September 3 | "Religion, Science and Literature in the Middle Ages and in Early Modernity I: Dante, La divina commedia"
Joachim Kuepper (Freie University-Berlin, Philosophy)
Co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Departments of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Jewish Studies and the Singleton Center
101A Dell House, 5:15
Click here for abstract. |
| September 9 | "Religion, Science and Literature in the Middle Sges and in Early Modernity II: Leone Ebreo, Dialoghi d'amore"
Joachim Kuepper (Freie University-Berlin, Philosophy)
Co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Departments of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Jewish Studies and the Singleton Center
101A Dell House, 5:15
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| September 15 | "Islamic 'Trading Zones' in England and Aceh"
John Bowen (University of Washington, Anthropology)
400 Macaulay, 4:00 |
| September 16 | "Religion, Science and Literature in the Middle Ages and in Early Modernity III: Calderon, La Vida es sueno; Cervantes, Quijote"
Joachim Kuepper (Freie University-Berlin, Philosophy)
Co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Departments of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Jewish Studies and the Singleton Center
101A Dell House, 5:15
Click here for abstract. |
| September 16 | "The Evolution of Irrationality: Insights from Non-Human Primates"
Laurie Santos (Yale University, Psychology )
233 Ames, 4:00
Click here for abstract. |
September 19 -
September 20 | "Religion/Sexuality: Politics/Affect"
Conference sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Department of Anthropology and the Program for Women, Gender and Sexuality
Naveeda Khan (Johns Hopkins University, Anthropology)
Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University, History)
Ludger Viefhues-Bailey (Yale University, Religious Studies)
Eric Fassin (Ecole Normale-Paris, Sociology)
Francois Sebbah (University of Technology-Compiegna, Philosophy)
Deepak Mehta (University of Delhi, Sociology)
Bhrigupati Singh (Johns Hopkins University, Anthropology)
Michael Moon (Emory University, American Studies)
Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University, Anthropology)
Cafe Conference Room, Azafran, Space Telescope Building
Click here to view the conference schedule
Click here to view paper titles and abstracts |
| October 1 | "God, Mind, and Body:
The Order of Knowledge in Descartes"
Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Philosophy)
102A Dell House, 5:00 |
| November 8 | Johns Hopkins-UPENN Early Modern Philosophy Forum
"Ethics 1P16 and Felicity"
John Carriero (University of California-Los Angeles, Philosophy)
"Descartes on Teleology and the Life Sciences"
Karen Detlefsen (University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy)
Sherwood Room, Levering Hall, 12:00-4:00,
Click here for details and conference schedule.
Click here for John Carriero's abstract. |
| November 13 | "Evolution of Signaling Systems with Multiple Senders and Receivers"
Brian Skyrms (University of California-Irvine, Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics)
102A Dell House, 4:00
Click here for abstract. |
| November 20 | "Emotions, Reasons, and the Functional Imaging of Moral Deliberation"
Colin Klein (University of Illinois-Chicago, Philosophy)
Mattin 160, 4:00
Click here for abstract. |
| December 1 | "Life with Others and the Anthropology of Ethics"
Webb Keane (University of Michigan, Anthropology)
400 Macaulay, 4:00 |
| December 11 | "The Development of Modal Reasoning"
Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona, Philosophy)
Justin Halberda (Johns Hopkins University, Psychology)
Time and Place TBA |
| December 11 | Stephen Stich (Rutgers, Philosophy)
102A Dell House, 4:00
Title TBA |
| February 5-6 | Graduate Conference on Religion and Psychiatry
Keynote Speakers:
Pascal Boyer (Washington University-St. Louis, Psychology/Anthropology)
George Graham (Georgia State University, Philosophy/Neuroscience)
Sherwood Room, Levering Hall
Click here for Conference webpage. |
| February 11 | "God as Causa Sui and Created Truth in Descartes"
Tad Schmaltz (Duke University, Philosophy)
102A Dell House, 4:00 |
| March 21-27 | Templeton Research Lectures
"The Evolution of Cooperation"
Martin Nowak (Harvard University, Biology/Mathematics)
Schedule TBA
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| May 12-13 | Spinoza and German Idealism Conference
Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame University)
Fred Beiser (Syracuse University)
Omri Bohm (Yale University)
Michael Della Rocca (Yale University)
Eckhart Forster (Johns Hopkins University)
Michael Forster (University of Chicago)
Paul Franks (University of Toronto)
Don Garrett (New York University)
Michah Gottleib (New York University)
Johannes Haag (University of Potsdam)
Yitzak Melhamed (Johns Hopkins University)
Dalia Nasser (Villanova University)
Terry Pinkard (Georgetown University)
Oded Schechter (Princeton University)
Michael Vater (Marquette University)
Schedule TBA |
| 2008-2009 EVENTS |
| September 25 | "Does Moral Theory Corrupt Youth?"
