3rd Annual Philosophy Conference

April 27, 2012 LA Valley College

Fireside Room

10 AM- 3 PM

Philosophy Club Spring 2012 Semester meets on Thursdays 2-3 in CC-205

phi·los·o·phy (fi-los-uh-fee): The rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, and conduct.

Do you enjoy engaging in conversation with fellow students on a variety of topics, such as morality, politics, science, beauty, art, and discussing questions like “why are we all here?” and “what is justice?”

Philosophy club might be just right for you! Come to our weekly informal gatherings to discuss and debate ideas in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. There is no fee to join, just show up and have fun!!!

Club meetings are held EVERY

Thursday at 2:00 pm, in room # CC 205

“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.” - Bertrand Russell

Philosophy Lecture Series

Join us here at LA Valley College for a series of exciting and informative lectures. If you have ever been interested in philosophy, then come for one or for all of the lectures that will be held over the course of the spring semester, 2012. These lectures are free of charge and will put on by the gracious efforts of the instructors in the philosophy department at LA Valley College. All lectures will be held in Campus Center 104 on Tuesdays beginning on February 21^st from 7 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. To request an accommodation for this event or an alternative format for any printed material, contact Christopher Pallotti at 818-947-2468 at least 5 days in advance of the event.

The first lecture--The Greeks and the Good Life--will be on the 21st of February at 7 P.M.

1st Feb 21ST Christopher Pallotti	Ancient Greeks and The Good Life
2nd Feb 28TH Jeff Dievendorf	Greek Stoicism and the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
3rd March 6TH Christopher Pallotti	Do Some Non-Human Animals Have the Right to Life?
4th March 13th Jeff Dievendorf	Platonic Influences on Freud's Psychoanalysis.
5th March 20th Nathan Placencia	What is an Identity?
6th March 27TH Harold Ravitch	Logic: The Continuum
7th April 10th Jeff Dievendorf	Psychoanalysis as a Dynamic Theory of Mind
8th April 17th Farrel Broslawsky	Albert Camus: Resistance and Rebellion
9th April 24th Nathan Placencia	Am I who I say I am?: Identity without self-knowledge
10th May 1st Farrel Broslawsky	Herbert Marcuse: The most dangerous man in America

Come debate the NBA lockout, November 15, 2011 3-4 PM

DEBATING THE NBA LOCKOUT

A Philosophical Exchange Between Players, Owners and You

Tuesday November 15

3 PM to 4 PM

Monarch Hall

How should the profits be split?

Should players accept a salary cap?

Is there hope for a season?

Come listen and participate in this philosophical debate

Philosophical Poetry Night! November 8, 2011 7:30-8:30

Come join us for Philosophical Poetry Night. There will be faculty poets as well as student poets lined up to read and share their art.

The reading will take place in the Fireside Room.

Contact Christopher Pallotti pallotc@lavc.edu or 818-947-2468

Annual Meetings 2011 of American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)

Annual Meetings 2011 of American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literatrure (SBL) will be held in San Francisco November 19-22.

The National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) is an affiliate of SBL and will be running a number of sessions. One session will feature the Jewish Jesus (by Zev Garber) volume as a Book Event.

National Association of Professors of Hebrew
11/20/2011
4:00 PM to 6:45 PM
Room: Golden Gate C1 - Marriott

Theme: Book Discussion: Zev Garber, ed., The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation (Purdue University Press, 2011)

Edward Goldman, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institution of Religion, Presiding
Herbert Basser, Queens University
Jesus’s Demand to Abandon Worldly Possessions to Enter the Everlasting Kingdom (20 min)
Rivka Ulmer, Bucknell University
Psalm 22 in Pesiqta Rabbati: The Suffering of the Jewish Messiah and Jesus (20 min)
James F. Moore, Valparaiso University
Who Do We Say Jesus Is? (20 min)
Steven Leonard Jacobs, University of Alabama
Do Jesus and Paul Truly Matter Judaically? (20 min)
Emily Leah Silverman, Graduate Theological Union
Edith Stein Jewish Husband Jesus (20 min)
John T. Pawlikowski, Catholic Theological Union
Is a Jewish Jesus Significant For the Christ of Christian Faith? (20 min)
Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, Respondent (30 min)

for more information, please contact Zev Garber at zevgarber@juno.com

Zev Garber to Speak at UCLA on the Jewish Jesus Oct 10, 12 noon

The event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required.

Please call 310-267-5327 or email cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu to pre-

register.