Events for January 22 - May 4

Join via Zoom: https://scrippscollege.zoom.us/j/92134718751 Miri Albahari discusses the foundations of Buddhist teaching and their philosophical implications. Dr Miri Albahari is a Philosophy Lecturer at the University of Western Australia and is the author of Analytical Buddhism: The Two-Tiered Illusion of Self. The book was converted from a Ph.D thesis that was supervised by John A. Baker at the University of Calgary. Miri teaches comparative philosophy and is building a novel consciousness-based metaphysical system for what Aldous Huxley referred to as…

Join via Zoom https://scrippscollege.zoom.us/j/93151817946 Cultural Technologies in Māori Contexts Lisa Reihana (Ngāpuhi, Ngātihine, Ngāi Tu) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans film, sculpture, costume and body adornment, text and photography. Since the 1990s Reihana has significantly influenced the development of contemporary art and contemporary Māori art in Aotearoa New Zealand. She has earned an outstanding reputation as an artist and producer where her attention to the complexities of contemporary photographic and cinema languages is expressed in myriad ways. Her…

Join via Zoom: https://scrippscollege.zoom.us/j/95717417598 Ọkụ Extenders: Women, Sacrality, and Transformative Art Nkiru Nzegwu is SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at State University of New York at Binghamton. She is also Professor Extraordinarius in the School of Transdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA). She is the founder of Africa Knowledge Project (https://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/) and Africa Resource Center, Inc. (africaresource.com). She is author of Family Matters:…

Join via Zoom: https://scrippscollege.zoom.us/j/94399358764 Belief, Desire, and Moral Motivation in the Philosopher's Stone Parimal Patil is currently Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy at Harvard University, where he has been teaching since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2002. His primary academic interests are in the history of philosophy in India. Although his philosophical interests are quite broad, he has focused on Buddhist philosophy in India, the Old and New Epistemologists, and Indian traditions of physicalism and…

Join via Zoom: https://scrippscollege.zoom.us/j/97469942265 Where We Belong:  Life - Land - Spirit Dr. Anne S.Waters, J.D., Ph.D. Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Jewish descent; a CIC (Council of Independent Colleges), GPPC (Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium), NWSA (National Women Studies Association), Pergamon Press, Liberty Fund, Helen Steiner, and Rockefeller scholar; and recipient of NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) and NSF (National Science Foundation) grants. Holds J.D. (Juris Doctorate-1992) from The University of New Mexico Law School, and Ph.D. (in Philosophy-1992) from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Physically…