Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2 on -empyre_

2020-04-09 Thread Cengiz Salman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hello all, Thank you so much for the opportunity to share some thoughts about the current pandemic. In a recent op-ed that I wrote with one of my advisors, Anna Watkins Fisher, we contextualize our pandemic and the under preparedness

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2020-04-09 Thread Premesh Lalu
--empyre- soft-skinned space--My apologies for being so late to send through my thanks for the invitation to share with this wonderful group. This past month we postponed a ceremony to award William Kentridge a joint honorary doctorate conferred by the University of

Re: [-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2 on -empyre_

2020-04-09 Thread Jonathan Basile
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all, Thank you to Junting and Renate for inviting me and to all the guests this week. I'm very excited to take part. A while ago, my dissertation research on scientific and philosophical definitions of life brought me to focus on

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2020-04-09 Thread Elizabeth Wijaya
--empyre- soft-skinned space--I've been thinking about the discussion between Junting, Aviva and Melinda on the porosity of borders—and Aviva's concern on "what will emerge now from the chaos," particularly from authoritarian figures with a penchant for building literal

[-empyre-] Welcome to Week 2 on -empyre_

2020-04-09 Thread Renate Ferro
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Many thanks to our special guests Christina McPhee and Melinda Rackham. Also to William Bain, Simon, Aviva Rahmani, Brett Stalbaum, Cengiz Salman, Gary Hall and of course my two fellow moderators Tim Murray and Junting Huang for posting