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Thursday, May 07, 2020
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Online Webinar: '(Re-)Making Citizenship: Explorations of Belonging and Participation in the Arts'By ZoomPlease contact Irene Dal Poz for further information. |
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Knowledge and Understanding Seminar: All Students WelcomeBy ZoomSpeaker: David Bather Woods (Warwick) Title: 'The World as One: Learning from Solitude with Schopenhauer' Abstract Schopenhauer praises solitude and derides sociability. An active mind requires solitude, and tolerance of solitude requires an active mind, thus a capacity for solitude is an intellectual virtue, he reasons. The need for sociability, a sign of an inactive mind, is solitude’s opposite vice. Time has not been kind to this view. It is now widely accepted, and has scarcely been more apparent, that human beings are ineluctably social creatures, and better off that way. Worse still, Schopenhauer’s praise of solitude jars with his praise of worldliness as another intellectual virtue. Thinkers should learn from experience of the world, he believes; but can thinkers be both worldly and solitary? How can they know more about the world by getting out in it less? I propose a reading of Schopenhauer’s praise of the intellectual virtue of solitude which is neither insensitive to the patent human need for sociability, nor inconsistent with the intellectual virtue of worldliness.
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Global Insights: COVID-19 and the Global SouthThursday April 7 - 4pm-5pm https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/global-insights-covid-19-and-the-global-south-tickets-103848997146 The Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at Warwick present the second panel in our weekly live-streamed Global Insights series with our partners in Canada, the US, Ethiopia and Germany Warwick experts from PAIS and the Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID) will be joined by colleagues from the Balsillie School in Canada, the Institute for Strategic Affairs in Ethiopia, American University in the US, and Konstanz Universitat in Germany to share their views on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the global south. Issues addressed in this episode will include gender, elections, food security, migration, security, justice and human rights. Featuring Ann Fitz-Gerald (moderator), Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), Canada Panelists: Briony Jones, PAIS/WICID, University of Warwick, researches the nexus between development, peacebuilding and justice. Shirin Rai, PAIS/WICID, University of Warwick, researches gender, governance and development. Hallelujah Lulie, Institute for Strategic Affairs, Addis Ababa, researches African security and political elite bargaining. Rachel Robinson, American University, Washington DC, is a sociologist and demographer whose research focuses on global health interventions in sub-Saharan Africa, including family planning, HIV/AIDS, and sexuality education. Jonathan Crush, BSIA and Wilfrid Laurier University, is an expert on migration, food security and hungry cities. Anja Osei, University of Konstanz, researches democratisation, electoral autocracy and African politics. About the Global Insights series “Global Insights” is a weekly live-streamed, moderated panel series which provides different national and regional perspectives on big questions currently facing researchers, policymakers and planners worldwide in light of the Coronavirus pandemic. All are welcome. Sign up for free here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/global-insights-covid-19-and-the-global-south-tickets-103848997146 |