From hps.admin at sydney.edu.au Mon Oct 22 10:44:10 2018 From: hps.admin at sydney.edu.au (HPS Admin) Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 23:44:10 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS Research S2 Seminar Series - Professor Emma Kowal Message-ID: [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/GNBaCXLKZoixBgqRI6XoiU?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Held in conjunction with the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science SEMESTER TWO 2018 RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES Monday 29th October [https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/aR4WCYWL1vizkvNqcGqfPe?domain=gallery.mailchimp.com] PROFESSOR EMMA KOWAL DEAKIN UNIVERSITY Emma Kowal is Professor of Anthropology at the Alfred Deakin Institute and Convener of the Science and Society Network at Deakin University. Defining race: A century in the life of an Aboriginal hair sample. Making his way home from the 1923 Pan-Pacific Science Congress, British ethnologist Alfred Haddon caught the Trans-Australian Railway from Sydney to meet his ocean liner in Perth. At a short stop at Golden Ridge siding, east of Kalgoorlie, he cut a deadlock from the head of an unidentified ?young Aboriginal man?. It contributed to Haddon?s extensive hair collection, the basis of his theory of three races based on hair form. In 1945 it was moved from the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to the newly established Duckworth Laboratory under the directorship of physical anthropologist Jack Trevor, a signatory of the 1951 UNESCO Statement on Race. It stayed there until Danish evolutionary biologist Eske Willerslev obtained it, extracted DNA from it and published the ?first Aboriginal genome? in 2011. The genomic analysis indicated 70,000 years of Aboriginal Australian genetic distinctiveness. In the process of publishing the paper Willerslev established a new standard of international ethical practice. Although his university thought ethics approval was unnecessary because the specimen was ?archaeological?, he eventually sought and gained approval from the Goldfields Land and Sea Council. This paper traces the story of this particular piece of human biology from a remote railway siding to Cambridge, Copenhagen and Kalgoorlie. It explores the material entanglement of interwar race science, post-war scientific anti-racism and 21st century postcolonial genomics, showing it is no surprise the ?first Aboriginal genome? was derived from a hair sample ? a substance that only rarely yields autosomal DNA - and not one of the plentiful frozen blood samples stored in Australian and international institutions. WHERE: SEMINAR ROOM 446 NEW LAW ANNEX CAMPERDOWN CAMPUS WHEN: MONDAY 29TH OCTOBER START: 5.30PM All Welcome | No Booking Required | Free Copyright ? *2016* *Unit for HPS, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences<*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*> or unsubscribe from this list<*|UNSUB|*> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Mon Oct 22 11:20:33 2018 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:20:33 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Rare Bites - The Renaissance of Euclid's Elements In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Having trouble viewing this email? View online version. [The University of Sydney] [https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/1865/22137/images/black-vertical-line.jpg] Rare Bites The Renaissance of Euclid's Elements [https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/1865/22137/images/white-horizontal-line.jpg] [https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/1865/22137/images/custom/98816_1248240rright.jpg] Rare Books and Special Collections presents: The Renaissance of Euclid's Elements When Thursday 25 October 2018, 1pm-1.30pm Where The University of Sydney Seminar Room Level 2, Fisher Library F03 RSVP Here This talk is focused on the Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis (1482), the earliest Latin edition of Euclid?s Elements printed in Europe. Through this work, Dr Kotevska will discuss the re-emergence of the Elements in the Renaissance after its long disappearance from European culture in the Middle Ages. Those who tasked themselves with restoring Euclid?s mathematical works in the Renaissance variously described their project as one of revival, restitution, and instauration. Who were these restorers of ancient learning whose ambition it was to return the Elements to its place as a cornerstone of mathematical learning? And what, in their view, made Euclid so obvious a candidate for intellectual consideration? Rare Bites is a series of informal and entertaining 30 minute lunchtime talks held monthly during semester in 2017 and beyond. If you want to learn about some of the treasures and lesser-known gems within Rare Books & Special Collections at the University Library, this is your opportunity. Back to top ^ [https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/1865/22137/images/black-vertical-line.jpg] [https://wordvine.sydney.edu.au/files/1865/22137/images/logo/university_sydney_logo_footer.png] Copyright ? 2018 The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia. 