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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024
DESCRIPTION:Solidarity tickets available. Click for Part 1 and Part 2 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Bohm 2024  \n\n\n\nSaturday July 13 – Sunday August 25\, 2024 The Beyond Bohm 2024 series is oriented toward sharing unique and unusual perspectives that complement and amplify the work of David Bohm. Now in our fourth year\, we are continuing that tradition with an array of new faces and presenters that we are especially excited about. \n\n\n\nPart 1 \n\n\n\nOur first weekend begins with some “basics”: a roundtable discussion of a foundational Bohm text\, Thought as a System. We are pleased to welcome members of the David Bohm Society into this discussion. The following day\, we will hear from Dr. Elizabeth Henderson\, whose 40 years of work in education suggest multiple perspectives for establishing wholeness in human beings\, from their earliest years. Dr. Henderson uses autoethnography to help illustrate the possibilities and tensions facing practitioners as they try to help children build their interior worlds. \n\n\n\nOur second weekend opens by taking us directly into the “deep time” geology of Dr. Marcia Bjornerud. Here we are asked to sense Earth through the fourth dimension of time\, as a living\, moving\, process-oriented phenomenon. The next day\, abstract artist Pam Harris shares with us the nature of her experience in contemplating scientific and philosophical questions\, and how that experience translates to canvas. \n\n\n\nOur third weekend continues the thread of artistic and scientific complementarity. Artist-engineer Cheryl Brant walks us through the unfolding of her own 40-year artistic process\, and its culmination in questions of consciousness and the living world. Finally\, closing out the series\, Melissa Nelson (Turtle Mountain Chippewa / Métis) and friends will share indigenous perspectives on a variety of culturally-oriented issues and concerns.  \n\n\n\nPart 2 \n\n\n\nAfter an introduction to Bohm’s physics\, we will explore the relations between Russellian monism\, William James’s radical empiricism and Bohm’s implicate order; some traditional and recent (e.g.\, Johanna Seibt’s) work on process philosophy and how it connects with Bohm’s ideas; the idea of quantum properties of matter as potentialities in Bohm’s early thought; the influence of Hegel on Bohm’s ideas about fragmentation and wholeness; and whether Bohm’s notion of active information is a candidate for a unifying notionof information. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery session will have openings for question / answer and discussion with presenters.Tickets are available for the whole series\, for three presentations of your choice\, or for single presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nPart 1 \n\n\n\nSaturday July 13Thought as a Systemwith Matthew Capowski\, Melissa Nelson\, Igor Topilsky and Aja Bulla Zamastil \n\n\n\nSunday July 14Inner Freedom and Early Childhoodwith Elizabeth Henderson \n\n\n\nSaturday July 20Discovering the Deep Logic of Earthwith Marcia Bjornerud \n\n\n\nSunday July 21Finding David Bohm – and Beyondwith Pam Harris \n\n\n\nSaturday July 27Science and Art: Squaring the Circlewith Cheryl Brant \n\n\n\nSunday July 28Vortex of Indigenous CosmologiesWith Melissa Nelson and Friends \n\n\n\nPart 2 \n\n\n\nSunday August 4Introduction to Bohm’s PhysicsJonathan AlldaySunday August 11The Relations Between Russellian Monism\, James’s Radical Empiricism and Bohm’s Implicate OrderWilliam Seager \n\n\n\nSaturday August 17A Comparative Overview of Process Metaphysics and Substance Metaphysics & Indeterminate Concrete Individuals in Johanna Seibt’s General Process TheorySamuli Isotalo and Thelma Nylund\, with comments by Paavo PylkkänenSunday August 18Quantum Properties of Matter as Potentialities in Bohm’s 1951 Book Quantum TheoryPaavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 24Fragmentation and Wholeness: Bohm and G.W.F. HegelBoris Koznjak \n\n\n\nSunday August 25 Is There a Unifying Notion of Information?  Jens Allwood\, with comments by Michael Richter and Paavo Pylkkänen
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024 - Part 2
DESCRIPTION:The Beyond Bohm series is oriented toward sharing unique and unusual perspectives that complement and amplify the work of David Bohm.  \n\n\n\nPart 2 \n\n\n\nAfter an introduction to Bohm’s physics\, we will explore the relations between Russellian monism\, William James’s radical empiricism and Bohm’s implicate order; some traditional and recent (e.g.\, Johanna Seibt’s) work on process philosophy and how it connects with Bohm’s ideas; the idea of quantum properties of matter as potentialities in Bohm’s early thought; the influence of Hegel on Bohm’s ideas about fragmentation and wholeness; and whether Bohm’s notion of active information is a candidate for a unifying notion of information. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSunday August 4Introduction to Bohm’s PhysicsJonathan AlldaySunday August 11The Relations Between Russellian Monism\, James’s Radical Empiricism and Bohm’s Implicate OrderWilliam Seager \n\n\n\nSaturday August 17A Comparative Overview of Process Metaphysics and Substance Metaphysics & Indeterminate Concrete Individuals in Johanna Seibt’s General Process TheorySamuli Isotalo and Thelma Nylund\, with comments by Paavo PylkkänenSunday August 18Quantum Properties of Matter as Potentialities in Bohm’s 1951 Book Quantum TheoryPaavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 24Fragmentation and Wholeness: Bohm and G.W.F. HegelBoris Koznjak \n\n\n\nSunday August 25 Is There a Unifying Notion of Information?  Jens Allwood\, with comments by Michael Richter and Paavo Pylkkänen
