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Rethinking Political Bodies: A Workshop
Time: Date: - 10/08/2016 Location: Faculty Club
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…
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The Platonic-Aristotelian Idea That Reason Should Rule the Psyche – and its Psychoanalytic Fate
Jonathan Lear
Time: - 2:00 AMDate: Location: 308A Doe Library
Speaker: 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…
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Lecture with Shigehisa Kuriyama: Excrement and Debt
Time: - 1:00 AMDate: - 09/24/2016 Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center
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…
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Seminar with Shigehisa Kuriyama: Communicating by Juxtaposing
Time: - 12:00 AMDate: - 09/23/2016 Location: 308A Doe Library
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…
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Commencement 2016
Time: - 12:00 AMDate: - 05/19/2016 Location: Zellerbach Hall, Lower Sproul Plaza
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…
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Re/Sounding Place: a micro-symposium for the sonically engaged
Time: - 3:00 AMDate: - 04/26/2016 Location: BCNM Commons (340 Moffitt Undergraduate Library)
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…
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Columbus Goes East: Renaming Palestine
Time: - 2:00 AMDate: Location: Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
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:…
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Jill Frank: Reading Authority – Plato, poetry, political theory
Time: - 9:00 PMDate:
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…
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Colloquium: Shalini Satkunanandan
Time: - 10:00 PMDate:
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…
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Thinking Beyond Boundaries: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson
Time: - 2:00 AMDate: - 02/20/2016 Location: Maud Fife Room, 315 Wheeler
Symposium Friday, February 19, 2016 Thinking Beyond Boundaries: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall PROGRAM 9:15 – 9: 30 a.m. Welcome &…