WEEKLY EVENTS DIGEST This week: managing knowledge; citizenship and political action; Kant and freedom Tuesday 11th June CHESS Seminar Series Sophia Efstathiou (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) – ‘How we Manage to Manage ‘Knowledge’’ This talk will begin at 5pm in the seminar room of the Institute for Advanced Study, Cosin’s Hall, Palace Green. Refreshments provided. If you would like to attend, please contact [email protected]. Abstract ‘We examine one key challenge of systems biology referred to as “knowledge management” that involves using computational tools for handling and taking care of published findings. Biological knowledge, what used to be communicated in papers is transformed and mobilized into domains that are infrastructured and conditioned by computer sciences. We critically investigate the conditions under which a systems biology can be met by focusing on three narratives motivating knowledge management. The narrative of preservation (a need to ensure that published knowledge is not lost as it is too much to read), democratization (making knowledge generally available) and mobilization (how knowledge repackaged and formulated under these new rules enable new scientific research, such as systems biology).’ Tuesday 11th June EIDOS Bruno de Brito Serra – ‘Citizenship and Political Action: The Dilemma between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism’ This talk will begin at 5.30pm in room 005, 48 Old Elvet. For further details, please contact [email protected]. Abstract ‘Citizen participation is the cornerstone of democracy. The importance of an active citizenship in the context of modern democratic states is well attested by inclusion of some form of education for citizenship in the educational curriculum of different countries. Nevertheless, the conceptual overlapping between “citizenship” and “political literacy” that has developed in our time seems to reduce the former to the mere knowledge of a set of facts and rules which, albeit important, fails to endow it with any sort of motivational drive to actually act politically. Taking into account that impairment of civic existence – which arguably threatens the very sustainability of democratic communities – the purpose of this paper is to transcend the commonplace legalist (and nearly cognitivist) standpoint that dominates the political and pedagogical discussion of citizenship, and undergo a philosophical examination of citizenship as a political and social function. I propose to analyse it in relation to three crucial issues that determine the political landscape of contemporary democratic societies: nationalism, multiculturalism and cosmopolitism. Each of these aspects presents unique challenges and demands, and it is, I argue, their joint consideration that holds the key to question of what is at the heart of an active citizenship.’ Thursday 13th June Weekly Research Seminar Chris Insole (Durham) – ‘Kant and the Creation of Freedom: A Theological Problem’ This seminar will be held in room 005, 48/49 Old Elvet, Durham. Refreshments will be served from 11am with the talk commencing at 11.30am. For further details, contact [email protected]. Ian James Kidd Addison Wheeler Fellow Department of Philosophy Durham University dur.ac.uk/i.j.kidd [email protected]
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:13:57 +0000
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