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-2/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 2 - Introduction to Bohm's Physics
DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Bohm’s Physics\n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSunday August 49:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Bohm made very important contributions to a range of different areas in Physics. Amongst these\, his work on quantum theory is possibly the most relevant to Pari discussions. In this talk I will attempt to outline Bohm’s ontological interpretation of quantum theory\, which has since been developed by Basil Hiley amongst others. I will also discuss Bohm’s development of the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paper which lead to John Bell’s work and our current understanding of entanglement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday was born in Liverpool in 1960. He did his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1982 and then returned to Liverpool to complete a PhD in elementary particle physics. As part of this\, he was fortunate to spend some time working at the European particle physics centre\, CERN\, in Geneva. \n\n\n\nAlso\, during that time he was co-opted onto a working party looking at the teaching of particle physics in schools and universities. The upshot was a new syllabus in particle physics and cosmology to be added to UK A-level (16-18) physics qualifications. The first questions were set in 1992. \n\n\n\nOn the back of the work on this syllabus\, Jonathan wrote his first book Quarks\, Leptons and the Big Bang\, which was published in 1998 and is about to enter its fourth edition. Jonathan has also collaborated on a couple of textbooks and written his own books on Quantum Theory\, General Relativity and the Apollo moon missions. \n\n\n\nProfessionally\, Jonathan worked as a physics teacher for 30 years in a variety of independent day and boarding schools in the UK. He was a head of physics\, a head of science and latterly an academic deputy head. He retired in 2020 and now runs a consulting company providing training and educational advice for schools. \n\n\n\nJonathan is married to Carolyn\, and they have three sons all of whom are far better at sport than he was. Carolyn was a GB swimmer\, which explains how come the boys can do sport. Jonathan and Carolyn live in a hamlet not far from Worcester in the UK. When not writing or consulting\, Jonathan enjoys watching cricket\, James Bond movies and Formula 1 races.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-2-introduction-to-bohms-physics/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 2 - The Relations Between Russellian Monism\, James's Radical Empiricism and Bohm's Implicate Order
DESCRIPTION:The Relations Between Russellian Monism\, James’s Radical Empiricism and Bohm’s Implicate Order\n\n\n\nwith William Seager \n\n\n\nSunday August 119:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWillam James’s Radical Empiricism and cognate views going under the  general title of Neutral Monism encompass a picture of reality with many  attractive features. It presents a straightforward and intuitively attractive solution to the so-called Hard Problem of Consciousness. It endorses a view of perception and cognition which puts us in direct contact with the world\, indeed\, in direct contact with the fundamental  nature of reality\, where mind does not mirror nature so much as inhabit it. It supports the idea that the world can be scientifically described in terms of structural relations without lapsing into implausible scientistic reductionisms. One aspect of James’s view that has been little explored is the its relation to some views of David Bohm’s. In particular\, what is the relation between Bohm’s “Implicate Order” and what James called “Pure Experience”? There is a question whether Bohm’s view dovetails with James’s\, or whether it is more akin to what has come to be called “Russellian Monism”. I’ll argue that Bohm’s view might well count as a form of Neutral Monism\, but point out some key differences between Bohm and James. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Seager is Professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He has been working on the the philosophy of mind and especially the problem of consciousness for about 45 years\, but still hasn’t gotten very far. Two recent books of his are Theories of Consciousness (2nd ed. 2016) and The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism (2020).
