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REMINDER Call for Applications - Summer School on Climate Science - Vienna July 2023

by Zarah Weiss

Call for Applications (Deadline: March 15, 2023) Deadline extended to April 10, 2023 Climate Science: Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Issues univie: summer school Scientific World Conceptions (USS-SWC) Vienna, July 1019, 2023 Since 2001, the University of Vienna and the Institute Vienna Circle hold an annual summer school dedicated to major current issues in the natural and the social sciences, their history and philosophy. The title of the program reflects the heritage of the Vienna Circle which promoted interdisciplinary and philosophical investigations based on solid disciplinary knowledge. Climate science, understood as an interdisciplinary field of study of the Earths climate and the causes and effects of climate change, is clearly of central importance today. The summer school will explore climate studies from a historical, philosophical, and sociological perspective. Topics to be covered will include: foundations and methodological issues relating to climate science, including various definitions of climate change, different types of models of climate change, and the use of simulations; further, historical roots and the development of climate science before and after the computer age; finally, issues concerning science policy and the communication of findings of climate science to a general public. Topics will be selected reflecting participants interests and may include: Defining climate and climate change Evidence for climate change Modelling climate change: issues of confirmation and prediction Climate change and decision theory History of climate science as a research program Climate science in the public debate Lecturers: Candis Callison (University of British Columbia) <https://jwam.ubc.ca/profile/candis-callison/> https://jwam.ubc.ca/profile/candis-callison/ Deborah Coen (Yale University) <https://hshm.yale.edu/people/deborah-coen> https://hshm.yale.edu/people/deborah-coen Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida) <http://philosophy.usf.edu/faculty/ewinsberg/> http://philosophy.usf.edu/faculty/ewinsberg/ The program is primarily directed at graduate students and junior researchers in relevant fields, but the organizers also encourage applications from undergraduates and people in all stages of their career. Application form and further information: <https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/application/> https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/application/ USS-SWC operates under the academic supervision of an International Program Committee of distinguished philosophers, historians, and scientists. Its members represent the scientific fields in the scope of USS-SWC, make contact to their home universities and will also support acknowledgement of courses taken by the students. The annual summer school is organised by the Institute Vienna Circle of the University of Vienna. <https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/en/> https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/en/ Find information about our exchange programme with Duke University (North Carolina) here: <https://international.univie.ac.at/en/international-cooperation/university- wide-partnership-agreements/north-america/> https://international.univie.ac.at/en/international-cooperation/university-w ide-partnership-agreements/north-america/ Inquiries: Administrator: Zarah Weiss Institute Vienna Circle Alserstraße 23/32 1080 Wien <mailto:summerschool.ivc@univie.ac.at> summerschool.ivc(a)univie.ac.at Scientific director: Prof. Georg Schiemer Institute Vienna Circle Alserstraße 23/32 1080 Wien <mailto:georg.schiemer@univie.ac.at> georg.schiemer(a)univie.ac.at

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[Call for Papers] Futures Past: Feminism and the Radical Democratic Imaginary

