Acts of Literary Creation: An Undergraduate Conference Dates: 19 April, 2024 Conference date: Friday 19 April 2024 Conference schedule and registration Keynote speaker: Prof. Mine Özyurt Kılıç (ASBU), “Narrative Acts of Empathy: Literature as a Medium for Emotional Engagement” From storytelling and architectural design to movie making and economic production, the act of creating is intimately tied to our senses […]

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Title: Direct Manipulation Undermines Intentional Agency (Not Just Free Agency) By Andrei Buckareff (Philosophy/ Cognitive Science, Marist College) Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024 Time: 1530-1700  Room: H232 Abstract:  An account of what sort of causal integration is necessary for an agent to exercise agency is offered in support of a soft-line response to Derk Pereboom’s four-case argument against source-compatibilism. I […]

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Talk: Translating for the Revolution: Soviet Transformations of Dos Passos By Zachary King (University of Chicago, Slavic Languages and Literature) Date: Friday, March 29, 2024 Time: 1030-1200 Room: H232 Abstract: The 1930s in the Soviet Union witnessed the historic elevation of writers into, as Stalin memorably stated, “engineers of human souls.” Soviet and international writers, critics, and cultural figures participated […]

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