From tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au Mon May 31 09:42:57 2021 From: tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au (Tristan Bradshaw) Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 23:42:57 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Critical Antiquities Workshop - Brooke Holmes Message-ID: Dear all, Ben Brown and I are pleased to announce that at the final Critical Antiquities Workshop for this semester we will be hosting Professor Brooke Holmes (Princeton University) for her paper, ?Canguilhem and the Greeks: Vitalism between History and Philosophy.? The event will be held on Friday, June 11 11am-12:30pm (Sydney time). That translates to the following times elsewhere: Tokyo: Friday 10am-11:30am Singapore: Friday 9am-10:30am Western US: Thursday, June 10 6-7:30pm Mexico City: Thursday, June 10 8-9:30pm Eastern US: Thursday, June 10 9-10:30pm To receive a Zoom link, please sign up for Critical Antiquities Network announcements here. Please note, if you have already subscribed to the mailing list, you will receive the Zoom link and need not sign up again. Here is the abstract: In this talk, I examine the role of ancient Greek medicine and philosophy in Georges Canguilhem?s analysis of vitalism at the intersection of history and philosophy in his essay ?Aspects of Vitalism? (1946) in light of larger questions about the historicity of ?life? as a concept in the history and philosophy of science and contemporary biopolitical theory. Vitalism, for Canguilhem, is not a proper object of the history of science. But nor is it a philosophy that exists outside of historical time. I show how Canguilhem embeds vitalism both historically and trans-historically by threading each of its three ?aspects? in the essay through ancient Greece. Canguilhem distinguishes his own understanding of both life and vitalism from that of the ?classical? vitalists of the eighteenth century by refusing to read ancient Greece as romantically na?ve or pre-technological. He instead locates a dialectic between vitalism and mechanism already in antiquity. I argue for a critical re-reading of Canguilhem?s own conjunction of vitalism and Hellenism that resists its figuration of ancient Greece as the place where the human qua species first comes to take itself as an object of knowledge. I instead propose reading ancient Greek medical and philosophical texts that are read and reread in debates about the nature of human life and the life of Nature over millennia as part of a milieu that shapes how contemporary thinkers theorize life in the interest of human flourishing. We hope to see you there for what promises to be a great talk, Tristan Tristan Bradshaw Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Co-director, Critical Antiquities Network The University of Sydney Department of Classics and Ancient History School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Office: H606, Main Quadrangle | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 +61 406 747 955 tristan.bradshaw at sydney.edu.au | fass.can at sydney.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful applicant will be expected to pursue an active research programme, produce high quality publications, participate in the department's research culture, contribute to teaching at all levels, and undertake appropriate administrative roles and curriculum development as required. Applicants should: o have an outstanding research record and compelling future research programme in the area of Ancient Greek Philosophy o be able to teach from introductory through to advanced undergraduate level in relevant areas (for example, but not limited to, Early Greek Philosophy, Plato and Aristotle, and Hellenistic philosophy) and be able to develop new units of study where needed o be able to supervise Honours, Masters and PhD students in their areas of expertise. About you The University values courage and creativity; openness and engagement; inclusion and diversity; and respect and integrity. As such, we see the importance of recruiting talent aligned to these values and are looking for a Lecturer in Ancient Greek Philosophy who has: o a PhD in Ancient Greek Philosophy o research expertise in Ancient Greek Philosophy, demonstrated through high quality publications o an active research program with significant potential for future publication in highly regarded peer-reviewed international journals and presses o experience as a philosophy teacher at the tertiary level o capacity for high quality teaching in a range of areas relevant to Ancient Greek Philosophy, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, from large introductory units through to specialised advanced seminars o capacity to supervise Honours and postgraduate students o capacity to contribute to curriculum development o capacity to undertake academic administrative roles o a collegial approach and capacity for successful teamwork Other Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role required pre-employment or background checks in terms satisfactory to the University. 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When Friday, 27th August 2021 Where: University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney Broadway Campus (exact location tbc), with all or parts of the workshop being also live-streamed via Zoom Fictional films and television programs can entertain, uplift, distract and educate us, but could they also help to make us better people? This workshop is part of an ongoing research project that aims to bring together moral philosophy with film and television studies in order to demonstrate how fictional film and television can help us deepen and expand our understanding of the virtues and how they can be cultivated. Topics for this workshop include (but are not limited to): > Looking at individual virtues and the ways in which fictional screen media can offer us new insights > Discussing what film and television can ? and cannot ? teach us about virtues > Representations of vices and their correlating virtues on screen > Conceptualising the distinctiveness of screen fiction in exploring virtues and vices > Investigating the potential applications of these fictional screen representations for character education programs in schools The workshop particularly aims to encourage a discussion of virtues across disciplines and we welcome proposals from a range of disciplines, in particular philosophy, theology and religious studies, film and television studies, and education. This workshop is part of a collaborative project between researchers in the School of Arts and Sciences and the Institute for Ethics and Society at The University of Notre Dame Australia. Short proposals (ca. 300 words) for 20 minute papers either to be presented in person at the workshop or for participation via zoom should be sent to Dr Sylvie Magerst?dt (sylvie.magerstaedt at nd.edu.au) by 09 July 2021. If you have any queries about this workshop, please don?t hesitate to get in touch. Best wishes Sylvie ______________________ Dr Sylvie Magerstaedt, FHEA Senior Lecturer in Film and Media School of Arts and Sciences University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney The University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney acknowledges the original custodians of this land, the Cadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future. For they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Aboriginal Australia. Disclaimer The information contained in this communication from the sender is confidential. It is intended solely for use by the recipient and others authorized to receive it. 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