Haniyeh Barahouiepasandi
Associate Professor
Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
Sahelian Sisterhood: Reproductive Tenderness and Women’s Resistance in Moolaadé, Le Pagne, and Lingui
This project examines how three Sahelian films, including the Senegalese Ousmane Sembène’s Moolaadé (2004), the Nigerien Moussa Hamadou Djingarey’s Le Pagne (2015), and the Chadian Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Lingui (2021), portray women supporting one another through reproductive crises such as female genital cutting, rape, and illegal abortion.
Lisa Cassell
Assistant Professor
Philosophy
Logic’s Own Epistemology: Two Notions of Rationality
This project provides a foundational account of logic that centers systems of probabilistic reasoning. Cassell will argue that what looks like a foundational problem for systems of probabilistic reasoning is actually the result of conflating two notions of rationality that are both assumed to provide the normative foundations of these systems. The first of these is a scientific notion of rationality, whereas the second is an economic notion of rationality.
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