Colloquium Series

The Colloquium Series is made possible by the generous support of the McVean and Berry Funds. All colloquia are free and open to the public. For Fall 2024, talks will take place from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. on Mondays in Calhoun 204. Reception to follow in Furman 106.

Spring 2025

February 10

Brian Leiter

March 3

Jenny Blumenthal

March 17 

Peter Gordon

March 24

Ted Poston

Fall 2024

September 23

Cheshire Calhoun (Arizona)
“Kindnesses”

October 28

Shaun Nichols (Cornell)
“Not for Me: On the External Function of Guilt”

November 18

Karen Stohr (Georgetown)
“How to Value Yourself: Self-Respect and the Setting of Ends”

December 2

Lucia Schwarz (Tulane)
TBA *Occasional Talk*

Spring 2024

February 8
Sally Haslanger (MIT)
“Critical Social Theory: Combining Theory and Practice”
*4:15 p.m., Alumni Hall room 202

February 12
Alice Crary (The New School for Social Research)
“Objectivity’s Politics”

March 4
Daniel James (Technische Universität Dresden)
“Black History is World History”

March 18
Katharina Stevens (University of Lethbridge)
“An Ideal Theory Problem for Single-Set Theories of Argumentation and the Role of Ethics in Solving It”

March 28
Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
“Challenges to Creating an Egalitarian Society”
*7 p.m. Wilson Hall room 126, Reception at 5 p.m. in Wilson Hall Lobby

April 8
Derrick Darby (Rutgers)
TBD

Fall 2023

August 28
Laura Specker-Sullivan (Fordham University)
“Climates of Distrust”

September 11
Karolina Hubner (Cornell University)
“Spinoza on Truth”

September 25
David Estlund (Brown University)
“Moral Culprits and the Wrong of Social Injustice”

October 30
Matt Congdon (Vanderbilt University)
First Book Session: Moral Articulation

November 6
Regina Rini (York University, Canada)
“Defining the Ideologies of the Digital Century”