Winning Words is an after school program, under the Civic Knowledge Project of the University of Chicago, that aims to engage local youth in philosophy.
Winning Words is an after school program, under the Civic Knowledge Project of the University of Chicago, which aims to engage and inspire local youth through an education in philosophy, reasoning and the verbal arts of dialogue and rhetoric; building self confidence and exposing its students to a wide range of fun and exciting material. Winning Words coaches work with students in elementary, midd
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With the Rev Jesse Jackson Sr--still at the protests, still on the right side of history
Civic Knowledge Project: Winning Words Winning Words is an after school program, under the Civic Knowledge Project of the University of Chicago, that aims to engage local youth in philosophy.
03/13/2024
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Alexei Navalny's final letter Last month Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny, paid the ultimate price for his beliefs, dying in a West Siberian prison after years of re...
03/04/2024
P***y Riot's powerful message to putin / You can’t stop the future with bullets, poison or prison Nadya Tolokonnikova's speech at the opening of the FEAR NOT exhibit at The Wende Museum, California. Follow-up to a last year TED speech. This pop-up exhibit...
01/12/2024
Opinion | We’ve lost our way on campus. Here’s how we can find our way back. How do we reverse a culture of intimidation without violating commitments to academic freedom and free speech?
11/07/2023
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Announcing "THE BUDDHIST AND THE ETHICIST" – a dialogue with Venerable Shih Chao-Hwei. US publication date: December 12. We tackle pressing ethical issues, comparing Buddhist insights with utilitarian thinking.
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ISUS Conference 2024
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics
Call for papers
The 17th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will take place on 18–20 June 2024 at University College London’s Faculty of Laws. The Conference is generously supported by the Faculty’s Bentham House Conference Fund.
Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900) is recognized as the third in the trinity of major classical utilitarian thinkers, following Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806–73). We will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics, a work described by John Rawls as ‘the most philosophically profound of the strictly classical works’ in the utilitarian tradition.
We welcome paper and panel proposals which address issues raised by Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics and his other works, as well as papers and panel proposals related to the study of utilitarianism more generally. Please send your abstract of around 300 words to [email protected] by 30 November 2023.
Panels will have a duration of ninety minutes, and usually consist of three papers.
We aim to make decisions on the acceptance of papers by mid-December 2023, and will shortly thereafter open registration for a period for accepted speakers only, before then fully opening registration. Further details about the Conference will be announced through the ISUS mailing list and the forthcoming website. For all other queries about the Conference, please contact [email protected].
Invited speakers
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek (Lodz)
Bart Schultz (Chicago)
Peter Singer (Princeton)
John Skorupski (St Andrews)
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05/09/2023
Timuel Black essays bring hope In the wood-paneled sanctuary of the First Unitarian Church, 5650 S. Woodlawn Ave., four Chicago high school students were honored last week as the winners of the first annual Timuel
05/05/2023
Peter Singer on Tour!
An Evening With Peter Singer Join us for an exclusive and enlightening series of live shows featuring one of the most influential philosophers of our time, Peter Singer, who is launching Animal Liberation Now.This tour is your chance to see in person the man who wrote Animal Liberation, the 1975 classic credited with triggering...
03/18/2023
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Petition to Diversify the Humanities Core Petition to Diversify the Humanities Core To: John W. Boyer (Dean of the College) and Eric Slauter (Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division) We, the undersigned, request a commitment from the college to diversify the humanities core curriculum. At the University of Chicago, “diversity is not....
12/10/2022
please help us spread the word about the Timuel D. Black Essay Contest, an important collaboration with the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. If you know a Chicago high school student ready to learn about and be inspired by the life of the late Dr. Black, please share this link with them-- https://bmrc.lib.uchicago.edu/about/partnerships/timuel-d-black-essay-contest/ And on the importance of Dr. Black's legacy, the words of Sherry Williams, founder and president of the Bronzeville Historical Society, are hard to beat—see https://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=12541032 Best, Bart
Timuel D. Black Essay Contest
2022-2023 Essay Deadlines. December 7, 2022 - Contest launches. February 22, 2023 - Deadline for submissions. March 2023 - All submissions are reviewed
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Timuel D. Black Essay Contest The Timuel D. Black Essay Contest was established in 2022 to help local Chicago high school students connect with and reflect upon the life and legacy of the longtime educator, activist and historian Timuel Black. The idea for the contest was born out of conversation at a board meeting of the Black....
