Events Archive

Not Talking but Thinking and Voting: Democratic Deliberation in Classical Athens

Daniela Cammack

Presented as part of the Rhetoric Spring Colloquia Classical Athenian democracy is often described as deliberative, implying that discussion by the dêmos played an important political role. But of…

Holy Beds and Holy Families: Encounters with Devotional Objects from Fifteenth-Century Europe

Caroline Walker Bynum

Histories of the Self: A Lecture Series A small, highly ornamented bed, now on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and acquired from a convent…

Between the World and the International: Thinking with Ottoman and Islamic Pasts

This interdisciplinary workshop considers Ottoman/Islamic visions of the world that preceded or contended with our globalized notion of the international comprised of discrete, sovereign nation-states connected by seas. The…

Panpsychist Physicalism

Galen Strawson

Histories of the Self: A Lecture Series  Panpsychism is a plausible theory of the fundamental nature of reality It’s fully compatible with physics and with physicalism. Anyone who holds…

Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene

Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene The digital epoch has destroyed many traditional institutional knowledge practices while transforming and inventing a plethora of others. What is…

Rethinking Political Bodies: A Workshop

Rethinking Political Bodies: A Workshop The relationship between biological concepts and political concepts is longstanding — the "body politic" has always been a dominant metaphor for theorizations of political…

The Platonic-Aristotelian Idea That Reason Should Rule the Psyche – and its Psychoanalytic Fate

Jonathan Lear

Histories of the Self: A Lecture Series In the Republic, Socrates argues that reason should rule over the whole soul because it has wisdom and foresight. And Aristotle endorsed…

Lecture with Shigehisa Kuriyama: Excrement and Debt

Excrement and Debt: insights from a popular anatomical image into the depths of history and of the heart   Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama’s research explores broad philosophical issues (being and…

Seminar with Shigehisa Kuriyama: Communicating by Juxtaposing

Communicating by Juxtaposing: –a neglected approach to knowledge and its travels– Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama’s research explores broad philosophical issues (being and time, representations and reality, knowing and feeling) through…

Commencement 2016

Save the date! Our department’s 2016 Commencement will be held on Wednesday, May 18th, from 2:00 – 4:00 pm in Zellerbach Hall, with a reception immediately following from 4:00…