CAS Inquire: “Pain and Pleasure in Philosophy”
Dr. Joseph Mendola, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy
There is a long tradition of discussion in philosophy of two questions about pain and pleasure. What is their nature? What role do they play in a good life?
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CAS Inquire: “On Melancholia and White Pain”
Casey Ryan Kelly, Professor of Rhetoric & Public Culture, Communications Studies
This presentation examines the dominant media narrative that President Trump’s electoral victory was a reflection of white working class pain (physical and economic) rather than nativism and xenophobia.
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CAS Inquire: “Me Too in the Renaissance”
Dr. Nora Martin Peterson/Associate Professor of French Cultural Studies
This talk will connect the roots of the #metoo movement to French Renaissance images and texts.
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CAS Inquire: “No Pleasure: Addiction, Poverty, and the Every Day Lives of Drug Users”
Roberto Abadie, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, School of Global Integrative Studies
An ethnography of people who inject drugs (PWID) in Puerto Rico, the talk will examine the?socio-cultural?environment that promotes and sustain addiction while illustrating the effects of continuous drug use on the lives of those afflicted. As drug …
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CAS Inquire: “Sexy Times Call for Sexy Measure: How Scientists Study Sexual Desire, Pleasure, and Orgasm”
Tierney Lorenz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior
Psychological science has revealed amazing things about how our brains and body create and react to feelings of pleasure from food, drugs, social interactions, smartphones – you name it.
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CAS Inquire: All Speakers Panel Discussion
CAS Inquire 2021-22 Panel Discussion
The entire 2021-2022 CAS Inquire Panel convenes to discuss this year’s event and answers question from the audience.
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