Mathematics | United States

Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Zoom November 24, 2021 at 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Fred Moten (Performance Studies, New York University) Denise Ferreira da Silva (Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia) Moderator: TBA *This event will be held in English About the Collaborative Research Project: In the last century, major breakthroughs in our understanding of ‘identity’ have changed the way that we think about ourselves and the world around us. In the Humanities, fields such as Race and Ethnicity Studies, Gender Studies, History, and Literary Studies have taught us to think of who we are and how we identify ourselves from an intersectional, multicultural, and interspecies viewpoint. In contemporary Mathematics and Logic, the notion of identity has been the object of a radical reconceptualization, mainly developed in the framework of category theory and homotopy type theory. This reconceptualization has shed light on new plural, multi-laye...

Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021. 9:30 AM. Location: Zoom October 28, 2021 at 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)  Jean-Christophe Goddard (Philosophy, Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès) Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Anthropology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)  Moderator: Gabriel Catren (SPHERE—Science, Philosophie, Histoire, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS). *This event will be held in French  About the Collaborative Research Project: In the last century, major breakthroughs in our understanding of ‘identity’ have changed the way that we think about ourselves and the world around us. In the Humanities, fields such as Race and Ethnicity Studies, Gender Studies, History, and Literary Studies have taught us to think of who we are and how we identify ourselves from an intersectional, multicultural, and interspecies viewpoint. In contemporary Mathematics and Logic, the notion of identity has been the object of a radical reconceptualization, mainly developed in the framework of category theory and homotop...