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by Franziska Reinhard

Dear all, we cordially invite you to the next talk of the APSE lecture series, delivered by Peter Vickers (Durham University). Title: The Institute of Ascertaining Scientific Consensus, or, How to Measure Scientific Community Opinion and Influence People When/Where: Thursday, June 1^st , 3-5pm, HS 2H, NIG Abstract: A solid, international scientific consensus is the best signal humanity ever gets that a specific scientific statement articulates an “established scientific fact”. It is thus surprising that there currently exists no good way to measure the strength of scientific consensus regarding a specific statement of interest. Indeed, scientists themselves don’t know when a claim can be called a ‘fact’ (as Ernst Mayr used to complain, and as one IPCC author recently complained). A good method for quickly, efficiently assessing mass scientific opinion is urgently needed, especially given the rise in ‘fake news’ and misleading information in the public sphere. Perhaps most significantly of all, recent studies have demonstrated the power of expert-community consensus information to correct misconceptions of laypersons, and, crucially, impact upon relevant choices and actions of those laypersons (such as getting vaccinated against COVID-19). The Institute for Ascertaining Scientific Consensus (IASC) seeks to become humanity’s premier means for measuring scientific community opinion on a given statement of interest. In June 2023 it conducts its first mass survey, targeting 20,000 scientists across 30 different academic institutions. Best wishes, Franziska Reinhard (on behalf of the APSE unit)

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ÖGGF Talk: Hil Malatino - "The Erickson Journals: Speculating the Trans 1970s"

by Flora Löffelmann

Hi all, The Gender Studies Association Austria (ÖGGF) and the Inter*Trans_Non-Binary working group will receive Hil Malatino (Penn State University) for an online lecture on Reed Erickson's archival material, entitled: "The Erickson Journals: Speculating the Trans 1970s". The lecture will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, at 18:00 (Vienna time). I have attached the flyer to this email. Everyone is very much welcome to attend. To get the Zoom link, please, contact Vitória Monteiro at the following email address: office(a)oeggf.at English automated captions should be available. All best, Flora -- 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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Khôra Kolloquium zu Maurice Merleau-Ponty

by Sebastian Krach

Sehr geehrte Kolleg:innen, ich möchte Sie im Namen von Khôra, der Plattform für philosophische Diskussion, herzlich zum nächsten Kolloquium einladen. Termin: 25.05.2023, 18:30 - 20:00, HS 3f, Neues Institutsgebäude Thema: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Das Sichtbare und das Unsichtbare Ein kurzer Text von Merleau-Ponty dient uns als Ausgangspunkt für die weitere Diskussion und soll in sein Denken einführen. Auf Anfrage wird der Text gerne zugesendet. Weitere Informationen sowie eine Mailingliste finden Sie auf unserer Homepage. https://www.khora.philo.at/ Danach ist im Café Gagarin reserviert. Wir freuen uns auf eure Teilnahme! Liebe Grüße Sebastian Krach

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APSE Talk - Ariane Hanemaayer - 25.5. - Where it hurts: Making Pain Medicine

by Sophie Juliane Veigl

Dear all, we cordially invite you to the upcoming talk of the APSE - lecture series, delivered by Ariane Hanemaayer (Brandon University) Title: Where it hurts: Making Pain Medicine When/Where: 25.5., 15-17pm, HS 2H If you are interested in joining us for dinner/drinks afterwards, write me an email (sophie.juliane.veigl(a)univie.ac.at)! everyone welcome! Abstract: What makes pain problematic? The nature of pain is contested, and over the 20th century, researchers from biomedical fields as diverse as surgery, anesthesiology, physiology, and neurology have sought to develop a unified theory to represent its causes and effects. In the clinic, the status of pain is subjective. Over the last century, many efforts have been made to raise awareness of the under-examined aspects of pain and to objectify it through the standardization of its measurement. There remains, however, a gap between the knowledge of and intervention on pain that has troubled the evidence-based medicine paradigm. In this presentation I explain the nature of this gap as a result of particular discursive and institutional relations. In particular, I focus on the rise of clinical pain measurement scales alongside the professionalization of the subspecialty of pain medicine. Drawing on material from a broader genealogical project on the biomedical sciences of pain, I argue that the techniques of pain management were developed in relation to a particular shift in the notion of clinical judgment within the medical discourse. I will situate this knowledge development within the broader societal and institutional events that rendered pain problematic, focusing on the establishment of the first pain clinic in the USA and the International Society for the Study of Pain. Kind regards, Sophie Veigl on behalf of the APSE-Unit -- Dr. Sophie Juliane Veigl, BSc., BA., MSc., MA. Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien E-Mail: sophie.juliane.veigl(a)univie.ac.at my pronouns are she/her

