The deadline for applying to join the editorial staff of Ex Animo—the new undergraduate Philosophy journal at UO—is near at hand (this Wednesday, Nov. 25th). It would be a terrible shame if both keen and qualified students missed out for not applying.

Application is open to all Philosophy students (majors and minors, and ethics minors) and would afford fantastic opportunities to learn new and valuable skills in a real-world application, to make friends, to work closely with a faculty advisor, to help build something, and to give something back to your university. It would also not exactly look bad (quite the contrary in fact) on your résumé for the purpose of applications for jobs, graduate or law school either—and for good reason. This would not be merely more empty “résumé filler,” but something to really brag about—something that would meaningfully differentiate your educational experience from that of others.

You can look at Ex Animo’s very well designed website here: http://exanimo.uoregon.edu

Here is a flyer containing all relevant information, as well as an application form.

Thursday November 19
2:00-3:30pm
Virtual Colloquium with Brian Henning, Professor of Philosophy & Environmental Studies and Faculty Fellow for Sustainability, Gonzaga University
“Whitehead’s Metaphysics and the Foundations of Environmental Ethics Revisited”
Contact: Barbara Muraca

Thursday October 29
2:00-3:30pm
Virtual Colloquium with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair of French & Romance Philology, Columbia University
“Ubuntu and a Politics of humanity”
Contact: Barbara Muraca

Thursday October 22
2:00-3:30pm
Virtual Colloquium with Karen Ng, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
“Species-Being: In Defense of Humanistic Social Critique”
Contact: Barbara Muraca

The Philosophy Department at the University of Oregon — in collaboration with the Oregon Humanities Center as well as with faculty at the University of Kansas and Koç University — is pleased to host a monthly webinar-style conversation series on Data Ethics.

The webinar will consist of two online meetings a month. The first meeting will be a seminar style discussion based on assigned readings for the monthly topic; a second monthly public meeting will be reserved to welcome a speaker for a thorough discussion/talk of a topic in data ethics.

To attend the speaker series please visit this webpage. In order to attend (via Zoom) the monthly discussion sessions please email Ramón Alvarado at ralvarad@uoregon.edu with subject line “data ethics webinar”

Webinar Program

The Departments of Philosophy and Environmental Studies are co-sponsoring a work-in-progress talk by Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy Dr. Nicolae Morar on Friday, June 5, 2020 at noon.

“What IF there are no individuals? Microbial biology and environmental ethic.”

Our bodies have a microbial cell population 3 times greater than that of our human cells. “A fact, which, in essence, makes all of us more microbe than man!” This conception of human organisms has led some scientists and humanists to claim that we should no longer think of ourselves as individuals but rather as communities or ecosystems. Nicolae Morar explores the ethical consequences of an ecosystem view of human beings and provides a positive argument for a radically new ecological conception of human agency that captures the complexity and interconnectedness of our biological and moral lives.

This event is free but registration is required. Register Now.

Thursday March 5
2:00-3:50pm
Colloquium Panel IV: Decolonial/Critical Theory
*Alejandro A. Vallega / Óscar Armando Ralda
*Óscar Armando Ralda (Latin American Philosophy, Critical Theory, Marxism)
*Thomas Nail (decolonial thought, critical theory, social and political philosophy)
110 Willamette
Contact: Panel IV Coordinator Óscar Armando Ralda

To help mark the centennial of Women’s Sufferage, the National Organization for Women’s South Willamette Valley Chapter will feature a talk by Dr. Bonnie Mann, Professor of Philosophy: “Pussy Politics: Aspirational Fascism and the Women’s Vote.”

Thinking with Hannah Arendt, Masha Gessen, and Simone de Beauvoir, in this talk Dr. Mann will explore the rise of misogynist aspirational fascism in the United States, in relation to what the women’s vote has meant and could mean.

The talk is scheduled for Monday, 27 April 2020, 6:30-8:30 PM, inside of the Unitarian Universalist Church at 1685 West 13th Avenue.

Thursday February 27
2:00-3:50pm
Colloquium Panel III: “New Directions in American Philosophy”
*Scott Pratt / Bonnie Mann
*Celia Tagamolila Bardwell-Jones
*Maggie Newton (decolonial feminism, pragmatism, phenomenology)
110 Willamette
Contact: Panel III Coordinator Bonnie Mann or Moderator Erin McKenna

Thursday February 20
2:00-3:50pm
Colloquium Panel II:
A Critical Feminist Phenomenology of Time: “Haunting: The Past in the Future“
*Bonnie Mann (University of Oregon)
*Martina Ferrari (University of Oregon)
*Megan Burke (Sonoma State University)
110 Willamette
Contact: Bonnie Mann