From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Mon Oct 31 12:04:41 2016 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 01:04:41 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Workshop: The History and Philosophy of 'Race', 17-18 Nov, Macquarie University Message-ID: Hi all, You are warmly invited to attend the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) workshop, The History and Philosophy of 'Race', which is designed to bring together Australian and international philosophers and historians of 'race' to nurture interaction and exchange on their shared research interests. Our aim is to create a platform from which a mutually beneficial dialogue between philosophers and historians of 'race' can be established. CAVE Workshop: The History and Philosophy of 'Race' Date: Thursday and Friday, 17 - 18 November 2016 Time: 09:00 - 15:00 (both days) Venue: E7B Theatre 2, Macquarie University (M21 on campus map) All are welcome, but please RSVP for catering purposes by Thursday 3 November. To register, please contact Adam Hochman: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Keynote Speakers: * Robert Bernasconi (PSU): "Race, Religion, and Conversion" * Ron Mallon (WUSTL): "On Accumulation Mechanisms" Profiles of our keynote speakers are on our website. Local Speakers: * Albert Atkin (MQ): "Subaltern Prosopography and the Philosophy of Race" * Andrew Gillett (MQ): "Race, Ethnicity, Others: Late Antiquity as a Site for Historical Recursion" * Victoria Grieves (USYD): "History in the Age of Humans: Time, Aboriginal philosophy and the Rise of Racism" * Adam Hochman (MQ): "Why the Metaphysics of Race Needs to Get Historical" * Alison Holland (MQ): "Counting Race: Aboriginal Natives and Immigrant Races. The Investment in, and Politics of, Race in Interwar Australia" * Jennifer Mensch (UWS): "German Anthropology between Blumenbach and Kant" * Sarah Walsh (USYD): "The Aesthetics of Whiteness: Race and Visual Culture in Chile" * Christine Winter (ANU): "Racial Ambiguity: Colonial Mixed Race Identity in the Asia-Pacific" For further information, please contact Adam Hochman: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE) Department of Philosophy Macquarie University Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia CAVE website: mq.edu.au/cave www.facebook.com/MQCAVE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arts.cave at mq.edu.au Mon Oct 31 12:06:41 2016 From: arts.cave at mq.edu.au (Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 01:06:41 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CAVE Public Lecture: David Matas, "Policy and Law for Australia to Prevent Complicity in Foreign Transplant Abuse" (Nov 23, Macquarie) Message-ID: Hi all, You are invited to the annual Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE) public lecture. We are pleased to announce that this year's lecture will be given by international human rights lawyer David Matas on the issue of foreign transplant abuse. Because of a shortage of organs, patients in need of transplants wait long periods. Some become desperate enough to undertake transplant tourism involving unethically sourced organs. What are the professional ethical and legal standards that Australia could develop to prevent complicity in foreign transplant abuse? David will discuss national and international standards that minimise local complicity in organ transplant abuse, drawing on his expertise on Chinese sourcing of organs from executed prisoners of conscience. "Policy and Law for Australia to Prevent Complicity in Foreign Transplant Abuse" Date: Wednesday 23 November 2016 Time: 18:00 - 20:00 Venue: W5A Theatre 2, Macquarie University (O14 on the campus map) All are welcome but please register for catering purposes. Register here: Link. Abstract: Various professional and international organizations have developed standards to avoid local complicity in foreign transplant abuse, such as receiving unethically sourced organs. This lecture will run through what those standards are. There is substantial evidence of transplant abuse in China. The standards will be applied, in the form of a case study, to indicate what can be done to avoid complicity in transplant abuse in China. I consider what professional, national and international institutions both have done and could do to reduce complicity. For professional institutions, the talk will address how the standards apply to The Transplantation Society and the World Medical Association. For international institutions, the talk will consider the standards in relation to the European Union, the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Office for Drugs and Crimes. For national institutions, the talk will consider standards in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. About David: David Matas is an international human rights lawyer, author and researcher based in Winnipeg and currently acts as Senior Honorary Counsel for B?nai Brith Canada. He has served the