The Oxy Nepal Film Festival will feature two evenings of short films and panels by independent Nepali film makers and will be screened in collaboration with the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival. The first night film topic is Climate. Films to be shown:
Dhye Dreams (Shanta Nepali, 2023)
No Monastery No Village (Tashi Lhazam, 2024)
Adjustments for Kurtosis and Continuity on the Prentice Test
Speaker: Lily Gebhart
Detecting Musical Influence
Speaker: Professor Amanda Beecher
The European Enlightenment bequeathed to us a notion of the human being as a solitary, self-sufficient agent--the only being truly capable of making independent choices. This notion of human being grounds a conception of moral agency: if you're capable of choice, you're responsible for your choices. That capacity to choose also gives you the right to certain moral protection--immunity to being eaten by other moral agents, for instance.
Food is a challenging subject. There is little consensus about how and what we should produce and consume. It is not even clear what food is or whether people have similar experiences of it. On one hand, food is recognized as a basic need, if not a basic right. On the other hand, it is hard to generalize about it given the wide range of practices and cuisines, and the even wider range of tastes.
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Prof. Gonzalez-Day was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. His work was featured in the 2018-2019 Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibition, UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light
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