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Winter of Discontent: The Russia-Ukraine War lecture with James Horncastle
Public lecture by James Horncastle
November 21, 2023
The Russia-Ukraine War, whose current phase began in 2022, shows no signs of abating. Ukraine’s offensive during the summer, while making limited gains, did not achieve the decisive breakthrough desired by Ukraine and its allies. The autumn weather, furthermore, will likely limit either party’s ability to launch significant military campaigns for the foreseeable future. Pressure is building on both sides, as attention fatigue sets in amongst their supporters, to end the conflict. Is peace in the short term likely, and what form will such a peace take once the conflict reaches its conclusion? These are not easy questions and require one to situate the military developments in Ukraine within the broader international context.
SPEAKER
James Horncastle is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Humanities and holder of the Edward and Emily McWhinney Professorship in International Relations at Simon Fraser University. He is also a member of the steering committee for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies. His recent article, “Weaponization of Refugees: Why Now?” examines the reasons why the world has seen an uptick in state and non-state actors employing migrants and refugees to achieve foreign policy objectives. His research interests include: refugee and migration studies; international relations; conflict studies; history of modern Greece; and Yugoslav studies.
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Grace MacInnis Lecture by Micheal Vonn, the Chief Executive Officer of PHS
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“Who the Hell Would Do this Work? Reflections on Supportive Housing and Harm Reduction in Unfriendly Times” Public lecture by Micheal Vonn November 15, 2023 Supportive housing and harm reduction are popular political footballs. But the delivery of services to the most needful has been fraught from the outset, even aside from the current iterations of political heat. Much of the regulatory, admi...
Apocalyptic Anxieties Keynote Speaker Lewis R. Gordon
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Keynote Speaker Lewis R. Gordon October 28, 0223 This conference brings together psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic and political theorists and social scientists from a multiplicity of traditions and orientations to examine contemporary apocalyptic anxieties. We focus on how unconscious mechanisms contribute to conceptualize, understand and reinvent the various forms of apocalypses and dematerializ...
Apocalyptic Anxieties Keynote Speaker Adrian Ivakhiv
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Keynote Speaker Adrian Ivakhiv October 27, 2023 This conference brings together psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic and political theorists and social scientists from a multiplicity of traditions and orientations to examine contemporary apocalyptic anxieties. We focus on how unconscious mechanisms contribute to conceptualize, understand and reinvent the various forms of apocalypses and dematerializa...
The Middle of the Middle Public Lecture by Stephen Collis
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"The Middle of the Middle: Purgatory, Pilgrimage, and Human and Plant Mobility in a Time of Climate Crisis" Public Lecture by Stephen Collis April 26, 2023 In the context of the climate crisis and what has been referred to as the “great redistribution” of life on earth, this talk considers human and more-than-human mobility from the perspective of climate solidarity. Part travelogue, part poeti...
Anti Racism, the Labour Movement, and the role of Elected Officials
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Second Annual Dr.Chinmoy Banerjee Lecture in Anti-Racism: “Anti Racism, the Labour Movement, and the role of Elected Officials” Public Lecture Kshama Sawant Roundtable with Anjali Appadurai, Michal Ma, Yammeena Zaidi (Teaching Support Staff Union), moderated by Samir Gandesha October 30, 2023 Co-sponsored by Dr.Hari Sharma Foundation, the West Coast Coalition Against Racism (WCCAR) and South As...
“Society Must Be Defended. Society Must Be Attacked: Foucault as a Critic of Schmitt"
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Valentina Antoniol Public Lecture March 2, 2023 Co-sponsored by SFU's Institute for the Humanities and Vancity Office of Community Engagement. In a 1998 essay entitled Karl und Carl, Mario Tronti defined the meeting between Marx and Schmitt as “impossible and necessary.” A few lines later, he added that these constituted: “two forms of agonic, ‘polemical’ thought: not only with regard to practi...
Unveiling of George Rammell's "Chambers of Predetermined Outcomes: Gatekeepers of Justice"
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George Rammell, Rueben George, Alex Phillips, Michelle Silongan, & Ian Angus Art Unveiling & Panel Discussion March 21, 2023 Join us for an unveiling of George Rammell’s sculptural work “Chambers of Predetermined Outcomes: Gatekeepers of Justice” by Rueben George of the Tsleil-Waututh nation. The unveiling is followed by a discussion with the artist and introductory statements by panelists Rueb...
Panel 4: "Roundtable: Moving Forward"
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Dimitri Lascaris, Ben Issitt, Ashley Zarbatany, Bob Williams, & Alicia Massie Panel 4 of the "Democratic Socialism and Civilizational Crisis" Conference October 22, 2022 The conference is sponsored by the SFU Institute for the Humanities through the Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and Its Alternatives endowment, the SFU Labour Studies Program, and the SFU VanCity Office of Community Engageme...
Panel 3: "Facing New Realities in an Era of Crisis and Reckoning"