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-2-the-relations-between-russellian-monism-jamess-radical-empiricism-and-bohms-implicate-order/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 2 - A Comparative Overview of Process Metaphysics and Substance Metaphysics & Indeterminate\, Concrete Individuals in Johanna Seibt's General Process Theory
DESCRIPTION:Part 1: A Comparative Overview of Process Metaphysics and Substance Metaphysics\n\n\n\nwith Samuli Isotalo \n\n\n\nPart 2: Indeterminate\, Concrete Individuals in Johanna Seibt’s General Process Theory\n\n\n\nwith Thelma Nylund \n\n\n\nSaturday August 179:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 1: A Comparative Overview of Process Metaphysics and Substance Metaphysics with Samuli Isotalo \n\n\n\nProcess metaphysics is an approach in philosophy according to which reality in its fundamental nature is processual. That is to say\, processes rather than things are taken to be the most fundamental phenomena existing in nature. Although process metaphysics is usually attributed immediately to the ideas of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)\, process metaphysicians do not as such have to commit themselves into the particular views of him. Rather\, process metaphysics should be looked at as a general manner of approach in metaphysics instead of a fixed set of doctrines centred around a particular thinker. Faithful to its own teachings\, process metaphysics should be looked at as an ongoing process which attempts to understand the most fundamental nature of reality. \n\n\n\nOn the other hand\, the more influential and more mainstream approach—substance metaphysics—takes things as the fundamental building blocks of reality. This approach usually sees these things as substances\, that is to say\, as some kinds of independent\, discrete and static sort of entities\, where the relatedness and interconnectedness of these things is quite often taken to be something secondary in nature\, if not altogether irrelevant. Thus\, it can be said that while process metaphysics emphasizes interactive relatedness\, wholeness\, activity and interdependence\, substance metaphysics in contrast emphasizes discrete individuality\, separateness\, fixity and independence. \n\n\n\nIn my talk\, I shall present these two ways of doing metaphysics in their general outlines\, but I do so from the perspective of process metaphysics. I’ll do this by mostly relying on the ideas of Nicholas Rescher (1928-2024). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSamuli Isotalo is a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Turku\, Finland. His dissertation focuses on metaphysics\, the study of Being itself. More specifically\, what it is to be\, what is its nature\, and how to understand and think of the whole\, that is\, Being itself as a totality. The project has recently begun by first focusing on the metaphysics of the medieval period\, especially St. Thomas Aquinas (1224?-1274). The project is not\, however\, meant to be purely historical. Rather\, the insights of the medieval metaphysicians are intended to be brought into such present-day discussions where metaphysics intersects with natural science. It is here where process metaphysics has come to be of much interest to this project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 2: Indeterminate\, Concrete Individuals in Johanna Seibt’s General Process Theory with Thelma Nylund \n\n\n\nJohanna Seibt has been developing a process ontological theory called ‘general process theory’ in which the category of functionally individuated dynamic processes is the only category. Since entities are more or less general and can be multiply located in the theory of general processes\, ordinary objects such as a singular cat\, but also traditional class-like entities like biological species\, are both thought of as concrete individuals. Seibt divides entities into different types of dynamics based on their ‘spatio-temporal signature’ which tells us how the entity is located in space and in time using the notions of like-partedness or homeomereity and self-containment or automereity. Spatio-temporal self-containment can only make sense for entities individuated functionally and can only be defined in terms of a non-standard mereology of general process theory in which parthood is a non-transitive relation.  \n\n\n\nIn this talk I will argue that Seibt rejects successfully several traditional ontological presuppositions and that understanding entities as the more or less indeterminate\, yet concrete individuals of general process theory\, provides philosophers with novel tools for ontological inquiry.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThelma Nylund is a Master’s level student in philosophy at Tampere University\, Finland. She is finishing her Master’s thesis in which she compares the neo-Aristotelian four-category ontology of E. J. Lowe to Johanna Seibt’s process-ontological theory. After graduation she is planning to continue studying process metaphysics in doctoral studies.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-2-a-comparative-overview-of-process-metaphysics-and-substance-metaphysics-indeterminate-concrete-individuals-in-johanna-seibts-general-process-theory/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 2 - Quantum Properties of Matter as Potentialities in Bohm’s 1951 Book Quantum Theory
