New Series featuring Important Research Reports: CAGS and SSHRC Graduate Student Professional Development Report (2012)
Integrating Contexts: External Research: Reports In this post, I wanted to promote a new series that we will be periodically expanding as the months go by and this is the external research reports series – i.e., a list of external research reports that we have found here at Integrating Horizons quite influential. The series page will be organized by different categories of subjects that we have also been featured on Integrating Horizons. These reports will not only feature exceptional research and peer reviewed content but also perspectives that can be helpful in… Read More
Updated Biography: Charles Dumais
Mr. Charles L. Dumais, Founder and Chairman ©Integrating Horizons is a foundation that seeks to promote and incorporate diverse philosophical perspectives and combine them with social justice campaigns in order to examine but also cultivate and foster interdisciplinary cultures, self-respect, and fair dialogues when exploring the inherent diversity of our shared global, social problems and solutions. We seek in other words to nurture a critical awareness in the meeting between the value of philosophical self-reflection and the problems identified in social justice campaigns. Our integrating contexts series will seek to organize a… Read More
Professor Maria Subtelny Public Lecture: “Rules for Rulers: Political Ethics in Medieval Islam” on November 20th 2014
Dalhousie University, Mackay History Lecture Series, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The 2014 Mackay History Lecture series will feature on November 20th 2014 a public lecture by internationally renowned Professor Maria Subtelny (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto). The lecture is entitled “Rules for Rulers: Political Ethics in Medieval Islam”. She will be speaking on the history and culture of medieval Iran and Islam. For more information about the lecture, please visit the Mackay History Lecture website. Professor Subtelny received her PhD degree from Harvard University and has been teaching… Read More
Dr. Dhruv Raina “Re-writing the history of science & philosophy in late colonial India”
Thursday, October 2nd 2014, University of King’s College Lecture, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada As a featured presentation in the “New lecture series: Centuries of Dialogue: Asia and the West”, renowned international expert Professor Dhruv Raina spoke at the KTS Lecture Hall, University of King’s College, on the the entangled philosophical encounters of science between East and West. His lecture, entitled “Re-writing the history of science & philosophy in late colonial India”, explored the way the 20th century history of knowledge systems of South Asia were constructed as a positive science (chemistry and… Read More
Professor Charles Taylor, “Is Democracy in danger?”
At University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, November, 2012 In a public lecture entitled Is Democracy in danger?, eminent Canadian Philosopher Charles Taylor spoke of democracy as amongst the key civilizational human accomplishments yet one that is also recurrently remade and refashioned across the ages. While we have codified and embedded it into our constitutional, legal and cultural practices in Canada, Professor Taylor spoke of the contemporary sense we still feel of falling back on its ideals. For Professor Taylor, democratic societies require not only shared and acceptable procedures to… Read More
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