ooh, the chalk

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/10/03/the_stradivarius_of_chalk/

also here:

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/26267/where-to-buy-premium-white-chalk-in-the-u-s-like-they-have-at-rims

Nietzsche Society program

taking place at SPEP

program after the jump.

from the sports pages

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/sports/ncaabasketball/29binghamton.html?hpw

also:

http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20101028/NEWS01/10280486/Broadus-gets-1-2M-to-leave-drop-suit

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/10/29/qt#242125

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/binghamton-u-basketball-coach-receives-1-2-million-to-resign/27988

CFP: FEMMSS

reposted from the listserv:

FEMMSS 4: Call for Proposals

Paper proposals are invited for the fourth conference of the Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies (FEMMSS) to be held at The Pennsylvania State University, May 10-12, 2012.  For more information about FEMMSS and our past conferences see femmss.org.  

We welcome new participants and perspectives from across the academy and outside it that provide feminist discussion on any topic in epistemologies, methodologies, metaphysics, or science studies. 

'SUNY under siege'

http://sunyundersiege.pbworks.com/

CFP: philosophy and the arts // redemption

Call for Papers and Artwork

Fourth Annual Philosophy and the Arts Conference at Stony Brook Manhattan

April 1-2, 2011

Keynote Speaker – Kaja Silverman

The Masters program in Philosophy and the Arts at Stony Brook University in Manhattan centers on intersections of art and philosophy. In an effort to encourage dialogue across disciplines, we offer this conference as an interdisciplinary event and welcome participants working in a variety of fields and media to respond to this year’s topic:

Redemption

Between the familiar extremes of redeeming oneself (as in the eyes of God, or a friend) and of redeeming a coupon, the term redemption shoulders a rich range of expressive possibilities. Each sense reveals an aspect of the event of exchange of one thing, condition, or meaning for another. “Redemption” may express conversion, salvage, ransom, reparation, purchase, or liberation, and these definitions all vary in their economic, ontological, and hermeneutical hefts.

conferences

Melissa's going to the ASA.  Everyone just got back from the SAGP.  Max is off somewhere.  what else is going on?