Calendar

Thursday, March 5th

At Pratt Institute

Artist Panel with Audience Q&A
5:30-7:30pm
Engineering Building, Room 307

ELBOW-TOE (Brian Adam Douglas)
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Leon Reid IV
HOTTEA

Friday, March 6th

At Pratt Institute
Film/Video Building, Room 102

Session I 10:00-11:15am
Christiane Merritt (Washington University, St. Louis)
“Political Art and Street Art Definitions”

Session II 11:30-12:45pm
Shelby Moser (University of Kent)
“Street Art & Deception”

Session III 2:30-3:45pm
Roy T. Cook (University of Minnesota)
“The Lego Minifigure in Urban Art”

Session IV 4:00-5:15pm
Tony Chackal (University of Georgia)
“On The Illegality Condition in Street Art”
*Winner of the Graduate Student Travel Prize

Keynote Address 5:30-6:30pm

Professor Alison Young (University of Melbourne)
“Mainstreaming the Street: The Cultural Value of Illicit Street Art”
abstract and bio

Saturday, March 7th

At New York University
5 Washington Place, 1st Floor Auditorium

Session V 10:00-11:15am
Christopher Nagel (University of Minnesota)
“Signature Counterexamples to the Institutional Theory of Art”

Session VI 11:30-12:45pm
Alison Lanier, Angela Sun, & Erich Hatala Matthes (Wellesley College)
“Saving the Writing on the Wall: Two Models for Street Art and its Preservation”

Session VII 3:00-4:15pm
Mary Beth Willard (Weber State)
“A Softer, Gentler Street Art: Two Incongruities of Yarn-bombing”

Session VIII 4:30-5:45pm
Sondra Bacharach (Victoria University)
“Domesticating the Streets: Feminist Street Art”

NYU Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
NYU Department of Philosophy, 5 Washington Place, Room 202
May 15-16, 2015

Friday, May 15
10:00–11:30 Wolfgang Mann (Columbia): “Gorgias and the Weakness of logos”
11:45–1:15 Jessica Moss (NYU): “Being and Truth in Plato’s Theaetetus”
1:15–3:00 Lunch
3:00–4:30 Whitney Schwab (UMBC): “Understanding Episteme in Plato’s Republic”
4:45–6:15 Sarah Broadie (St Andrews/NYU): “The Transcendent Good in Plato’s Republic”
7:00 Conference Dinner

Saturday, May 16
10:00–11:30 Marko Malink (NYU): “Aristotle on Principles as Elements”
11:45–1:15 Simona Aimar (Oxford/Columbia): “Necessity and Efficient Causation in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics”
1:15–3:00 Lunch
3:00–4:30 Iakovos Vasiliou (CUNY): “Aristotle and the Varieties of Eudaimonism”
4:45–6:15 Hendrik Lorenz (Princeton): “Character-virtue as a Non-rational State in Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics”

Sponsored by the New York Institute of Philosophy.
For any questions, please contact Marko Malink (mm7761@nyu.edu).

The Simon H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts

Presents:
Cinzia Arruzza
New School for Social Research

Sara Brill
Fairfield University

Andrea Capra
State University of Milan

Burt Hopkins
Seattle University

Elizabeth Jelinek
Christopher Newport University

Michael Naas
DePaul University

Noburu Notomi
Yokohama National University

Nicholas Rynearson
Brooklyn College, CUNY

Marylou Sena
Seattle University

Thomas Thorp
Saint Xavier University

Organisers:

Nickolas Pappas
CUNY Graduate Center

Poster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzqJK3SK3JjZbTBQY0d3ZnIxWUU/view?usp=sharing

Crafting Ancient Identities: Mythological and Philosophical Approaches to the Self and Society in Antiquity

Tenth Annual Graduate Conference in Classics
Friday, March 31, 2017
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Keynote Speaker: Professor Kathryn Morgan, UCLA

In Greek and Roman antiquity, mythology and philosophy helped individuals understand their world and define their place in society. From the supernatural exploits in Homer to the etiological accounts of Ovid, mythology humanized natural phenomena and preserved cultural history. Philosophy, meanwhile, reflects an effort to systematize knowledge and answer questions about our place in the world. Both mythological narratives and philosophic thought participated in the crafting of ancient identities, whether as individuals, communities, or nations. The Romans, for example, turned to mythology to identify themselves as the descendants of Aeneas, just as the Athenian philosophers attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen.

The PhD/MA Program in Classics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York invites graduate students in Classics or related fields to submit abstracts of papers that explore how mythology and philosophy contribute to the development of identity in the Greco-Roman world.

Possible paper topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Etiological myths
• Autochthony and migration stories
• Philosophic schools and communities
• Philosophical poetry and the Presocratics
• Reception and transformation of myth in antiquity
• Hero cults and religious communities
• The role of myth in philosophical discourse

Please send an anonymous abstract of approximately 300 words as an email attachment to cunyclassicsconference@gmail.com by January 16, 2017. Please include, in the body of the email, your name, university affiliation, and the title of the presentation. Speakers will have 15 minutes to present. Selected applicants will be notified in early February. Submissions and questions will be received by conference co-organizers Federico Di Pasqua and Thomas Moody.

https://philevents.org/event/show/28678

Even though ancient philosophy and rhetoric have many overlapping interests (education, persuasion, politics, etc.), their relationship has long been a contentious subject, especially among ancient philosophers. Contemporary scholarship on the topic is equally divided: philosophers tend to approach the topic primarily through the works of Plato and Aristotle and regard rhetoric (and rhetorical compositions) as a second-rate notion/discipline which has little interest in shedding light on philosophically relevant questions about human nature and society, whereas classicists research oratorical compositions to get a better understanding of Greek prose style, historical details and context, but often shy away from philosophical questions that the texts might hint at. This workshop aims to bring together scholars working on ancient rhetoric and argumentative techniques on the one hand, and scholars working on ancient philosophy, on the other in order to open up a space for a constructive engagement with philosophy/rhetoric, one which might enrich our understanding of ancient texts as well as the context in which they were produced.

Confirmed speakers: Jamie Dow (Leeds), Richard Hunter (Cambridge), Joel Mann (St Norbert), Jessica Moss (NYU), Usha Nathan (Columbia), James Porter (Berkeley), Edward Schiappa (MIT), Nancy Worman (Barnard). All papers will be followed by a response and general discussion.

Attending the workshop is free, but in order to have an idea of numbers it would be greatly appreciated if those interested in participating in the event would email the organizers, Laura Viidebaum and Toomas Lott.

This Workshop is generously sponsored by the Department of Philosophy (NYU), Department of Classics (NYU) and NYU Center for Ancient Studies.

The full program can be viewed here.

The workshop will bring together philosophers working in ancient epistemology with those working in contemporary epistemology to discuss issues relevant to the debates in both fields.

It was assumed until recently that the distinction between doxa and epistêmê, key players in ancient epistemology, maps directly onto the contemporary distinction between knowledge and belief. Recent interpreters of Plato and Aristotle have challenged this assumption.  Some argue that epistêmê is closer to understanding than to knowledge because (for example) it requires explanation rather than justification, cannot be transmitted by testimony, is hard to come by, and can only be had of a restricted range of objects. Others argue that doxa is narrower than belief, perhaps closer to opinion, because (for example) doxa is excluded by epistêmê while belief is entailed by knowledge, doxa is imprecise and unclear while these are not essential features of belief, and doxa too has a restricted range of objects.

Contemporary epistemology tackles issues that are related to the debates above. Is knowledge to be distinguished from understanding and if so, which one should be seen as the proper goal of inquiry? Does understanding have value over and above the value of knowledge? Much like Plato and Aristotle, epistemologists aim to elucidate the conceptual relations between knowledge, understanding, justification, explanation, epistemic authority, and testimony. In addition, contemporary epistemologists sometimes produce fictional genealogies of epistemic concepts to arrive at an improved understanding of our epistemic practices. If epistêmê and doxa are distinct from knowledge and belief in a way indicated above, then it seems appropriate to raise the question whether the actual history of epistemic concepts can help to improve these fictional genealogies.

The presentations are followed by a response and a general discussion.Papers by speakers who specialize in Ancient epistemology will be assigned to commentators who specialize in contemporary epistemology and vice versa.

Presenters: Gail Fine (Cornell), Richard Foley (NYU), Jane Friedman (NYU), Allison Hills (Oxford), Robert Pasnau (Colorado), Whitney Schwab (Baltimore/NYU), Katja Vogt (Columbia), Ralph Wedgwood (USC).

Respondents: John Bengson (Harvard), Hugh Benson (Oklahoma), Paul Boghossian (NYU), Toomas Lott (NYU/Tartu), Jessica Moss (NYU), James Pryor (NYU), Michael Strevens (NYU).

Organisers:

How is the ancient exhortation to “know thyself” related to consolation, virtue, and the study of nature? How did the commitment to self-knowledge shift over the centuries in writings by Islamic, Jewish, Christian, and early modern natural philosophers? How did medieval women contribute to modern notions of self, self-knowledge, and knowledge of nature? This conference explores the meditative “reflective methodology” from its ancient roots, through medieval Christian, Muslim, and Jewish traditions to the so-called “new” methodologies of early modern science. Speakers include Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Pierre Force, Clémence Boulouque, Christia Mercer, and Pamela Smith.

Points of focus will be: (1) the relation between the ancient imperative to “know thyself” and medieval concerns to reflect on one’s self as a means to find ultimate truths; (2) the meditative genre as it developed from Augustine’s Confessions through Christian and Islamic spiritual exercises to late medieval Christian meditations and early modern kabbalist writings; (3) the continuity between medieval meditations and the reflective methodology of early modern science; and (4) the meditative genre’s afterlife in Freud, Foucault, Arendt, and contemporary science.

Conference co-sponsored by the Center for New Narratives in Philosophy, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, the Departments of Philosophy, French, English and Comparative Literature and the Maison Française

To download a PDF about this event click here.