Below you’ll find an archive of past presentation titles, posters and papers (where provided), for the Spring term of 2017.

Schedule:

DATE	PRESENTER	TITLE
January
13th	Carlos Zorilla	“Cosmos through Crisis: Schelling’s Poetics”
20th	Amy Li	“Monstrous Rage: Unnatural Bodies and their Discontents”
27th	Eric Walker	“Frege’s Ideography: What it is Supposed to Express, and How”
February
3rd	Mukasa Mubirimusoke	“Ecce Niger, or How One Becomes When One is Never Supposed to Be”
10th	Ben Brewer	“The Self-Encrypting Text: Ibn Tufayl Between Esotericism and History”
17th	Kate Davies	“.’..Since we have been a conversation / And able to hear from one another…’: Exploring the Stakes of Understanding and Persuasion in Plato and Heidegger”
24th	2017 Speaker Series – “Art and Politics: A Conversation” Speakers: Prof. John Lysaker, Prof. Mariana Ortega, Fahamu Pecou Moderator: Taina Figueroa
March
3rd	Kyle Tanaka	“Why is Philosophy so Boring? Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Affective Reading”
10th	SPRING BREAK
17th	2017 Speaker Series – “How Much Kin Does a Person Need?” Prof. Anne O’Byrne, Stony Brook University Respondents: Ben Brewer, Mike Chiddo, Kate Davies
24th	Maggie Matthews	“Why Was Leibniz Worried About Newton’s Principia?”
31st	Ben Davis	“Rooted Errantry: Simone Weil and Edouard Glissant on Identity”
April
7th	Mukasa Mubirimusoke	“The Black Home, Or African-American Self-hood Through Afro-Pessimism to a Black Communal Agency”
14th	Katie Howard	“Shame Spirals: Action and Emotional Infrastructure”
21st	Tony Leyh	“Not Only the Poets: Plato’s Arguments against Rhetoric and Isocrates’ Defense of Mimetic Rhetoric”
	EXAM BREAK

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