Can wildlife adapt to climate change? - Erin Eastwood

source: TED-Ed      2016年3月3日
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With rising temperatures and seas, massive droughts, and changing landscapes, successfully adapting to climate change is increasingly important. For humans, this can mean using technology to find solutions. But for some plants and animals, adapting to these changes involves the most ancient solution of all: evolution. Erin Eastwood explains how animals are adapting to climate change.
Lesson by Erin Eastwood, animation by TOTEM Studio.

Tim Themi: "Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan: Real Ethics," Public Lecture, Se...

source: TimThemi    2014年9月13日
DR TIM THEMI, "Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan: Real Ethics (of the Real)," Public Lecture, Sept 2, 2014, Existentialist Society of Melbourne.
Lecture was designed to educate, encourage, inspire, challenge, and introduce members of the public to the scholarly philosophical work Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism (SUNY Press, 2014),* by Dr Tim Themi of Melbourne, Australia.
* http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5831-lacan...
Tim Themi is a PhD in Philosophy & Psychoanalysis from the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Deakin. He also holds honours degrees in Philosophy from La Trobe and the Engineering Sciences from Melbourne. His doctoral dissertation brought together the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche on the question of desire and ethics (SUNY Press: 2014).* He is currently teaching philosophy at Deakin.
* http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5831-lacan...
Research Interests: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan, Martin Heidegger and Hellenismos
https://deakin.academia.edu/TimThemi
https://www.facebook.com/tim.themi

Andrew Bastawrous on Innovative Healthcare

source: The RSA   2016年2月5日
Public health entrepreneur Andrew Bastawrous unites global clinical research with innovation in mobile technology to make high quality eye care available to all.
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Dermot Turing: "Prof: Alan Turing Decoded" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google   2016年2月5日
Sir Dermot Turing visited Google's office in Seattle, WA to discuss his book "Prof: Alan Turing Decoded".
Famous codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing’s legend has grown through books and films such as The Imitation Game, and it has become a challenge to discern the real man from the story. Now, Alan Turing’s nephew, Sir Dermot Turing, has taken a fresh look at the influences on Alan Turing’s life and creativity in his new biography Prof: Alan Turing Decoded.
Dermot Turing was educated at Sherborne and King’s College, Cambridge. After completing his DPhil in Genetics at New College, Oxford, Dermot joined the legal profession. This is his first biography, and the first written by a family member. He is a trustee of Bletchley Park, the UK headquarters for codebreaking during WWII.

Alenka Zupancic. The Culture of Lying. 2010.

source: European Graduate School    2010年12月14日
http://www.egs.edu/ Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian philosopher and author, talking about the culture of lying, Nietzsche, Lacan, and truth. In the lecture Alenka Zupancic discusses the concepts of discursivity, speech, power, Freud, in relationship to culture, norms, structure, the Big Other, affect, the split, focusing on psychoanalysis, knowledge, and subjectivity. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2010 Alenka Zupancic.

Alenka Zupančič, Ph.D., is a Lacanian philosopher and social theorist, based as a full-time researcher in the philosophy department of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She was born in 1966 in Slovenia. Alenka received her Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana in 1990 and currently is a member of the the Ljubljana School for Psychoanalysis. At the European Graduate School, she holds a position as a lecturer where she teaches an intensive summer seminar on Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.

Simon Critchley. Hegel: the Philosopher of Tragedy. 2011

source: European Graduate School    2011年10月6日
http://www.egs.edu Simon Critchley, philosopher and author, talking about Hegel's "Aesthetics," the dialectical dynamic of tragedy and the tragic dynamic of dialectics centered on the resolution of moral ambiguity. In this lecture, Simon Critchley discusses F.W.J. Schelling, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, the divine life of the community, the relationship between art, religion and philosophy focusing on Christianity, the trinity, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor Adorno, Antigone, substance and subjectivity. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Simon Critchley.
Simon Critchley, Ph.D., is Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The New School, as well as a professor at the European Graduate School (EGS). Simon Critchley was born on February 27, 1960 in Hertfordshire, England. He is a world renowned scholar of Continental Philosophy and phenomenology. Much of his work examines the crucial relationship between the ethical and political within philosophy.
Simon Critchley's published work deals largely with disappointment and it's relationship to philosophy; chiefly, religious or political disappointment. Simon Critchley's published works include: Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida (1999), Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought (1999), The Ethics of Deconstruction (2000), Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2001), On Humour (2002), Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance (2008), and The Book of Dead Philosophers (2008).

Judith Butler – “Why Bodies Matter” – Gender Trouble (1-7)

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source: Lbtavares Tavares    2015年8月17日
Judith Butler’s conference entitled “Why Bodies Matter” on June 2nd 2015 in the context of the celebrations of “Gender Trouble”’s 25th anniversary in Teatro Maria Matos in Lisbon.

"Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism" - Opening Panel Spivak

source: Sebastian Garbe    2015年11月18日
"Material Matters in Times of Crisis Capitalism: Transnational Feminist and Decolonial Approaches"
International Conference
13th - 14th November 2014
Justus-Liebig University Giessen
Opening Plenary, 13th November 2014
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak