Friday, October 7, 2011
Feagin Fail Movies
We talked in class today about movies that didn't quite conform to Feagin's idea of tragedies as works for which one's positive meta-response outweighs the negative direct-response. _Happiness_, _Requiem for a Dream_ and _White Ribbon_ were mentioned. What other notable cases have you encountered, and how did they have a troubling meta-response. _Freaks_ comes to mind for me.
BEGINNING OF TERM PARTY
October 16th, 2011
Great Hall, University College
2-5 pm
This will be a family friendly event, so bring your partners and children if you got them!
Great Hall, University College
2-5 pm
This will be a family friendly event, so bring your partners and children if you got them!
Thursday, October 6, 2011
University of Manitoba Speaker Series
Fall Term:
Sept. 30: Dan Korman, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Nov. 4: Derek Brown, Brandon University
Nov. 18: Dennis Whitcomb, Western Washington University
Nov. 25: Esa Diaz-Leon, University of Manitoba
Winter Term:
Jan. 20: Meena Krishnamurthy, University of Manitoba
Feb. 10: Simone Mahrenholz, University of Manitoba
Mar. 9: Shieva Kleinschmidt, University of Southern California
Mar. 23: David Liebesman, Boston University
Sept. 30: Dan Korman, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Nov. 4: Derek Brown, Brandon University
Nov. 18: Dennis Whitcomb, Western Washington University
Nov. 25: Esa Diaz-Leon, University of Manitoba
Winter Term:
Jan. 20: Meena Krishnamurthy, University of Manitoba
Feb. 10: Simone Mahrenholz, University of Manitoba
Mar. 9: Shieva Kleinschmidt, University of Southern California
Mar. 23: David Liebesman, Boston University
COPYRIGHT: What Graduate Students Need To Know
Copyright
What Graduate Students Need To Know
Copyright is complex. Attend an information session for an overview on copyright law,
fair dealing, when copyright permission is needed, how to obtain permission, using free resources, and more.
You are responsible for ensuring you do not infringe copyright. Remember, use it fairly - keep it legal.
Fort Garry session
Thursday, October 20, 2011
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Cross Common Room, St. John’s College
Bannatyne session
Monday, October 31, 2011
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Theatre A, Basic Medical Sciences Bldg
Online evening session
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Central Standard Time (CST)
Connect from your home or office
RSVP juliette_nadeau@umanitoba.ca to pre-register
High-speed Internet and speakers/earbuds needed
What Graduate Students Need To Know
Copyright is complex. Attend an information session for an overview on copyright law,
fair dealing, when copyright permission is needed, how to obtain permission, using free resources, and more.
You are responsible for ensuring you do not infringe copyright. Remember, use it fairly - keep it legal.
Fort Garry session
Thursday, October 20, 2011
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Cross Common Room, St. John’s College
Bannatyne session
Monday, October 31, 2011
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Theatre A, Basic Medical Sciences Bldg
Online evening session
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Central Standard Time (CST)
Connect from your home or office
RSVP juliette_nadeau@umanitoba.ca to pre-register
High-speed Internet and speakers/earbuds needed
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
CHARLES TAYLOR @ The University of Winnipeg
Charles Taylor @ the University of Winnipeg (take 2)
Due to illness, last years lecture was cancelled. I was just informed that they are trying to make it happen yet.
Here is the info.
Topic: Solidarity and Diversity in a Secular Age: Managing Belief and Unbelief in the Public Square
Date: Wednesday October 19th, 2011
Time: 7:30pm
Location: University of Winnipeg (515 Portage Avenue)
Free Admission. Talk takes place in the U of W’s Eckhardt-Grammate Hall.
Globally renowned Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor will deliver a lecture titled “Solidarity and Diversity in a Secular Age: Managing Belief and Unbelief in the Public Square,” which is based on his 2007 magnum opus, A Secular Age.
Dr. Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University. He was the co-chair of the Taylor-Bouchard Commission on Reasonable Accommodation in Quebec. Dr. Taylor was the recipient of the 2008 Kyoto Prize in arts and philosophy and the 2007 Templeton Prize for progress towards research or discoveries about spiritual realities, which included a cash award of US$1.5 million.
