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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- Professor
Michael Green
of the Philosophy
Department at the SUNY College at Oneonta has been awarded the College's
2009 Susan Sutton Smith Prize for Academic Excellence. Dr. Green will
deliver the fifteenth annual Susan Sutton Smith Lecture, a presentation
entitled "How Many Investment Bankers Can Dance with Dionysius on the Delta
of a Derivative" on Friday, April 24, at 7 p.m. in the Craven Lounge of the
Morris Conference Center. Admission is complimentary, and members of the
community are invited to attend the presentation.
Dr. Green's talk will explore the nature of the current financial crisis
from a humanistic perspective. Using video clips and a PowerPoint
presentation, he will examine the recurrent nature of the problems that
caused the crisis as well as the underlying dynamics that generated and
support the crisis. Dr. Green will touch upon topics such as the uncertainty
in the human condition, types of uncertainty, and group dynamics. He will
also discuss various financial innovations and how increasing imitation
leads to excess and collapse.
Dr. Green is the author of the book How Do We Create a Philosophical
Cosmos for Acting Socially and Being Happy? Four Strategies for Living in an
Uncertain World (Hume, Aquinas, Swedenborg, and Kant). He is the editor
of the book Issues in Native American Cultural Identity.
Michael Green, who earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University
of Chicago, taught at Indiana University Northwest and Marquette University
before joining the SUNY Oneonta faculty in 1981. At SUNY Oneonta, he teaches
courses in ethics, the philosophy of action, and applied ethics, as well as
several other areas.
Created to recognize faculty achievement outside the classroom, the Susan
Sutton Smith Prize for Academic Excellence is named in honor of the late
SUNY Oneonta professor of English. The prize is made possible by an
endowment created through the generosity of Dr. Thomas Smith and Mrs. Mary
Smith in memory of their daughter, Susan, and in honor of her commitment to
academic excellence. The recipient of the prize is chosen from nominations
submitted to a committee of faculty and administrators.
The Susan Sutton Smith Lecture will cap a day of events recognizing
academic excellence at the College. At an awards breakfast, Dr. Green will
receive the Smith Prize, and students with grade-point averages of 3.9 or
above in the fall semester will be recognized with gift cards to purchase
textbooks at the College store. The events and the student awards are made
possible by the generous gifts of SUNY Oneonta alumni to the 2008-09 Alumni
Annual Fund.
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