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Lecture Jack Halberstam - mdw, 16.5., 17:00

by Flora Löffelmann

Dear all, I want to share this invitation to an event at mdw with you all! Event: Pre-opening: International Research Center Gender and Performativity Speaker: Jack Halberstam Title: Unworlding: Trans* Architectures When/where: Thursday, May 16th, 5pm at Großer Seminarraum (E0101), IKM / Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien Abstract: Today, I am going to lay out some ideas that build on many different aesthetic performances and practices involving trans bodies and that search for and produce new vocabularies for discussing transness and new deployments of transness for the project of dismantling world and worldedness as concepts that hold current political realities in place. I will look at trans anarchitectures alongside performances like Faye Driscoll’s incredible event, “Weathering,” to delineate what is meant by unworlding, what practices and aesthetic gestures it implies and what im/possible futures it imagines. Unworlding is a philosophy and an anti-anti-utopian idea that breaks with world-building projects (such as those found in early queer theory), and charts a course for queer and trans art that skews towards violence, acts of undoing and dismantling and the embrace of entropic unraveling. What might this look like in terms of a politics of representation, particularly one oriented around trans and queer bodies? Biography: Jack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, 2020 from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: Unworlding: An Aesthetics of Collapse. Halberstam was recently the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton. Halberstam was recently named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Find more Info here: https://www.mdw.ac.at/ikm/gender-studies/?PageId=4770 All the best, Flora Löffelmann, MA MA University assistant & doctoral candidate Department of Philosophy at University of Vienna Pronouns: they/them (for more info see: https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why/) Happy about a gender neutral "hello"!

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Khora Kolloquium am 16.05. 18:30 HS 3D: "Georges Bataille: Immanenz, Kommunikation und der Hass der Poesie"

by Adrian Fleisch

Liebe Kolleg:innen, Ich darf ganz herzlich zum Nächsten Khora-Kolloquium diesen Donnerstag, den 16.05. um 18:30 im Hörsaal 3D einladen. Dieses Mal wird uns mit Maximilian Margreiter ein ausgewiesener Bataille-Experte das Verhältnis von Poesie und dem Begriff des Unmöglichen bei Bataille vorstellen: *Immanenz, Kommunikation und der Hass der Poesie. Batailles Denken des Unmöglichen zwischen Literatur, Ökonomie und Erotik* Georges Batailles vielschichtiges und disparat wirkendes Werk kreist um ein zentrales Problem: Das Denken, und noch wichtiger, die Kommunikation des Unmöglichen. Dieses Unmögliche ist es, was uns nach Bataille als menschliche Wesen ausmacht und uns eine souveräne Existenz verleiht. Wir werden dem Unmöglichen unter anderem in den antiökonomischen Formen des Opfers, des Festes, der Verschwendung gewahr, welche sich dem Primat der Nützlichkeit entziehen, in der erotischen Ekstase, die eine Bejahung des Lebens bis in den Tod darstellt, und in der Literatur, insbesondere der Poesie, die die Kommunikation schlechthin ist. Im Unmöglichen findet sich nach Bataille das Subjekt wieder, als das, was es wirklich ist, als Riss, an dem eine intensive Kommunikation stattfindet, die in die Immanenz verweist. 1962, kurz vor seinem Tod, gibt Bataille seine Erzählung Der Hass der Poesie, versehen mit einem neuen Vorwort unter dem Titel Das Unmöglicheneu heraus. Diese Verbindung zwischen dem Unmöglichen und der Literatur, speziell in der Form der Poesie, die Bataille so an seinem Lebensende nochmals betont hat, eröffnet einen Zugang zu einem sonst oft kryptisch und unstrukturiert anmutenden Werk. Wie immer werden wir danach im Gagarin reservieren. Wir freuen uns auf euer Kommen. Bitte schreibt an mich oder an khoraplattform(a)gmail.com, wenn Ihr die behandelten kurzen Textpassagen zugesendet bekommen möchtet. Liebe Grüße Adrian Fleisch