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Matthew Green, Avi Lewis, & Kendra Strauss Panel 3 of the "Democratic Socialism and Civilizational Crisis" Conference October 22, 2022 The conference is sponsored by the SFU Institute for the Humanities through the Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and Its Alternatives endowment, the SFU Labour Studies Program, and the SFU VanCity Office of Community Engagement. ABOUT THE PANEL Where does toda...
Panel 2: "Democratic Socialist Approaches to the Environment/Economy Relationship"
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Bill Carroll, Shannon Daub, Marjorie Cohen, Bianca Mugyenyi, Jim Stanford, & Joey Hartman Panel 2 of the "Democratic Socialism and Civilizational Crisis" Conference October 21, 2022 The conference is sponsored by the SFU Institute for the Humanities through the Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and Its Alternatives endowment, the SFU Labour Studies Program, and the SFU VanCity Office of Commun...
Panel 1: "The Politics and Philosophy of Democratic Socialism"
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Mary Mellor, Roberta Lexier, Natalie Fenton, Steve McBride, & Am Johal Panel 1 of the "Democratic Socialism and Civilizational Crisis" Conference October 21, 2022 The conference is sponsored by the SFU Institute for the Humanities through the Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and Its Alternatives endowment, the SFU Labour Studies Program, and the SFU VanCity Office of Community Engagement. ABO...
"Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World"
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Ian Angus, Andrew Feenberg, & Samir Gandesha Book Launch & Panel Discussion December 8, 2022 Ian Angus’ recently published Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World is a new exploration of the relationship between phenomenology and Marxism in a manner pertinent to contemporary issues at the beginning of the 21st century. It develops themes relevant to Indigeneity; Eurocentrism...
"Cultivating Placefulness: Why We Need a Contemplative Ecology in Troubled Times"
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Jason Brown Public Lecture December 6, 2022 Jason is keenly focused on PLACEfulness, mutuality with other species, "eco-spiritual" activism, and the presence of a spiritual foundation in addressing the climate emergency in which we currently live. He will engage us in a conversation that includes the evolution of the "Holyscapes" project-an exploration of the inner and outer landscapes we inhab...
2022 Thakore Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Climate Activism at SFU"
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SFU350 Panel Discussion October 3, 2022 Simon Fraser University has a rich history of student activism and recent years have seen a surge in climate-related actions. SFU350 is a student-led group dedicated to engaging the university in climate justice and while recent victories have been encouraging, the group is eager to continue striving for greater changes. Operating on the unceded territori...
Inaugural Professor Chin Banerjee Memorial Lecture in Anti-Racism: "Rehearsals for Living"
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Inaugural Professor Chin Banerjee Memorial Lecture in Anti-Racism: "Rehearsals for Living"
"Marx and Democracy"
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"Marx and Democracy"
"A Matter of Love and Death: Marcuse and Adorno on Narcissism"
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"A Matter of Love and Death: Marcuse and Adorno on Narcissism"
"Walter Benjamin’s Toward the Critique of Violence: A Roundtable Discussion"
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"Walter Benjamin’s Toward the Critique of Violence: A Roundtable Discussion"
"The 2019 Chilean Revolt and the Spectre of Fascism/Communism"
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"The 2019 Chilean Revolt and the Spectre of Fascism/Communism"
"Jerry Zaslove: A Memorial Event"
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"Jerry Zaslove: A Memorial Event"
"Fairy Creek and the Climate Emergency"
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"Fairy Creek and the Climate Emergency"
"Merleau-Ponty, Nature, and the Normative Stakes of Deep History"
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"Merleau-Ponty, Nature, and the Normative Stakes of Deep History"
"No Farmers, No Food: Indian Farmers Confront Authoritarian Neoliberalism"
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"No Farmers, No Food: Indian Farmers Confront Authoritarian Neoliberalism"
"Global Solidarity with India's Farmers"
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"Global Solidarity with India's Farmers"
"Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: How the Left Can Win Big After the Pandemic"
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"Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: How the Left Can Win Big After the Pandemic"
"Moving Slow While Urgent Change is Needed: Why Governments Struggle to Effect True Reconciliation"
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"Moving Slow While Urgent Change is Needed: Why Governments Struggle to Effect True Reconciliation"
"Renaissance Italy's 'First Responders': Humanists and the Humanities in an Age of Crisis"
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"Renaissance Italy's 'First Responders': Humanists and the Humanities in an Age of Crisis"
"Logics of Genocide: The Structures of Violence and the Contemporary World"
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"Logics of Genocide: The Structures of Violence and the Contemporary World"
"The Pandemic and the Police: COVID, the Surveillance State and the Future of Movements to Defund"
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"The Pandemic and the Police: COVID, the Surveillance State and the Future of Movements to Defund"

