Upcoming Conferences
Hermeneutics in the Era of German Idealism
April 25-26, 2008
Karl Ameriks (University of Notre Dame), “Interpretation after Kant”
Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University), “ Analytic Philosophy and Hermeneutics ”
Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, UK), “ Adorno, Hermeneutics, and German Idealism”
Michael Forster (University of Chicago), “Herder, Schleiermacher, and the Birth of Foreignizing Translation”
Kristin Gjesdal (Temple University),“ The Hermeneutic Impact of Hegel’s Phenomenology ”
Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania), “Truth and Truthfulness in 19th Century Aesthetics: The Case of Ruskin”
Jane Kneller (Colorado State University), “Kant, Novalis, and Schleiermacher on Reflective Cultural Judgment ”
All lectures will be held in 1515 Broad St., TUCC, Rm.421
For more information, follow this link
Stand Up! The New Politics of Racial Uplift
A Public Philosophy Symposium
Friday, May 2nd, 2008, 9am to 5pm
Kiva Auditorium and Tuttleman Learning Center, Room 101
http://www.temple.edu/philosophy/standup/
The Millions More Movement, Cosby's 'call-outs,' and other recent trends renew an old approach to black political thought and practice. The racial uplift tradition tries to improve the conditions of black life by insisting on moral refinement and race-based organization. Uplift ideology and practice have a long and storied past, but critics of the tradition worry over its limitations. Some express concern that it is anti-democratic, intolerant, elitist, sexist, and heterosexist. Others think it focuses too much on personal morality and cultural pathology and not enough on social justice and political economy.
The participants in the 'Stand Up!' symposium will think through the risks and rewards of this new racial uplift politics. This interdisciplinary exercise in public philosophy will explore the implications of a social phenomenon with broad ethical significance. The new politics of racial uplift emerges from a widely shared conviction that something is deeply wrong in American society. Our public philosophy conference will take this judgment seriously, and subject this politics to searching and critical scrutiny.
For a complete list of participants, schedule, and work by participants and material relevant to symposium themes, go to http://www.temple.edu/philosophy/standup/
The symposium is free and open to the public.
Ongoing Conferences
New India Seminar
CULTURE, CAPITAL, AND THE MAKING OF THE NEW INDIA
An annual faculty research seminar at Temple University
Convener: Priya Joshi, Department of English
pjoshi@temple.edu
Introduction
The hallmark of the contemporary period of globalization is the spread of new ideas and large amounts of money: it is, in more general terms, about the diffusion of culture and capital. In this world, the United States is regarded as the paradigmatic case of a nation defining both culture and capital. Easily forgotten is that India, the world's largest democracy and fourth largest economy in PPP, has joined the US as a nation with global reach in both culture and economics.
India's cultural capital is on display virtually everywhere. From Nobel Prizes in economics to Pulitzers in fiction, from a film industry that has captured the hearts of millions to a vast knowledge industry that produces the technology and content of transnational firms, India's cultural capital is produced globally, speaks multilingually, and is consumed visibly in just about every corner of the post-industrial world.
India's economic capital is also increasingly evident. In 2003, economists at Goldman Sachs presented a much quoted paper, "Dreaming with BRICs," which argued that by 2050, the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) would eclipse the US and Japan in wealth generation and produce 40% of the world's GDP. By 2025, according to the report, BRICs could account for over half the size of the G6. If the economic predictions reach target, the world's largest democracy will also soon become one of its largest economies, an accomplishment enabled by longstanding institutions of open society, public higher education, and a multilingual labor force equally adept in English and in HTML.
How has a country that was an abject colonial economy less than 60 years ago achieved its current global muscle? How might we renew an understanding of India's development from its five-thousand year history to its recent interventions in the world stage? And, perhaps most importantly, what role do India's "products"—such as film, literature, music, architecture, philosophy, religion, but also business, science, and politics—play in fabricating the country's new global presence? Has India really changed from a nation of bullock carts, or have its purveyors masterfully refashioned its perception on the global stage?
This seminar explores the relationship between culture and capital in fashioning the new India.
Philadelphia Cinema and Media and Seminar (PCMS)
Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar
Convener: Oliver Gaycken, Department of English
| Philadelphia¹s growing academic film culture offers a rich context for the regular presentation of ongoing research. The Philadelphia Cinema and Media Seminar will provide an opportunity for faculty and advanced graduate students to share their work-in-progress, thus encouraging inter-institutional collaboration and collegial bonds. The scope of the seminar also will include presentations by practitioners from the fields of film and media arts. The seminar¹s open format both encourages participation from a wide range of scholars and practitioners and ensures that the seminar stays in touch with the changing shape of the discipline.
The expansion of Philadelphia's academic film community provides an opportunity to contribute to the City¹s broader film culture. Over the past two decades, Philadelphia has grown to become a center for both mainstream commercial and independent filmmaking. The City also boasts a vibrant independent and experimental film exhibition culture, as evidenced through the sustained support for the programming of Secret Cinema, Film at the Prince, the Philadelphia Film Festival, the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and the programs of International House.
The seminar meets monthly during the school year (September-May). Meetings of the seminar consist of a presentation by a talk of approximately 45 minutes, followed by a response that lasts approximately fifteen minutes. A question-and-answer period will occupy the remaining 30 minutes of the meeting. Since a fundamental purpose of the seminar is to cultivate intellectual and institutional collaboration, after the seminar, attendees are invited to go out to dinner together at a nearby restaurant. |
Past Conferences (2008)
The Imagination
March 27-28, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
1:30pm | Kiva Auditorium, Ritter Hall Annex
• Douglas Hofstadter, Indiana University: “Creativity, Imagination, Analogy, Insight”
The Imagination and Morality
3:30pm | CHAT Lounge, 10th Floor Gladfelter Hall
• Alan Singer, Temple University, “Reasonable Imaginings: Learning from the Imagination”
• Susan Stewart, Princeton University, “Freedom from the Imagination”
• Richard Eldridge, Swarthmore College, “Imagination as an Achievement: What Writers Do”
Reception to Follow
Friday, March 28, 2008
Politics, Community and Imagination
9:00am | CHAT Lounge, 10th Floor Gladfelter Hall
• Jane Gordon, Temple University,“Between Art and Empiricism: The Role of Imagination
in Political Theory”
• Neil Roberts, John Hopkins University,“Marronage and Political Imagination in Caribbean Thought”
• Lok Siu, New York University, “Diasporic Cultural Imaginary: Creating Home in Displacement”
The Imagination, Philosophy, and Psychology
2:00pm | CHAT Lounge, 10th Floor Gladfelter Hall
• Paul Harris, Harvard University,“Trust and the Imagination in Cognitive Development”
• Tamar Gendler, Yale University,“Imagination and Experience”
• Shaun Nichols, University of Arizona, “Imagination and the I”
Reception to Follow
For more information, contact CHAT at chat@temple.edu
 Wed., Feb. 13
Talal Asad
"Freedoms: Secular and Religious"
Sponsored by CHAT, Temple
University Libraries, and General Education. For more information, contact: dwatt7@temple.edu.
Fifth Annual Underground Railroad & Black History Conference
“Journeys of Discovery in 19th Century African American History”
February 22, 2008 - 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
 Tues., Feb. 5, 3 p.m.
CHAT's Nineteenth Century Forum presents
Kate Thomas
"Matthew Arnold's Diet"
Prof. Thomas (English, Bryn Mawr) specializes in nineteenth-century British literature and culture, and queer studies. She has published on Victorian temporalities and queer theroy in SAQ and GLQ, and is working on a book of these topics entitled Lesbian Immortalities. In addition, Thomas has been developing a research and teaching topic on Victorian food culture. Victorians Fat and Thin is on food and class in the age of mechanical reproduction. For more information, contact: peter.logan@temple.edu or evaron@temple.edu.
