Speakers and Lectures (page 4)

January 9, 2015

Ahmed Alwishah

Ahmed Alwishah’s research focuses on Islamic Philosophy, especially Avicenna, Post-Avicennian philosophers, and Philosophy of Language in Islamic tradition. He is the co-editor of Ibn KammÅ«na Refinement and Commentary of SuhrawardÄ«’s Intimations (Mazda, 2002) and the forthcoming Aristotle and Arabic Tradition, 2015 Cambridge Press.

Jonathan Lethem and David Treuer

Claremont-based novelists David Treuer (Prudence) and Jonathan Lethem (Dissident Gardens) consider the different ways Vladimir Nabokov’s elusive self is simultaneously disclosed and shrouded from view in his treatment of his most arrogant protagonist, and his most retiring. In the process, Treuer and Lethem will disclose (and perhaps shroud) the tricky presence of their own “selves” in the narrational space of their respective fictions.

Humans and Selves: a Humanities Institute conference

Featuring Louise Antony, John Martin Fischer, Derek Parfit, and Andrea Westlund.

Katherine Hayles

Katherine Hayles teaches and writes on the relations of literature, science, and technology in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her print book, How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis, was published by the University of Chicago Press in spring 2012.

Varieties of Self: a Humanities Institute conference

Featuring Dan Arnold, Naomi Quinn, Eric Schwitzgebel, Kwong-loi Shun, Nina Strohminger, and Robin Wang.

Julia Sushytska

Julia Sushytska (Ph.D., Philosophy, Stony Brook University) specializes in Ancient Greek and 20th century Continental philosophy. Her research focuses on convergences between ideas of Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Plato, and the work of 20th century thinkers, especially Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Julia Kristeva, and Merab Mamardashvili.

Cressida Hayes

Cressida Heyes is the author of Self-Transformations: Defining Women through Feminist Practice (Cornell University Press 2000) and Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies (Oxford University Press 2007), as well as the editor of The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy (Cornell 2003), and Critical Concepts: Gender and Philosophy (Routledge 2011). She co-edited Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer (Ashgate 2009) with Meredith Jones, with whom she is currently co-authoring a book on the feminist politics of sleep.

Elke Weber

Elke Weber is the Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business, Professor of Management and Psychology, and Earth Institute Professor at Columbia University. She is an expert on descriptive models of decision-making under uncertainty and time delay in financial and environmental contexts.

Nancy Chodorow

Although individuology overlaps with psychology, and several fields in the humanities draw upon psychoanalysis, the study of individuals requires on the one hand a more qualitative, interactive and intersubjective methodology than we find in contemporary psychology and on the other the study of people, not texts.

January 7, 2015

Barbara Pierce Bush

Bush is a passionate voice in the global fight to confront some of the most prevalent health equity issues of our time. As the co-founder and chief executive officer of Global Health Corps, an organization that connects outstanding young leaders with nonprofit organizations working on the front lines to promote global health equity, Bush has fully committed her life’s work to improving access to healthcare in some of the world’s most under-served areas.