In addition to the Speakers Series in which IASH Fellows present their work, occasionally IASH holds other events.
November 13-14, 2015
Human Migrations and Borders
A Conversation in the Disciplines Symposium
Key Note Speakers: Esra Akcan, Architecture, Cornell University and Jamie Winders, Geography, Syracuse University
Participants: Karen-edis Barzman, Ana Maria Candela, Alexander Caviedes, Manas K Chatterji, Bradley Walker Hutchison, Gallya Lahav, Ricardo Larémont, Daniel Levy, Jay Newberry, Dael A Norwood, Takashi Nishiyama, Shincha Park, Sabina Perrino, James Shuford, Kent F Schull, Sevinç Türkkan, Julia Walker, Tiantian Zheng
The symposium is sponsored by the SUNY Conversations in the Disciplines Program and the Binghamton University Citizenship, Rights, and Cultural Belonging Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence. Library North 1106
April 17, 2013
"Disciplines and the University, Today and Tomorrow: Social Humanities, Historical Social Science, and What Kind of Science"
Presented by: Richard E. Lee (Sociology)
Academic disciplines and the departments that house them did not drop out of the sky or spring fully-formed from the head of Zeus. They came into being part and parcel with specific historical conditions and just as they came into existence as human products, they can likewise expire. It will be the argument of this presentation that our inherited disciplinary complex has already lost its intellectual grounding and survives primarily as an increasingly counterproductive set of bounded institutional spaces. As one might expect, there are already efforts afoot to investigate alternative, more useful, ways of organizing knowledge, its production, that is research, and its reproduction, that is teaching. Two concrete undertakings, social humanities and historical social science, will be considered, as will the impact of collapsing foundations on the sciences. How we answer the question of the future of the disciplines has implications for universities. There are a limited number of possible patterns of (re)organization. The "winners," and not all will even survive, will be those institutions that seek, with cool-headed reflection, not necessarily to approximate the best the twentieth century had to offer, but rather to find ways to capitalize on their unique historical strengths in reinventing themselves in the context of a radically altered cognitive space.
April 15th-16th, 2011
Crossing the Boundaries: “Conflict”
Cosponsored by IASH, Crossing the Boundaries is an annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference organized by the Art History Graduate Student Organization at Binghamton University who are honored to have as guest keynote speaker Elizabeth Otto, Assistant Professor in the department of Visual Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Professor Otto will give a talk on her recent work for The New Woman International, a forthcoming book which is a collection of essays on representations of New Womanhood as it developed from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century. As editor and co-author of the text's introduction, Professor Otto's work focuses on the ways in which the concept of the New Woman generated conflicting notions of femininity and how the transgressive nature of this gender construction has informed visual culture, particularly the practices of photography and film. Otto's talk entitled, “The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s,” will be presented on Friday, April 15th and will be followed the next day with a faculty keynote talk given by SUNY Binghamton's Thomas McDonough, Associate Professor and Chair of the Art History Department.
October 14, 2010
“Diversity and Strong Objectivity in Scientific Research”
Binghamton University Graduate Community of Scholars with the help of Women Studies and Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities is proud to present Dr. Sandra Harding for the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Science speaker series. Dr. Harding is an American philosopher and Professor in Social Sciences and Comparative Education division at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Harding’s research interests are feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology, and the philosophy of science. Over the course of her career, Harding has produced a substantial body of published work including Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, Modernities, Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues; The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies; Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology (coedited with Robert Figueroa); Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women’s Lives. Harding was the director of the Center for the Study of Women from 1996 to 1999, and she coedited Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
October 9, 2010
Enigmatic Experiences: Jewish Thinkers and the Holocaust
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Discussion
The Holocaust has remained enigmatic - at least in the sense that, despite the fact that there are many ways to explain what happened, we tend to remain dissatisfied and wonder about how it could have happened. This panel will not attempt to resolve the enigma but rather assume it while examining some of the ways a few Jewish thinkers whose lives were directly touched by the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust responded to their needs to make sense of their experiences. Panelists: Ami Bar-On, professor of philosophy and women's studies and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities; Randy Friedman, assistant professor of philosophy and Judaic studies; Max Pensky, professor of philosophy and chair of the philosophy department.
