Spring 2017

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”
S
peakers: 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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