by Sergej Seitz

Liebe Kolleg:innen, Anbei darf ich Sie auf einen CfP zum Verhältnis von Feminismus und radikaler Demokratie aufmerksam machen. Mit besten Grüßen Sergej Seitz Call for Papers Futures Past Feminism and the Radical Democratic Imaginary International Essay Workshop University of Vienna, Department of Political Science July 6-7th, 2023 Conveners: Linda Zerilli & Oliver Marchart Chicago–Vienna Faculty Grant & ERC Research Project Prefiguring Democratic Futures Aims and rationale The political history of Western feminism is typically described as encompassing various “waves” of theory and practice, with each wave building on, but also going beyond, an earlier wave. Thus, the second wave (1968-1980s) is seen as taking up and radicalizing the first wave (1848-1920) struggle for political rights by expanding the concept of rights and of politics itself beyond the confines of the formal political sphere; the third wave (1991-?) is seen as taking up and radicalizing the second wave’s concept of “women” as the political subject of feminism. Handy though this periodization may be, it has left many feminists wondering which wave they are in anymore. Some feminists argue that the various waves have given way to “intersectional feminism.” Still, that description does not address the fundamental question of what kind of critical political work the concept of a “wave” was supposed to do in the first place. It was not until 1968 that people started talking about feminism in terms of different waves, and that feminism came to be understood as having a history at all. This shift allowed feminists to root their political demand for change in a historical democratic struggle for social justice, not least as a way of countering the popular view of the women’s liberation movement as an impossibly utopian project made up by a bunch of social malcontents. In the workshop, we want to reflect on this periodization of feminism critically and explore how conceptualizations of the past shape imaginative visions of possible futures. How we understand the past directly affects what can count as a “realistic” course of social, political, and economic activity. Furthermore, our conception of the past is shaped by a projected future, and different societies have different ways of imagining the relations between their future and the past. Originating in the revolutionary eighteenth century, Western feminism’s conceptualization of this relation, its own “futures past” (to speak with Reinhard Koselleck), is characterized by an anticipatory and distinctively modern temporality that assumes the novelty and openness of the future. If the history of feminism calls at times for rewriting, that is less because new facts are discovered than because the ever-changing present opens new perspectives on the past and makes new demands on what it can mean. As a result, the past is figured more in terms of projected futures than fidelity to how things were. For this reason, feminist historiography is rife with debates about whose story is told, and the idea of a “wave” itself has been criticized as overly generalizing in ways that blind us to the far more fraught and complex histories not captured in its conceptual net. Thus, the workshop will provide space for scrutinizing the conceptual problems associated with producing historical knowledge and forms of periodization concerning feminist political futures. It is based on the premise that emancipatory politics is best described as an ongoing creation of the social-historical world, animated by collective radical imagination. Contributions will explore how an emerging new social movement like feminism developed alternative temporalities in response to the rapidly unfolding political crises of the time (e.g., the Vietnam War, nuclear arms race, the Cold War, desegregation and racial terror, and anti-colonial struggles). Like the new left politics in which many cut their political teeth, feminists sought to reveal a hegemonic order in which democracy had been hollowed out. But also, like the other new social movements (e.g., Black Power, the student movement, environmentalism, and radical pacifism) that arose in the 60s and 70s in both Europe and the United States, feminist visions of social change have been accused of being naïve forms of utopianism doomed to founder on the shoals of political reality. Contributions are welcome that discuss diverse texts and practices in which utopian visions were articulated in temporal terms as forms of public freedom, as creative action, and as “prefigurative politics.” No mere means to an end already secured by the linear movement of universal history itself, prefigurative politics aims at creating “figures of the newly thinkable” (Castoriadis) in the here and now, both as a way to interpret the past and imagine different feminist futures critically. Contributions can be motivated, for instance, by the following set of questions: * In what ways has feminism’s radical political imaginary been enabled and constrained by a specific practice of historiography? * To what extent are the progressivism and presentism that tends to characterize contemporary feminism’s relation to its past a problem for its future? * In what ways and to what extent are feminist struggles embedded within an emancipatory project of a radical democracy? * How has feminism’s political imaginary been challenged and reconfigured, for instance, in the context of Black feminist criticism? * How can a critically renewed historiography of feminist struggles enrich today’s feminist movements and contribute to the collective emancipatory effort to radicalize democracy? * In short: What are the “futures past” of feminism, and how do they speak to us today? Format We strive towards creating a workshop atmosphere that allows for serious, productive, and collaborative engagement with each other’s work. Workshop participants send in an essay (max. 3000 words, deadline: June 15, 2023), with the expectation that all of the papers are read in advance. In addition, each participant will prepare and present a commentary on one of the other papers. Each session begins with a brief opening statement by the author(s) on the background of the text (5 min), followed by a commentary (10 min) that opens the general discussion of the text. Venue and Accommodation The workshop will take place in person at the University of Vienna. Online participation is not possible. There is no participation fee. The organizers are happy to give recommendations regarding travel arrangements. Publication We plan to publish the workshop’s proceedings as a special issue in a peer-reviewed journal and/or edited volume. Timeline Deadline for abstracts: April 21, 2023 Communication of results: April 30, 2023 Deadline for essays: June 15, 2023 Submission & Contact Please send your application with an abstract of max. 300 words and a brief biographical note to predef.erc(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:predef.erc@univie.ac.at> (deadline: April 21, 2023). For any questions regarding the CfP, please contact the organizers Sara Gebh (sara.gebh(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:sara.gebh@univie.ac.at>) and Sergej Seitz (sergej.seitz(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:sergej.seitz@univie.ac.at>). Web: https://www.academia.edu/99389917/CfP_Futures_Past_Feminism_and_the_Radical… Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Council (erc). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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Invitation_ Talk by Paul*A Helfritzsch

