SPELbaby

well, alumnus baby, I guess.

dissertation defense

Blake Wilson

"What's So Private about Private Property?"

Monday 20 February
8:30am
LT 1210

thank you Amazon recommendations

Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention

in the news!:

http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/2017/02/10/anonymous-donor-helps-bu-launch-institute-genocide/97701938/

Graduate application for degree

Are you planning to take a degree this semester?  If yes, The Graduate Application for Degree (GAFD) for Spring 2017 is available on the Graduate School website Graduation page.

The deadline to be included in the commencement program is Friday, March 24.  Timely completion of this form ensures timely completion of degree paperwork.  If you also wish to participate in Commencement this May, please visit the Commencement website and complete a participation form.

Final exam schedules posted

link is here

did someone do something mean to CBASM? it's not a great schedule.

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)