gästföreläsningar

Prof. Samuel Weber vierailee Helsingissä 13.–17.12 2011


Samuel Weber, yksi keskeisistä amerikkalaisista nykyajattelijoista kirjallisuustieteen, psykoanalyysin ja filosofian aloilla vierailee Helsingissä 13.-17.12. 2011 "Kosketuksen figuurit" -tutkimushankkeen kutsumana. Weber pitää kolme avointa yleisöluentoa Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulussa (entinen Taideteollinen korkeakoulu). Luentojen teemana on singulaarisuus ja sen implikaatiot taiteen, median ja politiikan suhteen.

Ensimmäinen luento tiistaina 13.12., klo 10-12 on otsikoitu “Aesthetics, Media and Terror—Clouds”, ja se käsittelee Leni Riefensthalin elokuvan Tahdon riemuvoitto, New Yorkin WTC:n terrori-iskun kuvaston sekä tietoisen subjektin asemaa purkavan ajattelun pohjalta terrorismin ja länsimaiden suhdetta.

Toinen luento on torstaina 15.12., klo 10-12. Sen otsikkona on "Money is time" ja se käsittelee suvereenin velan kriisiä länsimaisissa yhteiskunnissa erilaisten instituutioiden ja rahatalouden kannalta. Luento luotaa nykyisen eurokriisin taustoja ja yksilökeskeisen arvomaailmamme perustoja.

Kolmas luento perjantaina 16.12., klo 10-12 käsittelee kirjallisuudelle ominaisen tiedon singulaarista luonnetta. Luennon otsikko on “On the Singularity of Poetic Knowledge”. Tarkasteltavana on muun muassa kerronnallisuuden painoarvo kommunikaation muotojen määrittäjänä sekä erilaisten katkosten rooli muodonannossa ja merkityksenmuodstuksessa.

Kaikki luennot pidetään Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulun tiloissa Arabianrannassa. Osoite: Hämeentie 135 C, 8.krs [Helsinki]. Luentokieli on englanti. Vapaa pääsy,

Tervetuloa!

Lauantaina 17.12., klo 10-16 "Kosketuksen figuurit" -tutkimushanke järjestää yhteistyössä Teatterikorkeakoulun kanssa poikkitieteellisen Hölderlin tutkimuspäivän, jonka teemana ovat mitta ja rytmi esteettis-poliittis-ekologisina kategorioina. Samuel Weberin ohella seminaarin "MaІnahmen/Measures taken – Hölderlin and the politics of rhythm" puhujina ovat Antonia Birnbaum (Ranska), Artemy Magun (Venäjä), Nikolaus Müller-Scholl (Saksa), Marcia Cavalcante-Schuback (Ruotsi), Susanna Lindberg (Suomi) ja Esa Kirkkopelto (Suomi). Seminaarikieli on englanti. Paikka: Teatterikorkeakoulu, Haapaniemenkatu 6, Helsinki.


Lisätietoja Weberin vierailusta ja Hölderlin-tutkimuspäivästä: figuresoftouch.com

Tiedustelut: noora.arvola [at] helsinki.fi tai mika.elo [at] aalto.fi
 

Samuel Weber in Helsinki 13–17 December 2011
http://figuresoftouch.com/?p=278

Samuel Weber, one of the leading American thinkers across the disciplines of literary theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis will visit Helsinki in December 2011, invited by the Figures of Touch research project.

Weber will give three open lectures at Aalto/Taik. Additionally, he will be one of the main speakers at the Hölderlin Research Day on 17 December at Teak, which is also an open event. In the frame of Weber’s visit, Figures of Touch research project organizes in cooperation with the Media Aesthetics research group also a closed text seminar with Weber. Invited participants will be informed about the programme and readings in advance.

Weber’s open lectures at Taik focus on the topic of singlarity in regard to media, politics and poetics. The references he will take up include, among others, Leni Riefenstahl’s “Triumph of the Will”, Carl Schmitt’s thesis of “redemptive killing” and “911″. He will also discuss the relation of money, time, credit and credibility as well as the crisis of “sovereign debt” that is currently upon us. A further theme will be the significance of anxiety for psychoanalysis, but also for politics and culture more generally.

