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The Political Brain: The Brain as a Political Invention
Jan De Vos (Ghent University)
Time: Date: Location: 470 Stephens Hall
Speaker: 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…
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Digital Doomsday: A perspective from the pathology called Europe
Jan De Vos (Ghent University)
Time: Date: Location: 340 Moffitt BCNM Commons
Speaker: 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,…
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A Symposium in Law and Humanities
Time: - 3:00 AMDate: - 04/04/2017 Location: 308A Doe Library
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…
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Rhetoric Society Event: “Professors in Action!” with Prof Esmeir & Mascuch
Time: - 7:00 AMDate: - 03/20/2017 Location: 73 Evans Hall
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…
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Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus
Time: Date: - 03/18/2017 Location: Howison Library, Moses Hall
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,…
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Not Talking but Thinking and Voting: Democratic Deliberation in Classical Athens
Daniela Cammack
Time: - 1:00 AMDate: - 03/04/2017 Location: 7415 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: 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…
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Holy Beds and Holy Families: Encounters with Devotional Objects from Fifteenth-Century Europe
Caroline Walker Bynum
Time: - 2:00 AMDate: Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Speaker: 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…
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Between the World and the International: Thinking with Ottoman and Islamic Pasts
Time: Date: - 11/11/2016 Location: Sultan Room, CMES, 360 Stephens Hall and Rhetoric Conference Room, 7415 Dwinelle Hall
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…
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Panpsychist Physicalism
Galen Strawson
Time: - 1:00 AMDate: - 10/21/2016 Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Speaker: 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…
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Technology, Space, Reason: Infrastructures of Knowledge in the Anthropocene
Time: Date: - 10/15/2016 Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities; Banatao Auditorium, Sudartja Dai Hall
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…