Dr. Konrad Czynski, Philosophy, is going to present his colloquium with the topic “A Christmas Carol: Dickens’ Parable of Self-Redemption – a narrative moral philosophy” in MacLean Hall 273, Wednesday, February 25, 4:30pm-5:30pm.
Konrad Czynski, Philosophy, with Maestro Stephen Simon and Bonnie Simon published their 10th CD in the Maestro Classics “Stories in Music” series. This is Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals” with humorous (even nonsensical) verses written by Ogden Nash in 1950 for the conductor André Kostelanetz. Czynski narrates the whimsical poems evoking comical aspects of a variety of creatures, including Pianists!
Konrad Czynski, on Nov. 15 at the Plains Art Museum, under the auspices of “Philosophy For All” organized by Professor Emeritus Mark Chekola, led a discussion with several MSUM colleagues and students, as well as with Fargo-Moorhead community-members, titled “A Dialogue across the Centuries with Marcus Aurelius.” The focus of the philosophical gathering was his Stoicism-imbued reflections traditionally called “Meditations.”
Konrad Czynski, Humanities-Philosophy, presented a paper on October 15 at the annual vonference of the Midwest American Culture & Popular Culture Association held in Milwaukee, Wis. His topic was “Ved Mehta’s Intellectual Encounters: Echoes of 20th-century Philosophical Conversations.” His paper, in a shortened version, will be published as an article on Ved Mehta’s book Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with […]
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