GRS Students: Guidelines & Info
Students are expected to provide their own transportation to and from Macalester for both days of the roundtable. Located just off of Snelling & Grand (see address below and map here), convenient bus lines include the A line, 84 & 63. Bus cards are available at the front desk every day before and after school for all students. Students will be expected to bring their own bag lunch that does not require a microwave (unavailable). We will meet as a group in JBD Hall (#29 on campus map) each morning before transitioning to our various workshop sessions according to student signup preferences and group assignments. The last lecture each day takes place at JBD Hall, so that will also be the afternoon pickup location for students following programming.
GRS Morning Meeting & Afternoon Pickup Location (10:45am on Thurs, 8:45am on Fri): John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center, 3 Snelling Ave S, St Paul, MN 55105 (#29 on campus map)
Thurs: 10:45am-6:30pm
Students are expected to provide their own transportation to and from Macalester for both days of the roundtable. Located just off of Snelling & Grand (see address below and map here), convenient bus lines include the A line, 84 & 63. Bus cards are available at the front desk every day before and after school for all students. Students will be expected to bring their own bag lunch that does not require a microwave (unavailable). We will meet as a group in JBD Hall (#29 on campus map) each morning before transitioning to our various workshop sessions according to student signup preferences and group assignments. The last lecture each day takes place at JBD Hall, so that will also be the afternoon pickup location for students following programming.
GRS Morning Meeting & Afternoon Pickup Location (10:45am on Thurs, 8:45am on Fri): John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center, 3 Snelling Ave S, St Paul, MN 55105 (#29 on campus map)
Thurs: 10:45am-6:30pm
Fri: 8:45am-4pm
This GoogleSheet has the confirmed numbers of seats available and locations, for both event and overflow. If students will be driving, the best place for them to park would be in the West 2 or the South P lot (link to map).
There isn't really a good place for cars directly at the campus center for drop-offs. We recommend dropping off on Grand on the EAST side of Snelling (i.e. by Dunn Bros or MyBurger) or along Macalester street by Weyerhaeuser hall.
24th Annual International Roundtable
Empathy and Its Discontents
October 12-13, 2017
Our modern concept of empathy first emerged in the early nineteenth century as a matter of aesthetic philosophy. The idea of "feeling oneself into" a work of art quickly developed into a powerful social-scientific category with wide-ranging applications. Today, the international conversation about empathy is urgent and divisive. The idea is championed and challenged in equal measure by neuroscientists, human rights activists, arts critics, psychologists, philosophers, and commentators from many other fields. This roundtable seeks to bring these sometimes collaborative, sometimes conflicting perspectives together in one place.
Our discussions will raise essential questions about the role of empathy in human relations. What motivates our concern for the suffering of distant strangers? To what extent, and by what means, does art enable us to forge connections with others? What are the limits and risks of the empathetic impulse? And finally, what is the future of empathy in a world facing unprecedented ecological, technological, and political threats?