Humanities Division Philosophy Philosophy-Internal

Jacob Rosen, "Essence and End in Aristotle" -Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop

03 Feb 2012 17:30:00 GMT

Wieboldt 102
Friday, February 3, 2012, 11:30am – 1:20pm

Professor Rosen's paper can be downloaded from the Ancient Philosophy website here: cas.uchicago.edu….

Building/Room: Wiebolt 102
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Jacob Rosen, Humboldt University in Berlin
Title: "Essence and End in Aristotle"
Contact Name: Noah Chafets
Contact E-mail: nochafets@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Eric Marcus, “Spontaneous causal knowledge” - Wittgenstein Workshop

03 Feb 2012 19:30:00 GMT

Wiebolt 408
Friday, February 3, 2012, 1:30 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: Wiebolt 408
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Eric Marcus (Auburn University)
Title: “Spontaneous causal knowledge”
Contact Name: Nic Koziolek
Contact E-mail: nkoziolek@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Beckett Sterner (University of Chicago) Philosophy of Scientific Practice - HHS Worksohp

03 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

Room 224, Social Science Research Building, 1126 E. 59th St
Friday, February 3, 2012, 4 – 5:30pm

Building/Room: SS 224
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): History and Philosophy of Science
Presenter(s): Beckett Sterner (University of Chicago)
Title: Philosophy of Scientific Practice
Contact Name: Beth Calderon
Contact E-mail: bethcalderon@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Refreshments will be served., *Please note that this is a talk. No paper will be pre-circulated.*
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Coffee Hour

03 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Stuart 216
Friday, February 3, 2012, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: STU 216
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Alex Langlinais
Contact E-mail: langlinais@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: "Neither coffee nor an hour."
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Dissertation Year Fellowship Application Workshop

03 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Stuart 209
Friday, February 3, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30pm

Building/Room: STU 209
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Title: DYF Application Worskhop
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Find out about DYF applications from Jim Conant, who has served on a DYF selection committee, and DGS Michael Kremer.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: coral.uchicago.edu…

Thomas Land, "Judgment and Construction: On Kant's Conception of the Understanding"

06 Feb 2012 16:30:00 GMT

Wieboldt 408
Monday, February 6, 2012, 10:30am – 12pm

Building/Room: Wieboldt 408
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter: Thomas Land Donnelley Research Fellow Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Lecture Title: "Judgment and Construction: On Kant's Conception of the Understanding"
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Abstract: Kant’s famous slogan that “intuitions without concepts are blind” is often taken to amount to the claim that perception involves the application of concepts. This is then taken to entail that perception involves judging. I argue that the first claim is true, but does not entail the second. Rather, Kant’s theory of spatial representation reveals a kind of concept-use that does not take the form of making a judgment. This can be seen through consideration of Kant’s philosophy of geometry, which contains the fundamental features of his theory of spatial representation. In the paper, I show this by discussing the notion of constructing a concept in pure intuition.
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Audrey Wasser, "Toward an Ontology of Literature: Determination and Individuation in Deleuze" - Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop

06 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Cobb 110
Monday, February 6, 2012, 4:30 – 6:20pm

As usual, drinks will be provided afterwards.

Building/Room: Cobb 110
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Audrey Wasser (University of Chicago, Harper-Schmidt Fellow)
Title: "Toward an Ontology of Literature: Determination and Individuation in Deleuze"
Contact Name: Tuomo Tiisala
Contact E-mail: tiisala@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The paper which is now available on our blog will not be read aloud in the workshop. Here are a few words from the author herself to explain the piece of work she will present:, "This paper is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of my book project, and it has not yet seen any revision from the dissertation stage. As the excerpt is close to 34 pages, it will be too long for me to read aloud in the workshop, so I am distributing it in advance in the hopes that you'll be able to read it beforehand. Thanks, and I very much look forward to your feedback!"
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Carrie Noland, "'Seeing with the Eyes of the Work' (Adorno): Negritude Poetry, Aesthetic Subjectivity, and Modernist Print Culture"

06 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 110
Monday, February 6, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30pm

Reception to follow.

Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: Comp Lit
Presenter: Carrie Noland, UC-Irvine
Lecture Title: "'Seeing with the Eyes of the Work' (Adorno): Negritude Poetry, Aesthetic Subjectivity, and Modernist Print Culture"
Contact Name: Rose Watson
Contact E-mail: orwatson@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Divisional Faculty Meeting

07 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 110
Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30pm

Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: Humanities Division
Contact Name: Lisa Westerfield
Contact E-mail: law1@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

9:15 am - 10:30 am, Office Closed - Humanities Division Staff Meeting

09 Feb 2012 15:15:00 GMT

Classics 110
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 9:15 – 10:30am

Building/Room: Classics 110
Primary Sponsor: Humanities Division
Contact Name: Judy Mendoza
Contact E-mail: jmendoza@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Philosophy Faculty Meeting

09 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Stuart 216
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 3 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: STU 216
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Philosophy Faculty Meeting. Contact Valerie Wallace regarding agenda items.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Daniel Smyth, "Infinity and Givenness: The Intuitive Roots of Spatial Representation" -German Philosophy Workshop

09 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Wiebolt 408
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 4:30 – 7:30pm

A reception in Stuart 216 typically follows.

Building/Room: Wiebolt 408
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Daniel Smyth (University of Chicago)
Title: "Infinity and Givenness: The Intuitive Roots of Spatial Representation"
Contact Name: Daniel Smyth
Contact E-mail: dsmyth@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Tamar Abramov, 'Conrad’s “Secret Agent"' - Literature and Philosophy Workshop

09 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Foster 305
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 4:30 – 6:20pm

Building/Room: Foster 305
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Tamar Abramov, Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities
Title: Conrad’s “Secret Agent”
Contact Name: Michael Subialka
Contact E-mail: msubialka@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Gilda - with an introduction by Candace Vogler

09 Feb 2012 23:15:00 GMT

The Franke Institute for the Humanities, JRL S-118
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 5:15 – 7:15pm

Building/Room: Franke Institute
Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute
Contact Name: Mai Vukcevich
Contact E-mail: mav@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Open to faculty., Please RSVP to Mai Vukcevich (mav@uchicago.edu) by February 6 if you would like to attend., Refreshments at 5:15 p.m., Film starts promptly at 5:30 p.m., with supper and discussion following
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

David Katz, "Matthew Arnold, Spinoza, the Zulus and Biblical Arithmetic in Victorian England"

09 Feb 2012 23:30:00 GMT

Special Collections Research Center
Regenstein Library
Thursday, February 9, 2012, 5:30 – 6:30pm

Reception to follow.

Building/Room: Regenstein
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): The Nicholson Center for British Studies and The Chicago Center for Jewish Studies
Presenter: David S. Katz The Abraham Horodisch Chair for the History of Books Professor of History Tel Aviv University
Lecture Title: "Matthew Arnold, Spinoza, the Zulus and Biblical Arithmetic in Victorian England"
Contact Name: Miller C. Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: David S. Katz is the Abraham Horodisch Chair for the History of Books at the Department of History, Tel Aviv University. Professor Katz has been the Director of the Fred W. Lessing Institute for European History and Civilization (2006-present) and the Director, Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center (2005-2006). In 1997, he was elected permanent Fellow at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Zentrum zur Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit, Renaissance Institut, Frankfurt, Germany. In 1993 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, England (1993). Professor Katz has appeared on Israel Television Channel Two, BBC Radio 4, BBC Television, CBS’ Sixty Minutes, CBS News, and NBC’s Dateline. He is the general editor of Brill’s Series in Jewish Studies (1988-present) where he has overseen the publication of 41 books. His own publications include:God’s Last Words: Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism (London & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004) and The Jews in the History of England, 1485-1850 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
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Aesthetics and German Philosophy Conference

10 Feb 2012 07:00:00 GMT

University of Illinois
Student Center East
750 S.Halsted St (just south of Harrison)
Room 302, 3rd Floor Conference Tower
Friday, February 10, 2012

Parking information and directions to Student Center East:
www.uic.edu…

Building/Room: UIC
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): The Chicago Area Consortium in German Philosophy, The American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Conference Title: Aesthetics and German Philosophy Conference
Presenter(s): 9:15 Coffee, pastries, 9:45 – 11:00 Prof. Robert Pippin, University of Chicago “After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Visual Modernism”, , Robert English (UIC), Chair, 11:15 – 12:30 Prof. David Wellbery, University of Chicago “Endogenous Form”, , Marcus Lampert (U of C), Chair, Lunch break, 2:15 – 3:30 Prof. Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame “On the Extension of Kant’s Elliptical Turn in Hölderlin and Novalis” Babak Bakhtiarynia (Notre Dame), Chair, , 3:45 – 5:00 Prof. Elizabeth Millán, DePaul University “Aesthetics and the Opening of the European Mind: Alexander von Humboldt’s Views of America”, , Dilek Huseyinzadegan (DePaul), Chair
Contact Name: Sally Sedgwick
Contact E-mail: sedgwick@uic.edu
Campus Map: www.uic.edu…
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Joe Lubenow, “Raz and the Interest Theory of Rights” - Practical Philosophy Workshop and Human Rights Workshop Joint Session

