Events
Week of Events
Sunday, December 7, 2014
No events on this day.
Monday, December 8, 2014
- December 8, 2014 -Franco "Bifo" Berardi: "Social Morphogenesis: The Historical Transition from Revolution to Disentanglement"
Franco "Bifo" Berardi: "Social Morphogenesis: The Historical Transition from Revolution to Disentanglement"
The subject of this lecture comes from the recent experience of the Occupy movement against financial capitalism. It investigates the political and conceptual limits of these movements, and their inability to put an end to the financial aggression. Focusing on the main actors of the Occupy process – the precarious cognitive workers, embodying the Marx's […]
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
- December 9, 2014 -Franco Berardi, Seminar Discussion: "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization"
Franco Berardi, Seminar Discussion: "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization"
Franco "Bifo" Berardi will be leading a seminar discussion based on "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization," an excerpt from his forthcoming book And – Phenomenology of the End. Participants are invited to read the text and join the discussion. The text can be downloaded at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ax682ecxgn4jtzi/Franco%20Berardi%2C%20Aesthetic%20Genealogy%20of%20Globalization.pdf?dl=0. This seminar is part of the series “What Is […]
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
No events on this day.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
- December 11, 2014 -CANCELLED: Abe Stone: "Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?"
CANCELLED: Abe Stone: "Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?"
At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. Coffee, tea, and […]
Friday, December 12, 2014
- December 12, 2014 -Madeline Lane-McKinley: "Free Love Utopias: A Feminist Spatial Analysis of New Communalism"
- December 12, 2014 -Adam Albright: "Testing phonological biases with Artificial Grammar learning experiments"
Madeline Lane-McKinley: "Free Love Utopias: A Feminist Spatial Analysis of New Communalism"
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
Adam Albright: "Testing phonological biases with Artificial Grammar learning experiments"
As with most linguistic input, the data that children receive about phonological patterns is rife with ambiguity. For example, children hearing voicing alternations in German ( ~ ‘thief-sg./pl.’, ~ ‘mouse-sg./pl.’) receive no evidence as to whether a single final devoicing process affects all word-final obstruents, or just the subset of obstruents that German happens to […]
Saturday, December 13, 2014
No events on this day.