Highly respected sociologist of religion Robert Bellah has called A Secular Age “one of the most important books to be written in my lifetime.”
“The change I want to define and trace is one which takes us from a society in which it was virtually impossible not to believe in God, to one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is one human possibility among others,” Dr. Taylor writes in the book.
Due to illness, last years lecture was cancelled. I was just informed that they are trying to make it happen yet.
Here is the info.
Topic: Solidarity and Diversity in a Secular Age: Managing Belief and Unbelief in the Public Square
Date: Wednesday October 19th, 2011
Time: 7:30pm
Location: University of Winnipeg (515 Portage Avenue)
Free Admission. Talk takes place in the U of W’s Eckhardt-Grammate Hall.
Globally renowned Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor will deliver a lecture titled “Solidarity and Diversity in a Secular Age: Managing Belief and Unbelief in the Public Square,” which is based on his 2007 magnum opus, A Secular Age.
Dr. Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University. He was the co-chair of the Taylor-Bouchard Commission on Reasonable Accommodation in Quebec. Dr. Taylor was the recipient of the 2008 Kyoto Prize in arts and philosophy and the 2007 Templeton Prize for progress towards research or discoveries about spiritual realities, which included a cash award of US$1.5 million.
Highly respected sociologist of religion Robert Bellah has called A Secular Age “one of the most important books to be written in my lifetime.”
“The change I want to define and trace is one which takes us from a society in which it was virtually impossible not to believe in God, to one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is one human possibility among others,” Dr. Taylor writes in the book.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
IHS Summer Seminars on Liberty - Current Issues & Careers
IHS Summer Seminars on Liberty - Current Issues & Careers
Dear Student Coordinator,
There are three weeks left for students to apply to our Summer Seminars on liberty. We offer 12 weeklong seminars that explore ideas such as free expression and equality under the law and how these ideas apply to topics in history, philosophy, law, and economics.
Our topical seminars focus on political and economic theories such as the invisible hand and their relationship to current issues, including immigration and the size of government. The Exploring Liberty seminar examines the foundations of a free society, while the Liberty & Society seminar delves into the ideas of thinkers such as F.A. Hayek and John Locke.
The career-oriented seminars explain how classical liberal insights apply to careers in public policy, journalism, and academia. The Journalism & a Free Society seminar features acclaimed journalists such as the senior editor of Reason Magazine. Liberty & Leviathan analyzes non-governmental solutions to current policy issues. For future academics, I recommend the research workshop, Scholarship & a Free Society.
View the seminar schedule.
Students can get a preview of seminar lectures by watching full length talks at our new beta lecture site LearnLiberty.org. Many videos feature professors on our seminar faculty.
There is no cost to attend. Participants only cover their travel to one of the college campus locations throughout the United States.
Students who apply by March 15 are eligible to receive a free book such as The Law or Economics in One Lesson. The final application deadline is March 31.
Please tell your students about the Summer Seminars.
More information is at www.TheIHS.org/seminars.
Download our three program flyers.
Share the seminar URL on social media: post to Facebook; post to Twitter.
I appreciate your help.
Cheers,
Keri
Keri Anderson
Student Coordinator
Institute for Humane Studies
www.TheIHS.org
Connect with IHS
____________________________________________
Institute for Humane Studies - 3301 N Fairfax Drive, Suite 440 - Arlington, VA 22201-4432
Dear Student Coordinator,
There are three weeks left for students to apply to our Summer Seminars on liberty. We offer 12 weeklong seminars that explore ideas such as free expression and equality under the law and how these ideas apply to topics in history, philosophy, law, and economics.
Our topical seminars focus on political and economic theories such as the invisible hand and their relationship to current issues, including immigration and the size of government. The Exploring Liberty seminar examines the foundations of a free society, while the Liberty & Society seminar delves into the ideas of thinkers such as F.A. Hayek and John Locke.
The career-oriented seminars explain how classical liberal insights apply to careers in public policy, journalism, and academia. The Journalism & a Free Society seminar features acclaimed journalists such as the senior editor of Reason Magazine. Liberty & Leviathan analyzes non-governmental solutions to current policy issues. For future academics, I recommend the research workshop, Scholarship & a Free Society.
