The CEU Department of Philosophy and Department of Political Science
cordially invite you to a talk
(as part of the Philosophy Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Sune Laegaard (Roskilde University)
on
'Toleration, Groups and Multiculturalism'
Tuesday, 17 January, 5.30 PM
Monument building Popper room (1st floor/102)
ABSTRACT
The paper considers how groups might be relevant as objects of policies
of toleration and the different senses 'group' might have in relation to
questions of toleration. The paper argues that groups can be relevant to
toleration in several different ways as objects of toleration.
Toleration is routinely defined as involving an objection component, a
power requirement and an acceptance component. The objection and
acceptance components refer to reasons or dispositions of the subjects
of toleration, e.g. public authorities deciding how to act in relation
to groups. The power condition refers to the political and social
relationship between the subject and the objects of toleration. Finally,
toleration is often argued to be a normative requirement on the basis of
the way it affects the object or receiver of toleration, e.g. on the
basis of the good of or right to freedom from non-interference which
toleration allows receivers of toleration to enjoy. The paper shows how
groups may be objects of toleration in different ways in relation to
each of these components or conditions of toleration. The sense of
'group' relevant to toleration may differ when the group is an object of
power, i.e. when others have the ability to interfere with the group’s
activities, an object of dislike or disapproval, an agent enjoying
non-interference or a moral patient. This means that 'toleration of
groups' can mean quite different things depending on the exact meaning
of 'group' in relation to each component. The paper relates the
different possible meanings of groups toleration to widespread
criticisms of multiculturalism for being excessively 'groupist' (e.g. to
essentialise or reify groups), to promote group rights over individual
rights, or to deny or ignore the internal heterogeneity of groups or the
multiple identity affiliations of individuals. The paper suggests that
some of these standard criticisms of multiculturalism for being overly
tolerant of minority groups, or being so in a way elevating groups over
individuals, are less pressing on some understandings of the meaning of
'group' as an object of policies of multicultural toleration than on
others. So the paper both contributes to the conceptual understanding of
toleration and groups and to the normative debates about
multiculturalism insofar as these turn on the toleration of groups.
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
Fax: 36-1-327-3072
E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu
>From January 2012 the Department of Cognitive Science (DCS) at CEU initiates a new series of public colloquia with intited speakers. These talks will not replace, but supplement, the seminar series at the Cognitive Development Center (CDC) of CEU. Both the DCS Colloquia and the CDC Seminars will be held at 5pm on Wednesdays (with some exceptions), and will be coordinated not to clash with each other. The venue for DCS Colloquia is room G15 in the CEU building in Frankel Leo utca, while the CDC Seminars remain at Hattyuhaz (Hattyu u. 14). The talks last for an hour, and are followed by 30 minutes discussion.
Below you will find a list of planned talks for the next 7 months or so. Note that the program may change. Up to date program will be available at http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/events , and all talks will be announced on this list.
Everyone is welcome to attend these events. Note that we tend to start our talks on time.
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25 Jan, CDC Seminar
Kai Vogeley, University of Cologne
1 Feb, DCS Colloquium
Szabolcs Kéri, Semmelweis University, Budapest
15 Feb, DCS Colloquium
Thom Scott-Phillips, University of Edinburgh
21 Mar, CDC Seminar
Sang Ah Lee, University of Trento
23 Mar (FRIDAY), DCS Colloquium
Vanja Kovic, Novi Sad
28 Mar, DCS Colloquium
Francsco Guala, University of Milan
11 Apr, CDC Seminar
Emmanuel Dupoux, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
20 Apr, (FRIDAY), CDC Seminar
Heidi Keller, University of Osnabrück
25 Apr, CDC Seminar
Jukka Leppanen, University of Tampere
2 May, DCS Colloquium
Dana Samson, Université catholique de Louvain
9 May, CDC Seminar
Katharina Rohlfing, University of Bielefeld
16 May, CDC Seminar
Jenny Saffran, Unversity of Wisconsin-Madison
30 May, DCS Colloquium
Jane Ridoch and Glyn Humphreys, Oxford University
13 Jun, DCS Colloquium
Alex Pouget, University of Geneva
27 Jun, DCS Colloquium
Michael Waldmann, University of Göttingen
11 Jul, DCS Colloquium
Peter Kardos, The New School for Social Research, New York
25 Jul, DCS Colloquium
Giorgio Coricelli, University of Southern California
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Re: Summer Course “Problems of the Self (
http://www.summeruniversity.ceu.hu/self-2012 )” at Central European
University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, from June 25 to July 5, 2012
CEU's summer school invites applications from graduate students, junior
faculty, researchers and practitioners in universities and other
institutions from all over the world.
The course aims to present the state of the art in research on the self
from philosophy, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology, and
cognitive anthropology. Themes revolve around the nature of the self, as
revealed through self-consciousness, body perception, action and joint
action, and its embedding in society and culture. Historical and
developmental perspectives provide other angles on the self. The course
presents a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary discussion on the
self from multiple perspectives. It is directed at advanced graduate
students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty working in philosophy,
psychology, cognitive neuroscience and cognate
disciplines.
