After the Human: Thinking for the Future

After the Human: Thinking for the Future 920 528 Tom Carlson

Wednesday, February 28 – Friday, March 1, 2024 The world is literally and figuratively on fire. Not since the height of the Second World War and the Cold War have…

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Addiction: Consumption and the Dilemmas of Freedom

Addiction: Consumption and the Dilemmas of Freedom 640 564 Tom Carlson

Tuesday, May 16, 2023 Robertson Gymnasium 1000A This one day conference will examine the ambiguous concept of addiction and discuss the questions that addiction’s prevalence raises about individual freedom, consumerism,…

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Energy: Ecology, Extraction, and Religion

Energy: Ecology, Extraction, and Religion 733 550 Tom Carlson

Thursday, May 4, 2023 Robertson Gymnasium 1000A A symposium on the occasion of the publication of Clayton Crockett’s Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmotheology (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022). The…

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Benjamin Lectures 2022 with Nancy Fraser

Benjamin Lectures 2022 with Nancy Fraser 724 1024 Susann Schmeisser

Three Faces of Capitalist Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties among Gender, Race and Class Nancy Fraser’s 2022 Benjamin lectures are inspired by a striking claim made by W.E.B. Du Bois…

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Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory

Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory 683 1024 Tom Carlson

Monday, June 6, 2022 at 3PM. Robertson Gymnasium 1000A This seminar with Professor Santner will focus on themes from his most recent book, Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a…

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