From philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au Tue Apr 3 10:15:37 2018 From: philosophy at westernsydney.edu.au (PhilosophyatWesternSydney) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 00:15:37 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] [Thinking out Loud] Rosi Braidotti: The Human in the Age of Technology and Climate Change References: Message-ID: [cid:image003.jpg at 01D3CB34.B45602F0]Rosi Braidotti The Human in the Age of Technology and Climate Change The idea of 'human' is undergoing rapid change. Scientific and technological advance is pushing the limits of what we have understood of our existence. Some have termed this the age of the 'post-human', where tumultuous changes - social, political and technological - are rewiring our lives. It might appear a moment of great promise and liberation. Yet an underside of injustice and exclusion stubbornly remains, exacerbated on a global scale by climate change. In this predicament how might a new affirmative notion of the human arise to meet the challenges of the third millennium? Thinking Out Loud is presented by the Philosophy group at Western Sydney University in conjunction with ABC RN and Fordham University Press. Monday, April 16, Lecture 1: What counts as the human right now? (Please join us for reception and drinks at 5pm outside the Thearette.) Wednesday, April 18, Lecture 2: The human after humanism Friday, April 20, Lecture 3: Is the proper study of mankind man? The opening of this year's lecture series will be conducted by Professor Moira Gatens. The respondent to the lectures is Associate Professor Chris Peterson. The lectures will be held at Theatrette of the Powerhouse Museum from 5.30 to 7.30. Cost: $10 per lecture; $25 for the series. Bookings essential. For booking and further details go to: www.westernsydney.edu.au/thinkingoutloud Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University) is a ground-breaking scholar in both materialism, Continental philosophy and gender studies. She is the author of numerous books, including Nomadic Subjects (2011) and The Posthuman (2013). [Alumni Facebook]Connect with us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/philosophyuws For further information about the Research Initiative, please visit: www.westernsydney.edu.au/philosophy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 66029 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image004.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 813 bytes Desc: image004.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 13882 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I first identify two sorts of principles which many deliberative democrats believe should determine how these principles are used: the goal principle, which states that non-deliberative means should only be used in ways that further the realisation of deliberative democratic goals; and the means principle, which states that they should also be used in ways that reflect underlying deliberative democratic values. I then argue that both the goal principle and the means principle either face irrelevance, or obstruct activists? efforts to counter injustice in ways that deliberative democrats themselves must find unacceptable. If this is correct, then deliberative democracy has little or nothing of importance to say about the use of non-deliberative methods. About the speaker: Ben Cross is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Wuhan University in China. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2014. His main research interests include political realism, political conduct, and theories of legitimacy. His most recent publications have appeared in The European Journal of Philosophy, Ratio, and Constellations. [cid:image002.png at 01D3C764.161FDBC0] Date: 10 April 2018 Time: 12.30-2pm Location: Chancellery Building, Committee Room 3 Registration: Not required Map reference: C22 Contact: e:h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au t: (02) 9385 2373 All interested welcome, no RSVP necessary UNSW Arts & Social Sciences UNSW Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia arts.unsw.edu.au CRICOS Provider Code 00098G, ABN 57 195 873 179 [Facebook] [Twitter] [Linked In] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 31013 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The Statement on Insecure Work adds to the existing AAP Gender Statement which can be found on the *Gender Statement page here *. *AAP Committee for the **Status of Women in the Philosophy Profession**: Statement on Insecure Work (2017)* Insecure work - casual and limited term contract work - is increasingly prevalent within academic philosophy in Australasia. Yet insecure work stands as an obstacle to career advancement within philosophy. Insecure appointments are often made at the lowest level regardless of experience; and pathways from insecure to secure employment are lacking. Many insecure positions are teaching-intensive, and lack the career opportunities of positions with a research component. In particular, teachers on hourly rates are expected to undertake any research outside of their paid hours; they face economic uncertainty from semester to semester; and their labour may be taken for granted beyond the strict terms of their employment. The majority of those in insecure work in academia are women.1 Factors explaining this inequality appear to include: - The initial level of appointment is lower for women (Strachan et al, 2006). - Women are more likely than men to be in part-time work, and part-time work is less likely to be secure (Strachan et al, 2006). - Young women often take on casual work because it offers the flexibility they require to meet their caring responsibilities. They have strong career aspirations, but they face particular difficulty transitioning out of insecure employment: for the longer a person is in a casual appointment, the less likely is their advancement to secure work (Gottschalk & McEachern, 2010). The AAP is concerned about the possibility that female philosophers are unfairly disadvantaged by insecure employment practices. While the larger industrial framework is determined at upper levels of administration in higher education institutions, members of our profession do retain control of some details of its implementation. Possible suggestions for best practice include the following: - Offer more rather than less secure employment, for instance, limited term rather than casual contracts; - Minimise last-minute employment. For