Fall 2016

Below you’ll find an archive of past presentation titles, posters and papers (where provided), for the Fall term of 2016.

Schedule:

Date Presenter Title
August
8th General Meeting
September
2nd Ben Brewer “‘To Ruin In Me That Which is Opposed to Ruin’: Georges Bataille and Angela Foligno on the Materiality of Suffering”
9th  Aaron Pratt Shepherd  “‘The Kingdom of God’ vs. ‘The Blessed Community’: Towards a Conception of Christian Social Ethics for Today’s America”
16th Dave Ferris – GPSE – Incoming Graduate Student Representatives
23rd  Sara Saba “Temporal Exile and the Body in a Crypt: Levinas and Kristeva on the Ethics of Loneliness”
30th  Lucilla Pan “Hidden Grace: Salvation in Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety
 October
7th  Carlos Zorilla “Cosmos and Polis: A Reflection on Teleology in Plato’s Timaeus”
14th
21st Michelle Repper “Metaphysics and the Hyper-Real in Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Watercolour Drawings”
28th Tamsin Kimoto “Trans*(Auto)Poetics – Thinking Self-Making When the Body is/is in a Situation”
November
4th  Joevenn Neo “Generic Mutation”
11th  Catherine Fullarton “Towards an Empathy of Asking”
18th  Whitney Ronshagen “When Words Fail: The Ethics of Empathy in Non-Discursive Practice”
25th THANKSGIVING BREAK
December
2nd Joe Benavides “Basic Problems in Lucács”
EXAM BREAK

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