Course Directors:
Natalie Sebanz, Cognitive Science Department, Central European
University, Budapest, Hungary/Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and
Behaviour, Raboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands; Hong Yu Wong,
Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Philosophy of Neuroscience Group,
University of Tubingen, Germany
Faculty:
Peter Callero, Department of Sociology, Western Oregon University,
Monmouth, USA; Guenther Knoblich, Department of Cognitive Science, CEU,
Budapest, Hungary
Beatrice Longuenesse, Department of Philosophy, New York University,
USA; Christopher A. B. Peacocke, Department of Philosophy, Columbia
University, New York, USA; Phillipe Rochat, Department of Psychology,
Emory University, Atlanta, USA; Paul Snowdon, Department of Philosophy,
University College London, UK; Manos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology,
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK;
Guest Speakers:
Maurice Bloch, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics,
UK; Gyorgy Gergely, Department of Cognitive Science/Cognitive
Development Centre, CEU, Budapest, Hungary
The application deadline is February 15, 2012.
Financial aid is available.
More detailed information available at http://summer.ceu.hu/self-2012
.
Györgyné Finta (Réka)
Department Coordinator
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Central European University
Department of Cognitive Science
H-1023 Budapest
Frankel Leó út 30-34.
tel: (36-1) 887-5138
fax: (36-1) 887-5010
http://www.ceu.huhttp://cognitivescience.ceu.hu
email: szabor(a)ceu.hu
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2012 INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGIES
WSLST 2012
(formerly International PhD School in Language and Speech Technologies)
Tarragona, Spain
January 23-27, 2012
Organized by:
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/wslst2012/
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AIM:
WSLST 2012 offers a broad and intensive series of lectures on language and speech technologies at different levels. The students choose their preferred courses according to their interests and background. Instructors are top names in their respective fields. The School intends to help students initiate and foster their research career.
The previous event in this series was SSLST 2011: http://grammars.grlmc.com/sslst2011/
ADDRESSED TO:
Graduate (and advanced undergraduate) students from around the world. Most appropriate degrees include: Computer Science and Linguistics. Other students (for instance, from Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Philosophy, or Cognitive Science) are welcome too.
The School is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field.
There is no overlap in the class schedule.
COURSES AND PROFESSORS:
- Eneko Agirre (U Basque Country), Semantic Processing of Text: Word Sense Disambiguation, Entity Linking and Semantic Similarity [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]
- William J. Byrne (Cambridge), Weighted Finite State Transducers in Statistical Machine Translation [introductory/advanced, 6 hours]
- Marcello Federico (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento), Statistical Language Modeling [introductory/advanced, 8 hours]
- Ralph Grishman (New York), Information Extraction [intermediate, 8 hours]
- Geoffrey K. Pullum (Edinburgh), The Formal Properties of Human Languages: Description with a View to Implementation [introductory/intermediate, 8 hours]
- Jian Su (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Coreference Resolution and Discourse Relation Recognition [advanced, 4 hours]
- Christoph Tillmann (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Simple and Effective Algorithms and Models for Non-hierarchical Statistical Machine Translation [intermediate, 6 hours]
- David R. Traum (U Southern California), Approaches to Dialogue Systems and Dialogue Management [introductory, 8 hours]
REGISTRATION:
It has to be done on line at
http://grammars.grlmc.com/wslst2012/Registration.php
FEES:
They are variable, depending on the number of courses each student takes. The rule is:
1 hour =
- 10 euros (for payments until November 13, 2011),
- 15 euros (for payments after November 13, 2011).
PAYMENT PROCEDURE:
The fees must be paid to the School's bank account:
Uno-e Bank
bank’s address: Julian Camarillo 4 C, 28037 Madrid, Spain
IBAN: ES3902270001820201823142
SWIFT/BIC code: UNOEESM1
account holder: Carlos Martin-Vide GRLMC
account holder’s address: Av. Catalunya 35, 43002 Tarragona, Spain
Please mention WSLST 2012 and your name in the subject. A receipt will be provided on site.
Remarks:
- Bank transfers should not involve any expense for the School.
- People claiming early registration will be requested to prove that the bank transfer was carried out by the deadline.
- Students may be refunded only in the case when a course gets cancelled due to the unavailability of the instructor.
People registering on site at the beginning of the School must pay in cash. For the sake of local organization, however, it is much recommended to do it earlier.
ACCOMMODATION:
Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School.
CERTIFICATES:
Students will be delivered a certificate stating the courses attended, their contents, and their duration.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Announcement of the programme: September 26, 2011
Starting of the registration: September 26, 2011
Early registration deadline: November 13, 2011
Starting of the School: January 23, 2012
End of the School: January 27, 2012
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
Florentina-Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat
WEBSITE:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/wslst2012/
POSTAL ADDRESS:
WSLST 2012
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Diputació de Tarragona
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Kedves Kollegak!
Minden PhD hallgatot es postdoc-ot batoritok, hogy jelentkezzen az
alabbi elektrofiziologia/imaging kurzusra, melyet kozeli kollegam,
Florin Albeanu szervez Erdelyben!
A kurzus ideje 2012 junius 1-15, jelentkezesi hatarido marcius 15.
Eloadok:
Burrone, Juan - King's College, London, UK
Buzsáki, György - Rutgers University, NJ, USA
Chelazzi, Leonardo - University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Engert, Florian - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Hübener, Mark - Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
Kampff, Adam - Champalimaud Foundation, Institute for the
Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
McNaughton, Bruce - Lethbridge University, Lethbridge, Canada
Monyer, Hannah - University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Tomáš, Hromádka - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY,
USA
Mrsic-Flögel, Tom - University College London, London, UK
Murthy, Venkatesh - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Nikolic, Danko - Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt,
Germany
Roska, Botond - Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Rumpel, Simon - Institute for Molecular Pathology (IMP),Vienna, Austria
Singer, Wolf - Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
Reszletes informaciok es jelentkezes:
http://tenss.ro/index.php
Udvozlettel,
Hangya Balazs