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Theravåda Buddhist Encounters with Modernity

Conferences A reception will follow. Building/Room: Foster 103. Primary Sponsor: COSAS. Other Sponsor(s): Divinity School and The Norman Wait Harris Fund. Conference Title: Buddhist (and other) Ethnicities - missionizing and the idea of ‘conversion'. Presenter(s): Christoph Emmrich (Toronto) and Charles Keyes (emeritus Washington). Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Steven Collins. Contact E-mail: s-collins@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8373. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This seminar is in conjunction with the second meeting of a group of scholars of Theravada Buddhism, which first met at Arizona State University in February 2009. It is envisaged that the group will continue in the future, expanding, for example, into a regular summer Institute for graduate students and young faculty, which will, we hope, be funded by the Luce Foundation. A volume of essays by the participants is in planning, for which funding is being applied for from ACLS, for the two organizers and edito… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, September 17, 2010, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. Foster Hall, Room 103 1130 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637.

Theravåda Buddhist Encounters with Modernity

Lecture or Other Event Building/Room: Foster 103. Primary Sponsor: COSAS. Other Sponsor(s): Divinity School and The Norman Wait Harris Fund. Presenter: Kate Crosby, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Lecture Title: Theravåda as a Developing Worldview: the implications of yogavacara for discarding the static model. Contact Name: Steven Collins. Contact E-mail: s-collins@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8373. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: This lecture is in conjunction with the second meeting of a group of scholars of Theravada Buddhism, which first met at Arizona State University in February 2009. It is envisaged that the group will continue in the future, expanding, for example, into a regular summer Institute for graduate students and young faculty, which will, we hope, be funded by the Luce Foundation. A volume of essays by the participants is in planning, for which funding is being applied for from ACLS, for the two organizers and edi… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, September 17, 2010, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM. Foster Hall, Room 103 1130 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637.

Representation, Emotion, and Cognition

Conferences Please register for this event on-line at the web link provided. Building/Room: John Evans Alumni Center. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Chicago's Classics Department, University of Chicago's Philosophy Department, University of Chicago Divinity School, University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought, Martha Nussbaum. Conference Title: Representation, Emotion, and Cognition. Presenter(s): Friday, Oct. 1 Afternoon Session Northwestern University John Evans Alumni Center, 1800 Sheridan Road, Evanston 2.00-3.45 pm Speaker: Mark Schiefsky (Harvard University) TBA Commentator: John Wynne (Northwestern University) 4.00-5:45 Speaker: Verity Harte (Yale University) "Mixed Emotions in Plato's Philebus" Commentator: Agnes Callard (University of Chicago). Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Elizabeth Asmis. Contact E-mail: e-asmis@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773 702 8517. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: A conference devoted to problems of representation, emotion, and cognition in ancient Greek philosophy. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, October 1, 2010, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Northwestern University, John Evans Alumni Center, 1800 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL. For more info visit groups.philosophy.northwestern.edu.

Representation, Emotion, and Cognition

Conferences Please register for this event on-line at the web link provided. Building/Room: See Details. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Other Sponsor(s): Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Chicago's Classics Department, University of Chicago's Philosophy Department, University of Chicago Divinity School, University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought, Martha Nussbaum. Conference Title: Representation, Emotion, and Cognition. Presenter(s): Saturday, Oct. 2. Morning Session: University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall, Lower Level, 701 S. Morgan 8.30-9.00 Coffee and rolls 9.00-10.45 Speaker: David Charles (Oriel College, Oxford) "Aristotle on Practical knowledge and Eupraxia" Commentator: Gabriel Richardson Lear (University of Chicago) 11.00-12.45 Speaker: Katja Vogt (Columbia University) "Why Beliefs Are Never True: A Reconstruction of Stoic Epistemology" Commentator: Bar… Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: Free. Contact Name: Elizabeth Asmis. Contact E-mail: e-asmis@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773 702 8517. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: A conference devoted to problems of representation, emotion, and cognition in ancient Greek philosophy. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, October 2, 2010, 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM. Various. For more info visit groups.philosophy.northwestern.edu.

The Chicago Humanities Forum Presents George Lewis and Arnold Davidson

Conferences This event is open to the public. We will begin accepting RSVP's for this event starting on Monday, September 13. The deadline to RSVP is Friday, October 15. Please RSVP by calling (773)702-8274 or emailing franke-humanities@uchicago.edu. You may also register online through this calendar application. Building/Room: Gleacher Center, Room 621. Primary Sponsor: Franke Institute. Presenter: George Lewis & Arnold Davidson. Lecture Title: Improvisation as a Way of Life: Time, Form, Technology, Ethics. Contact E-mail: franke-humanities@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773-702-8274. Campus Map: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/visit/gleacher/. Event Description: Philosophers such as Pierre Hadot have argued that philosophy should not be viewed simply as a system of abstract discourses but as a set of practices or spiritual exercises that aim at individual and social transformation. Similarly, many musical improvisers have understood the sounds and practices of open improvisation as a metaphor for larger individual, social, and political questions. George Lewis and Arnold Davidson contend that the practice of improvisation is not limited to the artistic domain, but… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM. Gleacher Center 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Room 621 Chicago, IL.

Annual meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society

Conferences If you have already submitted an abstract and wish to have it considered for the workshop, please send a message to us at slaviclinguisticsociety2010@gmail.com. Building/Room: West Lounge. Primary Sponsor: CEERES. Other Sponsor(s): Humanities Division, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Department of Linguistics, Slavic Linguistic Society, Chicago Linguistics Society. Conference Title: 5th Annual Slavic Linguistic Society Conference. Presenter(s): The purpose of the Slavic Linguistic Society is to create a community of students and scholars interested in Slavic linguistics in its broadest sense, that is, the systematic and scholarly study of the Slavic languages and the contacts of Slavic with non-Slavic languages. The Society aspires to be as open and inclusive as possible; no school, framework, approach, or theory is presupposed, nor is there any restriction in terms of geography, academic affiliation or status. Papers dealing with any aspect of… Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: $30 Faculty/$15 Student (estimated, at registration). Contact Name: Lenore Grenoble. Contact E-mail: Grenoble@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: (773) 702-0927. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: For millennia, speakers of Slavic languages have expanded over a considerable territory, coming into contact with speakers of other languages, both Slavic and non-Slavic. These contacts have left their imprint on the Slavic languages and have played important roles in their differentiation over time. By the same token, many of the Slavic languages have had a significant impact on the other languages they have come in contact with. The introduction of writing in the late first millennium brought yet another… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, October 29, 2010, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit lucian.uchicago.edu.

Annual meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society

Conferences If you have already submitted an abstract and wish to have it considered for the workshop, please send a message to us at slaviclinguisticsociety2010@gmail.com. Building/Room: West Lounge. Primary Sponsor: CEERES. Other Sponsor(s): Humanities Division, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Department of Linguistics, Slavic Linguistic Society, Chicago Linguistics Society. Conference Title: 5th Annual Slavic Linguistic Society Conference. Presenter(s): The purpose of the Slavic Linguistic Society is to create a community of students and scholars interested in Slavic linguistics in its broadest sense, that is, the systematic and scholarly study of the Slavic languages and the contacts of Slavic with non-Slavic languages. The Society aspires to be as open and inclusive as possible; no school, framework, approach, or theory is presupposed, nor is there any restriction in terms of geography, academic affiliation or status. Papers dealing with any aspect of… Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: $30 Faculty/$15 Student (estimated, at registration). Contact Name: Lenore Grenoble. Contact E-mail: Grenoble@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: (773) 702-0927. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: For millennia, speakers of Slavic languages have expanded over a considerable territory, coming into contact with speakers of other languages, both Slavic and non-Slavic. These contacts have left their imprint on the Slavic languages and have played important roles in their differentiation over time. By the same token, many of the Slavic languages have had a significant impact on the other languages they have come in contact with. The introduction of writing in the late first millennium brought yet another… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Saturday, October 30, 2010, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit lucian.uchicago.edu.

Annual meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society

Conferences If you have already submitted an abstract and wish to have it considered for the workshop, please send a message to us at slaviclinguisticsociety2010@gmail.com. Building/Room: West Lounge. Primary Sponsor: CEERES. Other Sponsor(s): Humanities Division, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Department of Linguistics, Slavic Linguistic Society, Chicago Linguistics Society. Conference Title: 5th Annual Slavic Linguistic Society Conference. Presenter(s): The purpose of the Slavic Linguistic Society is to create a community of students and scholars interested in Slavic linguistics in its broadest sense, that is, the systematic and scholarly study of the Slavic languages and the contacts of Slavic with non-Slavic languages. The Society aspires to be as open and inclusive as possible; no school, framework, approach, or theory is presupposed, nor is there any restriction in terms of geography, academic affiliation or status. Papers dealing with any aspect of… Open to the Public: Yes. Cost: $30 Faculty/$15 Student (estimated, at registration). Contact Name: Lenore Grenoble. Contact E-mail: Grenoble@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: (773) 702-0927. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: For millennia, speakers of Slavic languages have expanded over a considerable territory, coming into contact with speakers of other languages, both Slavic and non-Slavic. These contacts have left their imprint on the Slavic languages and have played important roles in their differentiation over time. By the same token, many of the Slavic languages have had a significant impact on the other languages they have come in contact with. The introduction of writing in the late first millennium brought yet another… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Sunday, October 31, 2010, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM. Ida Noyes Hall 1212 East 59th Street Chicago, IL 60637. For more info visit lucian.uchicago.edu.