barnard/Columbia)

February 12th
Willow Starr (Cornell)

February 19th
(No workshop)

February 26th
Jeremy Goodman (Johns Hopkins)

March 4th
Julian Jara-Ettinger (Yale)

March 11th
James Walsh (NYU)

March 18th
(no workshop)

March 25th
Cal Howland (Rutgers)

April 1st
(no workshop)

April 8th
Sam Cumming (UCLA)

April 15th
Eno Agolli (Rutgers)

April 22md
(no workshop)

April 29th
Viola Schmitt (Humbolt University Berlin/MIT)

May 6th
Bob Beddor (Florida)