Professor Barbara Gail Montero is the director of (and a performer in) the upcoming multimedia, interdisciplinary event Curved Spacetimes: Where Friedrich Nietzsche Meets Virginia Woolf. Prof. Nickolas Pappas will also perform (reading spoken word as Friedrich Nietzsche), and Prof. Jonathan Gilmore is a member of the team that brought the project to fruition.
According to the American Society for Aesthetics (who partially funded this project with a $7,000 grant), Curved Spacetimes is “multisensory event focused on the Physics, Aesthetics, and Metaphysics of Time. . . .[T]he evening will commence with a Nietzsche-Woolf-curved-spacetime-inspired reception that will allow you to test your knowledge of our central figures. Following the reception, you will experience Nietzsche, Woolf and curved spacetime coming to life on the stage (through dance, live music and the spoken word), and then listen to a panel discussion that will take you more deeply into the ideas guiding the performance.”
When: Sunday, March 17, 2019: 6-9 pm
Where: The Tank, 312 W. 36th St. 1st floor, New York City.
Schedule of Events
- 6 PM: Pre-performance catered reception—pass the Woolf/Nietzsche pre-test for a free drink!
- 7 PM: Performance
- 8 PM: Panel discussion on the physics, aesthetics, and metaphysics of time
Choreography: Logos Dance Collective (Barbara Gail Montero, Theresa Duhon, Patra Jongjitirat, and Gregory Kollarus)
Performers: Elise Crull, Theresa Duhon, Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes, Patra Jongjitirat, Gregory Kollarus, Barbara Gail Montero, and Nickolas Pappas
Music: Selections from Bach’s Cello Suites, performed live by cellist Ivan Luza
Text: excerpts from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Gay Science, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Panelists for the after-performance discussion:
- Jeff Friedman, Associate Professor of Dance Rutgers University
- Kathleen Higgins, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
- Timothy Maudlin, Professor of Philosophy, New York University
- Heather Whitney, JD, Harvard Law School & PhD Candidate, New York University
Moderator: Rebecca Ariel Porte, Writer and member of the Core Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
Free tickets for students in philosophy, literature, dance and physics are supported by the ASA grant and are available from bmontero@gc.cuny.edu
For all others, tickets are on sale now on-line at The Tank
Project Team:
- Barbara Gail Montero (Project Director), Professor of Philosophy, CUNY and Founder and member of the Logos Dance Collective
- Jonathan Gilmore, Professor of Philosophy, CUNY
- Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes, BFA student in Dance at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and member of the Logos Dance Collective
- Cliff Mak, Assistant Professor of English, Queens College, CUNY
Søren Kierkegaard’s most famous work, Fear and Trembling, has the distinction of drawing near-universal derision from scholars of political theory and ethics. Dr. Dinan suggests that Kierkegaard’s readers haven’t accounted for his return to Socratic political philosophy as a direct riposte to the politics of G.W.F. Hegel and his successors. He considers the implications of Kierkegaard’s use of the ‘questionable stratagem’ of Socratic irony in relation to politics, ethics, Christian faith, and philosophy. Kierkegaard is concerned not with destroying political philosophy, but with restoring its attentiveness to paradox.
Dr. Matt Dinan, Assistant Professor, St. Thomas University
“What is Democracy? is the latest movie from Astra Taylor, the world’s foremost philosophy documentarian. It chronicles conversations with middle schoolers, workers, activists, and political philosophers about what democracy is, its promises and pitfalls, and how to strengthen it. On Wednesday, April 17th at 7:00 PM, Taylor is coming to Brooklyn to present a free screening of the film. Afterwards, she will be joined by the political philosopher Nancy Fraser for a discussion of themes from the movie. If you know who either of these people are, you will understand how ridiculously excited I am for this.
As usual, we meet at the Dweck Center at the Grand Army Plaza branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. Here’s the Facebook event. Please note that this event begins at 7:00 PM. Tell and bring everybody.”
Annual Nietzsche Circle Fundraiser with talk, music, drinks, and refreshments.
$25 General Admission
$10 Student Admission
Levels of Sponsorship:
Eagle: Above $600 (5 free tickets and 4 books)
Hawk: $600 (4 free tickets and 3 books)
Falcon: $400 (3 free tickets and 2 books)
Owl: $200 (2 free tickets and 1 book)
Donations can be made direct, at our website at www.nietzschecirclecom/support_us.html, or simply bring a check with you. Payable to: Nietzsche Circle. Funds may be held in an escrow account subject to determination of 501(c) compliance. We thank you.
Please RSVP with Luke Trusso at luke.trusso@gmail.com by May 10, 2019 and include any guests.
The fate of democracy is increasingly in doubt, in America and around the world. But what if the greatest danger for democratic societies comes from within? In his insightful new book, philosopher Robert B. Talisse reports that he has seen the enemy and it is us: we are overdoing democracy, making every issue a political issue and every human engagement a political interaction. If we hope to save democracy, Talisse argues, we need to put politics in its place. Please join us for this essential discussion as Talisse is joined by The Guardian columnist Oliver Burkeman.
Presented by the Gotham Philosophical Society
Co-Sponsored by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences
Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His latest book, Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place, argues that when citizen allow their political divides to infiltrate the entirely of the social worlds, they actually erode their capacities for competent democratic citizenship.
Oliver Burkeman is a New York based columnist for The Guardian and the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking.
The Long Island Philosophical Society is seeking submissions for its Spring 2020 conference which will be held Saturday, April 18th 2020 on the attractive campus of Molloy College, located in Rockville Centre, NY.
The Long Island Philosophical Society has been a dynamic forum for the exchange of ideas since 1964. LIPS is an internationally recognized organization that is a valuable philosophical resource for the Greater New York area. Its conferences have drawn scholars from over 30 states and from the international community, including Brazil, Canada, Ukraine, Israel, and Egypt.
Papers can be on any topic of philosophical interest. Presentations are limited to 25-30 minutes, to be followed by a 10-15 minute discussion period. Both professional philosophers (full-time, part-time, unaffiliated) and graduate students are welcome to submit. Paper submissions are also welcome from those in different disciplines who have an interest in philosophical issues.
The submission deadline is Friday, March 13, 2020.
Please submit papers, including contact information and affiliation (if any) to Dr. Glenn Statile at StatileG@stjohns.eduor Dr. Leslie Aarons at laarons@lipsociety.org.
Since its inception, phenomenology has been understood as a method of philosophizing or philosophical attitude rather than a system of philosophy. Husserl encouraged his students to apply this method to all types of philosophical questions and across all fields of research. As a result, phenomenological analysis was used by a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy and psychology to literature, history, sociology, mathematics, cosmology, and religious studies. The phenomenological method itself has been refined according to the insights achieved as a result of its interdisciplinary nature. However, the core tenets of this method and characterization of this attitude have long been a point of debate among phenomenologists.
This conference will explore the nature of the phenomenological method, its interdisciplinary applications, and how research in parallel fields informed the work of the early phenomenologists.
As always, we encourage submissions dealing with the thought of the full spectrum of early phenomenologists (including Edmund Husserl, Franz Brentano, Carl Stumpf, Theodor Lipps, Alexander Pfänder, Max Scheler, Moritz Geiger, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Eugen Fink, Roman Ingarden, Edith Stein, Dietrich Von Hildebrand, Adolf Reinach, Martin Heidegger, Maximilian Beck, Jean Hering, et al.) as well as figures who were in conversation with the early phenomenological movement.
Abstracts should be 400-600 words, and include a short bibliography. Abstracts must be prepared for blind review and sent to Charlene Elsby (elsbyc@pfw.edu)
EXTENDED Deadline for submissions is 26 January 2020.
Decisions will be sent out no later than 7 February 2020.
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THE MAX SCHELER SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE
NORTH AMERICA SOCIETY FOR EARLY PHENOMENOLOGY
Theme:
Phenomenology as Attitude and/or Method
St. John’s University — New York, NY
(Queens and/or Manhattan campus)
April 22-24, 2020
The Max Scheler Society of North America (MSSNA) invites members of the international community of scholars to participate in their biannual meeting. The 2020 meeting will take place in conjunction with the North American Society for Early Phenomenology (NASEP), with sessions from each society running concurrently. Each society is having an independent call for papers. Papers and abstracts submitted for the MSSNA should be sent to the contact information below. All submissions for NASEP should be directed to the attention of Dr. Rodney Parker (rodney.k.b.parker@gmail.com).
Broadly construed, the general theme of the meeting is the distinctiveness of Scheler’s phenomenological approach. We are seeking papers that explore the development of Scheler’s understanding of phenomenology and how this development enabled Scheler to test the limits of phenomenology in examining such experiences as religious experiences, aging and death, other “minds” and persons, reality, and the emotions. The MSSNA is particularly interested in papers examining Max Scheler’s contribution to recent investigations related to the continued development of phenomenology.
Participants will have approximately 35 minutes to present their work. Though completed papers are preferred, abstracts of at least 500 words in length will also be considered.
Deadline for submission is January 15, 2020.
All submissions should be sent electronically to Dr. Zachary Davis (davisz@stjohns.edu). Because all submissions will be reviewed blindly by the selection committee, submissions should have a separate cover sheet with name and contact information.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out by January 31.
Conference Begins 8:00 am
Breakfast/Registration: 8:00 am – 9:00 am (Kellenberg Hall – Reception Room)
Morning Sessions – (9:00 am – Noon) (Kellenberg Hall = K)
Session 1: (Philosophy and the Catholic Novel)
Chairperson: Glenn Statile (St. John’s University)
Room = K006
1. Father Robert Lauder (Saint John’s University) – “[Maritain, Marcel, Haught]: Philosophical
Resources for Analyzing the Catholic Novels of Graham Greene”
2. Brother Owen Sadlier O.S.F. (Cathedral Seminary; Saint Francis College – emeritus) –
“Philosophical Reflections on Diary of a Country Priest”
3. Glenn Statile (Saint John’s University) – “Brideshead Revisited: Aesthetic, Theological, and
Philosophical Reflections”
Session 2: (Ancient Philosophy)
Chairperson: Chryssoula Gitsoulis (Baruch College – CUNY)
Room = K015
1. Chryssoula Gitsoulis (Baruch College – CUNY) – “The Individual vs the State”: A Study of
Socrates and Antigone”
2. Eric Wickey (Saint Peter’s College) – “A Change of Mind”
3. Mark Zelcer (Queensborough Community College) – “Socrates and the Demos”
4. Alan Kim (Stony Brook University) – “Animal Farm”
Session 3: (Epistemology, Logic, and the Nature of Philosophy)
Chairperson: Christopher French (SUNY Farmingdale)
Room = K020
1. Joseph Biehl (Saint John’s University) – “Selling Truth Short”
2. Jason Costanzo (Conception Seminary College) – “The Fourth Observer: Philosophy and its
Epistemic Paths”
3. Partha Das (Saint John’s University) – “On Double Negation”
Session 4: (Modern Philosophy, Descartes, Hume)
Chairperson: Robert Delfino (Saint John’s University)
Room – K021
1. Sophie Berman (Saint Francis College) – “Descartes on the Infinite Freedom of the Finite
Mind”
2. Rocco Astore (Saint John’s University) – “Devotion Begins in Freedom: An Analysis of the
Relation Between True Love and Freedom in Descartes’s Principles of Philosophy and Passions
of the Soul”
3. Robert Devall (Independent Scholar) – “Hume, the Ideal Critic, and the Problem of Taste”
Session 5: (Political Philosophy, Cities, Confucius, Dasein, Boredom)
Chairperson: Margaret Cuonzo (LIU Brooklyn)
Room – K202
1. Margaret Cuonzo (LIU Brooklyn) – “A Somewhat Paradoxical Argument for the Rights of
Cities”
2. Peter Li (Saint John’s University) – “Political Confucianism and Global Justice”
3. Brandon Kaiser (Boston College) – “Of Dasein and Discourse: Examining the Everydayness
of the Political”
4) Henry Curcio (Western Michigan University) – “Boredom”
Session 6: (Cancer and Brain Death)
Chairperson: John DeCarlo (Hofstra University)
Room = K211
1. Paul Rezkalla (Hillsdale College) – “Elizabeth Anscombe on Brain Death”
2. John DeCarlo (Hofstra University) – “Consciousness and Cancer: An Interdisciplinary
Dialogue”
3. Seth Goldwasser (University of Pittsburgh) – “Finding Normality in Abnormality: On the
Ascription of Normal Functions to Parts of Cancers”
Session 7: (Healing and the Pandemic)
Chairperson: Jennifer Scuro (Molloy College)
Room – K211A
1. Jennifer Scuro (Molloy College) – “Re–narrating Care Work in the Wake of a Pandemic”
2. Keith Bannerman (Stony Brook University) – “An Ancient Approach to the Pandemic
Problem”
3. Cara Cummings (Johns Hopkins University) – “Healing Akrasia and Vice”
Session 8: (Mental Illness, Humor, Unconscious Morality, Moral Nihilism)
Chairperson: Lewis Williams (Oxford University)
Room – K204
1. Heather Rivera (LSU, Shreveport) – “America’s Cruel Treatment of the Mentally Ill and
Criminally Insane”
2. Maksim Vak (Saint John’s University) – “To Genealogy of Jokes or on the Dialectic of
Ressentiment”
3. Sabina Schrynemakers (Independent Scholar) – “Unconscious Moral Choices”
4. Lewis Williams (Oxford University) – “Rehabilitating Moral Nihilism”
Session 9: (Ethics 1)
Chairperson: David Kaspar (Saint John’s University)
Room = K319
1. Clayton Shoppa (Saint Francis College) – “Second–Guessing the Good: Discernment and
Moral Realism”
2. Charles Duke (University of South Florida) – “Purposive Evil?: Experience, Virtue, and the
Prospects of Human Flourishing”
3. Joe Shin (University of Michigan) – “Must Blame: Self vs Others”
4. Rob Lovering (CUNY College of Staten Island) – “A Case for Legalizing Recreational Drug
Use”
Session 10: (The Sublime and Plasticity)
Chairperson: Leslie Aarons (CUNY Laguardia Community College)
Room – K319A
1. Addison Hinton (Stony Brook University) – “The Function of the Sublime in Spirit’s Pursuit
of the Ethical”
2. Wenshu Zheng (Stony Brook University) – “Subjectivity and Alterity: Reconciling Derrida’s
Mourning and the Sublime”
3. Michael Barr (Stony Brook University) – “The Goal of Plasticity: Affects, Signifiers and the
Infinite Judgement from Hegel to Johnston”
Afternoon Sessions – (2:30 pm –5:00 pm) (Kellenberg Hall)
Session 11: (Science and Modern Philosophy)
Chairperson: Glenn Statile (St. John’s University)
Room = K006
1. Yual Chiek (Saint John’s University) – “Leibniz on the Contingency of the Laws of Motion:
The Transference Thesis”
2. Joel Alvarez (University of South Florida) – “Interpreting Leibniz Counterpart Theory or
Transworld Identity”
3. Glenn Statile (Saint John’s University) – “Analogy and the Integrity of Science”
Session 12: (Darwinism, Evolutionary Psychology, and Autopoiesis)
Chairperson: Lowell Kleiman (SUNY Suffolk Community College)
Room = K015
1. Christopher Petersen (Florida State University) – “Is Evolutionary Psychology Impossible in
Principle? A Reply to S.E. Smith’s Matching Problem Argument”
2. Jacob Koval (Florida State University) – “In Defense of Distortion: A Reply to Shafer–Landau
and Vanova”
3. Matthew Menchaca (CUNY Graduate Center) – “Enactive Autopoiesis and the Future of
Dynamic Affective Science”
Session 13: (Aesthetics and Philosophy of Literature)
Chairperson = Margaret Cuonzo (LIU Brooklyn)
Room = K020
1. Brother Owen Sadlier O.S.F. (Cathedral Seminary; Saint Francis College – Emeritus) –
“The Anatomy of an Artificial Body: Aesthetic Reflections on Hobbes’ Leviathan”
2. Alexia Papigiotis (CUNY Graduate Center) – “Rooting for the Devil: Relatability Approach
for Sympathy for Immoral Characters”
3. Joseph Jordan (Holy Apostles College and Seminary) – “A Boethian Response to
Machiavelli, Marx, and Jordan Peterson”
Session 14: (Indian Philosophy, Rhetoric, Borges)
Chairperson: John F. DeCarlo (Hofstra University)
Room = K021
1. Basilio Monteiro (Saint John’s University) – “Sadharanikaran: Exploring Indian
Communicative Philosophy”
2. Meaghan Dunn (Saint John’s University) – “ Philosophy and Rhetoric: A Curious
Ontological Coupling that Once Was? Or Still Is?”
3. Bartholomew Slaninka (University of Massachusetts, Boston) – “Borges’ “The Aleph” and
Problems in Representing Totality”
Session 15: (Ethics 2)
Chairperson: Lewis Williams (Oxford University)
Room = K202
1. Paul Gyllenhammer (Saint John’s University) – “Mill and Sartre on Oppression,
Individuality, and Virtue”
2. Daniel Doviak (Muhlenberg College) – “Moral Pluralism and the Problem Weight of
Determination for Conflicting Duties”
3. Miriam Ambrosino (Stony Brook University) – “Scheler’s Notion of (Inter) Personal Agency
Founded in Loving”
4. John Park (California State University, Sacramento) – “The Mental and Physical Health
Argument Against Hate Speech”
Session 16 : (Holism, Metaphysics, Heidegger)
Chairperson: Henry Curcio (Western Michigan University)
Room = K211
1. Partha Das (Saint John’s University) – “Holism: A Comparative Study”
2. Jake Khawaja (Rutgers University) – “Actualism, Presentism, and Ontological Commitment”
3. Weian Ding (Loyola Marymount University) – “Become the Becoming: A Heideggerian
Lesson from the Embers and the Stars”
Session 17: (Silence, Ethics, Education, Philanthropy)
Chairperson: Christine Salboudis (Saint John’s University)
Room – K211A
1. Christine Salboudis (Saint John’s University) – “On Silence”
2. Alina Anjum Ahmed (University of Georgia) – “DeCentering Power: Arguing for a
Mandatory Undergraduate Course that Teaches Anti–Oppressive Allyship”
3. Lorenzo Francesco Manuali (Stanford University) – “The Normative Importance of Donor
Self–Legitimation in Philanthropy”
4. Josue Miguel Pineiro (University of Georgia) – “Audiential Injustice and Epistemic
Exclusion”
Session 18: (Theism, Aquinas, Rahner. Ecclesiastes, Scotus)
Chairperson: Seth Goldwasser (University of Pittsburgh)
Room – K204
1. David Kovacs (Loyola Marymount University) – “Toward a New Approach to Theism”
2. Kevin McShane (Saint John’s University) – “Aquinas and Rahner”
3. Vincent Alexis Peluce (CUNY Graduate Center) – “Nothing New Under the Sun:
Ecclesiastian Optimism”
4. Jay Park (Independent Scholar) – “Will and Necessity: Reading Scotus Between Ontological
Priority and Ontological Order”
Session 19: (Ethics, Boethius, Human Dignity)
Chairperson: Alec Koppers (Western Michigan University)
Room – K319
1. Stephen Morris (CUNY College of Staten Island) – “On the Moral Status of Historic Figures
and the Removal of Public Monuments”
2. Matthew Konig (SUNY Suffolk County Community College) – “The Nature of Moral Facts”
3. Arich Hluch (Ohio State University) – “Human Dignity, Autonomy, and Altruism: Reframing
the Debate on Organ Markets”
Session 20: Room – K319A: This room is reserved as a discussion lounge for conference participants
Brooklyn Public Philosophers is a forum for philosophers in the greater Brooklyn area to discuss their work with a general audience, hosted 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 philosophical questions that matter to them.
If 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.
The Long Island Philosophical Society is seeking submissions for its Spring 2023 conference which will be held Saturday April 1st 2023 on the attractive campus of Saint John’s University located in Jamaica, Queens in New York City.
The Long Island Philosophical Society has been a dynamic forum for the exchange of ideas since 1964. LIPS is an internationally recognized organization that is a valuable philosophical resource for the Greater New York area. Its conferences have drawn scholars from over 30 states and from the international community, including Brazil, Canada, Ukraine, Israel, and Egypt.
Papers can be on any topic of philosophical interest. Presentations are limited to 25-30 minutes, to be followed by a 10-15 minute discussion period. Both professional philosophers (full-time, part-time, unaffiliated) and graduate students are welcome to submit. Paper submissions are also welcome from those in different disciplines who have an interest in philosophical issues.
The submission deadline is Friday, March 10th, 2023.
Please submit papers, including contact information and affiliation (if any) to Dr. Glenn Statile at StatileG@stjohns.edu or Dr. Leslie Aarons at laarons@lagcc.cuny.edu.
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