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Kansainvälisesti tunnettu Heidegger-asiantuntija professori Daniel Dahlstrom, Boston Universitystä pitää filosofian tutkijaseminaarissa luennon "Heidegger's Experience of Language".

Ajankohta ke 29.5. klo 13-15, sali Pinni B 4113,
Tampereen yliopisto

Tilaisuus on kaikille avoin.

May 29 at 5:15 p.m.

11th Annual Collegium Lecture

Professor Nancy Fraser: Can society be commodities all the way down?

Venue: Porthania, lecture hall PIII, Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki.

 

Abstract:

In his classic 1944 book, The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi traced the roots of capitalist crisis to efforts to create “self-regulating markets” in land, labor, and money. The effect was to turn those three fundamental bases of social life into "fictitious commodities.” The inevitable result, Polanyi claimed, was to despoil nature, rupture communities, and destroy livelihoods. This diagnosis has strong echoes in the 21st century: witness the burgeoning markets in carbon emissions and biotechnology; in child-care, schooling, and the care of the old; and in financial derivatives. In this situation, Polanyi’s idea of fictitious commodification affords a promising basis for an integrated structural analysis that connects three dimensions of the present crisis, the ecological, the social, and the financial. This lecture explores the strengths and weaknesses of Polanyi’s idea.

 

Nancy Fraser is the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and Department Chair at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her work concentrates on social and political theory, feminist theory as well as contemporary French and German thought. As leading critical theorist and noted feminist thinker, Professor Fraser is well known for her work on social justice. Her early books Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory (1989) and Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the "Postsocialist" Condition (1997) are modern classics. Her recent work includes the book is Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (2008) and the article Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History (New Left Review, 2009).

 

Organised by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, www.helsinki.fi/collegium

 

Free admission. Welcome!

Prof. Rodolphe Gasché (SUNY, Buffalo, Comparative Literature): “Of Mammoth Smallness: Franz Kafka's 'The Village Schoolmaster'”

Ma 15.4. klo 12-14 Turun yliopisto, Janus-luentosali

Sirkkalan kasarmialue, 1 krs. (nivelosassa Artiumin ja Minervan välissä) Kaivokatu 12

Luentoa varten suositellaan luettavaksi Kafkan kertomus ”Kyläkoulunopettaja” (sis. teokseen Franz Kafka: Kootut kertomukset, Helsinki: Otava 2010).

Seminaari: Keskustelua esiseminaareissa I ja II käsitellyistä kirjoista (The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature's Self-Formation; The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetics)

 

Professor Helen E. Longino (Stanford University, USA) will give a public lecture titled Epistemological, Ontological, Social Quandaries in the Sciences of Human Behavior. The lecture takes place on Tuesday 9th of April at 2 pm – 4 pm (Publicum, lecture hall PUB 4 at Assistentinkatu 7, 20014 University of Turku, Department of Social Research).

The themes of the lecture originate from Professor Longino’s recently published book Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression & Sexuality (The University of Chicago Press, 2013). A quotation from the book’s blurb: “Longino dissects five approaches to the study of behavior – quantitative behavior genetics, molecular behavior genetics, neurophysiology and anatomy, social/environmental methods, and a set of integrative approaches – highlighting the underlying assumptions of these disciplines, as well as the different questions and mechanisms each addresses. Longino concludes that there is no single ‘correct’ approach, arguing instead for a pluralistic perspective that recognizes the strengths and weaknesses of each.”

Helen E. Longino is Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University. She is one of the key figures in the research field known as social epistemology. Longino’s publications include the books Science as Social Knowledge and The Fate of Knowledge.

For further information concerning the lecture please contact Seppo Poutanen (seppou at utu.fi).

 

In the next HPRS session Tuesday 4.12.2012, 18:00-19:45, in Porthania 617 (Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki) Alan Coffee (Kings College London), "Slave narrative and the  republican tradition”

PLEASE NOTE THAT EXCEPTIONALLY THE SEMINAR TAKES PLACE AT NIGHT FROM  18:00 ONWARDS (no academic quarter)

Professori emeritus Zygmunt Bauman luennoi Kuvataideakatemiassa 22.11.

Sosiologi, Leedsin yliopiston professori emeritus Zygmunt Bauman pitää torstaina 22.11.2012 klo 18-20 Kuvataideakatemiassa luennon Culture between State and Market (Kaikukatu 4, auditorio, 1. kerros). Tilaisuus on kaikille avoin. Paikkoja rajoitetusti.

Zygmunt Bauman (s. 1925) on puolanjuutalaissyntyinen sosiologi, joka tunnetaan erityisesti holokaustin merkityksen tulkinnasta suhteessa moderniin sekä postmodernin konsumerismin tutkimuksesta.

Lisätietoja
Praxis-ohjelma / amanuenssi Christine Langinauer
christine.langinauer at kuva.fi

Nick Zangwill (Durham University) esitelmöi Helsingin yliopiston
Filosofian tutkijaseminaarissa perjantaina 23.11. klo 12-14, Unioninkatu 40
A, Helsinki, kokoushuone A217. Esitelmän otsikko on "Semantic Explanation
and Language Games".