12/10/2022
Essay Contest! Please help us spread the word about the Timuel D. Black Essay Contest, an important collaboration with the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. If you know a Chicago high school student ready to learn about and be inspired by the life of the late Dr. Black, please share this link with them-- https://bmrc.lib.uchicago.edu/about/partnerships/timuel-d-black-essay-contest/ And on the importance of Dr. Black's legacy, the words of Sherry Williams, founder and president of the Bronzeville Historical Society, are hard to beat—see https://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=12541032
Timuel D. Black Essay Contest
2022-2023 Essay Deadlines. December 7, 2022 - Contest launches. February 22, 2023 - Deadline for submissions. March 2023 - All submissions are reviewed
bmrc.lib.uchicago.edu
Timuel D. Black Essay Contest The Timuel D. Black Essay Contest was established in 2022 to help local Chicago high school students connect with and reflect upon the life and legacy of the longtime educator, activist and historian Timuel Black. The idea for the contest was born out of conversation at a board meeting of the Black....
10/31/2022
In Memory of Placido BUCOLO Professor Placido Bucolo (1941-2022) was born in Catania Sicily on June 16th 1941 into a wealthy and very loving family. An only child, he spent a happy childhood dearly cherished by his mother and grandmothers and encouraged to study by his father, a lawyer specializing in criminal law. While at un...
08/17/2022
https://www.academia.edu/resource/work/84992297
Winning Words Sourcebook August 17 2022 pdfrestrict 4 "A great longing is upon us, to live again in a world made of gifts. I can scent it coming, like the fragrance of ripening strawberries rising on the breeze."-Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass "And even at my age, and in these
08/07/2022
Community as Rebellion: Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color Lorgia García Peña, Angela Y. Davis and Chandra Talpade Mohanty discuss freedom making in the academy for women scholars of color.---------------------------...
08/03/2022
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07/07/2022
June Huh, High School Dropout, Wins the Fields Medal | Quanta Magazine June Huh wasn’t interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college. Now his profound insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to math’s highest honor.
06/28/2022
Rounded Globe Rounded Globe publish accessible scholarly essays
06/06/2022
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A new chapter for Derek Douglas, VP of Civic Engagement and External Affairs Vice President for Civic Engagement and External Affairs Derek Douglas leaving University July 29 On June 6, University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos announced that Vice President for Civic Engagement and External Affairs Derek Douglas would be leaving his role, effective July 29. Douglas has...
06/02/2022
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Book Review: Dark Academia: How Universities Die by Peter Fleming In Dark Academia: How Universities Die, Peter Fleming explores the destructive impact of the bureaucratic and neoliberal structures of academia, which have turned universities into toxic workplaces…
06/02/2022
https://jacobin.com/2021/09/university-cities-urban-development-gentrification
The Rise of the UniverCity As they come to resemble corporations, universities increasingly wield the kind of power and influence that were hallmarks of ruthless employers in isolated company towns. Historian Davarian Baldwin calls this ominous trend the “rise of the UniverCity.”
05/30/2022
Why public policy shouldn’t be guided by master numbers GDP, the Wellby and other indicators may tell us something about societal well-being, but they aren't substitutes for political decision-making.
05/29/2022
On this day, 28 May 1871, the Paris commune, widely considered the most significant early working class uprising for socialism, was crushed when the capitalist government massacred thousands of working class men, women, and children to regain control of city.
Learn more about the commune in this compilation of writings by participants: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/voices-of-the-paris-commune
Pictured: A painting of the repression, by Maximilien Luce
05/15/2022
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/05/philosophys-gentle-giant
Philosophy's gentle giant Why Joseph Raz was one of the most important theorists of our age.
05/15/2022
Carrick Flynn may be 2022’s unlikeliest congressional candidate. Here’s why he’s running. Meet the person — backed by billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried — who wants to bring effective altruism to Congress.
05/09/2022
Bentham and the Arts Bentham and the Arts
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