Events Archive

The Political Brain: The Brain as a Political Invention

Jan De Vos (Ghent University)

The Metamorphoses of the Brain – Neurologisation and Its Discontents (Palgrave, 2016) Reading Seminar on Chapter 7:  The Political Brain: The Brain as a Political Invention Co-sponsored by the…

Digital Doomsday: A perspective from the pathology called Europe

Jan De Vos (Ghent University)

Digital Doomsday: A perspective from the pathology called Europe Jan De Vos, Ghent University Co-sponsored by the Rhetoric Department and the Berkeley Center for New Media Allegedly, no reflection,…

A Symposium in Law and Humanities

UCB Townsend Working Group on Law & Contemporary Theory presents: A Symposium in Law and Humanities Monday, April 3rd, 2017 308A Doe Library   10 – 12: Colloquium Material…

Rhetoric Society Event: “Professors in Action!” with Prof Esmeir & Mascuch

Rhetoric Society is hosting an event – Tuesday, March 21 – "Professors in Action" @ 7PM in 73 Evans Professor Samera Esmeir and Professor Michael Mascuch discuss their current research interests and…

Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus

Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus covers themes from Sextus Empiricus that have greatly shaped the history of epistemology. Relevant topics include the nature of investigation, perception and illusion, perceptual relativism,…

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…