Jonathan Gingerich

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Opportunities Call for Abstracts The Spontaneity of Freedom: Summer Workshop We invite submissions of abstracts for the First Summer Workshop of the Spontaneity of Freedom Project. The workshop will take place o…

The Spontaneity of Freedom research project at UCL's Philosophy Department will be hosing a workshop in London this 4 & 5 July. A call for abstracts is available here: spontaneousfreedom.net/opportunities/. Deadline 1 April.

I’m so excited to read this!

Kantian Genius Reconstructed | Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers)

I'm very excited to be talking about Kant and genius at the London Aesthetics Forum next Wednesday (5 June): philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events/kanti...

losing my mind over the constant shifting from evaluating causes to evaluating people fighting for them. If someone proved every single ceasefire protestor was an anti-Semite that cheats on their exams, romantic partners, and taxes, what would we learn about whether or not to support IDF bombs?

JOB: 3-year Departmental Lecturer in Feminist Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), Oxford, from September 2024.
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Tomorrow, Mala Chatterjee (Columbia Law School) visits the ISP to present "The Extended Self: Legal Persons and Information Rights"!

Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 12:10pm ET

Email mila.samdub@yale.edu for zoom details

Very excited we will be hiring in political theory, with a specialization in gender and political theory. Please encourage people to apply!

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/083947-...

reading through this now and reader, it is good. if you’re in nyc, consider dropping by for this conversation

Happy New Year to all our followers! We're delighted to share with you our programme of events for the rest of the academic year. For further details as they emerge, see here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

California State University leadership simply walked out of today's bargaining session with the faculty union, so it looks like we're going forward with a statewide strike — across 23 campuses, serving almost half a million students — starting January 22. www.calfac.org/strike/

@michaelhannon.bsky.social & and I just finished putting together the schedule for the Practical, Political, & Ethical Seminar Series next Spring. Mark your calendars! We have a fantastic line-up of speakers.

elisewoodard.org/ppe-seminar.

CFA on Sartre and Beauvoir

UK Sartre Society Conference, 8-9 July 2024
Maison Française d'Oxford

Keynotes: Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia) & Joseph Schear (Oxford)

Deadline for abstracts: 31 Jan 2024

uksartresociety.com

With @henrikdku.bsky.social !

Link here: philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events/democ...

Thanks to the Institute of Philosophy for hosting

I'm organising a little event in London on Friday afternoon:

Democracy, Speech, AI & Digital Platforms: A Symposium

Friday, 1 December 2023, 16.00-18.00

Room 234, Senate House, Malet Street WC1E 7HU

Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers University) & Henrik D.
Kugelberg (London School of Economics)

@estherneuhann.bsky.social and I are organizing an international conference on Beauvoir’s moral philosophy on June 28&29 at FU Berlin, in collaboration with the Beauvoir Society. The call for abstracts is out with a deadline Dec 10, we look forward to seeing many of you in Berlin! rb.gy/ytf8oa

A Call for Institutional Fairness on Palestine In the past several weeks, white-shoe law firms, government officials, and advocacy organizations have placed worrisome pressure on the internal governance of our institutions and workplaces.

A super important post by 20+ LPE Professors on the political economic pressures faced by law students & precarious faculty re: pro-Palestinian speech and why law schools must be honest about the problem and actively work to protect their students and staff!

lpeproject.org/blog/a-call-...

JOB at KCL — Early Modern / Modern Philosophy. Permanent position, Lecturer or Senior Lecturer. Closes 8th Jan. Please help spread the word!
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/078085-...

NYC Events of Interest This page will show events hosted by both LPE NYC and partnership organizations that may be of interest to the LPE NYC community. You can submit your event to be posted on this page by completing this...

If you are interested in Law and Political Economy things and live in NYC, @lpenyc.bsky.social is now this app too!

And of course, you can stay up to date on upcoming LPE NYC events by joining our mailing list or checking out the LPE NYC events page. lpeproject.org/nyc-events-o...

Attn LPE NYC:

@astra.bsky.social is talking at NYU in TWO DAYS about her new book, The Age of Insecurity. The book is fantastic, you won't want to miss this!! (and you don't have to because it's open to the public)

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Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Tuesday - Week 4, MT23) Daniela Dover (Merton College, University of Oxford) and Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers University): 'Freedom and Futurity: Simone de Beauvoir's Moral Psychology'

Excited to be talking about Beauvoir’s moral psychology at Oxford tomorrow afternoon! www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/event/post-k...

Excited to be talking about freedom at Yale Law this afternoon. Come by if you’re in New Haven and want to hear about “Freedom beyond Choice”! law.yale.edu/centers-work...

Legal scholars: please consider signing this letter, and please circulate widely--time is of the essence. Information to add your name is in the document.

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Excited for this talk tomorrow!

The Night School is a collaborative initiative between @lpeproject.bsky.social and NSSR to organize monthly public conversations to introduce non-lawyers to law.

Early Edition: (Some of) the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship With the spring submission season nearly in the books, and our Twitter feeds abuzz with placement announcements, the LPE Blog highlights some of the most exciting forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent…

Remember our amazing round-up of new LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship this past spring? Well, another submission cycle has passed and we're hoping to do it again.

Please help spread the word (smash that RT), and send nominations to managingeditor@lpeblog.org.

lpeproject.org/blog/best-ne...

That would be amazing! I should be in Colorado sometime in December to see my parents.

Beauvoir and Sartre's “disagreement” about freedom The French existentialists Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre are renowned philosophers of freedom. But what “existentialist freedom” is is a matter of disagreement amongst their interpreters...

🚨 New article alert 🚨

‘Beauvoir and Sartre's “disagreement” about freedom’ is now available open access at Philosophy Compass
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