Civic Knowledge Project: Winning Words

Civic Knowledge Project: Winning Words Winning Words is an after school program, under the Civic Knowledge Project of the University of Chicago, that aims to engage local youth in philosophy.

Winning Words is an after school program, under the Civic Knowledge Project of the University of Chicago, which aims to engage and inspire local youth through an education in philosophy, reasoning and the verbal arts of dialogue and rhetoric; building self confidence and exposing its students to a wide range of fun and exciting material. Winning Words coaches work with students in elementary, midd

le and high schools in Chicago's South Side to cover a curriculum which features an introduction to philosophy and Socratic dialogue and includes writing, public speaking, debate, drama, poetry and art. The material uses the Socratic method to engage students and to encourage the use of critical thinking, reasoning and expression. Such modes of thought and communication foster the sense of wonder that is at the root of serious introspection, intellectual growth, and ethical reflection. Class begins with a portrait of Socrates attained through readings of Platonic dialogues. From reading and discussing these sources, students learn the ancient rudiments of the examined or philosophical life. The curriculum keeps ever in the students’ minds, though, the ideas put forth by the famous American philosopher and founding figure at the University of Chicago, John Dewey— That learning is best done by way of doing and that schoolhouse and society are both best served when they are not isolated from one another. And Winning Words also creatively embraces other philosophies of ongoing relevance, such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolence. Through Winning Words, younger students in local public schools are given the opportunity to learn from successful, enthusiastic, and civic-minded students at the University of Chicago. Students make occasional trips to campus to hold class, and, about once per quarter, to present their thoughts in the public forum. Please join us for our big Winning Words Initiative conference, on Nov. 2nd, 2013. RSVP at https://universityevents.wufoo.com/forms/winning-words-initiative/

Bart Schultz, Director of the Civic Knowledge Project ([email protected])

Shayan Karbassi, Student Coordinator
([email protected])

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Winning Words is an after school program, under the Civic Knowledge Project of the University of Chicago, that aims to engage local youth in philosophy.

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ISUS Conference 2024
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics

Call for papers

The 17th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will take place on 18–20 June 2024 at University College London’s Faculty of Laws. The Conference is generously supported by the Faculty’s Bentham House Conference Fund.

Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900) is recognized as the third in the trinity of major classical utilitarian thinkers, following Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) and John Stuart Mill (1806–73). We will be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics, a work described by John Rawls as ‘the most philosophically profound of the strictly classical works’ in the utilitarian tradition.

We welcome paper and panel proposals which address issues raised by Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics and his other works, as well as papers and panel proposals related to the study of utilitarianism more generally. Please send your abstract of around 300 words to [email protected] by 30 November 2023.

Panels will have a duration of ninety minutes, and usually consist of three papers.

We aim to make decisions on the acceptance of papers by mid-December 2023, and will shortly thereafter open registration for a period for accepted speakers only, before then fully opening registration. Further details about the Conference will be announced through the ISUS mailing list and the forthcoming website. For all other queries about the Conference, please contact [email protected].

Invited speakers
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek (Lodz)
Bart Schultz (Chicago)
Peter Singer (Princeton)
John Skorupski (St Andrews)
The International Society for Utilitarian Studies Newsletter
by ISUS
Bentham House Faculty of Laws University College London 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens London, London WC1H 0EG United Kingdom

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