Concordia Philosophy Student Weekly Tabloid Vol. 19
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Here’s the 19th Volume of the Concordia Philosophy Student Weekly Tabloid! Bringing you all the hottest and best events and relevant philosophy news.
This week, we disseminate news about:
- Our November executive meeting
- SoPhiA by-elections
- A call for editors!
- Philosophy department speakers
- The Humanities+ skill development program
- Various Concordia events:
- A lecture series on sensation
- Learn to cite using the Chicago Manual of Style
- Workshops on public speaking and building creativity
- And more!
- Weekly book recommendation
SoPhiA November Executive Meeting
SoPhiA will be holding our November Executive Meeting on Thursday November 10th, at 4:10pm in the SoPhiA space of the philosophy department.
All students are welcome to attend to hear what we’re up to and provide input.
We’ll discuss:
- Planning a special general assembly to discuss grievances on behalf of philosophy students (as was mandated in the Annual General Assembly)
- Discuss the department award task force
- Discuss the SoPhiA Review
Contact us for the meeting agenda.
Member Association by-Elections
The Arts and Science Federation of Association (ASFA) by-elections for Member Associations (Such as SoPhiA) are in full swing!
Nominations for positions began on November 7th and tomorrow is the deadline for nominations! Here are the election dates:
- Nomination period: Nov 7 – Nov 11, 2022
- Campaign period: Nov 14 – Nov 21, 2022
- Voting Period: Nov 22 – Nov 24, 2022
We have several positions open to run for in the upcoming election:
- Academic Accessibility Representative
- ASFA Representative
- SoPhiA Review Editor-in-Chief
See our Executive Position Descriptions page for more information on the positions, or feel free to get in touch with us. Becoming a SoPhiA executive is a rewarding and engaging experience!
In short, you fill out a form stating your intention to be a candidate in the upcoming election during the nomination period; campaign during the campaigning period (optional); and then philosophy students will vote on the candidates during the voting period.
It’s really is not as scary as it sounds and is actually pretty fun to better understand the voting process by participating in it.
See the ASFA website for more by-election information.
Call for Editors: The SoPhiA Review
Are you interested in taking part in a cool editing project? Want to be part of a fledging journal?
SoPhiA is hoping to bring back this year its annual undergraduate journal, The SoPhiA Review! And we need your help!
We’re looking for people with a good eye, a capacity to read different texts, the ability to work in a team, and solid editing skills. The candidates will be part of the editor team to read, edit, design, and publish student works in our annual journal!
The journal is usually published in the winter term, but the recruiting and planning of the journal occurs in the late fall.
Contact president dot sophia at asfa dot ca for more info.
Who: The SoPhiA Review
What: A call for editors
See some previous published works on our website.
Philosophy Department Speaker Talks
Dr Chike Jeffers (left) & Dr. Robert Wilson (right)
The Concordia philosophy department is hosting not just one, but two philosophy speakers this week!
Dr. Chike Jeffers
The first speaker this week is Chike Jeffers, Canada Research Chair in Africana Philosophy and Associate Professor at Dalhousie University. He is co-author of the book What is Race? Four Philosophical Views, co-written with Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, and Quayshawn Spencer, published by Oxford University Press in 2019.
Time: Monday, November 14, 3 – 5 p.m
Place: J.W. McConnell Building, room LB-322.
Dr. Robert Wilson
Dr. Robert Wilson, Professor of Philosophy at University of Western Australia in the School of Humanities, will discuss the work of Charles Mills on race and of Susan Babbitt on gender, as well as the speaker’s own on eugenics and disability.
The talk raises some questions about philosophy’s boundaries, history, sociology, and community engagement. The discipline of philosophy has had (and continues to have) an uneasy relationship with race, gender, and disability
Time: Friday, November 18, 3 – 5 p.m
Place: J.W. McConnell Building, room LB-362.
Humanities+ Skills Development and Internship Program
Feeling overwhelmed at the prospect of embarking on a career after graduation? Unsure of what direction to take, or how to present the value of your degree to employers? Concordia’s Humanities+ program might be for you!
