THE DWORKINIAN RELIGION OF VALUE

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 526-534
Author(s):  
Rafael Domingo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
New York University ◽  
Ronald Dworkin ◽  
Thomas Nagel ◽  
Eightieth Birthday ◽  
Advanced Study ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
University Of Bern ◽  
The University

As Ronald Dworkin was writing his Einstein lectures “Religion without God,” at New York University (NYU) in the fall of 2011, I was also working in Washington Square, as a fellow of the NYU Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice. On December 8, just a few days before Dworkin delivered the lectures at the University of Bern, I had the opportunity to attend the last session of his famous Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy at Furman Hall. In that session, co-led by his colleague and friend Thomas Nagel, Dworkin presented the manuscript of his Swiss lectures. After the seminar, we had an anticipatory celebration of Dworkin's eightieth birthday, which would take place three days later. And that was the last time I would see Ronald Dworkin—which might explain why I remember in such detail that seminar, in which he talked about religion without God with more spontaneity and improvisation, I imagine, than he would in the Einstein lectures days later.

Clochards, Commercials, Cohabitation, Continuity, and Change, a Summary of Colloquia Held at the Institute of French Studies, New York University, Autumn 1986

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (x) ◽  
pp. 341-352
Author(s):  
Melissa Clegg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
New York University ◽  
Fifth Republic ◽  
French Studies ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Napoleon Iii ◽  
The University

Since the founding of the Fifth Republic Paris has been rebuilt to an extent only the reconstructions of the Second Empire under Napoleon III could match. The story of its rebuilding—told by David Pinkney, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Washington—could serve as a fable with a moral about the whole of French cultural and political life for the last twenty-five years. De Gaulle began the transformation of Paris by deregulating the building industry. The threats of that policy to the historical character of the city eventually provoked, under Giscard d’Estaing and Mitterrand, a return to the centrist practices of a state accustomed to regulation.

A Ptolemaic-Roman Temple Foundation at Tell Timai

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-225
Author(s):  
James E. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
New York University ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
University Of Hawai'i ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

The mission of the University of Hawai’i at Tell Timai in 2009 began excavating the remains of a limestone temple foundation platform in the north-west area of the site. The foundations had been partially recorded in survey work conducted in 1930 by Alexander Langsdorff and Siegfried Schott, and again in the 1960s by New York University, however no known investigations of the structure were conducted. In 2017 as part of an Egypt Exploration Society Fieldwork and Research Grant, excavations were renewed to finalise the understanding of the temple’s construction techniques, and the date of the temple. The foundations were of a casemate design with internal fills of alternating silt and limestone chips. The ceramic evidence from within the construction fills dates its construction from the end of the Ptolemaic to the early Roman Period, and the temple’s superstructure was most likely taken down and the blocks reused in the late Roman Period (fourth to fifth century ce).

New Working Group on “Cultural Protocols” Convenes at New York University, 19 August 2011

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhavi Sunder
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
New York University ◽  
Access And Benefit Sharing ◽  
Study Protocols ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University

Protocols in international law seem to be proliferating. Examples of official protocols at international law abound, from the 1967 Stockholm Protocol Regarding Developing Countries (amending the Berne Convention on copyright), to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change, to the recent Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing in 2010. But what exactly is a “protocol” compared to other international legal instruments, such as declarations and treaties? And why does there seem to be a flurry of new protocols today, in domains as vast as intellectual property and indigenous people's rights? On 19 August a new “working group” convened at the New York University School of Law to begin to study protocols, especially with an eye toward their use as a tool to protect indigenous cultural property—hence, the term “cultural protocols.” The working group is the brainchild of Dr. Jane Anderson of the University of Massachusetts and Professor Barton Beebe of the New York University School of Law.

“An Old Order Is Passing”: The Rise of Applied Learning in University-Based Teacher Education during the Great Depression

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana D'Amico
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
New York University ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Old Order ◽  
The University

From the late nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth century, New York City housed two contrasting models of professional education for teachers. In 1870, the Normal College of the City of New York opened in rented quarters. Founded to prepare women to teach in the city's public schools, in just ten weeks the tuition-free, all-female college “filled to overflowing” with about 1,100 enrolled students. Based upon a four-year high school course approved by the city's Board of Education, the “chief purpose” of the college was to “encourage young women… to engage in the work of teaching in elementary and secondary schools.” Vocationally oriented and focused on practical skills, the Normal College stood in contrast to the School of Pedagogy at New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University founded in 1890 and 1898, respectively. The Normal College's neighbors situated their work within the academic traditions of the university. According to a School of Pedagogy Bulletin from 1912, faculty sought to,meet the needs of students of superior academic training and of teachers of experience who are prepared to study educational problems in their more scientific aspects and their broader relations.

Why are There No Austrian Socialists? Ideology, Science and the Austrian School

1995 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Boettke
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Austrian School ◽  
New York University ◽  
City College ◽  
Economics Profession ◽  
Von Mises ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Grove City

The Austrian School of Economics has long been branded as a sort of radical laissez-faire wing within the economics profession, even much more “right-wing,” in fact, than Milton Friedman, the profession;'s most recognized “preacher” of the free-market. The economic journalist Alfred Malabre, Jr., for example, in his recent critical book on modern economics, Lost Prophets, argues that “the monetarism that Friedman and his followers were preaching was not quite as conservative as advertised. In fact, the University of Chicago professor was treading not far from the middle of the economic road, flanked on the left by the likes of Galbraith and Leontief and on the right by Hayek, along with such other Austrian-school luminaries as Hans Sennholz, chairman of the economics department at Grove City College in western Pennsylvania, and Ludwig von Mises, transplanted from Austria and finishing out a distinguished academic and writing career at New York University” (Malabre 1994, p. 144).

scholarly journals Review of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University by Matthew Brim (Duke University Press)

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Switzer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
New York University ◽  
General Applicability ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Career Training ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The University

The review focuses on the practical work of Poor Queer Studies. Rather than retheorize queer studies from the class perspective of "rich" and "poor," Brim makes a case study of his work as a professor of queer studies at the College of Staten Island (CSI). Insisting on the particularity of his and his students’ relationship to queer studies, Brim makes an example of the work they do together in the classroom, and the ways they live their studies on public transit, at home with their families, and in their part-time jobs. This review questions the extent to which poor queer studies differs from the modern university’s reduction of all education to career-training. Brim’s praxis of poor queer studies is always undertaken with individual students in specific socio-economic circumstances—a particularity that makes it different than market-driven job-training. This review also raises questions about the general applicability of this case study. Would poor queer studies work elsewhere as it does at CSI? Berlant’s idea of exemplarity is helpful in answering this question. Unlike examples that confirm a norm, there are examples that change norms. Brim’s example of poor queer studies works to exemplarily change what counts as normal. Practically, this means no longer thinking of queer studies as operating without class distinction—and reclaiming part of the work of the discipline from seemingly classless rich queer studies at places like Yale and New York University.

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