Colloquium
Vanderbilt Department of Philosophy colloquiums are free and open to the public. Unless otherwise specified, talks are on Mondays at 3:15pm in Furman Hall Room 209. The 2024 Colloquium Series is made possible by the generous support of the McVean and Berry Funds.
Spring 2024
February 8
Sally Haslanger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Critical Social Theory: Combining Theory and Practice”
* 4:15pm, Alumni Hall Room 202
February 12
Alice Crary (The New School)
“Objectivity’s Politics”
March 4
Daniel James (Technische Universität Dresden)
“Black History is World History”
March 18
Katharina Stevens (University of Lethbridge - Canada)
“An Ideal Theory Problem for Single-Set Theories of Argumentation and the Role of Ethics in Solving It”
March 28 Berry Lecture
Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
“Challenges to Creating an Egalitarian Society”
*7:00pm, Wilson Hall room 126
Reception at 5:00pm in Wilson Hall Lobby
April 8
Derrick Darby (Rutgers University)
"Armed Self-Defense"
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”
Spring 2023 |
February 10th
Jason D'Cruz (SUNY Albany).
March 3rd
James Conant (University of Chicago).
April 14th
Seana Shiffrin (UCLA).
April 21st- Fatema Amijee (University of British Columbia).
Fall 2022 |
September 2 - Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (University of British Columbia), "Negative Epistemology and Status Quo Bias",
Format: In Person, Furman Hall 209
September 15 - Berry Lecture in Public Philosophy: Nancy Fraser (The New School for Social Research),
“Three Faces of Labor: Uncovering the Hidden Ties Between Gender, Race, and Class”
Format: In Person, Wilson Hall 126
More information here
October 7 - Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado Boulder), "Who Put the Will in Control? A Brief History of the Idea of a Free Will "
Format: In Person, Furman Hall 209
November 11 - Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (Syracuse University), "This is Who 'We' Are: Constellations of White Supremacist Terrorism in the United States"
Forman: In Person, Furman Hall 209
Spring 2022
April 22 – Allison McCarthy (VUMC Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society), "Questioning 'Authority' in Medical Decision-Making"
Format: In Person, Furman 325
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Previous Spring 2022 colloquiums:
March 25: Elijah Millgram (University of Utah), "Who was Nietzsche's Psychologist?" with commentary by Robert Engelman (Vanderbilt)
March 18: Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins), "Autonomy and Freedom in Kant"
March 25 – Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt), "Why We Need Political Enemies"
April 8 – Shatema Threadcraft (Vanderbilt), "On Black Life's Second Shift: Women, "Death Work" and the Making of the Black Counterpublic Sphere"
Fall 2021
September 10: Thi Nguyen (University of Utah), "Value Capture"
October 1: Emanuele Costa (Vanderbilt), "Transcendence and Immanence in Anne Conway"*
November 12: Rocío Zambrana (Emory) "Hegelian History Interrupted" with commentary by Andrew Burnside (Vanderbilt)
December 3: Myisha Cherry (UC Riverside), "Rage Renegades" with commentary by Holly Longair (Vanderbilt)
Spring 2021
January 29 at 2:55pm: Nicole Hassoun (Binghamton), "Responding to the Tragedies of Our Time: The Human Right to Health and the Virtues of Creative Resolve"
February 5: William Stephens (Creighton), “Stoicism and Food", with commentary by Kelly Cunningham (Vanderbilt) and Lucy Vollbrecht (Vanderbilt)
February 19: Alia Al-Saji (McGill), “Touching the Wounds of Colonial Duration: Fanon and a Critical Phenomenology of Racialized Affect”, with commentary by Andrew Burnside (Vanderbilt)
The Berry Lecture in Public Philosophy
March 18 at 7:00pm: Eddie Glaude, Jr. (Princeton), “James Baldwin and Black Democratic Perfectionism”. More information about the Berry Lectures can be found at the link here.
April 2: Şerife Tekin (University of Texas at San Antonio), “Rethinking Objectivity in Psychiatry: Unmuting Patients in Epistemic Practices”
Fall 2020
September 18: Catherine Hundleby (University of Windsor) & Moira Howes (Trent University), "Adversarial Argument, Agency, and Vulnerability", with commentary by Tempest Henning (Vanderbilt)
October 2: Brandon Hogan (Howard University), "What 'Black Lives Matter' Should Mean", with commentary by Eric MacPhail (Vanderbilt)
October 16: J.M. Berstein (New School for Social Research), "The Responsibility Nexus: Vulnerability, Dependence, and Power", with commentary by Robert Engleman (Vanderbilt)
October 23: Shatema Threadcraft (Dartmouth), "U.S. Necropower as a Body Project"
November 6: Leonard Harris (Purdue University), "What, then, is 'Philosophy Born of Struggle'?" with commentary by Emerson Bodde (Vanderbilt)