DESCRIPTION:Quantum Properties of Matter as Potentialities in Bohm’s 1951 Book Quantum Theory\n\n\n\nwith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 189:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne year before his 1952 ‘hidden variables’ paper David Bohm presented a physical-ontological interpretation of standard (‘Copenhagen’) interpretation of quantum theory in his 1951 646-page textbook.  He proposed that properties of quantum particles such as electrons ought to be seen as ‘opposing potentialities.’  They are ‘potentialities’ in the sense they typically do not exist in a well-defined sense before measurement and ‘opposing’ in the sense that if one measures\, say\, position accurately\, one cannot measure momentum accurately at the same time in the same experimental situation (‘complementarity’).  Bohm’s discussion is philosophically intriguing—for one thing he suggests that we cannot derive the macroscopic world (which we need to actualize the potentialities of quantum particles) from quantum theory.  And yet the behaviour of the macroscopic\, classical level can only be understood in terms of a quantum theory of its component molecules.  Bohm’s discussion anticipates the implicate order framework\, where he introduces the notion of an ‘intrinsically implicate order\,’ which means an order all of which cannot be made ‘explicate’ at a given moment.  In this sense Bohm’s 1951 electron (conceived of as consisting of opposing potentialites) is an intrinsically implicate order\, as we cannot manifest position and momentum at the single moment of time.  The relation of the macroscopic world to the underlying quantum level of reality continues to be a subject of philosophical discussion\, as we still cannot experimentally distinguish between\, say\,  many worlds\, pilot wave or spontaneuous collapse interpretations.  I will argue that Bohm’s 1951 discussion still provides a valuable perspective to the meaning of quantum theory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, PhD\, is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki\, Finland. He is also Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (currently on leave) at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy\, University of Skövde\, Sweden\, where he initiated a Consciousness Studies Programme. His main research areas are philosophy of mind\, philosophy of physics and their intersection. In his book Mind\, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer) he proposed that new notions emerging from quantum physics (especially Bohm and Hiley’s interpretation) provide new ways of approaching key problems in philosophy of mind\, such as mental causation and time consciousness.  In 2018-2020 working as the Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Arts he had the main responsibility for developing the new profiling area Mind and Matter for the University of Helsinki https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/mind-and-matter.  \n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen has been a visiting researcher in Stanford University\, Oxford University\, London University\, Charles University Prague and Gothenburg University and was a member of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT). https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/paavo-pylkkänen/publications/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 2 - Fragmentation and Wholeness: Bohm and G.W.F. Hegel
DESCRIPTION:Fragmentation and Wholeness: Bohm and G.W.F. Hegel\n\n\n\nwith Boris Koznjak \n\n\n\nSaturday August 249:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmong the many well-known philosophical influences on the physics and philosophy of science of David Bohm—ranging from Marxism to Krishnamurti—one important influence has remained almost completely unknown: the German philosopher George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel\, one of the most important systematic philosophers in the history of Western philosophy and a prominent figure in philosophical idealism. This is indeed an unfortunate historical state of affairs\, since Hegel was in fact Bohm’s strongest philosophical influence throughout his mature intellectual life\, particularly in his abhorrence of fragmentation and his affection for wholeness\, which is prominently reflected in both his physics and his philosophy of science. Moreover\, speaking of Bohm as a person\, his worldview can also be seen as strongly influenced by specific social propensities and psychological determinants from his early emotional and intellectual development\, for which Hegel’s philosophy later served as a rational catalyst. Interestingly\, but not unexpectedly\, these determinants were strikingly similar to those that led the young Hegel to engage with the concepts of fragmentation and wholeness throughout his philosophical life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBoris Kožnjak is a historian and philosopher of science\, working as a scientific advisor at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb\, Croatia. He graduated in physics from the Physics Department of the Faculty of Science and Mathematics at the University of Zagreb and received a PhD in philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy at the same university. His scientific work particularly involves research in the history and philosophy of modern physics\, with great attention paid also to the sociology and psychology of science. His work on Bohm includes research on Bohm’s Hegelianism as well as the scientific\, historical\, and social conditions of the ‘turn’ in the reception of Bohm’s ‘alternative physics’ during the late 1950s.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2024-part-2-fragmentation-and-wholeness-bohm-and-g-w-f-hegel/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2024\, Part 2 - Is There a Unifying Notion of Information?