by Brigitta Keintzel

Einladung, gerne zum Weiterleiten / Inivitation, happy to share! 28.3.2023 , 18:30, HS 41, Universität Wien, Hauptgebäude. Paul*A Helfritzsch: Trotz der stillen Gewalt! Trotzt dem Vergessen der Geschichten und trotzt der Verstümmelung der Gefühle (28.3.2023) Weiterführend / More information: https://gender.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/ringvorlesung-gender-studies/ge… <https://gender.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/ringvorlesung-gender-studies/ge…> Vortrag auch über Zoom zugänglich / Talk is available via Zoom: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/65759605379?pwd=VHNiNlJsenZNU0FxVzcwUktXWWxodz09 <https://univienna.zoom.us/j/65759605379?pwd=VHNiNlJsenZNU0FxVzcwUktXWWxodz09>

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Khôra Verein für philosophische Diskussion

by Sebastian Krach

Sehr geehrte Kolleg:innen, eine Gruppe von Masterstudierenden am Institut haben kürzlich einen Verein zur Förderung der philosophischen Diskussion und der Vernetzung von Studierenden gegründet. Der Verein trägt den Namen Khôra und veranstaltet regelmäßige Kolloquien am Institut. Außerdem bietet der Verein eine Plattform für all jene, die Forschungsprojekte, BA- und MA-Arbeiten präsentieren möchten. Die gemeinsame Diskussion und das gegenseitige Feedback sollen beim Schaffensprozess helfen. Darüber hinaus sind auf der Homepage Hinweise zu Lesekreisen, Informationen zum Studium und anderes Wissenswertes angezeigt und verlinkt. https://www.khora.philo.at/ Im Namen des Vereins freue ich mich, wenn Sie einen Blick auf die Homepage werfen und interessierte Student:innen über unsere Initiative informieren. Mit besten Grüßen Sebastian Krach

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 10: Call for Applications: Summer School on Climate Science - Vienna

by Zarah Weiss

Call for Applications (Deadline: March 15, 2023 extended: April 10, 2023) CLIMATE SCIENCE: HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL ISSUES univie: summer school – Scientific World Conceptions (USS-SWC) Vienna, July 10–19, 2023 Since 2001, the University of Vienna and the Institute Vienna Circle hold an annual summer school dedicated to major current issues in the natural and the social sciences, their history and philosophy. The title of the program reflects the heritage of the Vienna Circle which promoted interdisciplinary and philosophical investigations based on solid disciplinary knowledge. Climate science, understood as an interdisciplinary field of study of the Earth’s climate and the causes and effects of climate change, is clearly of central importance today. The summer school will explore climate studies from a historical, philosophical, and sociological perspective. Topics to be covered will include: foundations and methodological issues relating to climate science, including various definitions of climate change, different types of models of climate change, and the use of simulations; further, historical roots and the development of climate science before and after the “computer age”; finally, issues concerning science policy and the communication of findings of climate science to a general public. Topics will be selected reflecting participants’ interests and may include: • Defining climate and climate change • Evidence for climate change • Modelling climate change: issues of confirmation and prediction • Climate change and decision theory • History of climate science as a research program • Climate science in the public debate Lecturers: Candis Callison (University of British Columbia) https://jwam.ubc.ca/profile/candis-callison/ Deborah Coen (Yale University) https://hshm.yale.edu/people/deborah-coen Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida) http://philosophy.usf.edu/faculty/ewinsberg/ The program is primarily directed at graduate students and junior researchers in relevant fields, but the organizers also encourage applications from undergraduates and people in all stages of their career. Application form and further information: https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/application/ USS-SWC operates under the academic supervision of an International Program Committee of distinguished philosophers, historians, and scientists. Its members represent the scientific fields in the scope of USS-SWC, make contact to their home universities and will also support acknowledgement of courses taken by the students. The annual summer school is organised by the Institute Vienna Circle of the University of Vienna. https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/en/ Find information about our exchange programme with Duke University (North Carolina) here: https://international.univie.ac.at/en/international-cooperation/university-… Inquiries: Administrator: Zarah Weiss Institute Vienna Circle Alserstraße 23/32 1080 Wien summerschool.ivc(a)univie.ac.at Scientific director: Prof. Georg Schiemer Institute Vienna Circle Alserstraße 23/32 1080 Wien georg.schiemer(a)univie.ac.at

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Pygmalion Theater Wien - Ermäßigung für StudentInnen und MitarbeiterInnen

by Institut für Philosophie

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren! Sehr gerne erlauben wir uns, Ihren geschätzten StudentInnen für die im März und April 2023 anberaumten Eigenproduktionen (und nicht als „Gastspiel“ markiert) einen ermäßigten Kartenpreis um € 5,- (statt € 10,-) anzubieten. Für Ihre wissenschaftlichen wie auch allgemeinen MitarbeiterInnen bieten wir ebenfalls Ermäßigung, und zwar um € 15,- (statt € 25,-). Reservierungen sind unkompliziert unter dramaturgie(a)pygmaliontheater.at <mailto:dramaturgie@pygmaliontheater.at>mit der Notiz „Sonderermäßigung StudentIn bzw. MitarbeiterIn“ zu platzieren. Dem Anhang entnehmen Sie bitte die Spielpläne, und wir danken für dessen Verfügbarmachung gegenüber Ihrer geschätzten StudentInnen- und MitarbeiterInnenschaft! Sollten Sie weitere Informationen bzw. Materialien zum Theater und seinen Vorstellungen benötigen, so lassen Sie mich dies bitte wissen! Sollte sich die Verlinkung des Pygmalion Theaters mit der Adresse www.pygmaliontheater.at <http://www.pygmaliontheater.at>durchführen lassen, so sind wir hierfür nicht minder dankbar und verweisen auf die entsprechende Entnahme des Pygmalion Logos im Anhang. Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Antwort! Ich wünsche Ihnen einen gelungenen Start in den neuen Tag, Herzliche Grüße, Philipp Kaplan ** *Mag. Philipp Kaplan* Kaufmännischer Leiter Dramaturg /Pygmalion Theater Wien/ Alser Straße 43 A-1080 Wien +43 1 402 86 85 www.pygmaliontheater.at <http://www.pygmaliontheater.at/> dramaturgie(a)pygmaliontheater.at <mailto:dramaturgie@pygmaliontheater.at>

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Young Philosophy 2023

by Institut für Philosophie

Dear Colleagues, on behalf of the Institute of Philosophy at Slovak Academy of Sciences, v. v. i., we kindly ask you to circulate an attached invitation to the conference the 18th Annual Conference YOUNG PHILOSOPHY 2023. The conference will take place from 18th to 19th of May 2023 at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences,v. v. i. Klemensova 19, 811 09 Bratislava, Slovak republic. For more information, find the attached invitation and the application form or visit http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/?q=sk/youngphilosophy Please, if you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us. Best Regards, Organizers

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REMINDER Call for Applications - Summer School on Climate Science - Vienna July 2023

by Zarah Weiss

Call for Applications (Deadline: March 15, 2023) Climate Science: Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Issues univie: summer school Scientific World Conceptions (USS-SWC) Vienna, July 1019, 2023 Since 2001, the University of Vienna and the Institute Vienna Circle hold an annual summer school dedicated to major current issues in the natural and the social sciences, their history and philosophy. The title of the program reflects the heritage of the Vienna Circle which promoted interdisciplinary and philosophical investigations based on solid disciplinary knowledge. Climate science, understood as an interdisciplinary field of study of the Earths climate and the causes and effects of climate change, is clearly of central importance today. The summer school will explore climate studies from a historical, philosophical, and sociological perspective. Topics to be covered will include: foundations and methodological issues relating to climate science, including various definitions of climate change, different types of models of climate change, and the use of simulations; further, historical roots and the development of climate science before and after the computer age; finally, issues concerning science policy and the communication of findings of climate science to a general public. Topics will be selected reflecting participants interests and may include: Defining climate and climate change Evidence for climate change Modelling climate change: issues of confirmation and prediction Climate change and decision theory History of climate science as a research program Climate science in the public debate Lecturers: Candis Callison (University of British Columbia) <https://jwam.ubc.ca/profile/candis-callison/> https://jwam.ubc.ca/profile/candis-callison/ Deborah Coen (Yale University) <https://hshm.yale.edu/people/deborah-coen> https://hshm.yale.edu/people/deborah-coen Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida) <http://philosophy.usf.edu/faculty/ewinsberg/> http://philosophy.usf.edu/faculty/ewinsberg/ The program is primarily directed at graduate students and junior researchers in relevant fields, but the organizers also encourage applications from undergraduates and people in all stages of their career. Application form and further information: <https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/application/> https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/application/ USS-SWC operates under the academic supervision of an International Program Committee of distinguished philosophers, historians, and scientists. Its members represent the scientific fields in the scope of USS-SWC, make contact to their home universities and will also support acknowledgement of courses taken by the students. The annual summer school is organised by the Institute Vienna Circle of the University of Vienna. <https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/en/> https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/en/ Find information about our exchange programme with Duke University (North Carolina) here: <https://international.univie.ac.at/en/international-cooperation/university- wide-partnership-agreements/north-america/> https://international.univie.ac.at/en/international-cooperation/university-w ide-partnership-agreements/north-america/ Inquiries: Administrator: Zarah Weiss Institute Vienna Circle Alserstraße 23/32 1080 Wien <mailto:summerschool.ivc@univie.ac.at> summerschool.ivc(a)univie.ac.at Scientific director: Prof. Georg Schiemer Institute Vienna Circle Alserstraße 23/32 1080 Wien <mailto:georg.schiemer@univie.ac.at> georg.schiemer(a)univie.ac.at

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Hearings - Philosophie der Aufklärung und der Moderne