10 Feb 2012 16:30:00 GMT

Wiebolt 111
Friday, February 10, 2012, 10:30am – 12:20pm

Building/Room: Wiebolt 111
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Joe Lubenow (Chicago, graduate student)
Title: “Raz and the Interest Theory of Rights”
Contact Name: Mark Hopwood
Contact E-mail: marksjhopwood@gmail.com
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: To download the full paper, visit our website:, cas.uchicago.edu… As usual, coffee and bagels will be served before the start of the meetin
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Peter Klecha - Workshop in Semantics and Philosophy of Language

10 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Landahl Center Seminar Room, in the basement of the Social Sciences building
Friday, February 10, 2012, 11am – 1pm

Building/Room: Landahl Ctr SS
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Peter Klecha (Chicago, grad student)
Title: Talk title forthcoming
Contact Name: Timothy Grinsell
Contact E-mail: twg@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Lisa Sideris, "The ‘re-enchantment’ of scientific narratives” , Religion and Ethics Workshop

10 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Swift Hall 106
Friday, February 10, 2012, 12 – 1:50pm

Building/Room: Swift 106
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Divinity School
Presenter(s): Lisa Sideris (Indiana)
Title: "The ‘re-enchantment’ of scientific narratives”
Contact Name: Daniel Strand
Contact E-mail: danieldfstrand@gmail.com
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: In her current work, Lisa Sideris is focusing on the “re-enchantment” of scientific narratives. She is looking at science-based spirituality, such as the Epic of Evolution/Universe story phenomenon, that proffers scientific (including evolutionary) accounts of the natural world as new “creation stories” with supposed universal ethical and aesthetic appeal. More broadly, her interest is in the way that science and scientists appropriate wonder and enchantment–often at the expense of wonder at the natural world or (more traditional) religious forms of wonder. For example, she has a chapter on Richard Dawkins on wonder, and one on sociobiologist E.O. Wilson’s account of enchantment with science. Part of her objective is to critique what I see as unwholesome or inappropriate forms of scientific wonder, and the displacement of nature as a source and object of wonder in its own right.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Coffee Hour

10 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Stuart 216
Friday, February 10, 2012, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: STU 216
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Alex Langlinais
Contact E-mail: langlinais@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: "Neither coffee nor an hour."
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Borders in Jewish Thought

13 Feb 2012 15:00:00 GMT

Franke Institute Seminar Room, East Wing of Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th St.
Monday, February 13, 2012, 9am – 6pm

Register (free) on the website below.