Past Conferences (2007)
From Metaphysics to Physics:
Malebranche on Being, Knowing, and Feeling
March 28 and 29, 2007
Temple University, Philadelphia
All sessions in Gladfelter Hall, 1115 W. Berks Street
A conference sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts of Temple University
Held under the auspices of the department of philosophy
and the Pre-Modern studies group of Temple University
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
SESSION I: METAPHYSICS (CHAT, Gladfelter 10th floor)
1:30-1:45 pm Conference opening
1:45-2:45 pm Karen Detlefsen (Penn): “Malebranche on Teleology”
3:00-4:00 pm Karl Hein (Temple): “God as Infinite Being in Malebranche”
SESSION II: THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE (Weigley room, Gladfelter 9th floor)
4:30-5:30 pm Nicholas Jolley (UCI): “Self-Knowledge in Malebranche and Descartes”
5:45-6:45 pm David Scott (Victoria): “Descartes and Malebranche on the Psychology of
Knowing: Doubt, Evidence and Method”
7:00-8:00 pm Michael Trocchia (Temple): “Malebranche and Clear Ideas”
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Thursday March 29, 2007
SESSION III: SENSATIONS AND PASSIONS (CHAT, Gladfelter 10th floor)
9:00-10:00 am Syliane Malinowski-Charles (Temple): “Malebranche on Natural
Judgments”
10:15-11:15 am Sean Greenberg (Johns Hopkins): “Malebranche on the Passions: Biology,
Morality, and the Fall”
11:30 am-12:30 pm Robert Main (Temple): “The Love of Benevolence and the Problem of
Other Minds in Malebranche”
SESSION IV: PHYSICS (CHAT, Gladfelter 10th floor)
2:00-3:30 pm Workshop on the laws of nature
Discussion leaders: Elmar J. Kremer (Toronto) and Daniel Garber (Princeton).
For information about the program or about accommodation, please contact Syliane Malinowski-Charles at scharles@temple.edu.
The Fourth Annual Underground Railroad & Black History Conference
Race & Gender in the Era of Emancipation
February 10, 2007 - 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Schedule
Registration Form Nineteenth-Century Reproductions, 2006-07
Panels: Except for the day long *graduate conference, all panels are scheduled for Thursdays, 4:00-6:00 p.m., in the Weigley Lounge, History Department, Gladfelter 914, Temple University Main Campus.
Nineteenth-Century Reproductions
October 5, 2006 Light
Kate Flint, English, Rutgers
Chris Otter, History, NYU
Respondent: Alan Trachtenberg, English and American Studies, Yale November 16, 2006 Evolution
Nancy Armstrong, Modern Culture & Media, Brown
Jay Clayton, English, Vanderbilt
Respondent: John Tresch, History and Sociology of Science, U Penn. February 15, 2007 Birth
Rachel Fuchs, History, Arizona State
Kathy Psomiades, English, Duke
Respondent: Sally Mitchell, English, Temple *February 24, 2007 Graduate Student Conference
Keynote Speaker: Nancy Cott, History, Harvard
Graduate Student Conference Schedule March 29, 2007 Performance
Jonathan Rose, History, Drew
Alison Winter, History, U Chicago
Respondent: Deirdre David, English, Temple
Past Conferences (2006):
Feb. 10 - 11, 2006: City of Brotherly Love at War: Philadelphia's Contribution to Freedom
Third Annual Underground Railroad & Black History Conference March 15, 2006: Reframing Disability Through the Arts
Mini course on disabilities: "Reframing Disability Through the Arts": Deadline for early registration: March 1. Held March 15, 9:30 a.m.-noon. Student Center, room 217. Presented by Simi Linton, founder and president of Disability/Arts Consultancy. Sponsored by the Institute on Disabilities, the Center for the Humanities and the School of Communications and Theater. To register, call Yvette Bolden at 215-204-1356, or apply online at http://disabilities.temple.edu. For more information, contact Mike Dorn at mdorn@temple.edu. March 16 - 17, 2006: Connecting community, arts and literacy: sustaining a network of partnerships
Organized by New City Writing and Institute for the Study of Literature, Literacy, and Culture. April 5, 2006: "Women Crossing Boundaries"
April 6 - 8 , 2006: Third International Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics
April 11-14, 2006: Mediating Practices: New directions in visual anthropology and cross-cultural mediamaking
April 18-19, 2006: CHAT Graduate Associate Conference, "Marginalia: Dialogues of Authority, Desire, Identity and Public Forms"
In addition to co-sponsoring speakers and conferences at the University, the Center for the Humanities in the Humanities, mounts its own program of conferences. Conferences for the 2004-2005 academic year are listed below.
World Traveling: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Community, Place, and Identity. A conference sponsored by the Center's Graduate Associates Program, February 21-25, 2005.
What They Think of US: International Perceptions of America's War on Terror. A conference sponsored by the Center for the Humanities. March 24-25, 2005.
Recent Africana Philosophy in Three Movements. Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought, the Office of the Provost, and the Office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. April 7-8, 2005. |