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Call for Participation - InterGender Course ""Learning to Read Differently" - October 2023

by Institut für Philosophie

Dear all, together with several people all over the university and Manu Sharma from our own institute, I am organizing an InterGender – International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Feminist Research Training course for PhD and late stage MA students, which will happen in October and is entitled "Learning to Read Differently". You can even get 7,5 or 10 ECTS credits for it! Here's a short description: Much academic work relies on existing texts and their interpretation. As scholars, we necessarily build on these knowledges transmitted to us by others in order to try to better understand power relations and their modes of action, to form our own arguments based on the texts, to make sense of certain social phenomena and to contribute to thinking_feeling about the world. All too often, this process of reading becomes so normalized that we hardly think about the consequences and premises of these practices of reading themselves. Therefore, we want to dedicate this PhD and MA course to the goal of “Learning to Read Differently”. Throughout the course, we will engage not only with how we read “texts” as they are commonly understood, but also with how we interpret the fabric of reality and the situations and phenomena we encounter in our research and beyond. Together, we want to explore what we choose to read or not to read, as well as the political implications that arise from these practices. Thus, the course aims to support participants in exercising reading practices and research methods that enable them to critically reflect upon the “standard” practices usually governed by white euro-anglo-centric academia, to challenge them, and to try out different approaches. Deadline for application is June 18, 2023. We invite all those who are interested to apply, and are happy if you also widely share this call with others! All the best, Flora -- 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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WORKSHOP INVITATION Pragmatic-Academic Event (VDP and UPsalon): "Combatting Gendered Exclusions - Good Practices for Philosophers"

by Institut für Philosophie

Dear all, UPsalon and the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy cordially invite you to a jointly organized pragmatic-academic event: "Combatting Gendered Marginalization and Exclusion - Good Practices for Philosophers". The workshop will be facilitated by Stephanie Deig (University of Lucerne). When: May 23rd, 4-6pm Where: VinziRast-Lokal mittendrin This workshop is open to persons of all genders working and studying at all levels of the department. We especially invite people with extensive teaching experience to share their perspectives and experiences on gendered exclusions and bystanding in academic settings. Please sign up to the workshop via the following link: https://forms.gle/6Dw4oDWibNCWCRTX7 Note that we only have 20 open spots; we will allocate them via a “first come, first serve” system. Brief workshop description: “The field of academic philosophy has a serious problem with the under-representation of women as well as persons who do not identify with the gender assigned to them at birth. This is due to structural forms of gendered marginalization and exclusion that create unsafe and harmful environments. In the first part of this workshop, participants will be introduced to how specific mechanisms, such as implicit bias, stereotype threat, as well as sexual and moral harassment manifest within philosophical settings: working, teaching, and learning, and how transforming certain conditions and practices could help combat them. In the second half of the workshop, participants will be given a theoretical introduction to bystander interventions and be encouraged (but not required) and given space to share their own experiences relevant to these questions to create awareness and discuss potential strategies that could be enacted locally. We will conclude by using these experiences as a basis for discussion about how bystanders can safely and productively intervene in instances of gendered wrongdoings. Even though the workshop focuses on gender-based exclusions, the convener seeks to create a space for discussing marginalization from an intersectional perspective." If you have a topic that you’d particularly like to discuss or are interested in contributing to the workshop, please contact Stephanie Deig at: stephanie.deig(a)unilu.ch Stephanie Deig, MA, is a PhD Candidate at the University of Lucerne. She is a co-founder of two organizations that have worked to combat gendered inequalities in the academic field of philosophy in Switzerland and is active as a board member with The Society for Women* in Philosophy Switzerland." Here you can find the link to the Good Practice Guide that Stephanie bases the presentation on (it is in DE and EN). https://www.swipswitzerland.org/good-practice-guide+ And here the event description on our website: https://upsalon.univie.ac.at/events/ Kind regards, Sonja (on behalf of UPsalon) -- Sonja Riegler, BA BA MA She/They Prae Doc Philosophy University of Vienna