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Monday 12.15pm in the Centre for Classical and Near-Eastern Studies, Madsen Building F09 Eastern Avenue (at the City Road end) University of Sydney best, Ben DR BEN BROWN Lecturer and Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator (CAH & SOPHI) Classics and Ancient History | FASS (SOPHI) THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Ph.: 9351 8983; Office: Main Quad J6.07 E benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au W http://sydney.edu.au/arts/classics_ancient_history/staff/profiles/benjamin.brown.php Recent Book -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Monday 12.15pm in the Centre for Classical and Near-Eastern Studies, Madsen Building F09 Eastern Avenue (at the City Road end) University of Sydney best, Ben DR BEN BROWN Lecturer and Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator (CAH & SOPHI) Classics and Ancient History | FASS (SOPHI) THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Ph.: 9351 8983; Office: Main Quad J6.07 E benjamin.brown at sydney.edu.au W http://sydney.edu.au/arts/classics_ancient_history/staff/profiles/benjamin.brown.php Recent Book --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au Mon Oct 22 12:47:40 2018 From: Stephen.Matthews at acu.edu.au (Stephen Matthews) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 01:47:40 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Steph Collins ACU Philosophy seminar series Message-ID: ACU Philosophy Department Seminar Series, presents: Stephanie Collins (Philosophy ACU) Religious Exemptions for Organisations Theorists of multiculturalism have long defended the idea that individuals' religious convictions sometimes justify exemptions from generally-applicable laws. Well-worn examples include Sikhs being exempt from motorcycle helmet laws, or Jews and Muslims being exempt from humane animal slaughter laws. This paper inquires into religious exemptions for organisations. A prime example is the exemption from anti-discrimination laws in hiring. I explore four pathways to organisations' religious exemptions and argue that only one of them works -- and even then, only with caveats. DAY and TIME: Friday October 26, 2.30pm - 4 pm WHERE: ACU?s Melbourne campus, 250 Victoria Parade, Level 4, room 460.2.80 Although Steph will speak at ACU?s Melbourne campus the presentation will be video-conferenced to: Brisbane: 202.1.07; Ballarat: 100.1.04; Strathfield: 640.1.16 North Sydney: it is probably easiest for Sydney people to attend the North Sydney location, which is Tenison Woods House, 8-20 Napier St. Take the lift to Level 12, and proceed to the Vidconference room (or email me if unsure and I can meet you in the foyer of the building). NB. Meeting ID for other campuses dialing in is 6133147 ALL WELCOME! Steve Matthews (Stephen.matthews at acu.edu.au) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Eastern Ave Rm 119 6-8pm Snacks and drinks provided, all welcome! https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0AnDCp8AJQtjO6BkuPz1ou?domain=facebook.com Thursday 1st November 2018- Film Screening 2 Join us for the second of two film screenings to celebrate the end of Semester 2, 2018. Dr Elena Serrano will present for us THE MIDWIFE'S TALE: A docudrama adaptation of Ulrich's Pulitzer-winning book, which was based on thousands of entries in the journal of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife, in the late 1700's and early 1800's. The movie intercuts between reenactments of Ballard doing her Maine midwifery and related tasks, and Ulrich in her eight years of research on her book; in the end, clear comparisons are made between the work of the two women. Eastern Ave Rm 119 6-8pm Snacks and drinks provided, all welcome! https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/qmuBCq7BKYtpkwoBCXzK3t?domain=facebook.com See you there -- Gemma Lucy Smart School of History and Philosophy of Science The University of Sydney 'Amor Fati' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au Tue Oct 23 11:58:46 2018 From: debbie.castle at sydney.edu.au (Debbie Castle) Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 00:58:46 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] HPS - The Incommensurables Movie Nights 25/10 & 1/11 Message-ID: The Incommensurables - UYSD's premiere HPS Society - is happy to announce not one, but TWO end of semester events. Thursday 25 October 2018 - Film Screening 1 Join us for the first of two film screenings to celebrate the end of Semester 2, 2018. Dr Elena Serrano will present for us AGORA: A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria. Eastern Ave Rm 119 6-8pm Snacks and drinks provided, all welcome! https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/RXEpCmOxDQtmP4OEuG1vOm?domain=facebook.com Thursday 1st November 2018- Film Screening 2 Join us for the second of two film screenings to celebrate the end of Semester 2, 2018. Dr Elena Serrano will present for us THE MIDWIFE'S TALE: A docudrama adaptation of Ulrich's Pulitzer-winning book, which was based on thousands of entries in the journal of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife, in the late 1700's and early 1800's. The movie intercuts between reenactments of Ballard doing her Maine midwifery and related tasks, and Ulrich in her eight years of research on her book; in the end, clear comparisons are made between the work of the two women. Eastern Ave Rm 119 6-8pm Snacks and drinks provided, all welcome! https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/WROuCnxyErCJ3B8MsJwjzl?domain=facebook.com See you there -- Gemma Lucy Smart School of History and Philosophy of Science The University of Sydney 'Amor Fati' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this paper, I argue that we should reject the premise common to opponents and proponents: that nudging bypasses our reasoning processes. Rather, well designed nudges present reasons to mechanisms designed to respond to reasons of just that kind. In this light, it is refusing to nudge that threatens our autonomy, by refusing to give us good reasons for action. When: Wed 24 Oct 2018 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Sydney Uni, Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * Luara Ferracioli- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0M6YCyoNVrcl2My8SZP3kx?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Ea0oCzvOWKi0w2mkTXSTG6?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. 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Famous scientists often express a pessimistic position about this, as indeed do some well-known philosophers. In *Philosophical Progress* (OUP, 2017) I argued against this position, and in favour of a reasonable or qualified optimism. In this talk I ask a follow up question: what explains the widespread belief that there is little or no progress in philosophy? I explore various answers to this question, focusing in particular on the hypothesis that the institutional setting of philosophy encourages a pessimistic attitude about its progress. When: Wed 31 Oct 2018 13:00 ? 14:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Where: Sydney Uni, Muniment Room Calendar: Seminars Who: * Luara Ferracioli- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/pIdnCWLJY7iAvV72F6iZAh?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/pChzCXLKZoix3Wv1hVLDUC?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/pChzCXLKZoix3Wv1hVLDUC?domain=google.com and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to modify your RSVP response. Learn more at https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/pdBACYWL1vizPwRQI9lE_9?domain=support.google.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In particular, it examines how honour is distributed by heterosexual imaginaries in ways that privilege men in the sexual encounter, and argues that part of cultivating ethical heterosexual relations is to imagine a sexual honour code where both men and women see themselves, and are seen by their counterpart, as entitled to sexual respect. To conclude, the paper examines and defends the cultivation of ethical, just, and honourable heterosexual relations as a necessarily embodied, intersubjective, and imaginative endeavor that involves challenges to, and shifts within, multiple imaginaries and (in)sensibilities that cluster to support damaging norms of sexual conduct. -- Karola Stotz Senior Lecturer, TWCF Fellow Philosophy Department Macquarie University karola.stotz at mq.edu.au https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/bjqxCgZowLHL5Lz3iNDHz8?domain=karolastotz.com [image: Macquarie University] Honorary Associate Unit for History and Philosophy of Science University of Sydney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I argue that the most obvious candidate for the job is a logical consequence of the presentist?s position: merely past objects have an alternative mode of being. When: Thu 1 Nov 2018 15:00 ? 16:30 Eastern Australia Time - Sydney Calendar: Current Projects Who: * Kristie Miller- creator Event details: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/KEHBCJyp0qh70kmBfV-8UG?domain=google.com Invitation from Google Calendar: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_fVKCK1qJZtj3QvDuvth85?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 Current Projects. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/_fVKCK1qJZtj3QvDuvth85?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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Please join us on Monday the 29th October to hear James Collins, a Fellow in Greek Literature and Philosophy at the Centre for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University. James will deliver a paper entitled: The Deep Therapy of Epicurean Practice The philosophical communities of the Hellenistic period offered pathways to tranquility, to freedom from the daily disturbances of both obvious and hidden anxieties and frustrations. At first glance, all of these pathways appear to consist of the application of therapeutic arguments. Our regular anxieties and frustrations are entirely diseases of belief and judgment. As such, arguments that are critical of those beliefs and capable of substituting others that are instead sound must surely be necessary for restoring our health. Treat the belief in order to treat the behavior. Apply all sorts of arguments and discourse in order to correct the internal guidance system of a troubled individual, and steer her into more tranquil waters. The problem with this vision of philosophical therapy?treating beliefs with philosophical arguments?is that so much of our daily behavior is not motivated by our beliefs. A growing body of work in behavioral psychology and cognitive science describes how we are instead overwhelmingly creatures of habit. In familiar places, our behavior is determined more by habit than by beliefs or intentions. What is perhaps more surprising is how much these habitual behaviors are driven by our environment. We ?outsource? the control of much of our behavior away from our intentions to contextual cues. Habit and environment become our guidance systems for a good part of our day, so much so that they keep us doing what we have always done in spite of our desires and best intentions to act otherwise. So alongside their ethical and physical systems and their therapeutic arguments, the Epicureans appear to have developed social practices that curtailed troubling habits. They provided new environments and disrupted familiar contexts, which offered occasions for rehearsing new behaviors. In unfamiliar spaces and relationships, the initiate encountered new patterns of consumption and social interaction that Epicureans theorized had the capacity to overwrite even the most vicious dispositions. These therapeutic interventions into habit and environment directly produce changes in the body?in its feelings and action sequences?without necessarily addressing beliefs and attitudes. In these instances, then, the initiate is trained in an ataraxic lifestyle not through argument and acts of interpretation, but primarily through regular exposure to, and rehearsal of, new philosophical routines. The paper will commence at 12.15pm at the Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia (CCANESA) Boardroom, Madsen Building, University of Sydney. The paper will be followed by light refreshments. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact either Daniel Hanigan (daniel.hanigan at sydney.edu.au) or myself. All best wishes, Kirsten Kirsten Parkin | Postgraduate Representative Department of Classics and Ancient History THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T +61 4 08505686 E kpar0133 at sydney.edu.au| W sydney.edu.au/arts/classics_ancient_history -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: