On Campus - Monday, November 2, 2009 15:30 - 1 Comment
OMB Director Peter Orszag Speaks at Kimmel Tomorrow Morning
President Obama’s budget director, Peter Orszag is speaking at NYU tomorrow. Given all the controversy about health care reform saving or costing tax payers billions of dollars (depending on from where you get your news), I’m sure Orszag will have some meaningful insight. Orszag used to be a visiting scholar at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, which is sponsoring the event. If you want to attend you must RSVP here, otherwise follow @NYULocal for live-tweets. Here are the details from New York University’s Office of Public Affairs:
On Campus - Monday, November 2, 2009 13:35 - 1 Comment
Philosopher Peter Singer to Speak at Kimmel Tonight
Esteemed ethicist Peter Singer will deliver a talk on “World Poverty: What Our Obligations?” tonight at Kimmel’s Rosenthal Pavilion (10th Floor) from 6.45pm to 8pm. The lecture will be followed by a signing of Singer’s latest book, “The Life You Can Save.” The event is free and open to the public, so plan on arriving early to guarantee a seat.
Singer is a professor of philosophy at Princeton, following the utilitarian school of thought. He is a strong advocate of the NYU’s rebel’s dietary quirk of choice – veganism.
His article for The New York Times on rationing health care over the summer certainly challenges the accepted standard of medical morality by asking us to fill in the blanks for statements like, “The life of one teenager is equivalent to saving the life of… 85-year-olds,” and, “… years of non-disabled life is worth… of disabled life.” If you are partial to screwing with your scruples, Singer’s talk is not one to be missed.
Photo by Joel Travis Sage under the Creative Commons License.
Campus Events, On Campus - Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:39 - 1 Comment
Nazis and Wikipedia?
Today, Professor Joseph Reagle will hold a talk on “Wikipedia: Nazis and Norms” from 4:30 to 6:00, in 206 Vanderbilt Hall (40 Wash. Sq. South). Here’s the rather confusing description that doesn’t completely link the two:
“ In 1990 Mike Godwin coined his “Law of Nazi Analogies” to capture the common devolution of Usenet discourse into insulting comparisons with Nazis or Hitler. Eleven years later, Jimmy Wales wrote that it was important that the Wikipedia community “preserve and extend our culture of co-operation, with all of us standing as firmly as possible against the culture of conflict embodied in Usenet.” I argue Wikipedia is a realization — even if flawed — of a long-held vision for a universal encyclopedia: a technology inspired vision seeking to wed increased access to information with greater human accord. And I claim Wikipedia’s collaborative culture is a big factor for this success: the norms of “Neutral Point of View” ensures that the scattered pieces of what we think we know can be joined and good faith facilitates the actual practice of fitting them together.”
Regardless, it seems fascinating enough to go.
Photos from Wikipedia and The Guardian
On Campus - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:13 - 1 Comment
Watergate Mastermind G. Gordon Liddy to Broadcast Radio Show in Foundations of Journalism
G. Gordon Liddy, or the guy who was critical in plotting Watergate, will speak in today’s 11 am Foundations of Journalism lecture about his experience in the scandal. He’ll also be broadcasting his radio show (in which he is apparently known as “The G-Man”) live.
