2009-2010 Public Events
September
Sept. 18, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Jessica Wahman, Dickinson College
"Subjectivity: The Hardest Problem"
365 Willard Building
October
Oct. 2, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Laszlo Tengelyi, Universitat Wuppertal"A Narrative Interpretation of Action"
365 Willard Building
Oct. 23, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Olivia Custer, Bard College
"Mistrust and Missed Trysts: Derrida's Lessons of Critical Engagement"
365 Willard Building
Oct. 25, 2009, 2:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Penn State Philosophy Club is co-hosting a presentation,
"We Will Do and We Will Hear: Emmanuel Levinas and Talmud",
a discussion of Levinas's Talmudic Reading "The Temptation of Temptation," featuring Annette Aronowicz, Sandor Goodhart, James Hatley, and Claire Katz. Emily Grosholz - moderator, and Rabbi Ira F. Stone is providing commentary.
Pasquerilla Spiritual Center, Garden Room
November
Nov. 3, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Paul Franks, University of Toronto
"Reason as Purposive Activity in Kant and Hegel"
169 Willard Building
December
Dec. 4, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Inaugural Lecture: Robert Bernasconi, Penn State University
"Nature, Culture, Race: A Phenomenological Perspective on Critical Philosophy of Race"
365 Willard Building
January
Jan. 29, 2010, 3:30 p.m.
Inaugural Lecture: Kathryn Gines, Penn State University
"Jean-Paul Sartre and His Interlocutors: Reconceptualizing 'European' Philosophy"
room to be announced
February
Feb. 26, 2010, 3:30 p.m.
Catherine Malabou, Paris/State University of New York at Buffalo
"Is Plasticity a New Name for Freedom?"
room to be announced
March
Mar. 19, 2010, 3:30 p.m.
Dotterer Lecture and Reception: Edward Casey, Stony Brook University
"On Not Putting Too Fine an Edge on Things"
Nittany Lion Inn
Mar. 26, 2010, 3:30 p.m.
John Drabinski, Amherst College
Moderator: Alex V. Stehn, Penn State University
"Levinas, Ethics, and Decolonization"
location to be announced
April
April 16, 2010
The third conference of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers (CBWP) at Penn State University. For more information, including the full conference program, please visit the CBWP web site: Collegium of Black Women Philosophers
April 23, 2010, 3:30 p.m.
Sonia Kruks, Oberlin College
"Simone de Beauvoir's Political Thinking"
room to be announced
