16 December 2016

Spring workshop schedule


SPRING 2017

2 FEB *Thursday, from 12:00—1:00 pm
Plagiarism
IASH Conference Room (LN-1106)

24 FEB Writing your Prospectus/Thesis
*Harpur Dean’s Conference Room (LN-2200)

21 APR Publishing
IASH Conference Room (LN-1106)



Mandatory for all first- and second-year SPEL students other than terminal MA students unless noted.  Everyone else is welcome and/or encouraged to attend

Unless otherwise indicated, all workshops are on Fridays from 3:30-5:00 pm

Didn't know about this

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/12/16/stony-brook-philosophy-phd-says-his-department-plans-review-amid-claims-hes-neo-nazi


12 December 2016

wtf x2




30 November 2016

Brown Bag reminder

Brown Bag!

Thu 1 Dec
11:45-1:00
LN-2200 (Harpur Dean's Conference Room)

reading: Chapter 2 from Judith Butler's Precarious Life: "Violence, Mourning, Politics." 
(SPEL GSO choice)

10 November 2016

next Brown Bag

Brown Bag!

Thu 1 Dec
11:45-1:00
LN-2200 (Harpur Dean's Conference Room)

reading: Chapter 2 from Judith Butler's Precarious Life: "Violence, Mourning, Politics." 
(SPEL GSO choice)

Critical Theory Round Table 2016

this is at Penn State, but SPEL (and ex-SPEL) will be representing ...

24th ANNUAL CRITICAL THEORY ROUNDTABLE
Penn State University,
November 11-13, 2016
Oak Bldg, University Park

Register at this website:

SPONSORED BY:
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Rock Ethics Institute, Department of Philosophy, Department of German


Friday, Nov. 11
Oak Bldg

4:30-6:00 p.m.                      

Keynote Lecture:       “Critique and Disappointment”
Max Pensky, Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University

Chair:                          Amy Allen, Penn State University

6:30-10:00 p.m.        Dinner/reception
                                    405 Arbor Way, State College


Saturday, Nov. 12
Oak Bldg

8:30                            coffee and pastries

9:00-10:30 a.m.         Panel 1:  Critical Theories of Politics
                                    Chair: Eduardo Mendieta, Penn State University

                                    Democracy Against Capitalism,”
Hauke Brunkhorst
Democratic Iterations and Cosmopolitan Boundary Making,”
Svenja Ahlhaus, University of Hamburg/Yale University
Immanent Critique as Self-Transformative Practice,”
                                    Arvi Särkelä, University of Luzern

10:30-10:45 a.m.      coffee break

10:45-12:15 p.m.      Panel 2:  Love, Dignity, and Animality
                                    Chair:  Olivia Rachel Deibler, Penn State University

“Critical Love:  Power, Transformation, and Revolution,”
Federica Gregoratto, University of St. Gallen
“Human Dignity:  A Critical Genealogy,”
Antonio Pele, PUC-Rio
“Adorno and the Normativity of Animality,”
Aaron Bell, Binghamton University

12:15-1:30 p.m.        lunch

1:30-3:00 p.m.           Panel 3:  The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth
                                    Chair: Johanna Meehan, Grinnell College
                       
Paradigms and the Derailment of Critical Theory:  The Critical Liberalism of Axel Honneth,”
Harry Dahms, University of Tennessee
                                    “Pathologies of Freedom: Axel Honneth’s ‘Unofficial’ Theory of
                                    Reification,”
David Schafer, Fordham University
                                    Cold “Mothers”:  A Crucial Gap in Honneth’s Theory of Subjectivity and
                                    Phenomenology of Social Suffering,”
Nicole Yokum, Penn State University
           
3:00-3:15 p.m.           coffee break

3:15-4:45 p.m.           Panel 4:  Post- and Decolonial Perspectives
                                    Chair:  Alberto Bejarano, Penn State University

                                    The Power of Colonization: Revisiting Foucault on Power,”
Verena Erlenbusch, University of Memphis
“Towards a Decolonial Politics of Time: Constellations in Adorno and Foucault,”
Romy Opperman, Penn State University
“Habermas’s Silence on Silence: A Critique of Universal Pragmatics,”
Emma Velez, Penn State University

4:45-5:00                   break

5:00-6:30 p.m.           Panel 5:  Social Freedom, Capitalism, and Ideology
                                    Chair:  Ben Randolph, Penn State University

“Hegel and Honneth’s Theoretical Deficit: Education, Social Freedom, and the Institutions of Modern Life,”
Jenn Dum and Robert Guay, Binghamton University
“Social Freedom as Ideology,”
Karen Ng, Vanderbilt University
“The Antinomy of Capitalism,”
Timo JĂ¼tten, University of Essex


7 p.m.                          dinner (TBA)


Sunday, Nov. 13
Oak Bldg

8:45 a.m.                    Coffee and Pastries

9:15-10:45 a.m.         Panel 6:  Alienation, Materialism, and Immanent Critique
                                    Chair: Khagendra Prasai, Binghamton University

“Governing as Strangers: Rethinking Cosmopolitan Strategies of De-
Alienation,”
Melissa Yates, Rutgers University-Camden
                                    “Materialisms, Old and New,”
                                    Steven Vogel, Denison University
“What is Critical About Political Solidarity?”
Rochelle DuFord, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
                                   
11:00-12:30 p.m.      Panel 7:  The Politics of Critical Theory
                                    Chair:  Kris Klotz, Penn State University

“The Impossibilities of Political Practice,”
Tobias Albrecht, University of Frankfurt/Yale University
“Does Critical Theory Need a ‘Political Turn?
James Ingram, McMaster University
“Critical and Radical Theory,”
Gabriel Rockhill, Villanova University


Finis

SPEL Colloquium reminder: this Friday

SPEL Colloquium

Lisa Fuller
Merrimack College

"Heroic Rescue and Scarce Resources in Medical Humanitarianism"


UUW 324
3pm-5pm

This is somewhat interesting

I haven't been really paying attention, but his is maybe the first time that I've seen a posting for "a research agenda in data and information ethics and/or ethics of technology", but it probably won't be the last time.



Advertisement at PhilJobs: http://philjobs.org/job/show/6482
Where to apply: http://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/cw/en-us/job/499309
Department website and information: http://www.phil.ufl.edu
 
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, invites applications for a full-time tenure-accruing Assistant Professor position with duties to begin for the 2017-2018 academic year. Area of Specialization: Value Theory, including a research agenda in data and information ethics and/or ethics of technology. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to assist in the development of a graduate concentration in this area as well as pursue interdisciplinary collaboration, for example, through the University of Florida's Informatics Institute (https://informatics.institute.ufl.edu). Areas of Competence: Open. Teaching duties: two courses per semester at undergraduate and graduate levels, thesis advising and graduate supervision. The department is genuinely committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty and encourages applications by candidates from under-represented groups. The successful candidate for this position should possess a Ph.D. in Philosophy by time of appointment in August 2017. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience and includes a full benefits package.

03 November 2016

SPEL Colloquium: Fri 11 Nov (next week)

SPEL Colloquium

Lisa Fuller

"Heroic Rescue and Scarce Resources in Medical Humanitarianism"


UUW 324
3pm-5pm

that sucks

next Brown Bag: Thu 1 Dec


Brown Bag Luncheon

reading: TBA (grad students' turn)


Thu 1 Dec
11:45-1:00
LN-2200 (Harpur Dean's Conference Room)

SPEL workshop


SPEL professional development workshop

"Attending Conferences"

Friday 4 November
3:30-4:45 pm
IASH conference room (LN - 1106 )


*the workshop is mandatory for all first- and second-year SPEL students. others are also welcome!

27 October 2016

Nihilist Arby's


would like to use the Nihilist Arby's twitter feed as a challenge to anthropology and the humanities to fully embrace despair.



18 October 2016

Brownbag next week


date/time: THU 27 OCT, 11:45-1:00

place: TBD

reading: Martha Nussbaum, Anger and Forgiveness, ch. 2

lunch: provided by department


Sandra Bartky (1935-2016)

http://dailynous.com/2016/10/17/sandra-bartky-1935-2016/

Sandra Bartky, Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, died earlier today. 
Professor Bartky was known for her influential writing in feminist philosophy and phenomenology, as well as work on existentialism and critical theory. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
According to a post at Feminist Philosophers, Professor Bartky was one of the founding members of theSociety for Women in Philosophy (SWIP).
You can learn more about Professor Bartky and her work at this page as well as at this entry at Wikipedia, and the aforementioned post at Feminist Philosophers.

10 October 2016

SPEL Colloquium: Friday 14 October


SPEL Colloquium


David Boonin
Professor of Philosophy and Director, Center for Values and Social Policy
University of Colorado, Boulder

"Posthumous Harm"


UUW 324
3pm-5pm

07 October 2016

Workshop about to start

2016–17 WORKSHOPS*
PROGRAM IN SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ETHICAL, AND LEGAL PHILOSOPHY (SPEL)
PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT, BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY


*Mandatory for all first- and second-year SPEL students other than terminal MA students unless noted.  Everyone else is welcome and/or encouraged to attend. Students going on the market should attend all Fall seminars.



FALL 2016


7 OCT            Something about teaching
                        IASH Conference Room (LN-1106) 
                        3:30-4:45