Friday, November 23, 2012
Nick Zangwill (Durham University)
"Semantic Explanations and Language Games"
12:15 PM - 13:45 PM, room A217, Unioninkatu, 40 A, Helsinki.
Everyone's presence is warmly welcomed.

Nick Zangwill (Durhan University) esitelmöi Helsingin yliopiston Filosofian tutkijaseminaarissa perjantaina 23.11. klo 12-14, Unioninkatu 40 A, Helsinki, kokoushuone A217. Esitelmän otsikko on "Semantic Explanation and Language Games".

Nick Zangwill's (Durham University)guest lecture "Semantic Explanations and Language Games"
Friday, November 23, 2012 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM, room A217, Unioninkatu, 40 A, Helsinki.
Everyone's presence is warmly welcomed.

Miten yhdessä improvisoidut esitykset ovat mahdollisia?
Tiistaina 29.5. kello 13-16, Helsingin Yliopiston päärakennus, Auditorio XIV.

Tieteenfilosofi Mark Risjord Emory Universitystä puhuu tiistaina 29.5. Helsingin yliopistolla aiheesta "Improvised joint performance". Hänen esitelmänsä jälkeen humanististen alojen tutkijoista koostuva paneeli keskustelee aiheesta omien alojensa näkökulmista. Paneeliin kuuluvat folkloristiikan dosentti ja yliopistonlehtori Pertti Anttonen, tutkija Marja Etelämäki suomen kielen oppiaineesta sekä musiikkitieteilijä ja muusikko Heli Reimann. Puheenjohtajana toimii professori Petri Ylikoski.

Tilaisuus aloittaa sarjan keskusteluja, joiden tavoitteena on luoda siltoja humanistisen tutkimuksen kannalta relevanttien tieteenfilosofisten keskustelujen ja eri humanististen alojen omien teoreettisten keskustelujen välille.

Professori Risjord on Helsingissä Yhteiskuntatieteiden filosofian tutkimuksen huippuyksikön vieraana. Hän tiivistää esitelmänsä aiheen seuraavasti:

"This essay starts from a critique of the literature on joint action, arguing that all of the contemporary views share assumptions that make improvised joint performance impossible. The essay then argues for a different way of conceptualizing intentions-in-action that permits such intentions to be joint, not individual. The central example concerns jazz performance."

Tilaisuus on englanninkielinen ja kaikille avoin. Ilmoittautumisia pyydetään osoitteeseen inkeri.koskinen at helsinki.fi.

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How is improvised joint performance possible?
Tuesday 29.5. at 13-16, University main building, Unioninkatu 34 (Senate Square side), Auditorium XIV.

Professor Mark Risjord, a philosopher of science from Emory University, is giving a lecture on "Improvised joint performance" on Tuesday 29.5. at 13.00. His talk is followed by a panel discussion, with researchers from different humanistic disciplines commenting on the subject. The panelists are Adjunct Professor and University Lecturer in Folklore Studies Pertti Anttonen; Researcher, Finnish Language, Marja Etelämäki; and Musicologist and Musician Heli Reimann. Professor Petri Ylikoski will chair the discussion. This will be the first in a series of interdisciplinary events that gather together researchers from the Faculty of Arts, and philosophers of science interested in the humanities.

Professor Risjord is visiting Helsinki as a guest of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. He summarizes the main thesis of his talk as follows: "This essay starts from a critique of the literature on joint action, arguing that all of the contemporary views share assumptions that make improvised joint performance impossible. The essay then argues for a different way of conceptualizing intentions-in-action that permits such intentions to be joint, not individual. The central example concerns jazz performance."

The event is open to everyone. Please notify your intention to participate by sending an email to inkeri.koskinen at helsinki.fi.

Two Lectures on Linguistic and Social Philosophy by Professor John R. Searle

John R. Searle, Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Language, University of California, Berkeley, will present two public lectures in Finland in May 2012:

How To Derive ´Ought´ from ´Is´? on Monday, May 21st, at 10 A.M. and

Language and Social Ontology on Tuesday, May 22nd, at 10 A.M.

at the Small Hall of the Main Building of the University of Helsinki (= Pieni juhlasali,
Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor).

On Monday and Tuesday starting at 1.30 P.M., there will also be a small seminar on professor Searle´s linguistic and social philosophy, with papers presented by members of the Searle reading circle, to be then commented by professor Searle.

Professor Searle´s visit to Finland is made possible by the grant awarded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and his lecture on Tuesday morning will be the 15th Yrjö Reenpää lecture. Professor Searle´s morning lectures are open to public, as are the afternoon seminar sessions. No entrance fee. Welcome!

http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/people/detail/18

More information may be obtained from:

Raimo Siltala
Professor in Jurisprudence,
University of Turku
& Adjunct Professor (Privatdozent) in Jurisprudence,
University of Helsinki
raimo.siltala at utu.fi,
raimo.siltala at helsinki.fi