by Philosophie

Liebe Kolleg:innen, Am 7. und 8. März finden die Hearings für die Professur "Philosophie der Aufklärung und Moderne" statt: Dienstag, den 7.3. 9:00h Prof. Corey Dyck – Lehrprobe (HS 3A) 10:00h Prof. Angela Breitenbach – Lehrprobe (HS 3A) 11:00h Prof. Kristin Gjesdal – Lehrprobe (HS 3A) 13:00h Prof. Jens Timmermann – Lehrprobe (HS 3A) 14:00h Prof. Katharina Kraus – Lehrprobe (HS 3A) 15:00h Dr. Andrew Stephenson – Lehrprobe (HS 3A) 16:15h Prof. Katharina Kraus – Forschungsvortrag (HS 3A) Mittwoch, den 8.3. 9:00h Prof. Jens Timmermann Forschungsvortrag (HS 3A) 10:35h Prof. Corey Dyck Forschungsvortrag (HS 3A) 11:25h Prof. Kristin Gjesdal Forschungsvortrag (HS 3A) 14:00h Prof. Angela Breitenbach Forschungsvortrag (HS 3A) 15:35h Dr. Andrew Stephenson Forschungsvortrag (HS 3A) Sie können die Vorträge auch online verfolgen: ZOOM Link: https://univienna.zoom.us/s/68877818206 Bitte beachten Sie, dass ich als Vorsitzender vorrangig den Mitgliedern der Kommission die Gelegenheit geben werde, die Vortragenden zu befragen. Ich bitte um Ihr Verständnis. Mit besten Grüßen und in Vorfreude auf ein intellektuelles Feuerwerk, Martin Kusch -- --------------------------------------- Prof. Martin Kusch (he/they) Univ. of Vienna, Dpt. of Philosophy https://martinkusch.wixsite.com/website

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Effective Altruism, 10.03.2023, 18-19:30 Uhr, HS 2G (NIG)

by Institut für Philosophie

Veranstaltungsankündung Effective Altruism, 10.03.2023, 18-19:30 Uhr, HS 2G (NIG) [English Version Below] Wie können wir mit knappen Ressourcen anderen umfassend helfen und anhand von Evidenz und sorgfältigen Überlegungen herausfinden, wie die dringendsten Probleme der Welt am besten bewältigen werden können? Komm zu unserem Einführungsevent zum Thema “Effective Altruism” - eine Bewegung, die versucht, diese Fragen zu beantworten! Wir diskutieren unter anderem über die Sicherheit von Künstlicher Intelligenz, globale Gesundheit, Tierleid sowie Spenden und Karrierewege. Außerdem sprechen wir über die methodischen Grundlagen hinter der Priorisierung globaler Probleme und fokussieren uns auf den Beitrag, den wir als Individuen potenziell leisten können. Phillip Thiedmann von EA Austria wird einen einführenden Vortrag über die Grundideen des effektiven Altruismus halten. Im Anschluss wird es eine Diskussion geben, bei der ihr weiterführende, klärende und kritische Fragen einbringen könnt. Egal ob Neugierige, Kritiker:innen oder erfahrene Mitglieder der Community, dieses Event bietet eine Gelegenheit, um mehr über die Motivation, die Ideen und die Kritiken des effektiven Altruismus zu lernen. Wir heißen alle Willkommen, die daran interessiert sind, einen positiven Einfluss auf die Welt zu haben. Hardfacts: Wo? NIG, Hörsaal 2G Wann? 10. März, 18:00 - 19:30 Nachher lassen wir gemeinsam den Abend im Votiv Cafe ausklingen. [English] How can we best make a positive impact on the world? Join us for an evening of thought-provoking discussion on effective altruism - a philosophy that aims to use evidence and empathy to address some of the world's most pressing problems. Effective Altruism explores topics such as global poverty, climate change, factory farming, and artificial intelligence, and discusses how we can make a real difference. Phillip Thiedmann from EA Austria will give an introductory lecture on the basic ideas of effective altruism. Afterward, we'll open the floor to questions and critical discussion. Whether you're a curious beginner, an astute critic or a member of the community, this event is a great opportunity to learn about the motivations, ideas and critiques of effective altruism. We welcome anyone who has a serious interest in having a positive impact on the world. Hardfacts: Location: NIG, Lecture Hall 2G Date: March 10th, 18:00 - 19:30. We will head to Votiv Cafe after the event for an informal social gathering, feel free to join us! Philipp Thiedmann, Effective Altruism Austria

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