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @asharflo
    @asharflo 26 днів тому

    Thank you for working to clarify rather than obscure in academic mystification this very important text.

  • @serhatyasar7
    @serhatyasar7 Місяць тому

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @skeptic3045
    @skeptic3045 2 місяці тому

    Interestingly Karl Popper summarized the whole of Adorno's work as being just rhetoric in German language.

  • @piezoification
    @piezoification 3 місяці тому

    That's fair - sad

  • @piezoification
    @piezoification 3 місяці тому

    Red is not usually the color of envy.

  • @StarBeings777
    @StarBeings777 3 місяці тому

    Omg : settlers 😮 so wrong

  • @dondonfrias3905
    @dondonfrias3905 5 місяців тому

    Any transcript for this video please?

  • @jennifersmart1550
    @jennifersmart1550 6 місяців тому

    Unfailing optimism is the road to survival. Such timely words.

  • @joseph-zoramcbride4029
    @joseph-zoramcbride4029 6 місяців тому

    Thank you so much for this upload! Do you know where we could find the rest of the conference? I couldn't find it on your chanel. I really appreciate the upload! This sounds like an incredible event.

  • @JohnCleary-d4i
    @JohnCleary-d4i 7 місяців тому

    THE STACK. The real stack isnt a computer one, its a multidimensional one. You are the stack for multiple higher intelligences. Real talk.

  • @RavW1776
    @RavW1776 7 місяців тому

    I haven't heard this era or region discussed from this academic perspective, and it's both fascinating and conveys important historical trends that still have relevance today. Unfortunately, the first speaker is not confident in his English, and his speech is so halting, with heavy breathing sounds and "um"s littered every 4 or 5 words -- it proved to be hugely distracting. I've lived in Germany and am very accustomed to German accents, so it wasn't his non-native accent that's the problem; it's all of the violations of "good public speaking" principles that grates on listeners' nerves! They made it hard to absorb what he was saying. Especially for the first half, I wound up skipping over part of his lecture, because I couldn't ignore my annoyance and impatience! In the first half, when his energy is so lethargic and halting, his speaking rate is also about 3x slower than a typical speech pattern. Later on, after a video, the speaker finally got animated and spoke at a normal, smoother pace (though still littered with too many "um"s!)

  • @tmking7483
    @tmking7483 8 місяців тому

    Wow we are being mass traumatizaed. A call to the French who know how to start a Revolution. Tibetian dance with the other can save us _ no more others._ spread the Love

  • @tmking7483
    @tmking7483 8 місяців тому

    This is Possession_ what she describes is possession after soul murder If u have a negative spirit _ spit (spite) on the ground and call the numbered enity to enter _ in Jesus name I command- it- into the living life in my spit. It has to live in something that has life _I am a Child of God.

  • @tmking7483
    @tmking7483 8 місяців тому

    Sounds like RD Laing And People of the Lie _Peck

  • @tmking7483
    @tmking7483 8 місяців тому

    Im in a petri dish of nazi mussalinni satanists _ people who create soul murder and study the child abuse _to test the theory_ TRUTH_ my mommy monster.

  • @adriant240
    @adriant240 9 місяців тому

    Woke nonsense for fake wannabe academics.

  • @happygucci5094
    @happygucci5094 9 місяців тому

    I needed to hear this Dr Gordon… ✊🏽🇵🇸🙏🏽🍉‼️

  • @sr2291
    @sr2291 9 місяців тому

    Yeah, they are attempting to get rid of all tribal peoples and their religious beliefs. And they have for centuries.

  • @psithurism241
    @psithurism241 10 місяців тому

    Armistice angle seems plausible.

  • @malcolmsumpton2683
    @malcolmsumpton2683 10 місяців тому

    Thank you so much. I would love to animate this(I want to understand more)

  • @joshuapaul2022
    @joshuapaul2022 10 місяців тому

    Well, it's a quote from The Time article. Zelenskyy top advisers say about him: “He deludes himself, ” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that. It is immovable, verging on the messianic. ” One Austrian artist was in a similar state in 1945. In fact Biden administration doesn't see Ukraine beyond a spring next year. It already appointed a team to prepare a deployment of American troops to Poland that would "prevent" Russian invasion into NATO. Of course these are just political games and nobody believes that Russians have such intentions. It's all about creating narrative not reality.

  • @joshuapaul2022
    @joshuapaul2022 10 місяців тому

    Zelenskyy (he is such a big mouth) in his press-conference said that his military demanded from him mobilization of next 500 000. It's another confirmation that 500 000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed or mangled and crippled for life to the extent that even Zelenskyy couldn't send them back to the front (i.e. amputees without two or more limbs, blind etc.). In fact Zelenskyy is running out of cannon fodder. There are simply no next 500 000 to kidnap off the streets, gyms and public transport. NYT wrote about these mass kidnappings that were happening only in Zelenskyy Ukraine and Hitler's Germany in 1945 in an article ‘People Snatchers’.