Samuel Weber’s open lectures

Aalto / Taik
Hämeentie 153 C, Helsinki
8th floor, lecture hall
10–12am

Tuesday 13 Dec: “Aesthetics, Media and Terror—Clouds”
Thursday 15 Dec: “Money is Time”
Friday 16 Dec: “On the Singularity of Poetic Knowledge”

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Samuel Weber is the Paul de Man Chair at the European Graduate School (EGS) and the Avalon Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University. Earlier he has also been a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Director of the Northwestern University’s Paris Program in Critical Theory. He has played a major role in introducing and commenting the thinking of Mikhail Bakhtin, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan in the United States. His work is not limited to the academic context. In numerous occasions he has engaged himself in debates that touch upon decisive questions of our time. He has also served as a dramaturge to German opera houses and theaters in Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, and Ludwigsburg during the 1980s.
 

Professor (em.) ALAN KIRMAN (Université d'Aix-Marseille) will give a lecture on

"The crisis in economic theory"

TIME AND PLACE:
Thursday, September 1st, 18:15 – 19:15
Small Festival Hall (Pieni Juhlasali), University Main Building

ABSTRACT:
In this presentation I will discuss modern macroeconomic and financial models in the light of the current crisis. Theory has been revealed to be inadequate in its explanation of the origins and the nature of the crisis, as Jean-Claude Trichet the Governor of the European Central bank and his colleagues at other central banks have indicated. Basic macroeconomic models, however sophisticated have continued to be based on the same foundations shown to be wanting in the 1970s and financial market models have continued to use the « efficient markets hypothesis » despite warnings by numerous mathematicians and economists since 1900 as to its unsound foundations. I will not dwell on the details of standard macroeconomic models but will suggest some ways forward. We need to construct models, which may not be able to predict the timing of the onset of a crisis but will encompass the possibility of one. The most promising candidates for such models are those, which view the economy as a complex adaptive system, may use some of the tools of statistical physics and do not necessarily use the standard equilibrium approach. Such models put the interactions between individuals in the centre of the picture, and reveal how major changes in the states of the economy can result, as in many models in physics and in biology, from relatively minor changes in key parameters. Crises are a characteristic of the endogenous dynamics of the system and not the result of some unspecified exogenous shocks.

The visiting lecture is a part of the IX conference of the International Network of
Economic Methodology (INEM 2011), but OPEN FOR ALL.

For further enquiries, please contact paivi.a.seppala(at)helsinki.fi

Welcome!
 

Uususkontojen tutkijan vierailuluento Helsingin yliopistossa 9.6.11 klo 15

"Youth crisis or mid-life crisis" - James R. Lewis

Maailmankuvan muodostumisen tekijöitä vapaan yksilön uudessa
kulttuuriprosessissa.

Tapahtumapaikka:
Helsingin yliopisto, päärakennus, auditorio II
9.6.11 klo 15
Osoite: Fabianinkatu 31, 00100 Helsinki auditorio II

James R. Lewis on yksi tunnetuimpia uusien uskonnollisten liikkeiden tutkijoita. Järjestäjänä USVA uusien uskonnollisten liikkeiden tutkijaverkosta USVA ry

Vapaa pääsy.

yht.t.
jussi sohlberg
0503272945
jussi.sohlberg(at)evl.fi
 

Professor Anthony J. Steinbock (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) will present a lecture under the title "The Distinctive Structure of the Emotions" at the University of Helsinki on Monday April 11.

Professor Steinbock is one of the leading experts in phenomenology and Continental philosophy. His best-known books include Home and Beyond: Generative Phenomenology after Husserl (Northwestern 1995) and Phenomenology and Mysticism: The Verticality of Religious Experience (Indiana, 2007). He is also the translator of Husserl's monumental work Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Syntheses: Lectures on Transcendental Logic (2001), and the Editor-in-Chief of the Continental Philosophy Review.