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Phänomenologische Forschungen - 16. Mai 2024 - Ruud Welten: Levinas and Lacan: Reflections on Language and Psychosis

by Institut für Philosophie

Phänomenologische Forschungen - 16. Mai 2024 - Ruud Welten: Levinas and Lacan: Reflections on Language and Psychosis Liebe Kolleg_innen, wir möchten Sie herzlich zur nächsten Veranstaltung der Vortragsreihe „Phänomenologische Forschungen“ einladen: 16.05.2024, 18.30–20.00 Uhr, Hörsaal 2H (Vortrag) //Ruud Welten (Erasmus University Rotterdam): "Levinas and Lacan: Reflections on Language and Psychosis" Mit besten Grüßen, Michael Staudigl, Gerhard Unterthurner https://phaenomenologie.univie.ac.at/forschung/vorlesungsreihe-phaenomenolo… <https://phaenomenologie.univie.ac.at/forschung/vorlesungsreihe-phaenomenolo…>

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Wittgen=steine: Two talks this term

by Martin Kusch

Dear All, The "Wittgen=steine" series (organized by the Wittgenstein Research Group) features two talks this term: April 12th, 2024; 3:00pm to 4:30pm, HS 3A: Pavel Arazim: "Therapie(n) als Methode(n) -- warum und wie? Vergleich der Antiphilosophie Wittgensteins und Bergsons" May 14th, 2024: 3:00pm to 4:30pm, HS 3A: Anna Boncompagni: "Once more with feeling" A feminist-Wittgensteinian take on language and liberation" Abstracts: Pavel Arazim: "Therapie(n) als Methode(n) - warum und wie?" Wittgenstein wurde bereits mit vielen Autor:innen verglichen, kaum aber mit Bergson. Dabei war er wohl der populärste Philosoph unmittelbar bevor Wittgenstein bekannt wurde. Schon deshalb liegt es nahe, die Möglichkeit eines Einflusses zu untersuchen. Darüber hinaus wurden beide Autoren von William James inspiriert und entwickeln seinen Ansatz weiter, philosophische Probleme eher aufzulösen, statt sie zu lösen. Folgende Fragen sollen im Vortrag behandelt werden: Was bedeutet es für Bergson und Wittgenstein, dass eine philosophische Frage verschwinden soll? Inwiefern lässt sich dieser Zugang als allgemeine Auffassung der Philosophie verteidigen? Soll also Philosophie keine Thesen aufstellen und mit welcher Begründung? Womöglich hilft Bergsons Zugang zu Bewegung und Veränderung zum besseren Verständnis dessen, was Wittgenstein zu dieser Methodologie führen konnte. Die Wirklichkeit ist lebendig und dynamisch, und deswegen kann sie nicht mittels verallgemeinernder Begriffe ausgedrückt werden. Mein Anliegen besteht darin aufzuzeigen, wie sich dieser therapeutische und anti-theoretische Zugang im Verständnis der Normativität bei beiden Autoren widerspiegelt. Anna Boncompagni: "Once more with feeling ..." Recent work in feminist epistemology and philosophy of language highlights how language use contributes to oppressive practices. For instance, Tirrell (2012), building on Wilfrid Sellars and Robert Brandom, analyzes the normative power of derogatory terms and how they engender harmful actions and behaviors. McGowan (2019), developing David Lewis' approach, claims that conversational contributions enact norms and permissibility facts both within the conversation and in social practices, thereby constituting harms and keeping oppressive practices in place. Both perspectives are indebted to the Wittgensteinian notion of language games. In this paper, I retrace this inheritance and further argue for a Wittgensteinian understanding of these phenomena, also appealing to his concepts of rule-following and forms of life. However, rather than oppression, I apply these insights to liberation: I claim that certain moves in language games enact positive changes in social norms and forms of life. In particular, I apply this approach to linguistic moves related to LGBTQ issues. This Wittgensteinian-feminist framework, I argue, helps better understand both the difficulties and the potentialities of liberatory and innovative conversational moves. Everybody welcome! Best wishes from the organizers, Esther Heinrich Anja Weiberg Martin Kusch

