Author: Huenemann

“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).

Errol Morris is a great filmmaker of documentaries. His “Thin Blue Line” and “Mr. Death” are absolutely riveting. I didn’t know until now that he had spent some time studying the history of science at Princeton and philosophy at Berkeley. He has a couple of very interesting recent articles about his experiences in the NYT: one about the time that Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at his head, and a second about Kuhn and Kripke and their very different accounts of how names and theories hook up with the world (or fail to).

Utah Valley University hosts a splendid undergraduate philosophy conference each spring. I just received a call for papers today, and the deadline for abstracts is THIS FRIDAY, so get going NOW! (The organizer tells me she can be a bit flexible about the deadline, so do not refrain from submitting only because you might end up a couple of days late.)

UVU UNDERGRADUATE
PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
Submission Guidelines & Prizes
Sessions: Friday March 25, 2011 from 10:00 to 5:15.
Timpanogos Room (4th Floor of UVU Library)
Word limit: 2500-3500 words
Email papers to: DONAHOER@uvu.edu and weigelch@gmail.com
Subject: “undergraduate conference entry”
The paper should contain no identifying information about the author, and should be in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format.
Awards:
$100 first place
$60 second place
$40 third place
$20 each for 5-10 honorable mentions
All accepted papers will be published
in conference proceedings.
Student Paper Submission Deadline: Friday March 11 at noon.

USU S.H.A.F.T. has a blogpost describing Sherlock’s recent lecture, and also features a recording of the lecture (thanks to Will Holloway).

Here is a review of a recent book describing a 1929 philosophy conference where Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger had a famous exchange, and both Levinas and Carnap were in the audience. The confrontation was fascinating; according to the review —

Gordon begins his book with a broad characterization of Cassirer’s and Heidegger’s philosophical positions. At the core of their debate at Davos (and, it turns out, at the core of their entire philosophical thought) lay, as Gordon puts it, “a fundamental contest between two normative images of humanity,” (p. 6) a contest “between thrownness and spontaneity” (p. 7). Where neo-Kantian Cassirer saw human beings as gifted with a capacity for “spontaneous self-expression” and thus endowed with “a complete freedom” to create worlds of meaning, Heidegger envisaged them to be determined by their “finitude” and thus as living in the midst of conditions they have not created and cannot hope to control.