DESCRIPTION:Is There a Unifying Notion of Information?\n\n\n\nwith Jens Allwood. Comments by Michael Richter and Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 259:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this session we will explore the following questions: Is there one all-encompassing concept of information or are there several different concepts of information? Do different disciplines have different notions of information? Is there a unifying notion of information? Can a unifying concept of information help us solve important disciplinary and interdisciplinary problems? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJens Allwood is professor of Linguistics at the University Gothenburg. He is also professor of communication studies at Strömstad Academy. He is born in Moline\, Illinois\, USA in 1947. He is active as a researcher and professor emeritus in projects at the University of Gothenburg and in the Company Communication Development J.A. & E.A. HB. He is the director of Marston Hill Intercultural Center for Quality of Life\, chairman of the board of the Immigrant Institute and editor in chief of the Journal of Intercultural Communication (on-line\, open access). He has worked as researcher and teacher in linguistics\, specialized in semantics\, pragmatics\, corpus linguistics\, multimodal communication and intercultural communication. He has coordinated and participated in a large number of national and international research project in semantics\, pragmatics\, corpus linguistics\, studies of spoken language\, multimodal communication\, intercultural communication and development of research and research education. He has been the chairman of the department of linguistics\, section manager of the Interdisciplinary center SCCIIL (semantics\, cognition\, communication\, information\, interaction). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, PhD\, is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki\, Finland. He is also Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (currently on leave) at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy\, University of Skövde\, Sweden\, where he initiated a Consciousness Studies Programme. His main research areas are philosophy of mind\, philosophy of physics and their intersection. In his book Mind\, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer) he proposed that new notions emerging from quantum physics (especially Bohm and Hiley’s interpretation) provide new ways of approaching key problems in philosophy of mind\, such as mental causation and time consciousness.  In 2018-2020 working as the Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Arts he had the main responsibility for developing the new profiling area Mind and Matter for the University of Helsinki https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/mind-and-matter. Paavo Pylkkänen has been a visiting researcher in Stanford University\, Oxford University\, London University\, Charles University Prague and Gothenburg University and was a member of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT). https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/paavo-pylkkänen/publications/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Richter is a Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science at Leipzig University (Department of Natural Language Processing)\, and at the Institute of Applied Computer Science (InfAI) in Leipzig. His fields of research include Models of Communication in natural language; information theory; corpus linguistics\, lexical semantics; text mining; application of information theory in digital humanities; and syntax models of natural language.
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SUMMARY:The Future Mind – A Conversation with Alison Liebling
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIUoqL_sGw0\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Alison Liebling and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nMonday August 2611:30am PDT  | 2:30pm EDT  | 7:30pm BST  |  8:30pm CEST  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlison Liebling is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge and the Director of the Institute of Criminology’s Prisons Research Centre. She has carried out research on life in prison for over 30 years. Her projects have included suicide and self-harm in prisons\, close supervision centres for difficult prisoners\, incentives and earned privileges\, staff-prisoner relationships\, the location and building of trust in high security prisons\, the work of prison officers\, and conceptualizing and measuring the moral quality of prison life\, including comparisons between public and private sector prisons. She has evaluated shared reading programmes in Psychologically-Informed Planned Environments for prisoners with personality disorders\, and is currently exploring the differences between survivable and unsurvivable prisons. Her books include Prisons and their Moral Performance: A Study of Values\, Quality and Prison Life (2004)\, The Effects of Imprisonment (2005\, with Shadd Maruna)\, Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: An International Exploration (2013\, with Justice Tankebe); and The Prison Officer (2001\, 2nd edition 2010). She has just completed a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship\, carrying out the project\, ‘Moral rules\, social science and forms of order in prison’. She is finishing a book arising from that project\, tentatively called Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Humanity and Justice. She argues that what keeps people alive in prison is feeling part of a moral universe. She was made a member of the British Academy in 2018. She is involved in an advisory capacity in projects on penal reform and evaluating prison quality in countries including Latvia\, Lithuania\, Romania\, Poland\, Bulgaria\, Germany and Switzerland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