  • @vivalaleta
    @vivalaleta 10 місяців тому

    The speaker has gathered together US propaganda talking points. Humanities - do better.

  • @yourblinger2635
    @yourblinger2635 10 місяців тому

    What a great guy! I really enjoyed this

  • @vict9451
    @vict9451 Рік тому

    but Canadian politicians invited a old Nazi to get on the meeting and got cheers from everyone

  • @arikcarlo
    @arikcarlo Рік тому

    Wonderful presentation. Thank you.

  • @cocoaorange1
    @cocoaorange1 Рік тому

    He is , when you hear about the legacy of colonialism and racial intolerance, it is usually the UK, Germany, France, Spain, etc., rarely is Italy mentioned. I really enjoyed this.

  • @hspank
    @hspank Рік тому

    where can i find the text ?

  • @madrasaseries
    @madrasaseries Рік тому

    #freepalestine

  • @ciszegebe
    @ciszegebe Рік тому

    Its not talking but reading.

  • @0The0Web0
    @0The0Web0 Рік тому

    Great talk! 👌

  • @emmanuel8262
    @emmanuel8262 Рік тому

    *promosm*

  • @renzellousbrown9047
    @renzellousbrown9047 Рік тому

    Abolish the police. 2:51

  • @CommonSenseBeatsIntelligence

    Every Canadian should read this, especially the right and Alt-Right(pretending to be right wing) This is a terrifyingly dystopian corporate over reach. Has little to do with terrorism if you weigh what it allows. I pray for an end to Usery.

  • @lsobrien
    @lsobrien Рік тому

    Easily the best discussion on UA-cam about Benjamin. Thank you to all involved.

  • @kath5201
    @kath5201 Рік тому

    Nothing "moral" about communism!!! Evil evil evil!!

  • @Garland41
    @Garland41 Рік тому

    The speaker uses the term abstract incorrectly. He uses it as a contrasts between empirical and nonempirical, or pragmatic vs nonpragmatic when it fact the supposed abstractness is the study of a perspective that asks why the revolution failed. Why conflate abstract, Metaphysics, and religiosity? Because they are part of the subject formation and they affect the actions people take as well as affect how groups form and act.

  • @tomkelly6361
    @tomkelly6361 Рік тому

    Thanks for uploading this talk!

  • @HABAKKUP
    @HABAKKUP Рік тому

    The only acceptable servitude is to the old and disabled!! none before!!..Must be entirely outlawed as not taking responsibiity to self professed perfectionalist!!..Those that want things done their way can do it better themselves and get no help!

  • @HABAKKUP
    @HABAKKUP Рік тому

    The more servitude exists the more it is used against people..remove it completely by law!!..To say hard work gets you success is a huge lie!! Success is yours to have..but your own responsibility personally!!

  • @andrewfeenberg123
    @andrewfeenberg123 Рік тому

    My contribution is at 23:30

  • @ma4252
    @ma4252 Рік тому

    Can we do this in america yet?

  • @reg8297
    @reg8297 Рік тому

    My mother done this to me i can barely go on the pain inside is so bad

  • @kellydosher1750
    @kellydosher1750 Рік тому

    My dad murdered my soul when I was a little girl.

    • @tmking7483
      @tmking7483 8 місяців тому

      This is done on purpose _ I had 2 33degree grandpa's

    • @bellakrinkle9381
      @bellakrinkle9381 7 місяців тому

      It was my delusional mother that murdered my soul and the souls of my 3 siblings during our childhoods. Mental illness is passed generationally. Why are so few willing to acknowledge that Authoritarian Christians have a large role in Generational Trauma. Migrants have been caught up in this phenomena, too.

  • @mkinkade7103
    @mkinkade7103 2 роки тому

    These people ignore the thousands of years and conflicts that do not fit their narrative. Murder, slavery, rape, mass genocide, and tribalism existed since the beginning of mankind but they choose to focus only on the part of the timeline that they think reflects their lies.

  • @brittanyhayes1043
    @brittanyhayes1043 2 роки тому

    I love my Settler ancestors.

  • @jmdi2703
    @jmdi2703 2 роки тому

    ua-cam.com/video/r917rWj8cgA/v-deo.html

  • @The_Empire_Chronicles
    @The_Empire_Chronicles 2 роки тому

    Excellent discussion!

  • @cynthiatahhan3756
    @cynthiatahhan3756 2 роки тому

    Love the global look on settler colonialism

  • @diallomouhamadoulamine5568
    @diallomouhamadoulamine5568 2 роки тому

    Amongst professional in critical theory where is Alexander Grothendieck's place? Since he was a mathematician and a literary writer of criticism in the way we live and scientific research's usefulness for our survival