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Beck Lecture Series Sam Sax 2 28 2024
The Beck Series welcomes poet sam sax. sax is a queer, Jewish writer and educator. Their the author of Madness, winner of the National Poetry Series, and Bury It, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Their next book of poetry is Pig (Simon & Schuster, 2023). A two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion, they have poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, Granta, and elsewhere. sax has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, Yaddo, Lambda Lit, and MacDowell, and is currently serving as an ITALIC Lecturer at Stanford University.
“My work is deeply invested in Jewish storytelling, culture, language, and my family’s history,” sax said. “My work attempts to recontextualize us as a historically diasporic people, who’ve become beautiful through our movement and adaptation. Exile is a tricky word for me. Exile for some reason rings of the desire to return, of entitlement to land, to birthright, which led to the creation of that violent settler colonial nation-state. My work instead revels in estrangement, in the strange; it wants to live in what’s queer about being Jewish.”
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Beck Lecture Series: Tsering Yangzom Lama & Lars Horn Feb. 14, 2024
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The Beck Series welcomes GLCA Prize winners for nonfiction, Lars Horn and for fiction, Tsering Yangzom Lama. Horn is a writer and translator working in literary and experimental non-fiction. Their first book, VOICE OF THE FISH, won the 2020 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, the 2023 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, and was named an Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall Israel Fishman Non...
Beck Lecture Series: M.E. O'Brien Nov. 30, 2023
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he Beck Series welcomes novelist M.E. O’Brien. O’Brien writes and speaks on gender freedom and capitalism. She is the co-author of the speculative novel, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 (2022) and the author of Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (2023). She co-edits two magazines, Pinko, on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psych...
Gordon Lecture Series Peter Swire Feb. 2, 2023
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The Gordon Lecture Series welcomes J.Z. Liang Chair of Cybersecurity and Privacy in the Georgia Tech College of Computing and Professor of Law and Ethics in the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Peter Swire, presenting “Avoiding a Trade War with Europe over Privacy Rights.” Privacy is considered a fundamental human right in the European Union, as shown in its strict privacy law, the Gen...
Beck Lecture Series: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach Nov. 9, 2023
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The Beck Series welcomes poet Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach. Dasbach came to the United States as a Jewish refugee in 1993, from Dnipro, Ukraine, and grew up in the DC metro area suburb of Rockville, Maryland. She holds an Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Oregon and a Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Her newes...
Goodspeed Lecture Series: Laurie L Patton Feb. 15, 2023
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The Department of Religion Goodspeed Lecture Series welcomes the 17th president of Middlebury College Laurie L. Patton presenting, “Eruptive Public Spaces: What Controversies about Scholarship Can Teach Us About the Study of Religion.” Patton is the first woman to lead the institution in its 223-year history. Patton joined Middlebury in 2015 after serving as dean of Duke University’s Trinity Co...
Beck Lecture Series: Iya Kiva Oct. 10, 2023
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The Beck Series welcomes Ukrainian poet, translator, and journalist Iya Kiva. She was born in Donetsk, in 2014, due to the Russian-Ukrainian war, moved to Kyiv. Shortly after arriving, she began shifting from writing in her native Russian to writing in her second language, Ukrainian. Since February 24, she writes exclusively in Ukrainian. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, Further from...
Goodspeed Series Grace Kao Nov. 2, 2023
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The Goodspeed Lecture Series welcomes Grace Kao, presenting “Is Surrogacy a Bad Idea for Women? Assessing the Goods and Ills of the Practice.” Join Kao, author of My Body, Their Baby: A Progressive Christian Vision for Surrogacy (Stanford UP, 2023) as she offers a scholarly assessment of surrogacy grounded in human rights, feminist and progressive Christian principles, qualitative studies on fa...
Laura C Harris Series: Dr Olena Nikolayenko Oct. 10, 20 2022
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The Laura C. Harris Series welcomes Professor of Political Science at Fordham University Olena Nikolayenko, presenting “Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe.” Nikolayenko is also an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. Her research interests include comparative democratization, social movements, political behavior, women’s activism, and ...
