PAST EVENT
Issuing Citations is public-facing event series aimed at fostering research connections, nurturing inchoate projects, and providing an organizational catalyst for future conferences and publications. It's a space for graduate students and early career faculty alike to co-present, interact, and form connections across disciplinary lines.
November’s event will feature 2 talks!:
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Apologies can take many forms, and "I'm sorry" can convey many meanings depending on the delivery of the message. In an attempt to better understand apologies made in digital spaces, this study focuses on investigating how YouTubers negotiate their online identity and resolve conflict while making apologies through semiotic strategies including language, dress, environment, and video recording techniques. It also seeks to find if the patterning of these strategies has become a mainstream, cross-linguistic template in an age of digitally mediated globalization.
Twenty videos from both English-speaking and Brazilian Portuguese-speaking YouTubers have been analyzed for the use of six apology strategies adapted from Blum-Kula et al's (1989) CCSARP Coding Manual for Apologies. Results of this study suggest that the "YouTube apology video" is enregistered via pragmatic apology strategies and semiotic devices across languages.
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Since Aristotle, philosophers have aimed to develop a science that explains the fundamental principles and causes of reality. For centuries, this discipline—metaphysics—was seen as essential for grounding our understanding of the world, our moral principles, and even our religious beliefs. But in the Modern era, metaphysics came under increasing suspicion, and today metaphysical claims often strike us as obscure or untrustworthy.
In this talk, I explore how the philosopher Immanuel Kant confronted this crisis. Although Kant is often portrayed as an opponent of metaphysics, I will show that his project is not simply to criticize metaphysical speculation. Rather, Kant seeks to rescue and transform metaphysics by giving it a new scientific foundation. My aim is to explain, in accessible terms, how Kant redefines the scope and method of metaphysics and why his approach may still matter for contemporary questions about knowledge, morality, and religion.
Beatrice Institute will provide apps and the first round of drinks for attendees, after which interlocutors are on their own.
Tip your bartenders, chase the rabbit, and see you on Thursday, November 20th!