Emory University Department of Philosophy

Colloquia and Public Events 2011-12

     
8 September 2011  
An Aesthetic Reading of Aristotle’s Ethics
Richard Kraut
Charles and Emma Professor in the Humanities
Northwestern University
4:15 p.m., Psychology Bldg. 290
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the History of Philosophy
 
15 September 2011  
Political Imaginaries: Dominant, Residual, and Emergent
Noelle McAfee
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Emory University
4:15 p.m., Psychology Bldg. 290
 
13 October 2011  
Addressing Desire: Augustinian Prayer
Karmen MacKendrick
Joseph C. Georg Professor of Philosophy
Le Moyne College
4:15 p.m., Psychology Bldg. 290
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the History of Philosophy
 
27 October 2011  
Philosophical Approaches to Hamlet's Nihilism in Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger
Andrew Cutrofello
Professor of Philosophy
Loyola University Chicago
4:15 p.m., Psychology Bldg. 290
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the History of Philosophy
 
3 November 2011  
Involution: United States Colonization of the Virgin Islands
Gertrude James Gonzalez de Allen
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Spelman College
4:15 p.m., Psychology Bldg. 290
 
17 November 2011  
Ceasing to be Human, Learning to be Human
Eduardo Mendieta
Professor of Philosophy
Stony Brook University
4:15 p.m., Psychology Bldg. 290
Williams Edwards Undergraduate Lecture
 
3 February 2012  
Seminar on Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death
Gordon Marino
Professor of Philosophy and the Curator of the Hong Kierkegaard Library
St. Olaf's College
1 p.m., Bowden Hall 216
 
9 February 2012  
With Pleasure But Not For the Sake of Pleasure:
Aristotle on “Steering the Young by the Rudders of
Pleasure and Pain”

Marta Jimenez
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Emory University
4:15 p.m., White Hall 111
 
23 February 2012  
Duns Scotus on Concepts and Thinking the Real
Richard A. Lee, Jr.
Professor of Philosophy
DePaul University
4:15 p.m., Psychology Bldg. 290
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the History of Philosophy
 
1 March 2012  
Of Things and Love: Perception in Hegel's Phenomenology
John Russon
Professor of Philosophy
University of Guelph
4:15 p.m., Psychology Bldg. 290
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the History of Philosophy
 
22 March 2012  
Panel Presentation, The Question of the Human
Cynthia Willett, Professor of Philosophy
Thomas Flynn, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy
Elissa Marder, Associate Professor of French and Comp Lit
Elizabeth Goodstein, Associate Professor of the ILA
Emory University
4:15 p.m., Psychology Bldg. 290
 
19 April 2012  
The Year 1943 in French Philosophy: A Philosophical Moment in a Time of War
Frédéric Worms
Professor of Philosophy
Université de Lille III
4:15 p.m., Psychology Bldg. 290
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the History of Philosophy
 
26 April 2012  
“Analogy is always a reason”- Mary Wollstonecraft and Jacques Derrida on the Conditions of Becoming-Animal
Penelope Deutscher
Professor of Philosophy
Northwestern University
4:15 p.m., Psychology Bldg. 290
Phi Sigma Tau Speaker