Beck Lecture Series: Erin Belieu and Cate Marvin Oct. 25, 2022
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The Beck Series welcomes poets Erin Belieu and Cate Marvin presenting a reading. Belieu is the author of five collections of poetry, the most recent being “Come-Hither Honeycomb” (2021). Her collections have received awards from the National Book Critics Circle, the Society of Midland Authors, the Ohioana Library, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation; her fourth collection, “Black Box,” was a finalist...
Ori Yehudai Goodspeed Lecture Series Feb. 16, 2022
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The Goodspeed Lecture Series welcomes the Saul and Sonia Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies and Assistant Professor of History at The Ohio State University Ori Yehudai, presenting, “Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II.” Yehudai teaches courses on the history of modern Israel, the Arab-Israeli conflict and modern Jewish history. He previously held posi...
Melissa Faliveno Beck Series Nov. 9, 2022
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The Beck Series presents Assistant Professor of English Melissa Faliveno at the Denison Museum giving a reading. Faliveno is the author of the bestselling essay collection “TOMBOYLAND,” named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and Electric Literature. Her work has appeared in Esquire, Paris Review, Bitch, Ms. Magazine, Lit Hub, Brooklyn Rail, and Prairie...
Goodspeed Lecture Series: Amy Langenberg and Ann Gleig Apr. 11, 2022
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The Goodspeed Lecture Series welcomes Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida Ann Gleig and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Eckerd College Amy Langenberg, presenting, “Secrecy Is Toxic:” Grassroots Responses to Sexual Violation in American Buddhism. Since the 1980s, American Buddhist communities have been the site of recurring sexual...
Beck Leture Series: Connie Schultz, Wesley Lowery, Jamil Smith Apr. 6 2022
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The Beck Series presents Connie Schultz, Inaugural Nan Nowik Writer-in-Residence and Andrew W. Mellon Writer-in-Residence (‘21-’22) in conversation with Wesley J. Lowery and Jamil Smith. Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize winning, nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate, and Professional in Residence at Kent State University School of Journalism. She won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Comm...
Gordon Lecture Series Tim Chartier Apr. 13, 2022
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Gordon Lecture Series Tim Chartier Apr. 13, 2022
Academic Awards Convocation Apr. 22, 2022
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Academic Awards Convocation Apr. 22, 2022
State of the College Address and Convocation Reunion 2022 June 4, 2022
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State of the College Address and Convocation Reunion 2022 June 4, 2022
Baccalaureate Celebration May 13, 2022
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Baccalaureate Celebration May 13, 2022
Joy Harjo Beck Series Feb. 7, 2023
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Joy Harjo Beck Series Feb. 7, 2023
Denis Hayes Earth Day Apr. 20, 2023
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Denis Hayes Earth Day Apr. 20, 2023
Micaela Vivero Artist Talk Feb. 22, 2024
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Micaela Vivero Artist Talk Feb. 22, 2024
Academic Awards Convocation Apr. 12, 2024
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Academic Awards Convocation Apr. 12, 2024
Angus Fletcher Beck Series Jan. 3, 2023
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Angus Fletcher Beck Series Jan. 3, 2023
Millennial Anxiety: Neo-liberalism, the Politics of Recognition and Intensive Parenting.
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Millennial Anxiety: Neo-liberalism, the Politics of Recognition and Intensive Parenting.
Denison University welcomes author Jane Gallop, presenting ”Sexuality, Disability, and Aging.”
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Denison University welcomes author Jane Gallop, presenting ”Sexuality, Disability, and Aging.”
Goodspeed Lecture: 'The Moral Laboratory of War' presented by Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon.
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Goodspeed Lecture: 'The Moral Laboratory of War' presented by Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon.
Beck Series presents Lesley Nneka Arimah
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Beck Series presents Lesley Nneka Arimah
Beck Series presents Jos Charles
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Beck Series presents Jos Charles
Tuesday Faculty Lunch Series features Kirk Combe
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Tuesday Faculty Lunch Series features Kirk Combe
Tuesday Faculty Lunch Series features Cantay Caliskan
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Tuesday Faculty Lunch Series features Cantay Caliskan

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  • @Walizen
    @Walizen 5 днів тому

    Wow

  • @EricMHowardII-yh1rn
    @EricMHowardII-yh1rn 13 днів тому

    Gender Relationship warfare of Boys and Men Versus Girls and Women must be addressed truthfully because of the foundation in connection to zero sum gain that can tear our nation apart in the future. Please address this situation as soon as possible.

  • @pournima8096
    @pournima8096 5 місяців тому

    Thank you for sharing!

  • @darrellee8194
    @darrellee8194 7 місяців тому

    8:43 Two kinds of knowledge? What about, "How did it come to be? (process again). And for what purpose?" I take purpose to be different from function. I guess the first two questions are what questions, and mine are why questions (history, and intention). Universities and Football Teams are just objects (process entities) on a different spatial and temporal scales than a chair or a table. (Chairs and Tables are processes too, when viewed at various scales). On one scale they are practically static, on another the are a blur of energy.)

  • @darrellee8194
    @darrellee8194 7 місяців тому

    Wait a minute. Fire doesn't burn cotton. Cotton burning is Fire. Fire is not an object relating incompletely to cotton. its a process that is transforming the cotton. He talks about the East Indian Company as object which is definitely one one to look at it, but I think a better was is to look at it as "Entity as Process" OO is so 20th century. He needs to Haskell. Functions not objects is what the cool kids work with. First order and higher order functions. 4:12 What are his primitives. In a functional ontology, the primitives are Null-ary functions that always return themselves. Yeah. We can always substitute functions for objects. If objects are functions the return values are it's qualities and relations and the arguments are the observers relation to the object. If stand in the same relation to an object (send in the same arguments), you get a consistent return value (time is always and implicit argument). Yes anything he's says about objects can be morphed into functions. And functions capture the dynamic structure of reality much better than objects.

  • @bazaci
    @bazaci 8 місяців тому

    An absolutely brilliant talk . Thank you.

  • @brian-jv1nw
    @brian-jv1nw Рік тому

    The irony of him not being able to describe what not being able to describe is like as he takes shots at writers 56:00

  • @mosescosme8629
    @mosescosme8629 2 роки тому

    I was looking for a video on Object Oriented Programming and it's relation to philosophy, so I was a bit surprised when I realized this was actually just a philosophy lecture with no programming at all. That said, I absolutely loved this lecture. He put to words many ideas I've had swarming in my head. I definitely look forward to reading his book now.

    • @severanceflames2201
      @severanceflames2201 2 роки тому

      Lmao same. Might have to give this a full watch some time!

    • @mosescosme8629
      @mosescosme8629 2 роки тому

      @@severanceflames2201 I was trying to find some smart people talking about the Aristotelian logic behind classes and still haven't found anything. That said, the more I dig into Graham Harman's stuff the more I like it lol. Let us know if you actually found some programming philosophy stuff.

  • @Cybervue
    @Cybervue 2 роки тому

    44:50 - Wow! Now I know why my teachers always called me weird. I'm an Monadologist.

  • @Cybervue
    @Cybervue 2 роки тому

    31:07 - "I'm sorry, our ethics panel is run by AI now, and our ethicist is really more of a quality control position. It would be great if you had an engineering degree."

  • @paulcurry8383
    @paulcurry8383 2 роки тому

    I’m not convinced that ideas don’t emerge from physical properties, and while yes, physics would be a poor way to gain knowledge of many things that emerge from its rules- that doesn’t make it so they haven’t emerged. When Conway made the game of life, he knew the rules that governed the game- but I’m sure he didn’t immediately know how to make a “glider” or “airship” in that game. Just because a thing is not easily predicted by base rules doesn’t mean those base rules cannot constitute the thing.

  • @cesarrdz81
    @cesarrdz81 3 роки тому

    Whats the sense of speaking 3 rows of quantum physics ?. A philospher of methaphysics needs that?

  • @lakrids-pibe
    @lakrids-pibe 3 роки тому

    Oh here he is! I heard a podcast about the history of Satan a long while ago, but then I couldn't find it again. Searching for "Satan" gives so many useless results. I must make a note about Phil Harlan. He knows his stuff.