Building/Room: Franke Institute
Primary Sponsor: Jewish Studies
Conference Title: Borders in Jewish Thought
Presenter(s): Monday, February 13, 2012—Franke Institute, 9:00 Greetings, David Schloen, Acting Director of CCJS (University of Chicago), 9:15 Introduction, 9:30 Morning address, Rachel Havrelock (University of Illinois Chicago) “Joshua, Ben-Gurion, and Me: The Borders of the Land and the Limits of the Collective”, 10:30 Coffee, 10:45 Panel I: Modern Trajectories of Biblical Geography, Chair: Paul Mendes-Flohr (University of Chicago), · Ofri Ilani (Tel Aviv University) “The Eighteenth Century Debate on the Conquest of Canaan”, · Sam Berrin Shonkoff (University of Chicago) “Ancient Soil and Firm Sod: On Buber’s Insistence that the ‘Land of Israel’ Literally Refers to the Land”, · Meredith Aska McBride (University of Chicago) “No Place to Be: Matisyahu’s Chasidic Reggae-Rap at the Boundaries of a Performative Israel”, Response: Sam Brody (University of Chicago), 12:45 Lunch, 1:45 Panel II: The Borders of language – Bilingualism and Ineffability, Chair: David Nirenberg (University of Chicago), · Adam Stern (Harvard University) “‘Our Torah’: Moses Ibn Tibbon, The Qur’an, and the Potentiality of Translation”, · Rachel Seelig (University of Toronto) “Ludwig Strauss and the Borderland of German-Hebrew Bilingualism”, · Hillel Ben Sasson (Hebrew University) “Ineffability and Transgressing the Borders of Language: The Divine Name YHWH”, Response: Naama Rokem (University of Chicago), 3:45 Coffee, 4:00 Afternoon Address, Israel Yuval (Hebrew University) “The Root and the Branch: The Foundation of Rabbinic Identity”, 5:30 Conclusions
Contact Name: Miller C. Prosser
Contact E-mail: m-prosser@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The conference will explore the ways in which Jews have invoked the borders of the Land of Israel as a malleable metaphor for considering a variety of issues that extend beyond geography. The Hebrew Bible presents several border schemes of the Land of Israel: some extend from the Nile to the Euphrates, while others are limited to the land of Canaan hemmed in by the Jordan; some emphasize natural boundaries while others delineate the borders according to ritual logic. Each scheme represents a different conception of the sanctity of space and the way divine favor is mapped onto the physical landscape. Thus, in biblical references to natural and political borders the landscape becomes a powerful metaphor for defining and upholding cultural and hermeneutical boundaries. Subsequently, Jews from antiquity to the present day have continued to use the borders of Israel as a broad interpretive category for thinking about a variety of religious, social, and political concerns. Even in their earliest formulations, the borders were not merely geographic markers, but a means of providing spatial representations for discourses of power, legitimization and communal identity with respect to real or imagined neighbors. The goal of this conference is to look at ways in which thinkers – such as Jewish pilgrims, sectarians, settlers, soldiers, poets, artists, politicians, philosophers, and exegetes – have invoked geographical language to articulate a wide spectrum of concerns.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: lucian.uchicago.edu…

Charles Beitz, Law and Philosophy Workshop

13 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

U of C Law School, Room F
Monday, February 13, 2012, 4 – 6pm

Theme: Global Justice (including animal rights and the environment)

Building/Room: U of C Law School, Room F
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Law School
Presenter(s): Charles Beitz, Philosophy and University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Contact Name: Ryan Long
Contact E-mail: ryan@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Readings will be circulated in advance to all members. (contact ryan@uchicago.edu)
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Becket Sterner, Formal Philosophy Workshop

14 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Cobb 106
Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Cobb 106
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Becket Sterner
Title: Talk title forthcoming
Contact Name: Hannah McKeown
Contact E-mail: hmckeown@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

American Philosophical Association Central Meetings

15 Feb 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Palmer House Hilton, Chicago
Wednesday, February 15 – Saturday, February 18, 2012

Building/Room: Palmer House Hilton
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): APA
Conference Title: American Philosophical Association Central Meetings
Contact Name: Linda Smallbrook
Contact E-mail: lindas@udel.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.apaonline.org…

Alex Lee -Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop

15 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 4:30 – 6:20pm

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Alex Lee (Classics)
Title: Talk title forthcoming
Contact Name: Noah Chafets
Contact E-mail: nochafets@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Philosophy Faculty Meeting

16 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Stuart 216
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 3 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: STU 216
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Philosophy Faculty Meeting. Contact Valerie Wallace regarding agenda items.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Jean-Luc Marion, “Augustine” - The Lumen Christi Institute

17 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT

Gavin House
122o East 58th Street
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 7 – 8pm

Lecture, 7:00pm
Informal Dinner, 6:30pm

Building/Room: Gavin House
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): The Lumen Christi Institute
Presenter: Jean-Luc Marion (University of Chicago, Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Lecture Title: “Augustine”
Contact Name: Ursula Pawlowski
Contact E-mail: info@lumenchristi.org
Contact Phone: 773-955-5887
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Intended for University students, faculty, and recent graduates. Others interested in attending, contact info@lumenchristi.org., Part of a non-credit course: The Church Fathers: The Shaping of Christian Orthodoxy, A non-credit course for students and members of the University of Chicago community that explores the thought of some of the early Church Fathers, including Origen, Athanasius Jerome, Augustine, and Basil. From the close of the apostolic age until the 8th century, the Church Fathers put forth a vision of Christian wisdom and debated the nature of Christ, grace and free will, the role of the Church, and the meaning of a Christian life in the context of a changing social and political world., Founded by Catholic scholars at the University of Chicago in 1997, the Lumen Christi Institute aims at enriching the intellectual community of the University of Chicago by cultivating the Catholic intellectual and spiritual traditions through on-campus lectures, non-credit courses, and conferences. Both Catholics and non-Catholics regularly participate and are encouraged to attend.
Disability Clause: Persons with disabilities requiring assistance, please call 773-955-5887.

