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Department of Philosophy Upcoming Events

October

Thursday, October 2

Phi Sigma Tau presents:

"Graduate School in Philosophy: A Guide for the Perplexed"

An informative presentation given by SIUE Professors Dr. Bryan Lueck and Dr. Lucian Stone.

Thursday, Oct. 2nd

5:30 PM

Peck Hall 0317

Wednesday, October 8

Phi Sigma Tau presents:

Susan Bordo Discussion Group

5:30 PM Willow Room (MUC)

"Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture" (139-164), "The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity" (165-184), and "Reading the Slender Body" (185-212)

This event is open to the public.

Please contact Mindy Young-Lawson at myoung@siue.edu with any questions.

Wednesday, October 15

Cosmopolitan Iran: A Speaker and Film Series presents:

Film Screening: The Wind Will Carry Us

a film by Abbas Kiarostami

Introduction by Negar Mottahedeh (Duke University)

5:00 PM

Lovejoy Library - Abbot Auditorium (Room 0044)

Thursday, October 16

Cosmopolitan Iran: A Speaker and Film Series presents:

Islamic Cyborgs? A Study of Iran's Mystical Cinema

Negar Mottahedeh (Dukie University)

5:00 PM

Morris University Center - Hickory/Hackberry/Oak/Redbud Room

Wednesday, October 22

Phi Sigma Tau presents:

Susan Bordo Discussion Group

5:30 PM Willow Room (MUC)

"Material Girl" (245-275)

This event is open to the public.

Please contact Mindy Young-Lawson at myoung@siue.edu with any questions.

Friday, October 24

3rd Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at SIUE

1:00 - 5:00 PM

All papers will be read in the Oak/Redbud room in the Morris University Center.

For a more detailed schedule please click on the link for the 3rd Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Homepage.

Keynote Address:

"Beyond 'Eating Disorders': Why We Have to Re-think Everything We Thought We Knew"

Professor Susan Bordo (University of Kentucky)

7:00-9:00 PM

Meridian Ballroom in the Morris University Center

Saturday, October 25

3rd Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

9:00 AM - 6:30 PM (note: there will be a break from 12:15-2:00 PM)

All papers will be read in the Oak/Redbud Room in the Morris University Center.

For a more detailed schedule please click on the link for the 3rd Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Homepage.

November

Wednesday, November 19

Cosmopolitan Iran: A Speaker and Film Series presents:

Classical Persian Music Structures

Hossein Omoumi (University of California Irvine)

5:00 PM

Morris University Center - Meridian Ballroom

February

Wednesday, February 4

Cosmopolitan Iran: A Speaker and Film Series presents:

Film Screening: The Runner

a film by Amir Naderi

Introduction by Mindy Young-Lawson (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)

5:00 PM

Evergreen Hall - Multipurpose Room

Thursday, February 5

Cosmopolitan Iran: A Speaker and Film Series presents:

The World is My Home: On the Poetics of Cosmopolitanism

Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University)

5:00 PM

Morris University Center - Maple/Dogwood/Oak/Redbud Room

March

Wednesday, March 18

Cosmopolitan Iran: A Speaker and Film Series presents:

Film Screening: Offside

a film by Jafar Panahi

Introduction by Farshad Aminian-Tankei (Florida Gulf Cost University)

5:00 PM

Evergreen Hall - Multipurpose room

Thursday, March 19

Cosmopolitan Iran: A Speaker and Film Series presents:

"What Would You Like to Become?": Answers from Iranian School Children

Farshad Aminian-Tankei (Florida Gulf Coast University)

5:00 PM

Lovejoy Library - Abbot Auditorium (Room 0044)

Thursday, March 26

34th Annual Fritz Marti Lecture - "Worldy Understanding: Science, realism and objectivity" by Professor Arthur Fine

Reception: 4:30-5:00 p.m.    Lecture: 5:00 p.m.

Oak/Redbud Room, MUC

Arthur Fine is an American philosopher of science teaching at the University of Washington. Professor Fine taught for many years at Northwestern University and has held numerous visiting appointments including: Notre Dame, UCLA, Stanford, and Chicago as well as the London School of Economics and Cambridge University. A past president of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association and of the Philosophy of Science Association, Professor Fine serves on editorial boards of numerous professional journals as well as on Advisory Panels for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Sciences.

The author of numerous books and over one hundred articles and reviews, Professor Fine may be best known for proposing the Natural Ontological Attitude (NOA) as a resolution to the debates over scientific realism and for contributing to the development of one of the contending interpretations of quantum mechanics. His most recent articles include: “Epistemic Instrumentalism, Exceeding our Grasp” (2008), “Bohr's Response to EPR: Criticism and Defense” (2007), “Decoherence and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics” (2007), and “Relativism, Pragmatism and the Practice of Science” (2007).

April

Tuesday, April 7

Cosmopolitan Iran: A Speaker and Film Series presents:

Film Screening: The Willow Tree

a film by Majid Majidi

Introduction by Lucian Stone (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)

5:00 PM

Evergreen Hall - Multipurpose Room

Wednesday, April 8

Cosmopolitan Iran: A Speaker and Film Series presents:

From Cloistered to Cosmopolitan: Women's Representation in Iranian Cinema

Hamid Naficy (Northwestern University)

5:00 PM

Lovejoy Library - Abbot Auditorium (Room 0044)

Wednesday, April 29

Cosmopolitan Iran: A Speaker and Film Series presents:

Cosmopolitan Iran, Remembrance and the Future: An Open Forum

Lucian Stone (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)

5:00 PM

Morris University Center - Hickory/Hackberry/Oak/Redbud Room


For more of the Department of Philosophy Events please visit our Past Events page.

For philosophy events around the St. Louis area please visit the St. Louis Philosophy Event Calendar.





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