Kieran Setiya (University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy)
102A Dell House, 4:00 |
| September 29 | Workshop on Science and Religion in Journalism:
Method and Madness
Richard Panek (Freelance Author and Journalist)
602A Dell House, 3:00-6:00 |
| October 2 | 2008-2009 Templeton Lectures
"Naturalizing Culture: Philosophical and Empirical Issues"
Dan Sperber (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS)
101 Remsen, 4:00 |
| October 3 | 2008-2009 Templeton Lectures
"Cultural Epidemiology:
Ecological and Psychological Factors"
Dan Sperber (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS)
101 Remsen, 4:00 |
| October 14 | Discussion of Innateness and Cognitive Science
Richard Samuels (Kings College London and Ohio State, Philosophy)
102A Dell House, 2:00 |
| October 24 | Symposium on Religion and Science
"From Weak thought to the thought of the Weak"
Gianni Vattimo (Turin University, Philosophy)
"Being is Conversation"
Santiago Zabala (Potsdam University, Philosophy)
Space Telescope Building Auditorium, 2:00-6:00 |
| November 12 | "Political Theology and Fiction in The King's Two Bodies"
Victoria Kahn (University of California-Berkeley, English and Comparative Lit)
201C Dell House, 4:00 |
| November 18 | Emotions, Norms and the Moralization of Fairness
Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona, Philosophy)
233 Ames, 4:00
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January 31-
February 1 | Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Ed Curley (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Kurt Smith (Bloomsburg?University?of?Pennsylvania)
Mogens Laerke (University of Chicago)
Julie Walsh (University of Western Ontario)
Karolina Hubner (University of Chicago)
Dan Kaufman (University of Colorado-Boulder)
Gideon Manning (California Institute of Technology)
Justin Steinberg (Brooklyn College-CUNY)
Minna Koivuniemi (ENS Lyon-Uppsala University)
Sherwood Room, Levering Hall
Click here to visit the Seminar's website. |
| February 5 | "Skepticism about Persons"
John Doris (Washington University-St. Louis, Philosophy)
366 Mergenthaler, 4:00
Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University
Seminar?on?History?of?Political and Moral Thought
Click here for details. |
| February 6 | "Is there a Human Right to Essential Pharmaceuticals? The Global Common, The Intellectual Common, and the Possibility of Private Intellectual Property"
Mathias Risse (Harvard University, Philosophy)
102A Dell House, 4:00 |
| February 12 | "Responsibility and Mental Agency"
Pam Hieronymi (University of California-LA, Philosophy)
102A Dell House, 5:00 |
| February 13 | "In Defense of Future Tuesday Indifference"
Sharon Street (New York University, Philosophy)
102A Dell House, 4:00 |
| February 18 | 2008-2009 Templeton Lectures
"Relevance in Cognition, Communication and Culture"
Dan Sperber (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS)
213 Hodson, 4:00 |
| February 23 | "Freedom Despite Mechanism"
Adina Roskies (Dartmouth College, Philosophy)
Library,?Mind/Brain?Institute,?Krieger?Hall;?4:00
Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Mind/Brain Institute and Department of Philosophy
Click here for abstract. |
| February 25 | "Ethics and the Logic of Life"
Alice Crary (The New School for Liberal Arts, Philosophy and Political Science)
202B Dell House, 4:15 |
| March 4 | "When the World Becomes Female:
A Godess Festival in South India"
Joyce Flueckiger (Emory University, Religion)
113 Greenhouse, 4:30 |
| March 11 | "Feeling Secular"
Ann Pellegrini (New York University, Performance Studies and Religious Studies)
113 Greenhouse, 4:30 |
| March 23 | "Divinity, Power and Nature: Ficino and Early Modern Philosophy"
Christina Mercer (Columbia University, Philosophy)
Sponsored by the Singleton Center
102A Dell House, 5:00 |
| March 31 | 2008-2009 Templeton Lectures
"Religion and Science: An Old Comparison in a New Epidemiological Perspective"
Dan Sperber (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS)
(Lecture given as part of the Workshop listed below.)
Sherwood Room, Levering Hall, 4:20
Reception to follow.
Click here for abstract. |
| March 31 | Workshop on Cognitive Theories of Science and of Religion
Nancy Nersessian (GeorgiaTech, Cognitive Science)
Susan Carey (Harvard University, Psychology)
Dan Sperber (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS)
Sherwood Room, Levering Hall, 2:00-6:00
Reception to follow.
Click here for details. |
| April 22 | Lecture on the Anthropology of Prayer
Joel Robbins (University of California-San Diego, Anthropology)
Sherwood Room, Levering Hall, 1:30 |
| April 28 | "The 'Moorish Problem' in the Creation of Modern Spanish History"
Charles Hirschkind (University of California-Berkeley, Anthropology)
400 Macaulay, 4:00
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| May 12 | "Darwin, Marx, and Warranted Progress: Materialism and Views of Development in 19th Century Germany"
Wolfgang Lefevre (Max Plank Institute for the History of Science)
160 Mattin, 4:00
Click here to view a copy of the paper. |
| May 15-16 | "Cosmological Continuity and the Conception of Modern Science"
Peter Barker (University of Oklahoma)
Patrick J. Boner (Johns Hopkins University)
Daniel A. Di Liscia (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen)
Miguel A. Granada (Universitat de Barcelona)
Robert A. Hatch (University of Florida)
Victor Navarro Brotons (Universitat de Valencia)
Aviva Rothman (Princeton University)
Bruce Stephenson (Adler Planetarium)
Rienk Vermij (University of Oklahoma)
Steven Vanden Broecke (Universiteit Ghent)
Conference Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Department of History of Science and Technology
Conference Room, Department of History of Science and Technology
3505 N. Charles St.
Click here for conference program.
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| 2007-2008 EVENTS |
| October 4 | ?Bodies and Souls?
?Paul Bloom (Yale University, Psychology)
?1 Remsen, 4:00 |
| October 5 | ?Consciousness, Cognitive Accessibility and the Mesh between Psychology and Neuroscience?
Ned Block (New York University, Philosophy)
338 Krieger, 1:00 |
| October 22 | ?Issues in Science and Religion: Biological Evolution and Evolution Education?
Brian Alters (McGill University, Education)
219 Education Bldg, Great Hall, 5:00 |
| October 30 | "The Birth of Divinity - Anthropomorphism, Social Memory and Ritual Action"
Carlo Severi (Le Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
400 Macaulay Hall, 4:00 |
| November 2 | "Introspection: Divided and Partly Eliminated"
Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland, Philosophy)
348 Gilman, 4:00 |
| November 29? | ?The Moral Circle?
Paul Bloom (Yale University, Psychology)
1 Remsen, 4:00 |
| December 6 | "The Psychopathic Mind and the Foundations of Moral Reasoning"
James Blair (National Institute of Mental Health, Director)
1 Remsen, 4:00 |
| February 6 | Workshop on Cognitive Science and Suicide Terrorism
"Understanding Religious Extremism and Suicide Terrorism: The Scientific State of the Art"
Scott Atran (Institut Jean Nicod)
Richard Sosis (University of Connecticut, Anthropology)
SAIS, Room B500
FEB. 6 EVENT?CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS -
TO BE RESCHEDULED |
| February 7 | ?Religion Is Natural?
?Paul Bloom (Yale University, Psychology)
?26 Mudd, 2:00 |
| February 28? | ??Is the Concept of Race a By-Product of our Evolved Coalitional Cognition??
?Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy)
?101 Shaffer, 4:00 |
| February 29? | Discussion?of?"Racial?Cognition?and?Normative?Theory"
?Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy)
110 Maryland, 4:00 |
| March 7? | ?The Pleasures of Transcendence?
?Paul Bloom (Yale University, Psychology)
?26 Mudd, 2:00 |
| March 28-29 | "Kant's Critique of Judgment: Art, Science, and Religion"
Conference Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University
Philosophy Department
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| April 4 | Workshop on Life and Words:
Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
A?new book by Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University)
Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center and Departments of Anthropology and Political Science
111 Gilman, 2:00-6:00 |
| April 14 | Workshop on Science and Religion in Journalism
George Johnson (The New York Times)
Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University
Writing Seminars
Tudor and Stuart Room,?Gilman?323,?3:00 |
| April 24 | "New World Polygraphy: Communicative Media and the Distribution of Semiotic Function"
Galen Brokaw (University at Buffalo, Romance Languages and Literatures)
336 Gilman,?5:00 |
| May 4-6 | "Number as Inventive Frontier:
Equivalence, Accounting, Calculation"
Conference Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Anthropology Department
For more information, click here. |