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SUMMARY:Longing for Wholeness
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to the generous funding from a European foundation\, we now have the opportunity to offer three full scholarships\, preferably to young minds\, for this event. For more information: \n\n\n\n\nScholarship Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLonging for Wholeness:What do the Sciences\, Arts and Religions Share? \n\n\n\nAugust 27 – September 3\, 2024 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Jonathan Allday\, Jonathan Code\, Chamkaur Ghag\, Tim Ingold\, Alison MacLeod\, Andrea McLean\, Shantena Augusto Sabbadini\, Joan Walton \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: John Pickering \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nTicket Prices:\n\n\n\nPrivate AccommodationPrice: 2175.00 euros \n\n\n\nShared Accommodation – Private Room with shared bathroomPrice: 1875.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nwater\, wine\, and coffee are provided with lunch and dinner;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\nrefreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.\n\n\n\n\nThere is a limited amount of accommodation in Pari and you will be placed on a first-come\, first-served basis. We will also be using accommodation just outside of the village—within 3 kilometres. If you are housed outside Pari\, a shuttle to and from the village will be provided. \n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts on Tuesday August 27 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Tuesday September 3 after lunch. \n\n\n\nDownload information\, terms and conditions. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event \n\n\n\nScience has helped us to live with less suffering\, but has it helped us to understand life or accept death? It cannot do what spiritual traditions do. Ideally\, it should remain open to other ways of knowing and this meeting will look at what common ground might exist between them. Speakers from the sciences\, arts and the healing traditions will aim to create an open\, participatory dialogue on how we might understand the world as a unified whole.  \n\n\n\nOver the past four centuries or so we have come to know far more than we understand.  But although modern science has become the principal framework for human understanding\, it cannot do what spiritual traditions formerly did.  Science has helped us to live with less suffering\, but has it helped us to understand life or to accept death? \n\n\n\nIf science exclusively favours rational methodology over artistic expression or spiritual insight it can become restrictive\, leading to Blake’s “Single Vision”.  But at its best science remains open to other traditions and other ways of knowing.  Many scientists are firmly religious while deeply religious people usually find little difficulty in engaging with scientific findings. \n\n\n\nThis meeting will look at what common ground exists between different ways of knowing.  Perhaps that lies in the feeling that we need to understand the world as a unified whole and that inquiry can be open\, guided by imagination and by beauty.  Here\, the arts play a unique role\, leading the way to a deeper understanding of the place of human life\, and death\, within the cosmos.   \n\n\n\nIt will bring together speakers from the sciences\, arts\, faiths and the healing traditions to create an open dialogue and supportive experience in which all can participate.  We hope to touch on the relationship of science and religions\, especially as they touch on the reality of death\, the roles and status of women both now and in former times\, ritual\, music especially the voice and much more.  \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone.  \n\n\n\nWe at the Pari Center seek to bring together world-renowned experts from a great range of disciplines\, approaches\, and sensibilities to meet together in person and deepen our insights on the workings and origin of human experience\, while also exploring creative and rigorous frameworks to integrate such wonderful mysteries hidden in plain sight into a coherent evolutionary understanding. You are cordially invited to join us \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nClick to see a list of the presentations for this event\nSigns and Portents: How Physics Points Beyond Itself into a Richer Reality with Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nThe Turin Shroudwith Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nCultivating Imaginative Cognition: The Time is at Hand! with Jonathan Code \n\n\n\nPhysics in Flux with Chamkaur Ghag \n\n\n\nEvolution in the Minor Key\, or\, the Soul of Wisdom with Tim Ingold \n\n\n\nWays of Knowing; the Human Imagination as Conduit with Alison MacLeod \n\n\n\nVisionary Mapping: Creating Blakean Worlds with Andrea McLean \n\n\n\nVisionary cartographywith Andrea McLean \n\n\n\nQuantum Measurement as Act of Creation with Shantena Augusto Sabbadini \n\n\n\nA Quest for Wholeness: Weaving a Rich Tapestry Interleaving Science\, the Arts and the Sacred with Joan Walton \n\n\n\nThe Dao Without Namewith Shantena Augusto Sabbadini \n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nTerms and conditions for this course (PDF) \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center (PDF)
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/longing-for-wholeness/
LOCATION:Pari\, Italy
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