  • @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw
    @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw 3 роки тому

    "Graham Harman writes about objects. When considering two 'objects' he notes their interaction. For instance, he writes about cotton burning, 'the cotton burns stupidly.' If all objects are ontologically, or in their Being (Sein) 'democratised' or equal, then a certain philosophical ground arises from this proposition. Since these objects are equal, that is to say, the same ontologically, then it follows that they can be interchangeable - ontologically - with any other objects. Objects are objects. Moving from the 'objects' of cotton and fire, interacting as they are through what Harman calls a 'sensual vicar' - another object that is created from the interaction of the two objects, let us apply this proposition to another case. When a Monk in Tibet sets himself aflame, when he self-immolates in protest against China's occupation of Tibet, does the Monk too 'burn stupidly?' Since the Monk and the cotton are in-their-being totally equal, an Object is an Object, the Monk, just another 'object' can be said to 'burn stupidly.' Political ideologies to light to Monks and cotton are all 'objects' for Harman. The object withdraws, as 'we' or 'I' or another object can never fully know its being. This is a proposition he picks up from Martin Heidegger the Nazi philosopher. Harman associates himself so much with Heidegger that he says he is more of a Heideggerian than Heidegger himself. Given Heidegger's support for the discrimination and even extermination of Jews and other (objects), we can deduce via Harman's object-oriented ontology that he would, at an ontological level (that is at the level of Sein) find no problem with Nazi ideology, for it is simply another object that withdraws and relates with other objects. We must then ask, given Harman's fetishising of Heidegger and his objectification of everything, does 'the Jew burn stupidly?' That is to say, does the life of the Jewish person under the object of Nazism represent a mere interaction of equal objects via a 'sensual vicar?' ... Does the Jew get gassed stupidly under the object of Nazi philosophy which is entirely equal to the Jew and interacts with the Jew through the sensual vicar of another object that being the gas - the gas supposedly I would imagine an object that interacts with the Jew that's being killed and the gas chamber through a sensual vicar creating another object - everything is ontologically equal - what are the political consequences of that?" Eilif Verney-Elliott, Graham Harman's Object-oriented ontology, 2013.

    • @rubyleopard
      @rubyleopard 3 роки тому

      bro you commented this on like all these vids

    • @williamboreham5856
      @williamboreham5856 3 роки тому

      @@rubyleopard feels like it misses the point as well. You could level the same argument at Darwin (not a comparison of the theories; I don't know a great deal about either)

    • @ilja857
      @ilja857 3 роки тому

      Are you going to spam this under every video? This is moralistic fallacy

    • @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw
      @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw 3 роки тому

      @@ilja857 Yes, of course; though it is not 'spam' but a necessarily repetition to expose the inane idiocy of both Graham Harman and Object Oriented Ontology.

    • @ilja857
      @ilja857 3 роки тому

      @@AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw The more I reread your block of whining, the more I see that your assumptions are just silly virtue signaling and a lazy, one-sided interpretation of Third Reich. As if this is the first time people are massively killed. Without Hitler or OOO no one has ever genocided anyone. My final point - NO, this philosophy has no political consequences and will not lead to any form of totalitarianism. You have no way to prove any on this.

  • @zockroach
    @zockroach 3 роки тому

    lol what nope

  • @space_eko
    @space_eko 4 роки тому

    “Why should we define Realism as a reality existing outside the mind, is the mind the only thing with an outside?”

  • @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw
    @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw 4 роки тому

    There is no such thing as object-oriented ontology; it is an oxymoron. There are no Tool Beings. A tool is not a being. There are no Art Objects. There are only Art Beings, Art Works. Objects do not exist. Object-oriented ontology is an oxymoron because objects are not beings but Harman ontologises objects, and at the same time, objectifies beings manufacturing beings into objects (which we witnessed at Auschwitz which is the absolute apt attunement and attainment of Harman's obliterating-obliviating object-oriented ontology) ; paradoxically, Harman was an authentic nazi philosopher unlike Heidegger who never objectified being knowing that beings are not objects (unlike Hitler and Harman who saw beings as objects, beings as things, to manage and manipulate). There are no objects in the world. Rather, it is humans who turn beings into objects in order to objectify, obliterate, and obliviate beings. Neo-nazi Harman makes Heidegger look like a liberal! Object-oriented ontology is Nazi Philosophy par excellence (and so apt for our fascistic age of Trump and Putin who both practice object-oriented ontology on a daily basis turnings beings into things to destroy).