View the seminar schedule.
Students can get a preview of seminar lectures by watching full length talks at our new beta lecture site LearnLiberty.org. Many videos feature professors on our seminar faculty.
There is no cost to attend. Participants only cover their travel to one of the college campus locations throughout the United States.
Students who apply by March 15 are eligible to receive a free book such as The Law or Economics in One Lesson. The final application deadline is March 31.
Please tell your students about the Summer Seminars.
More information is at www.TheIHS.org/seminars.
Download our three program flyers.
Share the seminar URL on social media: post to Facebook; post to Twitter.
I appreciate your help.
Cheers,
Keri
Keri Anderson
Student Coordinator
Institute for Humane Studies
www.TheIHS.org
Connect with IHS
____________________________________________
Institute for Humane Studies - 3301 N Fairfax Drive, Suite 440 - Arlington, VA 22201-4432
Monday, March 7, 2011
The Nature of Law: Contemporary Perspectives
A call for Commentators and Notice of McMaster Univesity’s upcoming conference:
The Nature of Law: Contemporary Perspectives
May 13-15th, 2011
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
McMaster University’s Philosophy Department is pleased to invite philosophers and legal scholars to attend and to comment upon the main-program papers of our conference, The Nature of Law: Contemporary Perspectives. If you would like the opportunity to offer your critical expertise within this event, please attend to the information below. Or, if you are just interested attending this international forum for legal theory, please see our webiste at: tnl.mcmaster.ca
Information for Commentators:
Theoretical Background Request: To best match our program-papers with our commentators, please provide us with:
1) A short (100 words max.) expression of interest, pertaining to which paper you would like to comment upon, and why.
2) Your (short or long) CV, in Word format.
Contact Information:
1) Please send this information to: tnl@mcmaster.ca
2) Please use “CFC Reply” as the subject line of your correspondence.
Deadline: We will begin rolling acceptances for commentators on March 25th, 2011, in order to give us time to find the best matches.
Session Format:
Main papers will be approximately 30 minutes long. And, your commentary will be expected to last 10-15 minutes (maximum).
Conference Content:
The Nature of Law: Contemporary Perspectives includes work from a diverse and reknowned group of scholars, including six keynote sessions. The opportunity for commentary is restricted to the main-program papers, listed below:
Keynote Speakers:
Julie Dickson
Mike Giudice
Matthew Kramer
Brian Leiter
Margaret Martin
Mark Murphy
Scott Shapiro
Main-Program Presenters:
Brian Bix (University of Minnesota School of Law) “The Radbruch Formula”
Tom Campbell (Australia National University College of Law) “Explanation and Prescription in Applied Legal Philosophy”
Jonathan Crowe (T. C. Beirne School of Law) “Four Routes to the Dependence Thesis”
Andrea Dolcetti (Oxford) and Giovanni Ratti (University of Girona) “Legal Disagreements and the Dual Nature of Law”
Kenneth Ehrenberg (SUNY- Buffalo) “Three Arguments Against the Razian Notion that Law Claims to Exclude”
Imer Flores (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) “The Problem of the Nature of Law and of Legal Rationality Revisited”
Ken Himma (Seattle Pacific University) “Hart and Austin Together Again for the First Time”
Barry Hoffmaster (University of Western Ontario Dept of Philosophy) “The Rationality of Judging and Judges”
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Hall Law School) “Law's Natures”
Katherine Kim (Wayne State University) “Acceptability, Impartiality, and Peremptory Norms of General International Law”
Sari Kisilevskey (Queens College, CUNY) “Easy Cases And Social Sources: Towards a New Defence of Legal Positivism”
Barbara Levenbrook (North Carolina State University) “How to Hold the Social Fact Thesis—a Reply to Greenberg and Toh”
David Plunkett (UCLA School of Law) “Legal Positivism and Judicial Interpretative Practice”
Dan Priel (Osgoode Hall School of Law) “The Significance of Politics to Debates about the Nature of Law”
Anthony Reeves (Binghamton University) “The Authority of Law in Nascent Legal Systems: The Moral Claims of International Law”
Arie Rosen (New York University) “The Normative Fallacy Regarding Authority”
Fred Schauer (University of Virginia) “On the Nature of the Nature of Law”
Roger Shiner (University of Alberta) “Neuro-Science and the Nature of Law”
Natalie Stoljar (McGill), “Three Concepts of Law”
Noel Struchiner (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) “No Empathy Towards Empathy”
For the full schedule of conference events, see:
http://tnl.mcmaster.ca/conference/program.html
For general conference information, see:
tnl.mcmaster.ca
The Nature of Law: Contemporary Perspectives
May 13-15th, 2011
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
McMaster University’s Philosophy Department is pleased to invite philosophers and legal scholars to attend and to comment upon the main-program papers of our conference, The Nature of Law: Contemporary Perspectives. If you would like the opportunity to offer your critical expertise within this event, please attend to the information below. Or, if you are just interested attending this international forum for legal theory, please see our webiste at: tnl.mcmaster.ca
Information for Commentators:
Theoretical Background Request: To best match our program-papers with our commentators, please provide us with:
1) A short (100 words max.) expression of interest, pertaining to which paper you would like to comment upon, and why.
2) Your (short or long) CV, in Word format.
Contact Information:
1) Please send this information to: tnl@mcmaster.ca
2) Please use “CFC Reply” as the subject line of your correspondence.
Deadline: We will begin rolling acceptances for commentators on March 25th, 2011, in order to give us time to find the best matches.
Session Format:
Main papers will be approximately 30 minutes long. And, your commentary will be expected to last 10-15 minutes (maximum).
Conference Content:
The Nature of Law: Contemporary Perspectives includes work from a diverse and reknowned group of scholars, including six keynote sessions. The opportunity for commentary is restricted to the main-program papers, listed below:
Keynote Speakers:
Julie Dickson
Mike Giudice
Matthew Kramer
Brian Leiter
Margaret Martin
Mark Murphy
Scott Shapiro
Main-Program Presenters:
Brian Bix (University of Minnesota School of Law) “The Radbruch Formula”
Tom Campbell (Australia National University College of Law) “Explanation and Prescription in Applied Legal Philosophy”
Jonathan Crowe (T. C. Beirne School of Law) “Four Routes to the Dependence Thesis”
Andrea Dolcetti (Oxford) and Giovanni Ratti (University of Girona) “Legal Disagreements and the Dual Nature of Law”
Kenneth Ehrenberg (SUNY- Buffalo) “Three Arguments Against the Razian Notion that Law Claims to Exclude”
Imer Flores (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) “The Problem of the Nature of Law and of Legal Rationality Revisited”
Ken Himma (Seattle Pacific University) “Hart and Austin Together Again for the First Time”
Barry Hoffmaster (University of Western Ontario Dept of Philosophy) “The Rationality of Judging and Judges”
Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode Hall Law School) “Law's Natures”
Katherine Kim (Wayne State University) “Acceptability, Impartiality, and Peremptory Norms of General International Law”
Sari Kisilevskey (Queens College, CUNY) “Easy Cases And Social Sources: Towards a New Defence of Legal Positivism”
Barbara Levenbrook (North Carolina State University) “How to Hold the Social Fact Thesis—a Reply to Greenberg and Toh”
David Plunkett (UCLA School of Law) “Legal Positivism and Judicial Interpretative Practice”
Dan Priel (Osgoode Hall School of Law) “The Significance of Politics to Debates about the Nature of Law”
Anthony Reeves (Binghamton University) “The Authority of Law in Nascent Legal Systems: The Moral Claims of International Law”
Arie Rosen (New York University) “The Normative Fallacy Regarding Authority”
Fred Schauer (University of Virginia) “On the Nature of the Nature of Law”
Roger Shiner (University of Alberta) “Neuro-Science and the Nature of Law”
Natalie Stoljar (McGill), “Three Concepts of Law”
Noel Struchiner (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) “No Empathy Towards Empathy”
For the full schedule of conference events, see:
http://tnl.mcmaster.ca/conference/program.html
For general conference information, see:
tnl.mcmaster.ca
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