Coleen at IASH

 “Democratic Philosophy is Public Philosophy: Reflections on Podcasting to the Demos” talk by IASH Fellow Coleen Watson at noon Wednesday, April 26, in LN-1106.

“Democratic Philosophy is Public Philosophy:
Reflections on Podcasting to the Demos”

I have been running and hosting the podcast The Wisdom of the People: A Podcast on the Philosophy that Founds Democracy since being awarded a Public Humanities Grant in July of 2022. This presentation will share my motivation to host a podcast specifically covering democratic philosophy as a way of doing public philosophy and document the many thoughts and reflections I have had after working on this project for nearly 10 months.

Coleen at IASH

 IASH Fellows Coleen Watson, philosophy, and Liyang Dong, English, will speak beginning at noon Wednesday, Nov. 30, in the IASH Conference Room, LN-1106.

Watson will speak on "The Wisdom of the People Public Humanities Project"
My project is a podcast series that will explore specific issues in political philosophy, with special emphasis on democratic theory. Mainstream political rhetoric rarely considers questions about what democratic freedom and equality are and why democratic institutions and processes are valuable, despite so much lip service paid to the social goods of democracies. This project hopes to fill this gap in public conversation by creating a podcast aimed at engaging general audiences with the philosophical concepts behind democratic governance. In addition, the podcast will explore how political philosophy’s ideas impact listeners’ everyday lives in hopes of promoting more rigorous civic discourse about normative issues in democratic life while demonstrating shared conceptual common ground many citizens haven’t recognized.

Among the questions explored in that topic is whether democracy is valuable merely instrumentally because it is good at satisfying individual preferences, or because democracy also has intrinsic value in that they are better than all other forms of government at promoting freedom and equality among citizens. Other topics to explore will include appropriate remedies to social and structural injustices, political knowledge and disinformation, and the limits of free speech.

This week!

Wed: ANJA at IASH: "Human Death and Future Generations"

Thu: SPEL Workshop: "Leading Discussion Sections" (11:45)

Thu: Colloquium: Robert Talisse on "The Problem of Polarization" (3:00)

did I miss anything?

Jim at IASH

Jim Lethbridge

"Toleration, Power, and Democracy: Exploring the Constitutional Limits of Toleration"


Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Noon - 1:30 p.m. 
IASH Conference Room (LN 1106).

For more information, please visit: https://www.binghamton.edu/iash/events/index.html

Sinan at IASH

Sinan Oruc

“Promises, Practices and the Force of Language: Rawls, Cavell, Wittgenstein" 

Wednesday, February 20th,  2019

Noon - 1:30 pm 

IASH Conference Room (LN 1106). 

For more information, please visit: https://www.binghamton.edu/iash/events/index.html 

Public Humanities Fellowships

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at Binghamton University and the Humanities New York announce a call for proposals for the 2019-2020 Graduate Public Humanities Fellowship.

The Graduate Public Humanities Fellowship program was developed by Humanities New York in cooperation with several of New York research universities in order to bring humanistic scholarship into the public realm, encourage emerging scholars who are pursuing humanistic study to conceive of their work in relation to the public sphere, develop skills for doing humanistic public work, and strengthen the public humanities community in New York State.

The year-long Fellowship involves a combination of training in the methods and approaches of public scholarship and work by the Fellow that explores the public dimensions of their scholarship in partnership with a community organization.

To learn more about these fellowships and to apply go to https://humanitiesny.org/our-work/partnerships/humanities-fellowship/

Application Deadlines

The deadline for the submission of a Graduate Public Humanities Fellowship application is 18 February, 2019.

On Wed. Feb. 6th, from 12:00-1:30, the current public humanities fellows will present on their own work and the application process in the IASH seminar room.

IASH Graduate Fellowships

deadline: April 13th

Graduate Student Fellowships

IASH offers two types of of Graduate Students Fellowships to Binghamton University Ph.D. students. Up to two stipended Graduate Student Fellowships a semester fund a competitive merit based Dissertation Fellowship (DF). Students applying for the IASH DF will be ABD, their funding from Binghamton University including the IASH DF will not exceed 12 semesters if entered with BA/BS, or 8 semesters if entered with MA/MS, and expect to be working full time on their dissertations in the semester of the fellowship. Up to two unstipended Graduate Students Fellowships are available to students who are released to full time research by a departmental DF or an external grant.

application form

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Jenn at IASH, take 2

a make-up from the snow day:

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018, 12:00 pm, IASH Conference Room (LN 1106)

IASH Fellows' Speaker Jenn Dum (Philosophy) presents: “Educational Justice and Relational Goods.”

“This presentation will argue that relational educational goods are a function of the social aims of education, the internal educational process itself, and the structural position of education. Furthermore, such relational educational goods—for example, the ability to empathize—are goods realized within relations, and thus are not something that can or should be distributed on comparative terms. Educational justice, accordingly, needs to account not only for the comparative goods of distributive justice, but also for relational goods.”

Jenn at IASH this Wednesday

Wednesday, February 7^th 2018, 12:00 pm, IASH Conference Room (LN 1106)

IASH Fellows' Speaker Jenn Dum (Philosophy) presents: “Educational Justice and Relational Goods.”

“This presentation will argue that relational educational goods are a function of the social aims of education, the internal educational process itself, and the structural position of education. Furthermore, such relational educational goods—for example, the ability to empathize—are goods realized within relations, and thus are not something that can or should be distributed on comparative terms. Educational justice, accordingly, needs to account not only for the comparative goods of distributive justice, but also for relational goods.”

Public Humanities Fellowships

ask me about this if you're interested:

2018-2019 Institute for Advanced Studies for the Humanities (IASH) Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship
In Partnership with Humanities New York

The Institute for Advanced studies for the Humanities (IASH) and Humanities New York
announce the call for applicants for the 2018-2019 Graduate Student Public Humanities
Fellowship.
The Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship was developed by Humanities
New York in partnership with nine New York research universities to bring humanities
scholarship into the public realm, encourage emerging humanities scholars to conceive
of their work in relation to the public sphere, develop scholars’ skills for doing public

work, and strengthen the public humanities community in New York State. The year-
long Fellowship will involve a combination of training in the methods and approaches of

the public humanities and work by the Fellow to develop a public project related to their
own scholarship in partnership with a community organization.
The skills and experiences afforded by the Fellowship are intended to serve scholars
who have a record of working with the public as well as those who are starting to
explore the public humanities. It is equally valuable for scholars who plan to pursue
careers within the academy and those who plan to pursue other career paths.

Courtney at IASH

IASH Fellows Speaker Series continuesHide Show

Courtney Miller, graduate student in philosophy, will speak on the topic “The Social Location of the Victim/Survivor of Sexual Assault” at noon Wednesday, Sept. 13, in the IASH Conference Room, LN-1106. Victims/survivors of sexual assault are not understood as occupying a unique social location. Instead, their experiences are typically explained with reference to categories such as gender, class, and race. Miller will argue that victims/survivors of sexual assault occupy a social location that is distinct from other social positions.

edit to update:

Please be aware that this talk contains a graphic depiction of sexual assault and discussion of several rape myths.

Congratulations 2017-18 IASH Dissertation Fellows ...

Courtney and Jenn!

IASH call for fellowship proposals

http://www.binghamton.edu/inside/index.php/news-briefs/show/iash-call-for-graduate-and-undergraduate-fellowship-proposals

IASH Call for Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowship Proposals

Every year, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) supports up to four graduate students and two undergraduate students with fellowships. The deadline for fellowship proposals is Friday, April 7. Go to the IASH page for the proposal form.

Mattias at IASH reminder

February  1, 2017
IASH Fellows' Speaker Series:

Presented by:  Mattias Iser, (Philosophy)   "Fighting without a Chance. The Challenge of Expressive Violence"  

Abstract: Just war theory claims that defensive violence is only justified if there is a reasonable probability of success. Assuming that the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto did not fulfil this criterion, it would thus have been impermissible. Attempts to avoid this counterintuitive result have referred to different kinds of success, such as deterrence, the broader effort of defeating the Nazis or defending one’s honor. I argue that none of these attempts succeeds because they remain bound to a merely instrumental notion of violence. I finally defend the, albeit problematic, idea of violence that expresses the victim’s agency.

February 1, 2017, 12:00 pm, IASH Conference Room (LN 1106)

Mattias at IASH

IASH Fellows Speaker Series for the Spring 2016 Semester begins…

February  1, 2017
IASH Fellows' Speaker Series:

Presented by:  Mattias Iser, (Philosophy)   "Fighting without a Chance. The Challenge of Expressive Violence"  

Abstract: Just war theory claims that defensive violence is only justified if there is a reasonable probability of success. Assuming that the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto did not fulfil this criterion, it would thus have been impermissible. Attempts to avoid this counterintuitive result have referred to different kinds of success, such as deterrence, the broader effort of defeating the Nazis or defending one’s honor. I argue that none of these attempts succeeds because they remain bound to a merely instrumental notion of violence. I finally defend the, albeit problematic, idea of violence that expresses the victim’s agency.

February 1, 2017, 12:00 pm, IASH Conference Room (LN 1106)

IASH: Anja Karnein on Wednesday

September 14, 2016 IASH Fellows' Speaker Series:

Presented by:  Anja Karnein (Philosophy.)   "Duties of Beneficence, Obligatory Aid, And What Any of This has to do with Helping the Global Poor"

Abstract: How can some aid be obligatory if there is generally latitude with regard to duties of beneficence? I offer a new reading of the duty of beneficence proposing that, counter to prevalent voices in the literature, genuine cases of obligatory aid are not instances of beneficence. Instead, they are situated in the realm of respect, the other imperfect duty Kant describes, and which permits significantly less latitude. This (more narrow) reading of beneficence solves the problem of obligatory aid and, more generally, shows that cases, such as aid to the global poor, are not best described as cases of beneficence.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 12:00pm, IASH Conference Room (LN 1106)

Human Migration and Border Symposium

Human Migrations And Borders

A Conversation in the Disciplines Symposium

@

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
(IASH)
Library North 1106
November 13-14, 2015

Keynote Speakers: Esra Akcan, Architecture, Cornell University
and Jamie Winders, Geography, Syracuse University

Participants: Karen-edis Barzman, Ana Maria Candela,  Alexander Caviedes, Manas K Chatterji, Bradley Walker Hutchison, Gallya Lahav, Ricardo Larémont, Daniel Levy, Shincha Park, Sabina Perrino, James Shuford, Kent F Schull, Jay Newberry, Dael A Norwood, Takashi Nishiyama,
Sevinç Türkkan, Julia Walker, Tiantian Zheng


The symposium is sponsored by the SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines Program and the Binghamton University Citizenship, Rights, and Cultural Belonging Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence

Gary at IASH

Gary Santillanes, Ph.D. student, will speak on “Progress and Moral Relativism” as part of the IASH Fellows Speaker Series on Wednesday, Nov. 4^th from 12:00—1:00 pm in the IASH Conference Room, LN-1106.  Everyone is welcome!!

Reeves at IASH on Wed.

April 29, 2015 IASH Fellows' Speaker Series: Anthony Reeves, (Philosophy) Human Rights, Risk, and Responsibility

Who is responsible for protecting human rights?  In a circumstance where multiple institutions (states, corporations, NGOs, international organizations, etc.) can affect the interests that human rights protect, how should we allocate responsibility for protecting those interests?  I examine several types of normative responses to this question with the aim of identifying a principled basis for approaching it.  Tort law has faced a similar problem: who should mitigate specific dangers to legally protected interests in a pervasively risky interactive environment?  Hence, I attempt to draw some lessons from the theory and practice of torts for the purposes of addressing the moral problem posed by human rights.

Wednesday April 29, 2015, 12:00pm, IASH Conference Room (LN 1106)

A Very Big Week upcoming ...

Upcoming this week, no doubt in honor of Jenn Dum's birthday ...

TUE 21 OCT

Brown Bag Lunch
topic: Anja Karnein, "Putting Fairness in its Place: Why There is a Duty to Take up the Slack"
read article from Journal of Philosophy in advance
11:45a - 1:00p
LT 1506


WED 22 OCT

IASH Speakers Series
Rochelle DuFord
"Can There Be Government Without a State?"
12noon - 1:30pm
LN 1106 (IASH Conference Room)


THU 23 OCT

SPEL Colloquium
Erin Kelly, Tufts University
"Culpability and Fault in Criminal Justice"
5:00p - 7:00p
UUW 324