SPEL Graduate Conference this weekend!

 https://spelgraduateconference.wordpress.com/home/conference-details/

Colloquium THURSDAY!

Eva Kittay 

Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emerita, Stony Brook University

"Why being Human is a Nonspeciesist Sufficient Condition for Full Moral Status and Why that Matters"

Thu 28 Oct

3:00-5:00p

UUW 324

Nicolas Cage as various philosophers

 

a short thread of Nicolas Cage as various philosophers

1. Spinoza pic.twitter.com/jsWv3149ko

— Hane and Suffering 👻⚰️ (@HaneMaung) October 20, 2021

Annual Cyber Security Awareness Training

 Beginning Tuesday, Oct. 19, Binghamton University faculty and staff will be receiving reminder emails to perform required annual Cyber Security Awareness training.

This training is intended to educate users on how to detect potential threats and phishing attempts and to learn new methods of protecting your personal and organizational data. Students, faculty and staff can take the training now via the MyBinghamton portal link. Click on the KnowBe4 link on the available links list. The training will be available through November. Questions or issues, contact the ITS Help Desk.

Also, here is a picture of banana bread that Derrida loves:

Fall 2021 Degree Completion Deadlines

 The Office of Student Records and Registrar Services has posted the Fall 2021 degree completion deadlines online here. 

• Graduate Application for Degree (GAFD): December 10th, 2021
• Thesis/Dissertation Electronic Submission: December 15th, 2021
• Recommendation for Award of Degree forms: December 31st, 2021

Questions regarding the GAFD, degree conferral, and degree processing should be sent to the Office of Student Records and Registrar Services: degree@binghamton.edu. 

Questions regarding thesis/dissertation submission and processing fees should be sent to the Graduate School: gad@binghamton.edu. 

I thought this was interesting

 

Students struggle most of all, I have found, with trying to come up with something new to say. In my program we have recommended Andrew Abbott's book on heuristics for social science. Here he is showing how Aristotle's 4 causes can be used to generate ideas. pic.twitter.com/KETGcoXyCI

— Rakesh Bhandari (@postdiscipline) October 13, 2021

Colloquium THURSDAY!

 live and in person:

MATEO DUQUE

Postdoctoral Fellow, Binghamton University

"(Re)-reading with Writing? A Performative Contradiction in Plato's Phaedrus"

Thu 7 Oct

3:00-5:00pm

UUW 324