Tuesday, April 9, 2024 2 - 3:15 p.m. A&S Auditorium The rejection of slavery by the major European powers early in the 19th century was the result of a moral invention of an unprecedented character and yet, until recently, there was almost no mention of any aspect of slavery in histories of ethics or of political philosophy. This was in spite of the fact that questions surrounding the legitimacy and practice of slavery were a regular part of moral philosophy courses at universities...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 2 - 3:15 p.m. A&S Auditorium The rejection of slavery by the major European powers early in the 19th century was the result of a moral invention of an unprecedented character and yet, until recently, there was almost no mention of any aspect of slavery in histories of ethics or of political philosophy. This was in spite of the fact that questions surrounding the legitimacy and practice of slavery were a regular part of moral philosophy courses at universities...
Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium 2024 In Partnership with Georgia College Research Day March 26 and 27, 2024 Co-sponsored by MURACE, The Women’s Center at Georgia College & State University, the Cultural Center at GCSU, the Philosophy, Religion, and Liberal Studies Department, the College of Arts and Sciences and GCSU. For more information contact Dr. Katie Simon at katie.simon@gcsu.edu. Program Schedule: Tuesday, March 26, 2024, Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, Georgia College...
Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium 2024 In Partnership with Georgia College Research Day March 26 and 27, 2024 Co-sponsored by MURACE, The Women’s Center at Georgia College & State University, the Cultural Center at GCSU, the Philosophy, Religion, and Liberal Studies Department, the College of Arts and Sciences and GCSU. For more information contact Dr. Katie Simon at katie.simon@gcsu.edu. Program Schedule: Tuesday, March 26, 2024, Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, Georgia College...
The keynote lecture with Lauren Whitworth of Agnes Scott College will take place Tuesday, March 26, at 5 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, located in the GCSU library. In her 1978 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” Audre Lorde avers, “[The erotic] has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information”...
The keynote lecture with Lauren Whitworth of Agnes Scott College will take place Tuesday, March 26, at 5 p.m. in the Pat Peterson Museum Education Room, located in the GCSU library. In her 1978 essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” Audre Lorde avers, “[The erotic] has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information”...
After traveling 24 hours by plane and a motorized rickshaw ride through the twisting streets of Udaipur, India, to their ‘haveli’ (hotel)—a mansion several centuries old—two Georgia College & State University students were exhausted and barely able to keep their eyes open. Although they hadn’t eaten, they said they just wanted to go to bed and sleep. Trudging to their rooms, the students looked out at the stunning city—the “Venice of India”—emerging from the serenity of a lake. All...
Wednesday, Feb. 28 5 p.m. Peabody Auditorium The High Museum of Art's African art collection is disproportionately representative of peoples and cultures of the modern-day nation of Nigeria, presenting the opportunity to position the institution as specialists in Nigerian art. To enrich and further contextualize this area of distinction, the African art department recently launched an initiative focused on collecting and exhibiting 20th century and modernist Nigerian art. Across subfields,...
Wednesday, Feb. 28 5 p.m. Peabody Auditorium The High Museum of Art's African art collection is disproportionately representative of peoples and cultures of the modern-day nation of Nigeria, presenting the opportunity to position the institution as specialists in Nigerian art. To enrich and further contextualize this area of distinction, the African art department recently launched an initiative focused on collecting and exhibiting 20th century and modernist Nigerian art. Across subfields,...
From the book’s synopsis: “In How to Think Like a Woman, Regan Penaluna blends memoir, biography and criticism to tell these women’s stories, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy, as well as her own search for love and truth. Funny, honest and wickedly intelligent, this is a searing look at the author’s experience of patriarchy and sexism in academia and a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally.” Penaluna is a writer and...
