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3/20/2017

Public presentation on the war in Syria

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Interested in the impacts of the war in Syria? Attend a presentation featuring Laila Al-Soulaiman at Slippery Rock University!
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2/9/2017

Enter the Shout out for the humanities contest

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12/2/2016

Panel discusses the different issues, perspectives about the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando

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On November 30,  the panel discussion “The Pulse Nightclub Mass Shooting: Unpacking the Intersecting Issues” took place on the Slippery Rock University Campus. Four professors and a student took turns discussing the tragedy that took place in Orlando back in June, where 49 people were killed and another 53 wounded. The event received such a significant turnout that the auditorium was at full capacity, some even had to be turned away due to safety risks.

The panel participants were Cindy LaCom  (Gender Studies), Jennifer McGraw (Psychology Department), Catherine Massey (Psychology Department), Andrew Winters (Philosophy Department), and Morgan Scott (SRU student and RockOut President). Each panelist took turns discussing different perspectives on phenomena leading up to incidents like the Pulse shooting.

Before the panel began a video from Democracy Now was played for the audience to add perspective to the shooting.

Dr. Cindy LaCom was the first to offer a perspective on the shooting by discussing the issues of gun violence and its connection to hegemonic masculinity in the U.S. She provided many statistics discussing how mass shootings are a U.S. phenomenon that is carried out by men 98 percent of the time, where 90 percent of them were white. She discussed the issues of aggrieved entitlement, which leads men to feel a need to avenge any humiliation they may feel.

Dr. Catherine Massey gave a perspective as a LGBT community member. She discussed the history of violence and discrimination towards LGBT members. She cited how 73 countries today still put LGBT people to death for being gay and how Mateen (the perpetrator) pledged his allegiance to ISIS during the shooting. She spoke of the predominance of LGBT discrimination that can still be seen in the U.S. today by referring to two of the cabinet members that President-elect Donald Trump has appointed who are on record saying things in opposition to gay rights.

Dr. Jennifer McGraw offered a prospective which discussed the relation between mental illness and violence. She discussed how it is a common misconception to think that those people involved in such violence like that of the Pulse shooting are mentally ill. There has been little correlation between mental illness and violence, but large correlations between environmental factors and violence. She raised awareness of the dangers of restricting gun rights from the mentally ill and how it can lead to a slippery slope of restricting many more serious rights of our “mentally ill” citizens.

SRU student Morgan Scott gave the perspective of a LGBT student on the day of the shooting. Scott discussed a personal experience account and what impacts the event could leave on members of the community. Scott concluded by asking people to stop normalization and to please step in when witnessing instances of hate towards LGBT.

Dr. Andrew Winters ended the discussion by speaking from a cosmopolitism perspective. Cosmopolitism holds that all of humanity and the citizens of the world are included in the cosmos. Winters encouraged students to think of themselves as citizen of a community, where the goal is for each individual to do their part so that all can experience the maximum flourishing. When members of the community feel alone it pushes them to dark places, allowing them to expose themselves to radical ideas, which can account for (at least partly) many of these tragedies our world has experienced.

Students were then allowed to ask questions they had to receive insightful feedback.

This event was sponsored by the Psychology Department, the Gender Studies Department, the President’s Commission on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation, the Department of Housing and Residence Life, the Philosophy Department, the Center for Public Humanities, RockOUT, and the Pride Center. The panel was organized by Emily Keener, psychology department, and Cindy LaCom, gender studies department.

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11/29/2016

Pulse Panel Tomorrow Night at SRU

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Join us tomorrow, November 30 at 7:30 PM, for The Pulse Nightclub Mass Shooting Panel.
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11/10/2016

save the date! Pulse panelĀ 

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The Pulse Nightclub Mass Shooting: Unpacking the Intersecting Issues panel has been rescheduled. Join us November 30 at 7:30 PM.
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10/31/2016

living like a stoic in the modern world

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We recently concluded our Live Like A Stoic Week at SRU, where students and community members were invited to take part in this unique experiment. Participants met at the Old Stone House to contemplate this year's theme: Stoicism and Love.

In 2013 and 2014, over 2,400 people took part in Stoic Week internationally, following the online course, completing the wellbeing questionnaires, and discussing the week online.  Participants reported a 14% improvement in life satisfaction, a 9% increase in positive emotions (joy increased the most of all emotions, whilst optimism increased by 18%) and an 11% decrease in negative emotions.
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Here’s what our very own SRU students had to say about the experience:

“Contemplating Stoic philosophy with my fellow students and professors has allowed me to reflect on some of the most important questions that are easy to lose sight of: what is it that's most important to me in my life? What kind of person am I, and what kind of person do I want to be? What is in my control, and what can I do to change it? What does it mean to be a human being, a member of a University, a town, a nation, and the cosmos, and what bearing does it have on how I should act? Exploring these questions with others before the sun rises at the Old Stone House has been a novel, invaluable experience that I will never forget.”
~ Spencer Knafelc (philosophy and psychology)

“Live Like a Stoic for a Week has given me the opportunity to take time out of a chaotic schedule, allowing me to take one step back to focus on the meaningful things in life; things like community and the cultivation of character. It taught me not to sweat the little things, to recognize what is within my immediate control and what things are not, allowing me to take life as it comes while making the best of whatever it presented to me. This all came about thanks to Dr. Winters who lead fellow students, community members, andI in exploring the ways of the cosmos in a unique setting, providing me with an invaluable experience that I won't soon forget.”
~Rena Alfonso (environmental studies and philosophy)

Click here to learn more about Stoicism.

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10/24/2016

Ice cream and philosophy - tonight at sweet jeanie's

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Learn about the nature of happiness and what it means to live a good life. See you tonight, Oct. 24 at 7PM at Sweet Jeanie's.
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10/6/2016

the importance of humanities

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How have the humanities helped you make sense of the world today? Let your member of congress know the importance of humanities in your life.
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    • Post #6: Deus Ex Machina Pt 2
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    • Post #10 Visual/Tactile/visual/tactile
    • Afterword: A Perpetual Feast
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