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Conference: International Planning for Freedom. Otto Neurath's democratic planning theory in the context of the climate crisis. June 12-13

by Elisabeth Nemeth

Liebe Kolleg*innen, liebe Freund*innen, wir möchten Euch herzlich zu unserer Konferenz "International Planning for Freedom. Otto Neuraths demokratische Planungstheorie im Kontext der Klimakrise" einladen. ELisabeth Nemeth & Günther Sandner (Organisator*innen) Dear colleagues, dear friends, we would like to cordially invite you to our conference "International Planning for Freedom. Otto Neurath's democratic planning theory in the context of the climate crisis". Elisabeth Nemeth & Günther Sandner (organisers) International Conference: International Planning for Freedom. Otto Neurath's democratic planning theory in the context of the climate crisis A cooperation between Institute Vienna Circle (University of Vienna), Vienna Circle Society (Vienna), Chamber of Labor (Vienna), FWF Project Isotype. Origin, development, legacy (P 31500), Wien Museum. Only a few years ago it was hardly imaginable that demands for planned economy measures would be raised and publicly discussed again. Now the time has come. Ulrike Herrmann's book "Das Ende des Kapitalismus. Warum Wachstum und Klimaschutz nicht vereinbar sind – und wie wir in Zukunft leben werden" (2022) is a bestseller. Her central thesis is discussed in numerous public media: The transition from growth-dependent capitalism to a social and ecological circular economy will only be possible through a "private planned economy". What she understands by this has striking similarities with the ideas of economic planning that Otto Neurath conceived even before the First World War and continued to develop until the end of his life in 1945. An important point of reference for Neurath was Josef Popper-Lynkeus. The latter justified the demand for overall social planning with a radically individualistic ethic. Seen from today, this combination is surprising and inspiring - not least because Popper-Lynkeus and Neurath were among the first to introduce ecological viewpoints into economics. A highlight of the conference will be the screening of the film "Land of Promise" (UK 1946). The film was conceived by Neurath as a "film argument" and directed by Paul Rotha. It argues for combating the housing shortage in post-war England with extensively planned housing programme. The arguments put forward in the film bear a remarkable resemblance to the arguments Ulrike Herrmann puts forward today for a "private planned economy" as a transition to a circular economy. June 12th, 2023: Chamber of Labor - Bildungszentrum, Theresianumgasse 16-18, 1040 Vienna Conference language: German Please pre-register: Https://wien.arbeiterkammer.at/veranstaltungen (registration open from next week) June 13th, 2023: Erika Weinzierl-Hoersaal, University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna Conference language: English Please pre-register: office.wienerkreis(a)univie.ac.at ENTRANCE FREE. Please find the detailed program attached. PLEASE NOTE two events closely related to our conference: Institute Vienna Circle Philosophy of Science Colloquium Special Panel: Utopianism, Rationality, and Thought Experiments in Viennese Late Enlightenment June 14th, 2023, 15:00-17:00 Institut für Philosophie, Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, Lecture Room 2i https://philevents.org/event/show/110253 Contact: alexander.linsbichler(a)jku.at The Metrics of Energy: Accounting for Nature in the History of Social Science and Ecological Economics June 15th and 16th, 2023 International Workshop, organised by Anna Echterhölter and Marco Vianna Franco, University of Vienna (Key Research Area History of Science) in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Studies IHS Vienna (research group Energy, Environment, and Sustainable Economic Structures) https://fsp-wissenschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/upcoming-events/einzelansi… -- ao. Univ.-Prof.i.R. Dr. Elisabeth Nemeth Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien 1010 Wien, Universitätsstraße 7 T: +43-1-4277-46480 M: +43-664-60277-46480 elisabeth.nemeth(a)univie.ac.at https://elisabethnemeth.com/

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Khôra Kolloquium zu Georges Bataille

by Sebastian Krach

Sehr geehrte Kolleg:innen, ich möchte Sie im Namen von Khôra, der Plattform für philosophische Diskussion, herzlich zum nächsten Kolloquium einladen. Termin: 11.05.2023, 18:30 - 20:00, HS 3f, Neues Institutsgebäude Thema: Bataille: Denken heißt Grenzen überschreiten Ein kurzer Text von Georges Bataille dient uns als Ausgangspunkt für die weitere Diskussion und soll in sein Denken einführen. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf unserer Homepage. https://www.khora.philo.at/ Danach ist im Café Gagarin reserviert. Wir freuen uns auf eure Teilnahme! Liebe Grüße Sebastian Krach

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CEU event: The Problem of Evil, Jorge Secada, 9th May

by Sigrid Preissl

Dear all Jorge Secada will give a talk at CEU on 9th May: The Problem of Evil Abstract The paper first suggests a problem threatening any version of the problem of evil (that is, or arguments purporting to show that either God cannot exist or that it is improbable that God exists, given the existence of evil or of some particular instance of evil). The ultimate aim of the paper is to recast replies to the problem of evil away from theodicies or justifications. For more information and to register, please click here<https://events.ceu.edu/2023-05-09/problem-evil>. [https://events.ceu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/crop_promo_image/public/i…]<https://events.ceu.edu/2023-05-09/problem-evil> The Problem of Evil<https://events.ceu.edu/2023-05-09/problem-evil> events.ceu.edu Kind regards Sigrid Dr. Sigrid Preissl (she/her) Department Coordinator Central European University Department of Philosophy Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Wien | Austria Office: Room D426 Working hours: Monday 09:00 – 17:00; Tuesday 09:30 – 17:30; Wednesday and Thursday 09:00 – 16:00 This message is intended for the individual named above and is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender. Central European University (CEU) is an undergraduate- and graduate-level private university accredited in the United States, Austria, and Hungary. CEU’s educational activities in Austria are performed at Central European University Private University by CEU GmbH, a private limited-liability company having its seat in Vienna, under the address Quellenstrasse 51, A-1100 Wien, and is registered at the Vienna Commercial Court under registration number FN 502313 x. CEU’s educational activities in Hungary are performed by Közép-európai Egyetem, at Nádor utca 9., 1051 Budapest, under registration number FI 27861. CEU is accredited in the US, with a registered address at 224 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019, USA.

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Aussendung DSPL43: FÖP 22.05.2023 ab 15:00 Uhr

by Institut für Philosophie

Liebe Kolleg*innen, im Anhang schicke ich Ihnen den Aushang für die kommende FÖP der DSPL43( Philosophie) am Montag, 22.05.2023 ab 15:00. Bitte beachten Sie, dass die FÖP dieses Semester vor Ort im Hörsaal 3B (3. Stock, NIG) stattfindet. Dear colleague, Please find attached the schedule for our next faculty-public presentation (FÖP) of doctoral research projects on Monday 22nd 2023 from 3 p.m. onwards. Participants are welcome! Please note that this semester the FÖP will be held on site in Hörsaal 3B (3. Stock, NIG). Mit besten Grüßen, With best wishes, Benjamin Schnieder, DSPL43

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