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Joshua Dienstag "The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age"

May 6, 2015 @ 12:15 pm - 2:00 pm  |  Stevenson Fireside Lounge

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Joshua Dienstag is the author of Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit and many books and articles on the history of political thought, film, literature and democratic theory.  He is currently working on a project entitled The Animal Condition: A Political Theory of Human Citizenship.

Joshua Dienstag is a Professor of Political Science and Law at UCLA; as well as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.


Spring 2015 Colloquium Series
April 8, 2015 – Neloufer de Mel: “The ‘Perethaya’s’ Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka”
April 15, 2015 – Karen de Vries: “Queer Storytelling, Secular Religion, and the Anthropocene Blues”
April 22, 2015 – T.J. Demos: “Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence”
April 29, 2015 – Brian Connolly: “The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States”
May 6, 2015 – Joshua Dienstag: “The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age”
May 13, 2015 – Megan Thomas: “Lascars, Sepoys, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila, 1762-4)”
May 20, 2015 – Jonathan Beller: “The Computational Unconscious”
May 27, 2015 – John Modern: “Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science”

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Date:
May 6, 2015
Time:
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College
Santa Cruz, CA 95064 United States
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Cowell-Stevenson: Lots 107, 109, 110