Abstract:

In this paper, I investigate whether acts peculiar to the emotional sphere of experience have a unique structure that is independent of epistemic acts. Do acts peculiar to the emotional sphere simply follow the coordinates of the noesis-noema structure of intentionality? Does the emotional sphere, which concerns the person (and not simply the epistemically engaged subject), have an essentially different structure? I limit myself to one example of an emotional experience — trust — examining it with attention to three structural characteristics, namely, otherness, temporality, and the modality of possibility. In this way, I can adduce the extent to which acts of the emotional sphere have a unique structure such that they are not merely modifications of objectivating acts.


The lecture is open to all, including students. Welcome!

Date: Monday, April 11th 2011, 16:15–18:00.

Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24),
seminar room, 1st floor.

Organizer: Research project European Rationality in the Break from
Modernity. Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

http://www.helsinki.fi/erbm/events/index.html

For further information contact joona.taipale(at)helsinki.fi
 

Donnerska institutet och ämnet religionsvetenskap vid Åbo Akademi bjuder in till gästföreläsning:

Mattias Gardell, professor i religionshistoria, Uppsala Universitet:

Tortyrens epistemologi: om tortyr och produktion av sanning

Måndagen den 18.4 2011, kl. 14-16
Åbo Akademi, auditorium Armfelt, Arken, Fabriksgatan 2

Föreläsningen utgår från professor Gardells bok Tortyrens återkomst (Leopard förlag, 2008). I Förenta staterna och många demokratiska länder har terrorismen tagits som anledning för att inskränka medborgerliga rättigheter och demokratiska friheter. Tortyr har åter kommit till heders. Förr hemligstämplad och bakom lyckta dörrar, sker den nu öppet med världsopinionen som inbjudna vittnen. Gardells föreläsning behandlar frågor om makt, motstånd och global ordning. Varför är det så tyst om Guantánamo? När ska även amerikanska krigsförbrytare kunna ställas inför den internationella brottmålsdomstolen i Haag? Var är de upprörda rösterna från de europeiska makthavare som säger sig verka för mänskliga rättigheter?

Professor Mattias Gardell är känd som framstående forskare, debattör och aktivist, specialiserad på frågor inom spänningsfältet mellan religion och politik, t.ex. rasism, nationalism, antisemitism och islamofobi. Han har gjort omfattande fältforskning i bl.a. Egypten och USA och forskat i teman som religiös rasism, vitmaktmiljöns religiösa dimensioner, förändringsprocesser i islams politiska landskap, självmordsattentat och manliga krigarideal samt tortyrens återkomst i det globala kriget mot terror. Pågående forskningsprojekt behandlar teman som islamofobi, terrorismlagstiftningen och mänskliga rättigheter, yttrandefrihetens gränser och religion, sekularism och demokrati.

Mattias Gardells senaste böcker inkluderar bl.a. titlarna Rasrisk (Natur & Kultur 2003 [1998]), Bin Laden i våra hjärtan. Globalisering och framväxten av politisk islam (Leopard 2005), Tortyrens återkomst (Leopard 2008) och Islamofobi (Leopard 2010).

Välkommen!

För ytterligare information, vänligen kontakta docent Ruth Illman, Donnerska institutet, rillman(at)abo.fi, tfn: 050-517 5917
 

Vierailevia esitelmöitsijöitä Tampereen yliopiston filosofian oppiaineessa

10. 3. 2011 klo 12, Pinni B3109

Prof. Peter Trawny, Bergische Universität Bochum (Saksa)

esitelmöi aiheesta

What is an Intense Experience? Henri Bergson's 'Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience'


Peter Trawny on saksalainen filosofi, joka on työskennellyt Bochumin lisäksi vierailevana professorina myös Wienissä, Shanghaissa ja Tukholmassa. Hänen työnsä kuuluu fenomenologian ja hermeneutiikan alalle, jossa hän on tutkinut ennen kaikkea poliittista filosofiaa, etiikkaa ja uskonnonfilosofiaa. Hän on julkaissut useita huomionarvoisia teoksia mm. Heideggerista, Hölderlinistä, Arendtista, Sokrateesta, ja Jüngeristä, ja hän työskentelee myös Martin Heidegger Gesamtausgaben toimitajana.