government of Canada in numerous positions including as member of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Conference on an International Criminal Court; the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research; and the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe Conferences on Antisemitism and Intolerance. He has also been involved in several different organizations, including the Canadian Helsinki Watch Group, Beyond Borders, Amnesty International, and the Canadian Council for Refugees. Mr Matas has received numerous awards and honors, including the Manitoba Bar Association Distinguished Service Award in 2008, the Order of Canada in 2009, the Canadian Bar Association National Citizenship and Immigration Section Achievement Award in 2009, and the International Society for Human Rights Swiss Section Human Rights Prize in 2010. In 2006, Mr Matas co-authored Bloody Harvest: Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China alongside Hon. David Kilgour. Both Mr Matas and Mr Kilgour were nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for this work. David Matas is a co-author of the 2016 investigative report An Update to Bloody Harvest and The Slaughter. The report meticulously examines the transplant programs of hundreds of hospitals in China, drawing on media reports, official propaganda, medical journals, hospital websites and a vast amount of deleted websites found in archives. His other works include Why Did You Do That? The Autobiography of a Human Rights Advocate; Justice Delayed: Nazi War Criminals in Canada with Susan Charendoff; Closing the Doors: The Failure of Refugee Protection with Ilana Simon; No More: The Battle Against Human Rights Violations; Bloody Words: Hate and Free Speech; and Aftershock: Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism. All welcome! 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His book investigates how reliance on foreign oil in the West has resulted in consumers directly funding some of the world's most ruthless dictators. In his lecture, Professor Wenar will outline his views on how the West can lead the world's next great moral revolution by ending its dependence on authoritarian oil. He will set out what he considers to be a grand strategy for upgrading the international trade system, which will make us more secure at home, more trusted abroad, and better able to solve urgent global problems like climate change. Professor Wenar is visiting the Practical Justice Initiative at UNSW as a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Distinguished Visiting Fellow. The Jack Beale Lecture was established in 1999 in honour of The Hon. Dr Jack Beale AO, a passionate advocate of environmental management and the first Minister for the Environment in Australia (NSW Parliament). The Jack Beale Lecture provides the opportunity for a prominent individual to examine Australia's environmental responsibilities, opportunities and performance within a global context. We hope that you can join us for this special event. What: 2016 UNSW Jack Beale Lecture When: Proceedings commence at 6pm, 2 November 2016 Where: Science Theatre, UNSW Kensington (Map reference F13) This is a free event but registrations are essential. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/9de80af17c667f70e679b253c/images/register_now.gif] ________________________________ [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/9de80af17c667f70e679b253c/images/0d9934ea-b10c-483c-b47c-8f3ad8a3cf77.jpg] Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence and the Rules that Run the World Leif Wenar's Blood Oil investigates the unnerving role that Western societies play in financially supporting some of the world's most dangerous men through the oil trade, and describes how the West can lead a peaceful resources revolution. Learn more here. 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Mental disorder contributes to the burden of death and disability around the world, but modern psychiatric theories must also deal with non-Western forms of mental illness. Do non-Western individuals suffer from the same conditions as Westerners, but in a different form, or do they suffer from distinctive local conditions? This project intends to discuss the foundational issues raised within psychiatry. This will contribute to a greater understanding of the mental health of non-Western populations. Hans Pols, Associate Professor and Director Unit for History and Philosophy of Science Carslaw F07 University of Sydney, NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendar-notification at google.com Tue Nov 1 12:59:48 2016 From: calendar-notification at google.com (Google Calendar) Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 01:59:48 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Notification: Karyn Lai @ Wed 2 Nov 2016 13:00 - 14:30 (Seminars) Message-ID: <001a114dacb8e4db91054033adc1@google.com> This is a notification for: Title: Karyn Lai Learning