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The ARIT will be discussing Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell by Pat Yale. It will feature an online lecture and in person with Yale, a journalist and traveler in Instanbul.
Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Time: 6:00pm Instanbul
Location: ANAMED Auditorium, İstiklal Caddesi, 181, Merkez Han, Beyoğlu
Register for the zoom lecture here.
The New University in Exile Consortium is proud to present “The Suppression of Academic Voices,” featuring Judith Butler, Michael Ignatieff, Steven Pinker, and Kenneth Roth, with an introduction by The New School’s President, Donna E. Shalala.
On July 23, 2023, esteemed Azerbaijani economist and member of the Consortium, Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu, was unjustly arrested during a visit to Baku. He has been kept in detention under extremely difficult conditions ever since. This webinar is meant to call attention to this great injustice and press for Dr. Ibadoghlu’s immediate release, as well as to call attention to the many other scholars and human rights activists currently imprisoned around the world.
This is event marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is the culmination of a month-long advocacy campaign to free Dr. Ibadoghlu. Please join us and, by doing so, show your solidarity with Dr. Ibadoghlu and all the unjustly imprisoned scholars and activists who badly need our support.
Date: Thursday, October 12, 2023
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT
Location: zoom
Register for free here!
This seminar wishes to explore the negative overlap of thought and feeling in nonsense. This overlap is confused: for “sense,” already, is marked by a split.
Sense may speak of the understanding which thinking is said to produce – the thinking that “makes sense” – in which case sense’s negative, nonsense, would be the lack of rational meaning or logic. Yet sense is also sensation, a feeling, and thereby the touchstone of experience, of which nonsense would be the most
radical absence.
The proposition, “nothing in the world is without sense,” may be true. Yet perhaps it invites us less to dismiss the occurrence of nonsense than to question the lurking particle “is,” and to follow the invitation of nonsense away from the world “as is” and toward a world “as as” – a world that merely appears to be a world; a sense not for what is, but for what is like.
ACLA invites papers that investigate such nonsense in its many theatres – literary, philosophical, or otherwise.
To submit an abstract, please click here.
The deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2023.