Conference on Manhood in American Law and Literature

17 Feb 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Law School
Friday, February 17 – Saturday, February 18, 2012

Building/Room: Law School
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Law School
Conference Title: Conference on Manhood in American Law and Literature
Presenter(s): With plenary speaker author Joyce Carol Oates, and papers by Douglas Baird, Emily Buss, Saul Levmore, Richard McAdams, Martha Nussbaum, and a group of distinguished outside visitors.
Contact Name: Law School
Contact Phone: 773.702.9494
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This conference, the third in our law-literature series, will include a dramatic performance of scenes from The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (starring Daniel Abebe as Maryck, Jonathan Masur as Greenwald, and Richard Posner as Queeg) and Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes (starring Douglas Baird as Horace and Martha Nussbaum as Regina).
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: www.law.uchicago.edu…

Matt Boyle, "Transparent Self-Knowledge" - Wittgenstein and German Philosophy Workshops

17 Feb 2012 19:30:00 GMT

Wiebolt 408
Friday, February 17, 2012, 1:30 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: Wiebolt 408
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Other Sponsor(s): German Philsoophy Workshop
Presenter(s): Matt Boyle (Harvard University)
Title: Talk title forthcoming
Contact Name: Nic Koziolek
Contact E-mail: nkoziolek@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

Coffee Hour

17 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Stuart 216
Friday, February 17, 2012, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: STU 216
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Alex Langlinais
Contact E-mail: langlinais@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: "Neither coffee nor an hour."
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Claire McKinney, "Informed Consent or Informed Coercion? Ultrasounds, Abortion Politics, and the Politics of Medical Knowledge" - Political Theory Workshop -

20 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Pick Hall 506
Monday, February 20, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Building/Room: Pick 506
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Claire McKinney, University of Chicago
Title: "Informed Consent or Informed Coercion? Ultrasounds, Abortion Politics, and the Politics of Medical Knowledge"
Contact Name: Christopher D. Berk
Contact E-mail: chrisberk@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Paper is available at ptw.uchicago.edu….
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: ptw.uchicago.edu…

Eric Posner, “Human Rights: Empirical Issues”, Law and Philosophy Workshop

20 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

U of C Law School, Room F
Monday, February 20, 2012, 4 – 6pm

Theme: Global Justice (including animal rights and the environment)

Building/Room: U of C Law School, Room F
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Law School
Presenter(s): Eric Posner, University of Chicago Law School
Title: “Human Rights: Empirical Issues”
Contact Name: Ryan Long
Contact E-mail: ryan@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Readings will be circulated in advance to all members. (contact ryan@uchicago.edu)
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Andrew Werner - Contemporary European Philosophy Workshop

20 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Cobb 110
Monday, February 20, 2012, 4:30 – 6:20pm

Building/Room: Cobb 110
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Andrew Werner (University of Chicago, graduate student)
Title: Talk title forthcoming
Contact Name: Tuomo Tiisala
Contact E-mail: tiisala@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: cas.uchicago.edu…

In a Lonely Place - DOC Films

22 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT

Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall
Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 7 – 9pm

(Note, this is not a workshop-sponsored event, but it is a nicely-timed way to see the film right before Professor Pippin’s discussion of it on Thursday.)

Building/Room: Ida Noyes Hall
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): DOC Films
Cost: $5
Contact E-mail: doc@docfilms.org
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Nicholas Ray, 1950 • Nicholas Ray’s adaptation of the novel by the same name was not a commercial success upon initial release—many considered it too dark for mainstream audiences—but was received well critically, and regard for it has only grown in the years since. Bogart, as Dixon Steele, a bitter screenwriter accused of murder, gives one of the finest performances of his career, as does Gloria Grahame, playing the neighbor who loves him, all masterfully directed by Ray. A grim and twisted commentary on Hollywood life, as well as a classic work of film noir, In a Lonely Place showcases some of cinema’s greats in their finest form. 35mm
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Rana Saadi Liebert, Ancient Philosophy Workshop

22 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Rana Saadi Liebert (Classics)
Title: Talk title forthcoming
Contact Name: Noah Chafets
Contact E-mail: nochafets@uchicago.edu
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Philosophy Faculty Meeting with Mario Santana, Master of the College

23 Feb 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Stuart 216
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 3 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: STU 216
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
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Event Description: Philosophy Faculty Meeting. Contact Valerie Wallace regarding agenda items.
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Robert Pippin, “Active and Passive Skepticism in Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place” - Literature and Philosophy Workshop

23 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Foster 305
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 4:30 – 6:20pm

Building/Room: Foster 305
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Robert Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy
Title: “Active and Passive Skepticism in Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place”
Contact Name: Michael Subialka
Contact E-mail: msubialka@uchicago.edu
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Santiago Mejia, “On Who We Are: The Role of Cares and Desires in Constituting Identity” - Practical Philosophy Workshop

24 Feb 2012 16:30:00 GMT

Wiebolt 111
Friday, February 24, 2012, 10:30am – 12:20pm

Building/Room: Wiebolt 111
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Santiago Mejia (Chicago, graduate student)
Title: “On Who We Are: The Role of Cares and Desires in Constituting Identity”
Contact Name: Mark Hopwood
Contact E-mail: marksjhopwood@gmail.com
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Event Description: To download the full paper, visit our website:, cas.uchicago.edu… As usual, coffee and bagels will be served before the start of the meetin
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Joshua Connor, Religion and Ethics Workshop

24 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT

TBD
Friday, February 24, 2012, 12 – 1:50pm

Building/Room: Swift 106
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Divinity School
Presenter(s): Joshua Connor
Title: Talk title forthcoming
Contact Name: Daniel Strand
Contact E-mail: danieldfstrand@gmail.com
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Event Description: Josh will presenting a rough draft of his dissertation proposal for discussion and constructive feedback.
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Jose Torralba, “Hegel’s Social Theory of Action” -German Philosophy Workshop

24 Feb 2012 19:30:00 GMT

Wiebolt 408
Friday, February 24, 2012, 1:30 – 4:30pm

A reception in Stuart 216 typically follows.

Building/Room: Wiebolt 408
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Jose Torralba (Universidad de Navarra)
Title: “Hegel’s Social Theory of Action”
Contact Name: Daniel Smyth
Contact E-mail: dsmyth@uchicago.edu
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Coffee Hour

24 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Stuart 216
Friday, February 24, 2012, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: STU 216
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Alex Langlinais
Contact E-mail: langlinais@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
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Event Description: "Neither coffee nor an hour."
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Jonny Thakkar, "Can There Be Philosopher-Kings In A Liberal State?" - Political Theory Workshop -

27 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Pick Hall 506
Monday, February 27, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Building/Room: Pick 506
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Jonny Thakkar, University of Chicago
Title: "Can There Be Philosopher-Kings In A Liberal State?"
Contact Name: Christopher D. Berk
Contact E-mail: chrisberk@uchicago.edu
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Event Description: Paper is available at ptw.uchicago.edu….
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Formal Philosophy Workshop

28 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Cobb 106
Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Cobb 106
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Title: Talk title forthcoming
Contact Name: Hannah McKeown
Contact E-mail: hmckeown@uchicago.edu
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Peter Struck, “Lucky People and the Demonic Tillerman: Aristotle on Divination” - CSAR Lecture

29 Feb 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Divinity School, First Floor Lecture Hall
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 12 – 1pm

Building/Room: Div School Lecture Hall
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): CSAR Lecture
Presenter(s): Peter Struck (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: “Lucky People and the Demonic Tillerman: Aristotle on Divination”
Contact Name: Noah Chafets
Contact E-mail: nochafets@uchicago.edu
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Event Description: Aristotle's corpus is rich in ideas about how human beings know things. Among his interests is a particular class of people who are able to gather actionable knowledge in non-obvious ways. He observes that some of us appear to have predictive dreams at a higher frequency than others and sets out to explain it. To construct the theory, in his short treatise On Divination by Dreams, he references fundamental ideas from across a wide range of his work: from human psychology and physiology, to basic cosmology, to the fundamental structure of the world. In assessing his view of divination, I will especially draw a connection between it and another phenomenon that Aristotle thinks exists, luckiness. Both are exhibited by people whose built-in self-regulation mechanisms, systems that all living things exhibit, tend to produce good outcomes for them. They lead him to consider a class of innate, non-discursive awareness that some people have, which exists in a system that is paratactic to our "normal" mode of rational information processing, but nevertheless helps us do well. This paper will explore Aristotle's ideas in the context of ancient cognitive theories of divination more generally.
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Mariska Leunissen, Ancient Philosophy Workshop