from examples in Confucius? Analects: ethics without principles? In Confucius? Analects, learning from examples is a primary method of cultivation. Confucius himself was a keen observer of humanity (A 5.10) and he urged his followers to observe the actions and behaviours of others in order to learn (A 2.10; 4.17). In this talk, I discuss the dynamics and implications of learning from examples. But, given that examples are episodic, how does a person learn from such episodes to develop her own sense of how best to act in any given situation? I suggest that a number of themes in the Analects point toward a fairly coherent picture of how a person may learn from examples. These examples form a repository of information on the possibilities for action in a range of different scenarios. In concrete situations, a person may draw selectively on her understanding of examples, adapting some elements to a new situation and thereby building her repertoire of possible actions. I then draw together some of these reflections on learning from examples to consider the viability of an ethical way of life cultivated in this way. 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URL: From adam.hochman at mq.edu.au Fri Nov 4 17:57:25 2016 From: adam.hochman at mq.edu.au (Adam Hochman) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 06:57:25 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Seminar on Tuesday the 8th of November: Joanne Faulkner (UNSW) Message-ID: 'Suffer Little Children': The Representation of Aboriginal Disadvantage through Images of Suffering Children, and the Wages of Spectacular Humanitarianism Joanne Faulkner (UNSW) Date: Tuesday, 8th of November Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: W6A 107, Macquarie University ABSTRACT: The past two decades have been punctuated by (three) scandals concerning Aboriginal childhood, which have served to draw a focus to a more protracted injustice to Australia's first nations peoples - even while, arguably, these scandals have also obscured that broader injustice. First was the HREOC inquiry into the stolen generations, the report of which was tabled in Parliament in 1997, revealing a history of removal and abuse previously unacknowledged by mainstream Australia. This was followed in 2007 by the Northern Territory intervention, a federal government 'emergency response' ostensibly to reports of widespread child sex abuse in remote Aboriginal communities, but which precipitated an overreach of government management of the lives of Aboriginal people. Most recently, in 2016, video footage of physical abuse of juveniles incarcerated in the Northern Territory that was aired by the national broadcaster has now triggered a royal commission. The regularity of this cycle of abuse and reaction prompts two questions: (1) why are wrongs to Indigenous peoples so frequently brought to crisis through the situation of their children?; and (2) why, each time there is a new inquiry undertaken or solution proposed, does the situation remain unchanged? This paper addresses these questions fundamentally, by examining an ambivalent enjoyment of suffering that motivates a focus on Aboriginal children as a vector of colonial violence. Specifically, with reference to Lacanian theory, I demonstrate that a certain formation of white colonial subjectivity draws upon the spectacle of abused and wounded Aboriginal children as a source of self-knowledge (or enjoyment). In the light of this analysis, it will be argued that the 'wages' of spectacular humanitarianism - enjoyment of a wound through which a national identity is continually reconstituted - must be acknowledged and 'returned' before anything proximate to healing might take place. Joanne Faulkner is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of NSW. Her most recent book is Young and Free: [Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). It examines the colonial imaginary in Australia through the persistent trope of lost, stolen, damaged and displaced childhood. She is also the author of Dead Letters to Nietzsche: Or the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy (Ohio UP, 2010), and The Importance of Being Innocent: Why We Worry About Children (Cambridge UP, 2011). Contact: Adam Hochman (adam.hochman at mq.edu.au) or Mike Olson (michael.olson at mq.edu.au) A google calendar with details of other events in this series is available for viewing and subscription by following this link: https://goo.gl/56sotM --- Adam Hochman Macquarie University Research Fellow Department of Philosophy | W6A, Room 733 Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia Staff Profile | http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_philosophy/staff/adam_hochman/ Personal Website | adamhochman.com Academia.edu Page | https://mq.academia.edu/AdamHochman Philpapers Page | http://philpapers.org/profile/48626 T: +61 2 9850 8859 | arts.mq.edu.au [Macquarie University] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: