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Amira Abdulkadir '14 and Anna Dorman '14 recently competed in the U.S. Universities National Debate Championships held at the University of La Verne, advancing to semifinals. The pair was one of the top eight teams in the country, beating teams from Harvard, Yale, Bates, Kings College and Cornell.
The competition also marked the first time that two HWS teams have made it into the elimination roun...
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Sixty-eight teams -a total of 136 debaters - met last weekend in Hamilton, N.Y., for Colgate University's annual debate tournament. The nationally ranked HWS Debate Team competed against some of the world's top teams, and the team of Amira Abdulkadir '14 and Anna Dorman '14 delivered impressive speeches to pass debaters from Queen's University, McGill University, Duke, and the University of Toron...
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AIM Services has named Christopher Lyons '81 senior director and counsel in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. In this position, Lyons will oversee AIM's legal affairs in addition to staff development and human resources.
AIM Services is a private, not-for-profit organization that provides community and residential-based programs, including advocacy and education, to individuals with developmental disabilit...
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Amira Abdulkadir '14 and Anna Dorman '14 recently represented the HWS Debate Team at the 33rd World Universities Debating Championship in Berlin, Germany. The largest international debate tournament in the world, the competition consisted of nine preliminary debate rounds for 400 teams and 300 adjudicators.
Conducted in the British Parliamentary Style of debate, each team had the potential to e...
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This year, the annual Ann Palmeri Lecture in Feminist Philosophy, delivered by Northeastern Illinois Professor Emerita Sarah Lucia Hoagland, will engage the Colleges in a discussion of "Feminist Advocacy Research, Relationality, and the Coloniality of Knowledge." On Tuesday, Feb. 5, Hoagland will deliver her talk at 5 p.m. in the Geneva Room.
"We're very lucky to have Professor Hoagland deliver t...
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In an effort to encourage collegiate-level debate in China, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Eric Barnes and students Yiqun "Ted" Cheng '13 and Melissa Hosek '14 visited Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) Nov. 30 through Dec. 2.
Thanks to a grant from the International Debate Education Association (IDEA), the group from HWS provided debate coaching, instruction, and assistance d...
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Professor of Philosophy Steven P. Lee's academic study titled "Ethics and War: An Introduction" has been published by Cambridge University Press. "Ethics and War" presents the basic principles of just war theory and outlines how they've evolved historically, including how they should be applied in contemporary warfare.
In his book, Lee examines the role of state sovereignty and individual human r...
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Professor of Philosophy Steven Lee recently testified in Washington, D.C., before a panel of the National Academy of Science, regarding the organization's current study, "Ethical and Societal Implications of Advances in Militarily Significant Technologies that are Rapidly Changing and Increasingly Globally Accessible."
"This is a great honor, both for Steven and the institution," says Dean of Hob...
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Internationally renowned philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek recently gave a talk, titled "2011: The Year of Dreaming Dangerously," that attempted to answer whether UK suburban protests, Breivik's ideological madness and recent social movements, including the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, have a common root.
During his introduction, Zizek outlined the functionality of ideology in a...
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Internationally renowned philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek will offer a talk, titled "2011: The Year of Dreaming Dangerously," at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 27, in the Geneva Room.
During his talk, Zizek will focus on the cultural landscape of 2011 as a whole, touching on several topics, including the mobilization of protests worldwide, such as in the cases of the Occupy Movement and t...
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