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Alejandra Oliva, essayist, embroiderer, and translatorYou Can’t Translate What You Can’t See: Between Languages in the U.S. Immigration System April 21, 2022How are power structures and empathy implicated in translation? What do we owe asylum seekers, and the stor... |
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Ian Phillips, Johns Hopkins UniversityPerception, Action, and Experience: Retying the Golden Braid April 12, 2022Intuitively, our mental life involves, as Andy Clark evocatively puts it, “a seamless unfolding of percepti... |
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James McAuley, columnist for The Washington PostJewish Survival and Holocaust Memory: Salo Baron and the Twentieth Century April 7, 2022This talk will examine the life and thought of Salo Baron, one of the great twentieth-century historians wh... |
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David Chalmers, New York UniversityThe Meta-Problem of Consciousness March 29, 2022The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how physical systems give rise to subjective... |
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Joshua Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWhat Kind of Computation Is Cognition? March 8, 2022Recent successes in artificial intelligence have been largely driven by neural networks and other sophistic... |
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Juliette Cherbuliez, University of MinnesotaMarch 3, 2022Despite the propensity by philosophers and political theorists for mining Greek tragedy in search of models... |
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Lori Gruen, Wesleyan UniversityCarceral Logics: An Abolitionist Critique December 7, 2021Mass incarceration is supported and sustained by carceral logics. In this lecture Professor Gruen will desc... |
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Eric Karpeles, writer, translator, and painterJózef Czapski: Facing the Void October 13, 2021Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski lived into his ninety-seventh year, embodying the complex contradic... |
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Namwali Serpell, Harvard UniversityRace Off: The Fantasy of Race Transformation September 23, 2021Namwali Serpell is the author of The Old Drift, which won the Windham-Campbell Prize in Fiction, t... |
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Khalil Muhammad, Harvard Kennedy SchoolThe Origins and Durability of Anti-Black Racial Criminalization in the United States September 22, 2021This lecture historicizes the use of racial crime statistics as a technology of social difference to justif... |