2021-2022 Reading Groups
Reading Group on French-language authors
French reading group
Facilitators: Charlotte Sabourin & Anne-Lise Rey
Register by: December 26
This reading group is intended for participants who work on French-language authors (preferably from the Early modern period, but this can be revised in light of participants’ research interests) and who might benefit from the support of a reading group in engaging with primary and secondary sources in French. This group is thus primarily intended for non-native French speakers who have some knowledge of French and would like to improve their reading abilities. The reading list (one chapter or article per month) will be established collaboratively by the participants and facilitators.
Tentative list of authors: François Poulain de la Barre; Gabrielle Suchon; Émilie du Châtelet; Germaine de Staël. This list will be adjusted to reflect the participants’ interests.
To register, please fill in the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DDmdQ83GcQmLCp5DDlRxI3Aq5LB4mqAsCP0Ja2tzvig/edit?usp=sharing
For further information: please contact the Extending New Narratives ECR Committee at [email protected]
Facilitators: Charlotte Sabourin & Anne-Lise Rey
Register by: December 26
This reading group is intended for participants who work on French-language authors (preferably from the Early modern period, but this can be revised in light of participants’ research interests) and who might benefit from the support of a reading group in engaging with primary and secondary sources in French. This group is thus primarily intended for non-native French speakers who have some knowledge of French and would like to improve their reading abilities. The reading list (one chapter or article per month) will be established collaboratively by the participants and facilitators.
Tentative list of authors: François Poulain de la Barre; Gabrielle Suchon; Émilie du Châtelet; Germaine de Staël. This list will be adjusted to reflect the participants’ interests.
To register, please fill in the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DDmdQ83GcQmLCp5DDlRxI3Aq5LB4mqAsCP0Ja2tzvig/edit?usp=sharing
For further information: please contact the Extending New Narratives ECR Committee at [email protected]
Huarochirí Manuscript Reading Group
Led by ENN Post-doc Jorge Sanchez Perez, along with Lisa Shapiro, this reading group will focus on the Huarochiri Manuscript, which has 31 sections that range from 1 page to 10 pages per section. The manuscript was written between the late 16th and early 17th century in the central Andes of Peru as an attempt to better understand the views of indigenous people. The final goal of this compilation was to serve as a tool for the eradication of those views and to be replaced by the doctrine of the Catholic Church. The document is the only and oldest surviving source containing insights about the nature of existence, time, space and relationship of Andean people.
The goal is for this reading group to allow the participants to consider issues such as indigenous philosophy, philosophical sources, and alternative metaphysical views. While keeping in mind the fact that this document was meant to be used as a tool for the eradication of a particular way of thinking and knowing.
The reading group will begin on Friday, November 12 from 3-4pm PT, and meet every other week (except the month of December). Please contact Jorge Sanchez Perez for further information about the schedule and for the zoom link if you'd like to join.
The goal is for this reading group to allow the participants to consider issues such as indigenous philosophy, philosophical sources, and alternative metaphysical views. While keeping in mind the fact that this document was meant to be used as a tool for the eradication of a particular way of thinking and knowing.
The reading group will begin on Friday, November 12 from 3-4pm PT, and meet every other week (except the month of December). Please contact Jorge Sanchez Perez for further information about the schedule and for the zoom link if you'd like to join.
Two Reading Groups: on Catharine Macaulay and on Oppression and the History of Analytic Philosophy
For 2021-22, the Early Career Researchers Committee for the Extending New Narratives Partnership Project will be running a few online reading groups in the history of philosophy. The first two will start in the Fall, and there may be a third group in the Fall, focused on the Huarochiri Manuscript. We anticipate at least one additional group (focused on a text in French) forming in the Spring.
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Reading group: Catharine Macaulay’s Letters on Education
Facilitators: Lisa Shapiro & Martina Reuter
Register by: 8 October 2021
UPDATE: Two groups have been formed. One will meet every second Tuesday starting November 2 2021, at 3:30pm PT (led by Lisa Shapiro). The other will meet every second Friday starting November 5, at 7 pm EET (5 pm GMT) (led by Martina Reuter). Please contact the group leader if you need the zoom link.
This reading group will focus on Macaulay's last work, Letters on Education (1790), which develops her mature moral philosophy. The book includes a defence of republicanism and it attends to the role education plays in both repairing a corrupt polity and ensuring a healthy society.
Catharine Macaulay was one of the most renowned women intellectuals of the late 18th century. Initially, her fame derived from her A History of England from the Accession of James I (in 8 volumes, 1763-1783), which she wrote in direct response to David Hume’s History, as a republican alternative. Her republicanism was also articulated in political essays criticizing Thomas Hobbes and of Edmund Burke. Macaulay’s work is slowly being rediscovered, in part through the influence of her works on Mary Wollstonecraft, but there are still no modern editions of any of her major works.
