Calendar
10:00am – Symposium, “Toward an Expansive Definition of Genocide” – John Cox, UNC Charlotte
11:00am – “Can the Spanish Genocide Speak?” – Scott Boehm, Michigan State University
12:00pm – Roundtable Discussion
- Almudena Carracedo, Film Director
- John Cox, UNC Charlotte
- Sebastiaan Faber, Oberlin College
- Cristina Moreiras-Menor, University of Michigan
- Joseba Gabilonda, Michigan State University
Film Screening
The Silence of Others
Goya Award for Best Documentary
Shortlisted for 2018 Best Documentary Academy Award
Followed by a discussion with Almudena Carracedo
Shinto in Contemporary Japan: From Basic Teachings to Anime
From core principles to the ways Shinto is practiced today, this talk will address shrines for sports, fertility and protection from STDs, appropriation by popular culture (such as in anime and advertisements), and new spirituality movements including the power spot boom.
Dr. Stephen Covell
Chair of the Department of Comparative Religion and the Mary Meader Professor of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University. Dr. Covell was the founding director of WMU’s Soga Japan Center and has published widely on Buddhism and other Japanese religious topics.
Sponsored by the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities, IAH Connecting Pedagogy and Practice Fund, Department of Religious Studies, Asian Studies Center, and MSU Japan Council.
The Honors College will be presenting Sharper Focus/Wider Lens on Monday, February 3, 2020, at 7 pm in the MSU Union Ballroom.
Speakers include:
- John Grey, Department of Philosophy
- Emily Conroy-Krutz, Associate Professor in the Department of History
- Jeffery T. Freymueller, Endowed Chair fro Geology of Solid Earth in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Carolyn Isaac, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology
- G. Mark Voit, Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Associate Dean in the College of Natural Science
Socially Engaged Philosophy of Science Speaker Joyce Havstad from Oakland University
Mccracken Lecture featuring Rocío Zambrana from University of Oregon
Over the course of two days, Michigan State University’s 2020 Philosophy Conference will explore the concept of borders, with an emphasis on the US-Mexico border. Additionally, the conference strives to cultivate a strong interdisciplinary approach. We hope to bring together a wide variety of scholars and community activists to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, expertise, and experience between the scholars theorizing about the borderlands and the activists working/living in those lands.
Click here to download the event poster.
Over the course of two days, Michigan State University’s 2020 Philosophy Conference will explore the concept of borders, with an emphasis on the US-Mexico border. Additionally, the conference strives to cultivate a strong interdisciplinary approach. We hope to bring together a wide variety of scholars and community activists to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, expertise, and experience between the scholars theorizing about the borderlands and the activists working/living in those lands.
Click here to download the event poster.
The Honors College Sharper Focus Wider Lens series presents Crossing Boundaries with an expert faculty panel. Moderated by Honors College dean, Dr. Jackson-Elmoore, it will be a great evening of discussion you don’t want to miss!
A free public discussion on politics, gender, race, and the way these identities intersect and cross boundaries of the human condition on March 23rd at 7:00 p.m. in the MSU Union Ballroom.
On the panel will be:
- Kaston Anderson Carpenter, Ph.D., Department of Psychology
- Robert T. Pennock, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor
- Stephen Gasteyer, Ph.D., Department of Sociology
- Johanna Schuster-Craig, Ph.D., Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages