Author: Huenemann

bell hooks is an interesting, influential author and theorist about sexual and racial oppression. More info about her here. More information about her lecture here.

This, from Justin Beiber (well, according to The Onion):

Your adoration or loathing of me, a 17-year-old entertainer from Canada, is no more significant than a grain of sand on a beach, disappearing when Earth’s mighty oceans rise and then retreat—as they will hundreds of thousands of millions of times until the sun is extinguished and the pyramids, the Taj Mahal, Rick Ross, the Great Wall of China, and everything else even remotely related to our feeble, fleeting species are but forgotten whispers in one planet’s geochronology.

Forgive me. But please don’t think that because of my fame I place myself above the futile scrabbling of mankind and its ephemeral perception of me as being either “adorable” or “the worst”; quite the contrary. In fact, it is because of my celebrity that I know I matter no more or less than any other human being among the many billions living or dead. When I tweet about the fact that I have cut my iconic hair and it is re-tweeted 300,000 times in a day, there is no better juxtaposition than to place that trifling 24 hours against the 10,000 years it will take Byrd Glacier to move across Antarctica’s vast expanses of silent white.

Sorta makes you think, doesn’t it?

I am sad to relay some tragic news. Emmett Corrigan, USU Philosophy major and lawyer in Boise, Idaho, was shot and killed last Friday. He was 30 years old. Story here. Corrigan was an unusual student: really smart, and at the same time a rowdy, brawling tough guy – genuine fightin’ Irish – and at the same time a devoted father and husband. He specialized in criminal law, and it looks like some difficult criminal matter ended up getting out of hand.

Corrigan graduated from Gonzaga’s law school, and kept in occasional contact with me. When he was a student at USU, he told me that a professor in another discipline had told him that philosophy was no preparation for law school. Later, when he was in law school, he sent me a note to let me know: “Anyone who says philosophy doesn’t prepare you for law school is talking horseshit.” A vintage Emmett comment. I am so glad to have known him, and so sad to think of the world without him.

UPDATE: Obituary here.

Philosophy majors are encouraged to apply for the Brett E. Blanch Memorial Scholarship. Application forms can be picked up in Main 204. (Please ignore the posted deadline of March 4th; we will continue to accept applications through March 25th.) To be eligible, you must be a major, have at least nine upper-division credits in Philosophy, and have a 3.5 gpa in the major.

“All Roads Lead to Rome: Pope Paul V’s Promotion of His Global Missionary Success at the Quirinal Palace”

Dr. Mayu Fujikawa, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Bucknell University

Dr. Fujikawa holds a PhD in art history from Washington University, and is a specialist in Italian Renaissance art. Her work, however, crosses geographic as well as disciplinary boundaries, focusing on a variety of media outside the traditional art historical canon and examining East-West relations, particularly the representation of East Asia and East Asians in Early Modern Europe. She is currently completing a book entitled Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age.

All are invited to attend this presentation which will begin at 3:20 in Fine Arts Visual 150 (the large lecture hall as you enter the main doors of the Chase Fine Arts Center). A reception for students interested in continuing the conversation with Dr. Fujikawa will take place at 4:30 in the Art Conference Room (enter through the main art office).