The reading group assumes no prior familiarity with Macaulay or her works. Some may simply want to read Macaulay to figure out her philosophy along a number of dimensions. Some may want to pursue intellectual historical antecedents and contemporary contextual connections to help better understand her arguments. Others may be interested in understanding Macaulay’s own intellectual development. Still others may be interested in how Macaulay connects to later thinkers. All are welcome.
To register, please fill in the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_QwQHmv3AyQvX3iM6BRFlme0Hg8O8CgJ50rxM7P9Its/edit#gid=0
For further information: please contact the Extending New Narratives ECR Committee at [email protected]
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Reading group: The history of analytic philosophy & oppression
Facilitators: Audrey Yap & Frederique Janssen-Lauret
Register by: 8 October 2021
UPDATE: The reading group will meet every second week, beginning on Wednesday, Nov 3, at 4pm PT. Please contact group leader Audrey Yap with any questions or for the zoom link if you would like to join.
This reading group is aimed at considering the question of what the history of analytic philosophy can contribute to theorizing about oppression and social good more generally. This can include reading the work of politically engaged philosophers like Otto Neurath, as well as reading secondary literature about how historical figures might be read through a feminist, or anti-racist, or otherwise anti-oppressive lens. That might include reading the work of contemporary scholars about such historical figures, or reading the work of philosophers who did face social marginalization at the time. The group will meet regularly over Zoom with a time and reading list to be collectively determined. Suggestions for readings that fit the general description are more than welcome. The hope is that this will lead to participants writing pieces on the subject that could be submitted to a journal (for instance, the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy) either as stand-alone pieces or as part of a special issue.
To register, please fill in the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_QwQHmv3AyQvX3iM6BRFlme0Hg8O8CgJ50rxM7P9Its/edit#gid=0
For further information: please contact Prof. Audrey Yap ([email protected])
#1
Reading group: Catharine Macaulay’s Letters on Education
Facilitators: Lisa Shapiro & Martina Reuter
Register by: 8 October 2021
UPDATE: Two groups have been formed. One will meet every second Tuesday starting November 2 2021, at 3:30pm PT (led by Lisa Shapiro). The other will meet every second Friday starting November 5, at 7 pm EET (5 pm GMT) (led by Martina Reuter). Please contact the group leader if you need the zoom link.
This reading group will focus on Macaulay's last work, Letters on Education (1790), which develops her mature moral philosophy. The book includes a defence of republicanism and it attends to the role education plays in both repairing a corrupt polity and ensuring a healthy society.
Catharine Macaulay was one of the most renowned women intellectuals of the late 18th century. Initially, her fame derived from her A History of England from the Accession of James I (in 8 volumes, 1763-1783), which she wrote in direct response to David Hume’s History, as a republican alternative. Her republicanism was also articulated in political essays criticizing Thomas Hobbes and of Edmund Burke. Macaulay’s work is slowly being rediscovered, in part through the influence of her works on Mary Wollstonecraft, but there are still no modern editions of any of her major works.
The reading group assumes no prior familiarity with Macaulay or her works. Some may simply want to read Macaulay to figure out her philosophy along a number of dimensions. Some may want to pursue intellectual historical antecedents and contemporary contextual connections to help better understand her arguments. Others may be interested in understanding Macaulay’s own intellectual development. Still others may be interested in how Macaulay connects to later thinkers. All are welcome.
To register, please fill in the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_QwQHmv3AyQvX3iM6BRFlme0Hg8O8CgJ50rxM7P9Its/edit#gid=0
For further information: please contact the Extending New Narratives ECR Committee at [email protected]
#2
Reading group: The history of analytic philosophy & oppression
Facilitators: Audrey Yap & Frederique Janssen-Lauret
Register by: 8 October 2021
UPDATE: The reading group will meet every second week, beginning on Wednesday, Nov 3, at 4pm PT. Please contact group leader Audrey Yap with any questions or for the zoom link if you would like to join.
This reading group is aimed at considering the question of what the history of analytic philosophy can contribute to theorizing about oppression and social good more generally. This can include reading the work of politically engaged philosophers like Otto Neurath, as well as reading secondary literature about how historical figures might be read through a feminist, or anti-racist, or otherwise anti-oppressive lens. That might include reading the work of contemporary scholars about such historical figures, or reading the work of philosophers who did face social marginalization at the time. The group will meet regularly over Zoom with a time and reading list to be collectively determined. Suggestions for readings that fit the general description are more than welcome. The hope is that this will lead to participants writing pieces on the subject that could be submitted to a journal (for instance, the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy) either as stand-alone pieces or as part of a special issue.
To register, please fill in the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_QwQHmv3AyQvX3iM6BRFlme0Hg8O8CgJ50rxM7P9Its/edit#gid=0
For further information: please contact Prof. Audrey Yap ([email protected])