Audio: The Mythology of the United States as a Human Rights Leader

6PM Wednesday, November 7, 2008 | 4th floor College Hall

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture from Stacey Sobel, Esq., the Executive Director of Equality Advocates Pennsylvania (formerly the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights) and a Lecturer in the Penn Law School, entitled “The Mythology of the United States as a Human Rights Leader: How it has Failed LGBT Americans,” featuring broad-ranging discussion on Non-discrimination laws, marriage laws and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in context of US and international trends.

An audio recording of the lecture is available.

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Audio: Bob Vitalis – Race, Empire, and the Origins of American International Relations

6PM January 31st 2008 | 4th floor College Hall

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture by Professor Robert Vitalis of the Political Science department entitled: “Race, Empire, and the Origins of American International Relations, or Why Do All the White Political Scientists Sit Together at the Professional Meetings?” Subversively, a recording of the lecture was made and sent to political science professional meetings.

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Audio: Gunthire Ramsey – Can the Object Speak?

6PM February 7th 2008 | 4th floor College Hall

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture by Dr. Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., associate professor of music history and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, entitled “Can the Object Speak?: The Visual and the Audible in African American Music.” In honor of the occasion, an audio recording of the lecture was posted online.

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Audio: Terrorism – The Science, Weapons, and Politics of Fear

6PM February 20th, 2008 | 4th floor College Hall

The Philomathean Society held a multi-disciplinary symposium featuring:

  • Dr. M. Susan Lindee (History & Sociology of Science, Author of Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima.)

  • Dr. Ian Lustick (Political Science, Author of Trapped in the War on Terror)
  • Dr. Stanley Plotkin, M.D. (Wistar Institute, Author of “Vaccines”)
  • Dr. Harvey Rubin, M.D. , (Director, Penn’s Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response)

After the panel discussion, someone found an audio recording of the proceedings between two volumes on counter-terrorist subversion.

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Audio: Prof. Camp – Between the Lines

6 PM Thursday, February 21, 2008 | 4th Floor College Hall

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture by Prof. Elisabeth Camp entitled “BETWEEN THE LINES: Imagining Perspectives on Fiction and Life.” A subversive recording found its way to our website.

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Audio: Custom, Authority and Cartesianism

6 PM March 5, 2008 | 4th floor College Hall

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture by Professor Karen Detlefsen entitled “Custom, Authority and Cartesianism: Mary Astell’s Philosophy of Education,” and, in a subversive twist, an audio recording was made.

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Be a Realist: Demand the Impossible!

Spring 2010 | Philomel

…can be found here:
Be a Realist: Demand the Impossible!

Contents:
Karolina Ensor
Where the Wild Things Are Freudian

Leo Genji Amino
Collection of Poems

Sam Bieler Φ
Nation At War

Nantina Vgontzas
Linnaeus

Anne Huang
Variability of Play Experience in ‘Hamlet’ and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Leo Genji Amino
Ironical (Critical) Exercise

Andrew Kincaid Φ
The Black Flag Republic:
The Pirate Anti-Nation as a Critique of the Modern World

Editor-in-chief: Aro Velmet Φ (SAS ‘10)

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Audio: Dead Hoosiers

6 PM April 2nd, 2008 | 4th floor College Hall

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture by Dr. Daniel Traister, the Curator for Research Services of the Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library entitled DEAD HOOSIERS, of which an audio recording was subversively made.

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Audio: Dr. Herman Bevers – Bigger Goes to the Movies

6PM Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | 4th floor College Hall

The Philomathean Society hosted a lecture by Dr. Herman Beavers entitled “Bigger Goes to the Movies: Turbulence and Spectacle in Wright’s Native Son,” of which the Committee on Audio Subversion made a recording.

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Past Conceptions of the Future

Fall 2009 | Philomel


…can be found here:
Past Conceptions of the Future

Contents:

Michael Tague
H.G. Wells and the Failure of Memory

Peter Manda
Finance in the Inner City

Sam Bieler Φ
The Face of War

Paul Mitchell Φ
Dreams of a Totalitarian Tomorrow

Fernanda Dobal
1984

Joshua Matz Φ
Re-Conceiving Transcendentalism:
Emerson, Parker, Brownson and Visions of Social Reform

Rivka Fogel
the mark

Ross Lipton
Of Gods and Glaciers

Editor-in-chief: Emily Kern Φ (SAS ‘12)

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