Source: Nietzsche Symposium at NUI Galway (30th October, 2015,day) long event
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Posted: December 12, 2015 in Uncategorized
I had a culture column at WIRED. And then I didn’t. Here’s what happened.
Posted: December 10, 2015 in UncategorizedMonica Byre’s excellent summer 2015 account watch out for editors esp lads!
Photo: an illustration by Eric Battle and John Jennings from Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of the Phoenix.
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A month ago, with the Hugo fracas in full swing, an editor at Wired wrote me and said, “If you have something to say, you have the platform.” Given Wired’s enormous readership, what an incredible thing. I wrote the piece in an afternoon, they put it up, and it did well.
Shortly thereafter, the same editor said she and the Culture editor wanted me to write a column for them. Which was even more thrilling. And given that my op-ed had been about systemic bias in favor of white men in literature, I thought they knew exactly what they were getting with me: a commitment to changing the conversation around what’s considered newsworthy art. I wrote to the editor, “Boyhood or the new Avengers movie? I could give a shit. A Girl Walks Home Alone at…
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Posted: December 10, 2015 in UncategorizedTags: Art, Arts, CIL, disabilites, Druid Theatre, HSE, the Abbey Theatre
| 10.30 – 11.30
Tom Bailey (John Cabot University, Rome) ‘Nietzsche’s Modest Theory of Agency’ |
| 11.30 – 12.00 Coffee |
| 12.00 – 1.00
Tsarina Doyle (NUI, Galway) ‘The Will to Power and the Metaphysics of Value’ |
| 1.00 – 2.30 LUNCH |
| 2.30 – 3.00
Ruud Thomas Burke (UCC) ‘Type-facts and Nothing but the Facts: Reductionism and Nietzsche’s Philosophy’ |
| 3.00 – 3.30
Trine Riel (NUI, Galway) ‘Nietzsche’s askesis: Philosophy as an art of existence’ |
| 3.30 – 4.00 COFFEE |
| 4.00 – 4.30
Chris Hansen (NUI, Galway) ‘Nietzsche and Perspective’ |
| 4.30 – 5.00
Steven McHugh (NUI, Galway) ‘Nietzsche: Morality in the Pejorative Sense and Human Flourishing’ |
Contact: Tsarina Doyle, Philosophy, School of Humanities: tsarina.doyle@nuigalway.ie
“The Galway Nietzsche Symposium is a one-day event that brings together academics and advanced graduate students working on Nietzsche from John Cabot University Rome, NUI Galway and University College Cork. It is an open event and formal registration is was not required.”
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Posted: December 10, 2015 in Catholic, HIstory, Philosophy, talks, uni postgrad
Tags: Arts, Galway, Ireland, literature, National University of Ireland Galway, niamh clake, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Tom Duddy, Tsarina Doyle
Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work(Old Review from Val Nolan,Corrosposted)
Posted: December 10, 2015 in Uncategorizedtephen Hawking: His Life and Work
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Plug time kiddies:https://illusorypromise.wordpress.com/ is Val’s blog and he’s an absoluty gent and all round great guy and lecturer.Val is a lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University this year.His publications include definite account of the John McGahern banning amongest others.His twitter handle is@VallescuraRule
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PhDisappeared For a Year (WordPress blog )
Posted: December 9, 2015 in UncategorizedTags: disabilites
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