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Trans*formations: Talk by Alosxa Tudor (SOAS London) - 16.5., 12:00

by Flora Löffelmann

Dear all, I want to cordially invite you to the second installment of the Trans*formations talk series! Trans* Philosophy is one of the most exciting 'new' strands of philosophical theorizing, and we are happy to host the second event on the topic at the Department of Philosophy, to be followed by more later this year. This time, we will be joined by Alyosxa Tudor, Chair of the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS London. Their work connects trans and queer feminist approaches with transnational feminism and postcolonial studies. Alyosxa’s main research interest lies in analysing (knowledge productions on) migrations, diasporas and borders in relation to critiques of Eurocentrism and to processes of gendering and racialisation. Title: Decolonising Trans/Gender Studies? Abstract: In this talk, I would like to discuss with you what it means to think of trans/gender studies as a field that engages with geopolitics, with transnational knowledge production, with histories of entangled oppressions and resistance movements. With this I try to go beyond what our attackers think trans/gender studies is towards defining what the broader field of trans/gender studies can be. Can it be a field of knowledge generation that aims for decolonisation? How can we make sure that decolonisation is not a metaphor, as Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang remind us? How can we mobilise histories and the theories and epistemologies generated from them in ways that are not reductive, simplistic and incapable of sitting with the complex contradictions that still need responsible and decisive actions in face of present-day injustices? How can we be accountable for our very different structural positions in this quest, in terms of location, postcolonial position, migratisation, queer- and transness, class and racialisation? Often this is contradictory and painful. But it must also be clear that taking a stance is necessary. When/Where: 16.5.2024, HS 3A, Neues Institutsgebäude (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien) Thanks to the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy and the Institute of Philosophy for co-financing this talk series! Looking forward to seeing many of you there! All the best, Flora Löffelmann P.S.: Please also invite others that could be interested, you find the poster attached! -- Flora Löffelmann, MA MA University assistant & doctoral candidate Department of Philosophy at University of Vienna Pronouns: they/them (for more info see: https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why/) Happy about a gender neutral "hello"!

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What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals" by Gary Steiner, 14.05, 16:45, 3C NiG

by VDS Philosophy

Dear All, You are very welcome to the talk "What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals" by Gary Steiner When: 14.05.2024 16:45 Where: Room 3C, Neues Institutsgebäude (NiG), 1010 Wien ABSTRACT Gary Steiner - Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Bucknell University, USA In this talk, Professor Steiner will provide an overview of central themes from his recent book What We Owe to Nonhuman Animals: The Historical Pretensions of Reason and the Ideal of Felt Kinship (Routledge, 2023). Where the Western philosophical tradition has maintained that the idea of human superiority over all non-human beings is a product of the impartial employment of reason, Professor Steiner argues that in fact the tradition has used reason as a tool for rationalizing this prior commitment to human superiority over the nonhuman world. Where the tradition has claimed that reason operates independently of our embodied and affective (emotional) constitution, Professor Steiner argues for the mutual interplay of reason and emotion in the formation of moral commitments, and he further argues for the conclusion that a great many nonhuman animals have rich subjective lives that in essential respects place them on a par with human beings. Rather than seeking to preserve the historical status of human beings as what Kant called "the titular lords of nature," we ought to broaden considerably our conception of the moral community so as to include all sentient beings as full and direct beneficiaries of moral concern. Snacks and drinks will be provided! The talk will be in English. If you have any questions, please contact Erich Linder (erich.linder(a)vetmeduni.ac.at).

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work-in-progress talk by Ewelina Grądzka, “Propaedeutic of Philosophy: Austrian Influences on the Heritage of Polish Didactics of Philosophy“

by Dilek Divan

Dear all, you are cordially invited to a work-in-progress talk by Ewelina Grądzka (UPJPII, Kraków, POL), taking place on Wed 5 June 2024, on “Propaedeutic of Philosophy: Austrian Influences on the Heritage of Polish Didactics of Philosophy“. (abstract below) The talk will take place at NIG, Hörsaal 3F (R 313), from 13.15-14.45 and is public. Abstract: Propaedeutic of philosophy was introduced into the Polish educational system in the 19th c. during the Partitions while one part of Poland, called Galicia, belonged to the Austria-Hungarian Empire. In the paper, I will present how this heritage evolved and how it influenced Polish education after the independence in 1918. First, I will analyze a discussion in the 1920s among Polish philosophers on the goals and content of the future program of propaedeutic of philosophy that emphasized the need to evolve from the Austrian model of teaching psychology and logic only. Secondly, I will present the ideas of the central figure of that discussion, Kazimierz Twardowski. I will analyze how the program proposed by him evolved between 1921/1922 and 1935, from the confinement to psychology and logic to a program that included ethics, aesthetics, sociology and incorporated discussion as one of the methodological tools. Among the reasons for this development might be the influence of the discussion among Polish philosophers to which I refer in the paper, but also more general developments in education politics of the time, and finally reforms that took place in the Austrian school system since 1918/19. Unfortunately, the work on reforming the propaedeutics of philosophy was discontinued with the establishment of the communist regime in Poland after the Second World War. You are all very welcome, best wishes. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Arne Moritz Professur für Ethik in Schule und Gesellschaft Fakultät für Philosophie und Bildungswissenschaft Institut für Philosophie/Zentrum für Lehrer*innenbildung Universität Wien https://homepage.univie.ac.at/arne.holger.moritz/ Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG) Universitätsstraße 7 Stiege I, Gang A, R. 312 1010 Wien -- Dilek Divan Organisationsassistenz Professur für Philosophie und Ethik in Schule und Gesellschaft Bürozeiten Mittwoch bis Freitag

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Maimonides Lectures

by Institut für Philosophie

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Auslobung Wiener Rupert-Riedl-Preis 2024

by Institut für Philosophie

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir möchten Sie gerne darauf aufmerksam machen, dass der Club of Vienna dieses Jahr wieder den *WIENER RUPERT-RIEDL-PREIS 2024* auslobt. In den eingereichten Arbeiten muss ein Bezug zur evolutionären Erkenntnistheorie ersichtlich sein, als deren Begründer Rupert Riedl gilt. Arbeiten, die neue oder kritische Zugänge zu evolutionstheoretischen Ansätzen aufgreifen, sind gleichermaßen willkommen. Gefördert werden theoretische und praxisbezogene Arbeiten aus den Geistes-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften sowie den Natur- und Technikwissenschaften. Wir bitten interessierte Nachwuchswissenschafter:innen, ihre Bewerbungsunterlagen in Pdf-Format bis zum*31. Mai 2024 * an __sekretariat(a)clubofvienna.org <mailto:sekretariat@clubofvienna.org> zu senden. *Kriterien der Preiswürdigkeit* - Verankerung in der Evolutionstheorie - Interdisziplinarität - gesellschaftliche Relevanz - wissenschaftliche Exzellenz Der Club of Vienna wendet sich mit dem Preis an den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs in den jeweiligen Disziplinen. Die Arbeiten können in deutscher und englischer Sprache verfasst sein und dürfen nicht älter als drei Jahre sein (ab 2021). Arbeiten, die bereis einmal eingereicht wurden, können kein zweites Mal berücksichtigt werden. *Preisgeld und Jury* Die Höhe des Preisgeldes beträgt *1.000 Euro. * Die Forschungsarbeiten werden von einem ExpertInnenkreis begutachtet. Die Entscheidung der Jury findet unter Ausschluss des Rechtswegs statt. *Einzureichende Unterlagen* - Forschungsarbeit (Diplom-, Masterarbeit, Dissertation, Habilitation) - Zusammenfassung der Forschungsarbeit auf 1-2 Seiten in deutscher Sprache - Beurteilung der Arbeit - Lebenslauf der Bewerberin bzw. des Bewerbers Die Informationen zur Preisausschreibung sind auch auf unserer Homepage abrufbar: http://www.clubofvienna.org/wiener-rupert-riedl-preis/bewerbung/ <http://www.clubofvienna.org/wiener-rupert-riedl-preis/bewerbung/> Für Rückfragen stehen wir gerne zur Verfügung. Mit besten Grüßen Sigrid Kroismayr Mag.a Dr.in Sigrid Kroismayr Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Gußhausstr. 30/230-1 A-1040 Wien www.clubofvienna.org <http://www.clubofvienna.org> mit freundlicher Unterstützung Wenn Sie keine weiteren Nachrichten erhalten wollen, senden Sie bitte eine Nachricht an sekretariat(a)clubofvienna.org <mailto:sekretariat@clubofvienna.org>

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Register now: Workshop "Biasing Mechanisms in Scientific Research, 31 May - 1 June 2024, Leibniz University Hannover

by Institut für Philosophie

We cordially invite you to our workshop on "Biasing Mechanisms in Scientific Research" - registration is now open! *BIASING MECHANISMS IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH <https://www.socrates.uni-hannover.de/en/news-events/upcoming-events/news/wo…>* * International Workshop Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany 31 May - 1 June 2024* *Register now! (Deadline: 22 May 2024 23:59 CEST) <https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/LTAgixiqpztxbodd55uWnIGNgdqD0+eTy6KP…>* In the philosophy of science, recent work has led to an emerging consensus that science is not value-free, and that values, including social and political values, play different roles in the research process. It has also become clear that, values can have both a positive and a negative impact on science. Sometimes, values can contribute to science’s epistemic and social goals, while other times, they can have a detrimental effect on science’s epistemic goals, i.e., biasing research results. With this framework in mind, the main goal of this workshop is to clarify the negative roles of values in scientific research, and in particular their sometimes-biasing effects. While it is well-known that biases impact scientific research results, we have a less clear understanding of the different types of biases, their mechanisms, and their scope. The workshop includes talks by invited speakers Anke Büter (Aarhus University), Heather Douglas (Michigan State University), Jacob Stegenga (University of Cambridge), and David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia). There is no participation fee. The workshop language is English; the workshop is in-person only. See the workshop website <https://www.socrates.uni-hannover.de/en/news-events/upcoming-events/news/wo…> for the programme and more information. If you have any questions, please contact the workshop organiser Prof. Dr. Torsten Wilholt (torsten.wilholt(a)philos.uni-hannover.de). /This workshop is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is a collaboration between SOCRATES <https://www.socrates.uni-hannover.de/en/> and the research project “A Philosophical Approach to Biasing Mechanisms in Scientific Research", which is a joint research project by Prof. Dr. Torsten Wilholt of Leibniz University Hannover and Prof. Dr. Manuela Fernández Pinto of the Centre for Applied Ethics at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Kolumbien)./ Best regards, Leonie Wiemeyer on behalf of the organising committee -- Dr. Leonie Wiemeyer (sie/she) Koordinatorin | Coordinator Office days: Tuesdays and alternate Thursdays “SOCRATES – Social Credibility and Trustworthiness of Expert Knowledge and Science-Based Information” DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe (KFG) 43, Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences Institut für Philosophie Leibniz Universität Hannover Lange Laube 32 30159 Hannover Germany E-Mail:leonie.wiemeyer@philos.uni-hannover.de Mobil: +49 (0)160 92470508 Telefon: +49 (0)511 762-14541 Find us online athttp://socrates.uni-hannover.de!

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