Humanities+ is a free* skills development and internship program for students studying in Humanities-based programs at Concordia. Offered in partnership with FutureBound and Career and Planning Services (CAPS), it includes 53 hours of skills training workshops (Jan – May 2023) followed by the opportunity to engage in a paid, 200-hr internship in the summer.
Through H+, you will:
- Learn to articulate and translate skills from your undergrad to employers
- Identify your career interests and strengths
- Gain new tools and opportunities
- increase your self-awareness and confidence
Please see our website for details, and don’t hesitate to email humanitiesplus@concordia.ca if you have any questions!
Info Sessions: Nov 9th, Dec 2nd
Deadline to apply to H+ is December 4th, 2022.
* While no tuition fees are applied to the Humanities+ program, the Registration fee under point 4, Compulsory fees on the Concordia Fees webpage does apply.
What: Humanities+ skills development program
When: Winter semester, deadline to apply is Dec 4th
Various Concordia Events
There are several events in the next week that may be interesting to philosophy students. Here are a few:
- Citing in Chicago – Online: November 10, 2:30pm
- “Learn to cite your sources using the Chicago Manual of Style’s footnote format.”
- Useful for philosophy students because most of our essays and manuscripts will be written in the Chicago Manual of Style format!
- Human Rights Lecture: Transitional Justice for Racial Injustice: November 10, 4:15pm
- “In this lecture, Dr. Zvobgo will discuss transitional justice as a vehicle for racial justice, in the United States and beyond.”
- Law Meets Engineering: Data Governance and Cybersecurity: November 10, 5:30pm
- “In this presentation, Me Henri, an Emerging Tech Lawyer – Disruptor, and Le Roux, an Engineer – Cybersecurity Leader, will explore and answer key questions in relation to data governance and cybersecurity, covering interesting applied legal challenges regarding data as corporate assets.”
- Convince Me to Believe… You: November 11, 2pm
- “This workshop gives an overview of the art of persuasion, an important communication strategy for work and life. Together and in small groups, we will experiment with ways to pitch your ideas.”
- Character: As Much an External Thing As a Tree or Rock: November 14, 12pm
- “This talk will discuss how Victorian novelists engaged materialist science and philosophy to transform the notion of “character” from the inner truth of an individual to an observable, material formation produced through shifts in the boundaries between a figure’s interior and exterior.”
- Building Your Creative Muscle: November 14, 2pm
- “This workshop is a dynamic mix of experiential exercises, group work and information sharing to highlight the value of creativity and ways to have fun while building this C-muscle. As an added bonus, if you have a topic that could use the brainpower of fellow students, bring it to the workshop. There will be a dedicated portion of time for collaborative brainstorming.”
- Learning to Smell: a pragmatist view on perception: November 18, 11am
- “This conference will focus on learning to smell. Yet, how is it possible to learn to smell? We all can smell. There is no need to learn it. Furthermore, if perception results from experiential “faith,” as Merleau-Ponty puts it, it’s not something you perform and can learn.”
See more of Concordia’s events
SoPhiA Book Library: Weekly Book Recommendation
This week’s highlighted book:
We were able to acquire an original publication of Georges Lemaitre‘s Rayons Cosmique et Cosmologiques published in 1949 at Louvain Belgium. In 1924, Georges Lemaitre, a Catholic Belgian priest, is credited for proposing the big bang theory and the first instance of Hubble’s Law—laws for determining the expansion of the universe. He is considered the founder of modern cosmology.
Since the big bang theory and Hubble’s law are some of the most influential theories in all of science and mankind, why not give it a read?
If you didn’t know, SoPhiA has a library of over 650 books! We have books from different domains of philosophy and some outside philosophy (psychology, business, political science, and even novels). We even have textbooks for some of your courses! (e.g., PHIL-210, 235, 260, 266, and more)
You can borrow a book for an hour, or even the whole semester. Just drop by our office or send us an email.
You can see our complete library of books online on our Librarika virtual library.
What: Books!
Where: The SoPhiA library (in our office space)
Do you know of any cool philosophy-related events in Montreal or the Concordia Community? Please let us know and we will advertise them here!
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