The Objectivist Center is offering a paid 10-12 week internship at its offices. The internship is intended to provide training in writing on Objectivist themes. In addition, unpaid internship applications and fellowship project ideas will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
More information along with the application is available on the internship and fellowship page of the TOC web site.The application deadline is April 9, 2004.
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TOC Graduate Scholarships
The Objectivist Center has announced plans to offer up to a maximum of $12,000 annually in living expenses and tuition and fees to support qualified graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in philosophy and closely related fields such as psychology and cognitive science. The application Deadline for Fall 2004 is March 1st.
More information and application forms are available on the graduate scholarship page of the TOC web site.
New 'We the Living' Movie Site
Duncan Scott Productions has launched a new web site for the We the Living movie, which includes historical information about the movie as well as a link to purchase the video via PayPal.
The Atlasphere recently published a two-part interview with Duncan Scott, wherein he talks extensively about his experiences releasing the movie in America, with Ayn Rand’s approval and guidance.
…Stay tuned for developing news about the big screen re-release of We the Living in San Francisco next month.
Maryland Seminar on Ayn Rand's Vision
In February, the Fountainhead Institute will be sponsoring a seminar in Maryland on applying Ayn Rand’s vision to your own life:
Ayn Rand’s Vision: Understanding It And Using It In Your Life
A weekend seminar on applying Objectivism to your life. The seminar will be taught by Marsha Enright of The Fountainhead Institute on February 7-8 in Columbia, Maryland.
Topics covered will include but not be limited to “The Importance of Art in Human Life,” “Rand’s Heroes: How To Be More Like Them,” “The Psychology of Individualism,” and “Rand’s View of Capitalism and the Social Order.” Marsha will combine short lectures with guided discussions to maximize the intellectual and personal value of the seminars.
It will be assumed that the student will have read at least Atlas Shrugged. A limited number of essays and articles will be assigned to read in preparation for the course.
Additional information and registration instructions are available on the Fountainhead Institute web site.
Call for Papers: Rand & Nietzsche
The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies announces this “Call for Papers” for a special symposium:
Ayn Rand and Friedrich Nietzsche
Despite her criticisms of Friedrich Nietzsche, even the mature Ayn Rand recognized in him a poet who projected, emotionally, “at times … a magnificent feeling for man’s greatness …” Indeed, the young Ayn Rand had learned much from Nietzsche, reflected in her early unpublished and published works.
The aim of this forthcoming issue of the journal is to trace the similarities and the differences between these thinkers in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. As a nonpartisan periodical, the journal welcomes contributions from every perspective and every discipline toward that end.
Proposals should be sent by 1 July 2004 by email to Chris Matthew Sciabarra, or by mail to: Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Visiting Scholar, NYU Department of Politics, 726 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, New York 10003.
Completed manuscripts will be due by 1 July 2005; the symposium won’t be published prior to 2006.
See the journal’s website for further information on style guidelines.
TOC's Hudgins on CNN on Saturday
Ed Hudgins, TOC’s DC director, will be on CNN at approximately 2:40pm EST on Saturday, January 17, 2004 discussing a return to the Moon. Ed Hudgins edited Space: The Free-Market Frontier, a collection of essays that explore the future of the private sector in space exploration and exploitation.
'Night of January 16th' in NYC
A new organization called the Objectivist Theatre Company will be performing Ayn Rand’s play “The Night of January 16th” in New York City starting on ? when else? ? January 16th, 2004.
The performances will be held at the Objectivist Community Center (243 W38th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues) from January 16th through February 8th on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $15 and reservations can be made by contacting Sarah Zimmitti.
TOC's Hudgins on FOX on Tuesday
TOC DC director Ed Hudgins will be on the Fox News Channel in a segment at 2:20 EST on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 discussing a return to the Moon and mission to Mars. Ed Hudgins edited Space: The Free-Market Frontier, a collection of essays that explore the future of the private sector in space exploration and exploitation.
Two New Rand Books to Be Released
Two new books of interest to Rand fans will be released in February. The first, Essays on Ayn Rand’s We The Living, is edited by Robert Mayhew, who also edited Ayn Rand’s Marginalia.
The second, by ARI archivist Jeffrey Britting (who was associate producer for the film Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life), is simply titled Ayn Rand and is a collection of rare photos and other sundry items. From the book description:
Ayn Rand made a profound impact as both a philosopher who founded a school of social thought, Objectivism, and as a novelist of penetrating insight and vision. Her works are founded on heroic ideals, demonstrating the maxim that, “man?s ego is the fountainhead of human progress.”
The photos and illustrations in this volume have been hand-selected from the Ayn Rand Archives, and most have never been published. They include personal mementos of a Petersburg childhood, her family and their home on Nevsky Prospect; photos from her early years in America; personal papers, including her list of the twelve publishers who passed on The Fountainhead; original newspaper articles, film posters, notes, drawings, and much more.
In a recent poll conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club, Rand?s Atlas Shrugged was voted the novel most influential to American readers. This latest volume of the acclaimed Overlook Illustrated Lives series gives her legions of fans an unprecedented chance to better understand the author they adore.
(Thanks to Michael Malice for the tip. Further information can be sent to us at: metablog at theatlasphere dot com.)
2004 ARI Summer Conference
The Ayn Rand Institute‘s 2004 Objectivist Summer Conference has been scheduled for July 10?22 at the Wintergreen Resort in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
From their brochure for the 2003 conference:
For nearly two decades, summer conferences have served as a forum for the presentation of new intellectual work applying Ayn Rand?s philosophy. Continuing in that vein, the Institute has invited a host of scholars and intellectuals, who are known for their serious interest in Objectivism, to present some of their recent work. As you?ll discover on the following pages, we have scheduled more than 27 hours of general lectures and up to 32 hours of optional courses on an exciting range of topics, from philosophy and sculpture to literature and economics.
More information about the 2004 conference will be forthcoming on the Objectivist Conferences site. In the interim you can request a conference catalog via phone at 1-800-365-6552, ext. 239 or via the web.