Events Archive

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…

Re/Sounding Place: a micro-symposium for the sonically engaged

Sponsored by the Department of Rhetoric Please join us for Re/Sounding Place; a micro-symposium for the sonically engaged. Re/Sounding Place seeks to facilitate conversation across a diverse range of…

Columbus Goes East: Renaming Palestine

A TALK BY ABDUL-RAHIM AL-SHAIKH Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cultural and Arab Studies, Birzeit Universityand Fulbright Scholar, 2015-1016, at the Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University   DISCUSSANT:…

Jill Frank: Reading Authority – Plato, poetry, political theory

Please read the paper for the Rhetoric workshop in advance. Obtain copies from emilygcardoza@berkeley.edu.  Professor Frank will also be lecturing on "A Life Without Poetry: Rereading Republic 2-5" in…

Colloquium: Shalini Satkunanandan

Neither Religious nor Spiritual: Nietzsche’s Illiberal, Faith-Based Self-Fashioning Nietzsche’s call to make one’s life a work of art should be understood against the backdrop of his early concern with…