Upcoming Events
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Upcoming Topics for the Thursday Philosophy Club Meeting
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No background in philosophy is necessary. Everyone is welcome!!!
Past Topics
February 10th - Gender
February 17th - Aesthetics
February 24th - Aliens
March 4th - Eugenics
March 10th - Animal Rights
March 24th - Intelligence
Colloquia
The Geneseo Philosophy department periodically sponsors colloquia, presentations, given by professors from SUNY Geneseo and other colleges. Check here for dates of upcoming colloquia and topics of discussion. Everyone is welcome!
18 February - “Art & Community: Giorgio Agamben on the Judgement of Taste” by Dr. Alexander Bertland, Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Niagara University.
Brief Description:
When a viewer first comes to a modern art genre such as Abstract
Expressionism (e.g. Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock), the art seems foreign
and peculiar. Since the art does not imitate anything in the world, it is
hard to know how to approach it or appreciate it. Contemporary Italian
philosopher Giorgio Agamben does a genealogy of the judgment of taste to
show how modern art has become so separated from the viewer and the notion
of beauty. He argues that art is at a point in its dialectical
development where it must retrench itself in lived human experience. This
talk will argue that the reemergence of art will have a new way of
understanding community.
Friday, February 18, 2011
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Welles 121
Everyone is welcome.
Other Events and Opportunities
Edinburgh, Scotland Summer Studies: Sociology of the Paranormal
Sociology of the Paranormal: Join Dr. Anne Eisenberg in the most
haunted city in the world and at the largest center for the study of the
paranormal in the world, to make connections (ghostly or not) between
the work of parapsychologists and main stream science. In this
three-week summer school class held in Edinburgh, Scotland we will study
and discuss what it means to conduct scientific research and how
parapsychologists do so. In addition to assigned readings in sociology
and parapsychology, guest lecturers are the top parapsychological
researchers in Europe. There are no prerequisites for this class!
The program fee includes a 4-day trip to northern Scotland to search for
the Loch Ness monster, explore haunted castles, and to visit the world's
smallest distillery. Additionally, the course fee includes round-trip
air fare from Newark Airport, opening and closing banquet dinners, guest
lecturers, small city tours, room and board. We will leave on May 29
and return stateside on June 19.
A total of 25 students will be accepted to the class on a first-come
basis.Applications can be found on the study abroad website
(http://www.geneseo.edu/study_abroad/para-sociology-scotland).Applications,
along with the $50 application fee, should be submitted as soon as
possible. Also -- staff in the study abroad office will work with you
locate scholarships and financial aid.Feel free to contact Dr. Eisenberg
with any questions (eisenber@geneseo.edu).
Toronto Trip...a message from our secretary:
Hey guys!
So the trip to Toronto is currently scheduled to be the weekend of April
22nd, the details are still to be determined. If you are interested in
attending the trip please fill out this survey, it will only take a couple
of minutes. The survey will help us figure out roughly how many people
want to go and what the events will be. The bus fits 40 people but we are
going with IR club and it will be open to the general student population
so if you are interested in going please let us know as soon as possible
by emailing Nicole Yershov at nvy1@geneseo.edu and filling out the survey.
Just as a reminder, you need a passport (or a new drivers license) to get
into Toronto and also April 24th is Easter.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9WNFWJQ
Thanks!
Andrew
More to come!