  • @gutpunkt
    @gutpunkt 5 років тому

    I really enjoy the simple way Harman explains his thoughts. But I cannot understand his fourfold structure. If we already have a defined Object as something that lies deep in realism, how can it be that there is also the sensual Object. The real Object seems to be behind everything we interact with it, and doesn´t leave enough space for another object behind. The sensual Object of Husserl seems to me to be a whole other Idea, how can these two Ideas of Object get into the same Philosophy?

    • @Robobotic
      @Robobotic 4 роки тому

      More like sensual objects are also objects

    • @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw
      @AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw 4 роки тому

      @Call me Schibboleth The man is an idiotic and stupid lecturer and a total fraud.

    • @Loveless_Light
      @Loveless_Light 2 роки тому

      @@AlexanderVerney-Elliott-ep7dw That took a lot of courage for you to write that. Please post one of your lectures. I'm looking forward to learning your philosophy. From your comment I'm sure it's full of insight and super compelling.

  • @projectmalus
    @projectmalus 5 років тому

    The love of wisdom is a process and wisdom is a result; therefor, philosophy emphases process over result. Both are needed and so is the truth that a process always produces a true result WRT that process. Always! How many other truths are there like this? This point of view made the ongoing deceptions of parts in our society rather easy to see...the result is looked at first and given emphasis, and it's usually altruistic on the individual level, and gainful for the group. The education system where teachers have altruistic motives, the result is switched from learning to producing good workers, which is good for the group; or health care, where doctors are mostly altruistic, the goal is health, and is now big business, ditto for foreign aid. A process is adopted and at the same instant there is a subtle shifting of the goalposts, with cost being the reason I think. Doing this excludes other solutions and acts to marginalize some of the actors...because that one result is demanded...and the actual true process to achieve the result looks or is made to look funny and so disregarded (but actually works). Choice is removed. We understand the business behind it and acknowledge the altruism, but can't see the individual vs group dichotomy, the switch in the result. An example are tractors, which are supposed to save work, but tend to destroy or alter ecosystems, so that in the long term much more work is created. The soil micro biology is marginalized, and this is seriously bad for a ground up ontology (as opposed to top down). Mess with the bottom layers and the upper layers disappear, not the other way around. Now a huge amount of resources are needed to "fix" the process: it becomes a system of problem solving instead of problem prevention, which of course is much more lucrative. I'm not saying it happened deliberately or purposely, like Adam Smith's invisible hand it appeared and was then taken advantage of. Much of society has been repeated enough so that it becomes obvious that something is not working (large cities for instance, or fast food) and I think this is because the philosophy behind it is wrong. Even more seriously, people seem to be getting messed up, more angry and fearful, and perhaps this is the reaction to a lack of choice. Far from being depressing, this shows the problem and how to fix it.

    • @projectmalus
      @projectmalus 5 років тому

      To me the fix involves architecture, but also civil engineering since I feel the grid like structure and individualizing effect of cities both reflects and provides the means for the idea presented in the above comment, that result has taken precedent over process and allowed corruption to move in. I don't think this is against OOO and I don't think this is ANT, or Whitehead's philosophy since the spirituality is in the truth that a process yields a true result, not in some god actor. I'm not saying it's all about process. The process is an object and so is the result, and in between is this structure that exerts an influence WRT humans (when it drops out of philosophy and becomes applied philosophy) and is represented by the structure of the neighborhoods. This is the area to focus on to change things for the group level, but the architecture in individual buildings plays a part on an individual level, and the two are necessarily connected.

  • @crayolaxXxcre8tives
    @crayolaxXxcre8tives 5 років тому

    So basically the value added for workers in poor countries are underestimated by net imports and net exports? That means poor countries can’t rely on exports to become richer. Very interesting video.