BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Maxwell Citizenship Initiative\, Moynihan Institute of Glob al Affairs present: \;The Brown Bag Sessions\n\nElisabeth\nD Lasch-Qui nn\, \;\n\nProfessor\,\nHistory\n\n\n\nBeautiful Citizens: The Return of Ancient\nPhilosophies of the Good Life in a Fractured Age\n\nThis talk gives an overview of work in\nprogress on a book project charting some mod ern manifestations in cultural\,\nintellectual\, and public life of a retu rn of ancient Greco-Roman philosophies\nof the art of living and suggests some of its implications for new ways of\napproaching the demands of civic life today. Critiques of the fraying of\ncommunity and the self-centered individualism of the late-20th therapeutic\nculture and “ecstatic capitali sm” call for a move beyond rights alone to\nresponsibilities. Yet civic li fe suffers when we give up on aiming even higher.\nEven the good (as in vi rtuous) life requires something more.\n\n\n\nAzra Hromadžić\,\n\nAssociate \nProfessor\, Anthropology and O'Hanley Scholar\n\n\n“We\nWill Not Give Up Una!” Hydraulic\nCitizenship in Bosnia and Herzegovina\n\nIn June 2015\, thousands of people in Bihać\,\na small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina got tog ether— mostly digitally but also\ndirectly—to object to the city’s recent decision to give a concession to a\njoint Russian and Bosnian Energy Compa ny to build a dam on the city’s river Una.\nArmed with political agency th at emerged from human and non-human forces and\nrelations\, the 2015 prote st led to a politically and socially significant\noutcome—the city’s gover nment reversed its decision to grant the concession.\nThis was the first a nd only reversal of a city government’s decision\, on any\nmatter\, in its postwar history. Building on ethnographic observations and\ninterview dat a about the moment when the political rule stumbled\, this talk\nexamines how love and care for the river become central to the new political\nimagi nings and terrains of political struggle in the Balkans and beyond. \n\nLu nch will be provided.For more information contact Havva Karakas-keles\,&nb sp\;hkarakas@syr.eduFor information on accessibility\, or to request accom modation\, please contact Marc Albert 315-443-9248. \;Sponsored by the The Maxwell Citizenship Initiative \;and the Moynihan Institute of Gl obal Affairs\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n DTEND:20180330T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260611T060807Z DTSTART:20180330T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Brown Bag Session - Elisabeth D Lasch-Quinn and Azra Hromadžić UID:RFCALITEM639167404875840452 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Maxwell Citizenship Initiative\, Moynih an Institute of Global Affairs present: \;

The Brown Bag Sess ions

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Elisabeth\nD Lasch-Quinn\, \;\n\nProf essor\,\nHistory\n\n

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Beautiful Citizens: The Re turn of Ancient\nPhilosophies of the Good Life in a Fractured Age

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This talk gives an overview of work in\nprogress on a book proje ct charting some modern manifestations in cultural\,\nintellectual\, and p ublic life of a return of ancient Greco-Roman philosophies\nof the art of living and suggests some of its implications for new ways of\napproaching the demands of civic life today. Critiques of the fraying of\ncommunity an d the self-centered individualism of the late-20th therapeutic\nculture an d “ecstatic capitalism” call for a move beyond rights alone to\nresponsibi lities. Yet civic life suffers when we give up on aiming even higher.\nEve n the good (as in virtuous) life requires something more.

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Azra Hromadžić\,\n\nAssociate\nProfessor\, Anthropology and O'Hanley Scholar\n

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“We\nWill Not Give Up Una!” Hy draulic\nCitizenship in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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In June 2 015\, thousands of people in Bihać\,\na small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina g ot together— mostly digitally but also\ndirectly—to object to the city’s r ecent decision to give a concession to a\njoint Russian and Bosnian Energy Company to build a dam on the city’s river Una.\nArmed with political age ncy that emerged from human and non-human forces and\nrelations\, the 2015 protest led to a politically and socially significant\noutcome—the city’s government reversed its decision to grant the concession.\nThis was the f irst and only reversal of a city government’s decision\, on any\nmatter\, in its postwar history. Building on ethnographic observations and\nintervi ew data about the moment when the political rule stumbled\, this talk\nexa mines how love and care for the river become central to the new political\ nimaginings and terrains of political struggle in the Balkans and beyond.

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Lunch will be provided.

For more information cont act Havva Karakas-keles\, \;hkarakas @syr.edu

For information on accessibility\, or to reque st accommodation\, please contact Marc Albert 315-443-9248. \;

Sponsored by the The Maxwell Citizenship Initiative&n bsp\;and the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

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