Archive for 2009Page 3
Kant attack ad….
And now, just a couple months too late to inform your November vote, comes this paid political announcement about Immanuel Kant.
Examined Life: The Movie!
Yep, you read right. “Examined Life,” a new film by Astra Taylor, takes you into the heads of eight real, live, honest-to-gosh, dues-paying philosophers. (Okay, just kidding about the dues part.) Watch for its DVD release soon…but in the meantime, check out this trailer.
Calling Home: Journals From India
In January Term, 2009, Deane Curtin led a group of students to India, in a course entitled “Buddhist India.” Caleb Phillips, a senior philosophy member, was a part of that course, and he kept a journal while he was there. Below are some excerpts from his journal. I don’t know if I wrote about Kolkata […]
Mark Wirbisky (’08)
Mark is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in Viola Performance at Illinois State University. In addition to school orchestra, he is currently a full season member of the Sinfonia da Camera in Urbana, Illinois, and also a substitute player with the Illinois Symphony and Illinois Symphony Chamber Orchestras. His orchestra’s website is http://www.sinfonia.uiuc.edu/bio.htm.
Ghana: Post Independence Reflections
On March 6, the fifty-second anniversary of Ghana’s independence, the Philosophy Department hosted a small gathering in the Courtyard Café, to celebrate that independence (and the role of its leader, the philosopher Kwame Nkrumah), and also to learn about Ghana today. We heard from three Ghanaians who are a part of the Gustavus community: Sidonia […]
Stephen Henderson (’96)
Stephen Henderson (’96) teaches English in Osaka, Japan. He reports that “My two most memorable conversations were with an 80-year old man who fled Japan to China in the 1930s and lived out the war hiding in Manchuria. He had hundreds of wonderful stories to tell. I also had the opportunity to “interview” a woman […]
Chris deLaubenfels (’08)
Chris deLaubenfels (’08) is spending the 2008-09 academic year teaching in New York City, as part of Teach for America.
Reflecting on the current crisis: an invitation
Last Sunday morning, while driving to Minneapolis, I happened to catch a radio program on which eight prominent intellectuals–ethicists and environmentalists, theologians and historians, scientists and artists–spoke about the current economic crisis. Well, sort of. They weren’t talking about subprime mortgages or TARP or whether or not to nationalize the banks. Instead, they were considering […]
Charles Stringer (’85)
Charles Stringer (1985) is a licensed attorney in California and Washington with over 15 years experience in commercial, environmental, natural resources, and American Indian law and policy. He is in-house counsel and a principal with Renewable Resources Group, where he manages several renewable energy and large-scale water conservation, storage, and transfer projects.
Joel Jensen (’97)
Joel Jensen (’97) received a Ph.D. in architecture, with a dissertation in architectural ontology. He teaches philosophy at North Hennepin Community College.