example: a department may not know until the last minute whether it needs 8 or 12 tutorial groups in a semester, but it will know in advance that it will need at least 8; - Invite casual staff to meetings and ensure they are paid to attend; - Do not ask casual staff to perform, or presume they will perform, tasks for which they are not specifically paid. The AAP urges all members of the profession ? particularly senior members and those involved in administration and employment decisions ? to be aware of these concerns and and to be alert to ways in which, where there is a problem of equity in this regard, it might be justly ameliorated. ______________________ 1Strachan et al, 2006; Gottschalk & McEachern, 2010. The situation in philosophy not currently known, but is under investigation by the Australian Academy for the Humanities through an ARC Linkage Learned Academies Special Project. See also Zheng 2018 for an analysis of the gendered ethos of the contemporary academy. *Further resources:* - Glenda Strachan, David Peetz, Gillian Whitehouse, Janis Bailey, Kaye Broadbent, Robyn May, Carolyn Troup, Michelle Nesic (2006), *Women, Careers, and Universities: Where To From Here?* (Griffith University: Centre for Work, Organisation, and Wellbeing). - Robyn May, Linda Gale, Iain Campbell, 'Casually Appointed, Permanently Exploited: How is NTEU responding to the casualisation of academia in the current climate?', http://www.nteu.org.au/library/view/id/4830 - Lorene Gottschalk, Steve McEachern (2010) 'The frustrated career: casual employment in higher education', *Australian Universities Review* 52 (1), 37-50. - Robin Zheng (2018), 'Precarity is a Feminist Issue: Gender and Contingent Labor in the Academy', *Hypatia* doi: 10.1111/hypa.12401 - https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AIp1CP7yOZt93jDqU0S-P5?domain=unicasual.org.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A central theme is that the two are parallel goods, with similar grounds and similar factors affecting their value.  When: Wed 11 Apr 2018 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney Calendar: Seminars Who: * Sam Shpall- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_NqSC1WZXrixkPl4FLKujX?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QblxC2xZYvCWRBgYF1CzQF?domain=google.com You are receiving this email at the account sydphil at arts.usyd.edu.au because you are subscribed for notifications on calendar Seminars. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/QblxC2xZYvCWRBgYF1CzQF?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. 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In particular, I look at conversion cases of Megan Phelps-Roper (Westboro Baptist Church) and R. Derek Black (White Nationalism). To make sense of these two conversion cases, I reconstruct egotism as a life-world, or as an interlocking system of redemptive truth, language, and group identity. I argue that redemptive relationships are able to breach egotist life-worlds and render them vulnerable to revision. Chen, Adrian. 2015. ?Unfollow: Conversion via Twitter.? The New Yorker. Nov 23. Saslow, Eli. 2016. ?The White Flight of Derek Black.? The Washington Post. Oct 15. ---------- Contact: Adam Hochman (adam.hochman at mq.edu.au) or Mike Olson (michael.olson at mq.edu.au) A calendar of other events in this series is available here. 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This event is going to be themed around the Charles Darwin Scholar Award, with a priority placed on research interests of Dennett in the topics of human consciousness and evolutionary biology, particularly as these topics relate to adaptation, both cultural and biological. The Charles Darwin Scholar Program was established in 2013 to enhance the work and legacy of its namesake, Charles Darwin. This link provides more information on the Scholar Program and the role of the Charles Darwin Scholar (http://www.cdu.edu.au/newsroom/Professor-Dennett). Daniel Dennett is the author of many books, including *Breaking the Spell* (Viking, 2006), *Darwin's Dangerous Idea* (Simon and Schuster, 1995), and recently From *Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds* (Norton, 2017). Dennett is the Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He has delivered many talks, including not only the John Locke Lectures at Oxford in 1983, but also the Young Lectures at Adelaide in 1985. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, two Fulbright Fellowships, and five honorary doctorates. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science, and he has been awarded the Erasmus Prize (the highest, academic honour in the Netherlands?an honour bequeathed by Queen Beatrice in Amsterdam). *Keynote Addresses and Special Events: * Daniel Dennett will deliver a key-note address to open the conference. We expect to include other invited speakers, one of whom is Professor Stephen Mumford [Durham University]. *Panel Session on Consciousness: * Daniel Dennett, Stephen Mumford and other invited speakers will also take part in a conference special event, a panel session on the topic of consciousness. *Call for Papers:* The organisers invite contributors to submit, in the first instance, abstracts for papers. Topics for papers may include the following themes: i) Consciousness and Naturalism ii) Cultural Change and Evolutionary Theory iii) Innovating for Adaptation iv) Indigenous Futures and Cultural Responses v) Cultural Change and Creativity in Science and the Arts. Please submit an abstract of 200 words (max), accompanied by a bio of 50 words (max). Deadline for submission of abstracts: Wednesday May 9th, 2018. Please send abstracts (with biography) via email to Dr Sharon Ford (Subject Heading: Conference: Evolving minds 2018): sharon.ford at cdu.edu.au More information will follow shortly about the program for the conference, including information about registration, participation, and accommodation, as well as other events pertaining to the proceedings. *Conference Organisation and Contact: * Lead organiser and *contact person*: Dr Sharon Ford (sharon.ford at cdu.edu.au) General organisation committee: members of ArtLab, College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society, CDU: Dr Sharon Ford Dr Nicolas Bullot Dr Adelle Sefton-Rowston Dr Christian Bok -- Dr Eliza Goddard Executive Officer, Australasian Association of Philosophy GPO BOX 1978, Hobart 7001, Australia www.aap.org.au ACN 152 892 272 ABN 29 152 892 272 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: