Presidential Scholars Paul Linton and Nedah Nemati will discuss their cross-disciplinary research and findings. Their faculty mentors will provide brief responses. Event Speakers Talk Title: What’s Natural about Naturalistic Neuroscience Nedah Nemati, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University Darcy Kelley, Harold Weintraub Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University John Morrison, Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College Maria Antonietta Tosches, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University Moderated by Pamela Smith, Professor[...]
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading of Karl Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Princeton University Press, 2024) and a conversation with the book’s editor Paul North (Yale University) and translator Paul Reitter (Ohio State University), which will be moderated by Emily Apter (NYU). The first new English translation in fifty years – and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself – produces a critical edition of[...]
Over the last thirty years, the term “cisgender” (or “cis” for short) has come to refer, most commonly, to the category of all non-trans people and all non-trans gender experiences. Trans people are taken to have genders that in some way transition—thereby resisting existing gender norms. Cis people are taken to have genders that do not in any way transition—thereby acquiescing to existing gender norms. In this talk, I draw on resources in philosophy, gender[...]