Paris Institute for Critical Thinking

Our twentieth interview is with Evrim Emir-Sayers, philosophy scholar (Paris, France) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Monday, November 30, 2020 PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists. website: https://parisinstitute.org/ soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/ twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Our fourth interview is with Frank Furedi, sociologist (Canterbury, UK) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Tuesday, November 24, 2020 Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about. website: https://parisinstitute.org/ soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstitute/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitute.org/ twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris-institute-for-critical-thinking/

Our nineteenth interview is with Michael Barry, Middle East scholar (Venice, Italy) by Evrim Emir-Sayers (Paris, France) Monday, November 23, 2020 PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

Our third interview is with David Newheiser, philosophy scholar (Melbourne, Australia) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Tuesday, November 17, 2020 Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595100 Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about. website: https://parisinstitute.org/ soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/parisinstitute instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parisinstit... facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parisinstitu... twitter: https://twitter.com/ParisCritical linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/school/paris...

Our first interview is with Mortaza Behboudi, Journalist (Moria Refugee Camp, Lesbos, Greece) by Evrim Emir Sayers & David Selim Sayers (Paris, France)Thursday, March 26, 2020 PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

The Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (PICT) organized its first book talk and signing event on Tuesday, January 21, 2020, at the Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore. The guest of the evening was British philosopher and historian Jonathan Rée, whose latest book, "Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English", was published by Penguin in late 2019.

PICT Honorary Lectures series IV: “Wittgenstein and the History of Philosophy,” a talk by the British philosopher and historian Jonathan Rée, co-founder of the influential journal “Radical Philosophy.” The event took place on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) and is co-sponsored by PICT and the Collège d’Études Mondiales / FMSH.

The PICT Faculty Lectures series staged its sixth event on Tuesday, February 4, 2020. In front of a full house, PICT visiting faculty member Lauren Jimerson spoke on “Subversive Selves: Women Artists’ Nude Self-Portraits One Century Ago.” The lecture offered an assessment of three pioneering female artists who tackled the nude self-portrait: Suzanne Valadon (1865-1938), Émilie Charmy (1878-1974), and Marie Vassilieff (1884-1957). Jimerson introduced her audience to the historical context, drawing attention to the social and cultural obstacles faced by female artists. She also offered a technical appraisal of particular artworks, highlighting their creators’ artistic contributions in terms of material and technique. Finally, Jimerson’s analysis included a theoretical evaluation connecting the artists’ œuvres with the work of thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray. Throughout the talk, Jimerson alerted the audience to the originality, difficulty, and influence of the artists’ work. With no female precedent to emulate, Valadon, Charmy, and Vassilieff were compelled to develop highly original forms of artistic expression. With little support from their families or milieus, they often suffered hardship and were unable or disinclined to publicly exhibit some of their most striking work. And but for the effort of scholars such as Jimerson herself, large parts of their œuvre remain inaccessible to the public. Indeed, one of the talk’s main contributions was the introduction of specific artworks that remain unexhibited to this day.

Our third interview is with David Newheiser, philosophy scholar (Melbourne, Australia) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Wednesday, April 15, 2020 PICT Voices is an interview series conducted by PICT faculty with notable members of the broader PICT community. Our goal is to present our community with a variety of voices across the spectrum of the humanities and critical, creative thinking. To achieve this, we will interview a broad spectrum of thinkers ranging from scholars to journalists.

A Four-Part Podcast Journey to the Very Heart of Boredom by Salamis Aysegul Sentug The coronavirus has given us plenty of time to ourselves. One consequence is that people around the world will experience a staggering amount of boredom. This podcast miniseries examines the very nature of this state of mind. Everyone feels boredom, but do we all understand the same thing by it? Do we all suffer from the same kind of boredom? Do different cultures define boredom in different ways? And what about different historical periods? Is boredom necessarily a bad thing, perhaps even immoral? Or can we use boredom as a means to a better end? Can we learn something from this feeling? And what are the limits of the human capacity for boredom? In “Let’s Get Bored,” we seek answers to these timely questions. Our first episode focuses on the nature, history, and typologies of boredom. The second episode explores philosophical perspectives on the issue. In the third episode, we look at boredom in art. And the final episode examines some of the most bored characters in literature. If boredom is inevitable, let’s get on with it already—let’s get bored!