29 Feb 2012 22:00:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 4 – 5:30pm

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Mariska Leunissen of UNC Chapel Hill -
Title: Talk title forthcoming
Contact Name: Noah Chafets
Contact E-mail: nochafets@uchicago.edu
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Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy: Elizabeth Anderson

29 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Law School - Courtroom
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 4:30 – 6:20pm

Building/Room: Law School
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Law School
Presenter: Elizabeth Anderson from the University of Michigan
Lecture Title: title forthcoming
Contact Name: Law School
Contact Phone: 773.702.9494
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Mariska Leunissen -Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop

29 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 4:30 – 6:20pm

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Mariska Leunissen of UNC Chapel Hill
Title: Talk title forthcoming
Contact Name: Noah Chafets
Contact E-mail: nochafets@uchicago.edu
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Mariska Leunissen, Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop

29 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Classics 21
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 4:30 – 6:20pm

Building/Room: Classics 21
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Mariska Leunissen of UNC Chapel Hill
Title: talk title forthcoming
Contact Name: Noah Chafets
Contact E-mail: nochafets@uchicago.edu
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Philosophy Faculty Meeting

01 Mar 2012 21:00:00 GMT

Stuart 216
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 3 – 4:30pm

Building/Room: STU 216
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Contact Name: Valerie Wallace
Contact E-mail: vwallace@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
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Event Description: Philosophy Faculty Meeting. Contact Valerie Wallace regarding agenda items.
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Gerbert-Sylvestre Bouyssou, on Doxa in Greek Philosophy and Literature- Literature and Philosophy Workshop

01 Mar 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Foster 305
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:30 – 6:20pm

Building/Room: Foster 305
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Presenter(s): Gerbert-Sylvestre Bouyssou, Université de Tours
Title: on Doxa in Greek Philosophy and Literature
Contact Name: Michael Subialka
Contact E-mail: msubialka@uchicago.edu
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Sliver Bronzo, "Frege on Multiple Analyses and the Essential Articulatedness of Thought" -Wittgenstein Workshop

01 Mar 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Location tba
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Wiebolt 408
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Other Sponsor(s): German Philsoophy Workshop
Presenter(s): Silver Bronzo (University of Chicago, graduate student)
Title: "Frege on Multiple Analyses and the Essential Articulatedness of Thought"
Contact Name: Nic Koziolek
Contact E-mail: nkoziolek@uchicago.edu
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Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetics

02 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Stuart and Harper Hall (on Friday, March 2nd) and in the Franke Institute Humanities Center at the Regenstein Library Building (Saturday and Sunday, March 3-4).
Friday, March 2 – Sunday, March 4, 2012

Building/Room: See website
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): This conference is jointly sponsored by The Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, The Franke Institute for the Humanities, The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on German Literature and Culture, The Department of Philosophy.
Conference Title: Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetics
Presenter(s): Primary Participants: Sarah Beckwith (Duke), Michael Fried (Johns Hopkins), Arata Hamawaki (Auburn), Andrew Klevan (Oxford), Toril Moi (Duke University), Richard Moran (Harvard), Yi-Ping Ong (Johns Hopkins), Robert Pippin (Chicago)
Contact Name: Gilad Nir
Contact E-mail: giladnir@uchicago.edu
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More info: cavell.sites.uchicago.edu

Coffee Hour

02 Mar 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Stuart 216
Friday, March 2, 2012, 4:30 – 6pm

Building/Room: STU 216
Primary Sponsor: Philosophy
Contact Name: Alex Langlinais
Contact E-mail: langlinais@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773-702-8513
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: "Neither coffee nor an hour."
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Gerald McKenny, On Barth’s Moral Theology, Religion and Ethics Workshop

02 Mar 2012 22:30:00 GMT

TBD
Friday, March 2, 2012, 4:30 – 6:20pm

Building/Room: Swift 106
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Divinity School
Presenter(s): Gerald McKenny (Notre Dame)
Contact Name: Daniel Strand
Contact E-mail: danieldfstrand@gmail.com
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Prof McKenny, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Theology, will be discussing contextual aspects of Karl Barth’s moral theology related to his newest book on Barth’s ethics, ”The Analogy of Grace: Karl Barth’s Moral Theology.”
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