Valikoima kirjoituksia:
• Martin Heidegger. Einführung, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt und New York 2003
• Heidegger und Hölderlin oder Der Europäische Morgen, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004
• Denkbarer Holocaust. Die politische Ethik Hannah Arendts, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005
• Sokrates oder Die Geburt der Politischen Philosophie, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007
• Die Autorität des Zeugen. Ernst Jüngers politisches Werk, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2009 „Adyton“. Heideggers esotherische Philosophie, Matthes und Seitz, Berlin
 
 
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15.3. 2011 Filosofian tutkijaseminaarissa klo 14, Pinni B4115
 
Sergei Prozorov, Suomen akatemian tutkija,
 
esitelmöi aiheesta
 
Three Concepts of the World : From the Universe to the Void
 
Sergei Prozorov on politiikantutkija ja filosofi, joka väitellyt Tampereen yliopistossa ja työskennellyt sen jälkeen Tanskan kansainvälisten suhteiden instituutissa, Helsingin yliopiston tutkijakollegiumissa sekä Suomen akatemiassa. Hän on kirjoittanut politiikanteoriasta ja kansainvälisistä suhteista.
 
kotisivut: http://helsinki.academia.edu/SergeiProzorov
 
Valikoima kirjoituksia:
·       The Ethics of Postcommunism. Hisory and Social Praxis in Russia. Palgrave 2009.
·       Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty
·       Understanding Conflict between Russia and the UE: The Limits of Integration
·       Political Pedagogy of Technical Assistance.
 

Professor Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen) will present a lecture under the title
"Husserl and the transcendental" at the University of Helsinki on February 17.

Professor Zahavi is the Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research (University of Copenhagen), and a Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication (University of Copenhagen). He is one of the leading experts in phenomenology, and he has written numerous articles in the fields of phenomenology, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind. Some of his best-known books include: Husserl und die transzendentale Intersubjektivität (1996), Self-Awareness and Alterity (1999), Subjectivity and Selfhood (2005), The Phenomenological Mind: an Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (with Shaun Gallagher) (2008).

The lecture is open to all, including students. Welcome!

Date: Thursday, February 17th 2011, 16:15–18:00

Venue: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24), seminar room, 1st floor.

Organizer: Research project European Rationality in the Break from Modernity. Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

http://www.helsinki.fi/erbm/events/index.html
 
For further information contact joona.taipale (at) helsinki.fi
 

Helsinki Metaphysical Club 16.9.

David Hildebrand (University of Colorado):

"Dewey and Objectivity"

Professor David Hildebrand will give a paper at the meeting of the Helsinki Metaphysical
Club in Vironkatu 1, lecture room 4b (446) on Thursday, 16 September at 2 pm.

David Hildebrand is Associate Professor at University of Colorado Denver. His books include "John Dewey: A Beginner's Guide" (Oneworld Press, 2008) and "Beyond Realism and Antirealism: John Dewey and the Neopragmatists" (Vanderbilt University Press, 2003).

Updated information about the upcoming programme will be published on the Club webpage at http://www.helsinki.fi/peirce/MC/.
 

The logic seminar on the 17th of September, 10-12, in A110 (Metsätalo, Helsinki).

Guest speaker: Prof. Chiaki Sakama (Kyoto University)

Title:  A Logical Account of Lying

Abstract: This study aims at providing a formal account of lying - a dishonest attitude of human beings. We first formulate lying under propositional modal logic and present basic properties for it. We then investigate why one engages in lying and how one reasons about lying. We distinguish between offensive and defensive lies, or deductive and abductive lies, based on intention behind the act. We also study two weak forms of dishonesty, bullshit and deception, and provide their logical features in contrast to lying. We finally argue dishonesty postulates that agents should try to satisfy for both moral and self-interested reasons.  (The paper will appear in JELIA 2010.)

Short introduction of the speaker:
Chiaki Sakama graduated from Kyoto University in 1985 and received a Dr. Eng. degree in computer science in 1995. He worked at Toshiba and joined the Fifth Generation Computer Project in Japan. He has been at Wakayama University since 1995 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer and Communication Sciences. He has been engaged in research on logic programming, nonmonotonic reasoning, and machine learning. His recent research interests involve in theoretical foundations of multiagent systems.