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2022 - How Modern Gender Values Have Shaped Modern Stoicism Focus - Oral Presentation
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2022 - How Modern Gender Values Have Shaped Modern Stoicism Focus - Oral Presentation
Description
Stoic philosophy holds that there is very little that a person can control except their own thoughts and feelings about things. This has led to a philosophy centering around the cultivation of inner virtues, like temperance, courage, practical wisdom, and justice. In the modern resurgence of Stoicism which started in the early nineties and continues today, Stoicism is a philosophy largely characterized by online communities, and active participation in philosophical exercises, in order to cultivate inner virtue in a complex and changing world. However, I argue these modern applications of stoicism have a tendency to become merely an ad hoc application of Stoic thought as a tool for momentary functionality, rather than a life philosophy. The purpose of this paper is to explore this “life-hack Stoicism.” By taking a brief survey of modern Stoic writings, as they appear in the blogs and other texts of prominent practitioners of what-I-am-calling “popular stoicism,” I aim to analyze their effects on the Stoic philosophy as a whole, and how it is practiced today. Namely, I will argue that these writings alter the understandings of Stoicism in ways that align with modern ideas of masculinity and taciturn endurance, and minimize the importance of the Stoic virtues of justice and duty. This is a video of the presentation, "How Modern Gender Values Have Shaped Modern Stoicism Focus" given at the 2022 Undergraduate Projects & Research Conference at Salt Lake Community College. The presenter: Emma Wadsworth. The video can be accessed via YouTube here: https://youtu.be/Kh3KzsmFu7s
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Philosophy, Social aspects, social ethics, social issues, Social values, stoicism, philosophical movements and attitudes
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22-0243
2022 - Fanfiction: A Labor of Love - Oral Presentation
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2022 - Fanfiction: A Labor of Love - Oral Presentation
Description
Fanfiction, although it may seem like a contemporary phenomenon, has existed throughout human history. So, what is the distinction between a fan’s work and the source material? How are they differently respected, and why do people choose to write in the world of modern fanfiction? The impact of fanfiction in modern media is not small and represents the ever-present issues of representation and censorship of marginalized communities. In this presentation, I will explore the intention and quality of fanfiction, and its distortion in the eyes of the public. This is a video of the presentation, "Fanfiction: A Labor of Love" given at the 2022 Undergraduate Projects & Research Conference at Salt Lake Community College. The presenter: Sophia Dodge. The video can be accessed via YouTube here: https://youtu.be/Ruls7SGfb7Q
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Literature, fiction, young adult fiction, mass media, Authors, censorship, Social aspects, Social values
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22-0252