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Winter 2024 Philosophy Dept. Talks & Events

Thursday, February 15, 2024, 12:00p-1:20p
Lee McBride (The College of Wooster)
W.E.B. Du Bois on Democracy and (In)Justice”
Location: PLC 180

Thursday, February 22, 2024, 2:00p-3:30p
Lee McBride (The College of Wooster)
Dionysian Poiesis and Demonic Grounds; Or, Creative Rebelliousness and Method-Making”
Location: Straub 245

Thursday, April 4, 2024, 2:00p-3:30p
Mariana Ortega (Penn State University)
Location: Allen 141

Thursday, April 18, 2024, 2:00p-3:30p
Brian Burkhart (The University of Oklahoma)
Location: Allen 141

 

 

Fall 2023 Philosophy Dept. Talks & Events

Thursday, October 5, 2023, 2:00p-3:30p
Duane Davis (University of North Carolina Asheville)
Location: Clinical Services 250

Thursday, October 19th, 2023, 2:00p-3:30p
Dan Swain
(Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague)
Location: Clinical Services 250

Thursday, November 2, 2023, 2:00p-3:30p
Matthew Liao
(Professor of Bioethics; Director, Center for Bioethics And Affiliated Professor, Department of Philosophy New York University)
Location: Clinical Services 250

Thursday, November 16, 2023, 2:00p-3:30p
Adrian Parr ( Dean, College of Design, University of Oregon, Professor, Planning, Public Policy and Management)
Location: Clinical Services 250

 

 

Past Events from Recent Years

Spring 2023 Philosophy Dept. Talks & Events

Thursday, April 27, 2023, 2:00p-3:30p
Dr. Catherine Malabou (Professor of Philosophy at Kingston University [UK], Professor at the European Graduate School, and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine)
Location: Knight Library Browsing Room
Title: “Morphing Intelligence and the Anarchist Potential of AI and the Internet”

Cosponsors: Comparative Literature Department, New Media & Culture Certificate, and Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities


Friday, May 12th and Saturday, May 13th, 2023
(Time TBA)
Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism
Location: Knight Library Browsing Room
Description: This interdisciplinary conference invites scholars and activists who have worked on critical approaches to the intersectionality of gender and coloniality to present papers, prepare workshops and share their work and knowledge from their disciplines and lived experiences.

The two keynote speakers for our conference will be professor Breny Mendoza (California State University) and professor Layla Brown (Northeastern University). Professor Mendoza’s research is focused in the areas of feminist decolonial theory, political theory, transnational feminism, and Latin American Studies. The title of her keynote talk is “Decolonial Reading of Sexual Violence”. Professor Brown’s research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in Venezuela, the US, and the broader African Diaspora (talk title TBD). Our conference will also include a workshop led by La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción (a grassroot activist group from Puerto Rico).

We would like to thank and acknowledge the generous sponsors of this event: UO College of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Association, Oregon Humanities Center, Williams Foundation Grant, Cintia Martínez Velasco’s Research Funds, Division of Graduate Studies, Center for the Study of Women in Society, School of Global Studies and Languages, Philosophy Department, Romance Languages Department, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of Geography, and the Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies Department.

For more information, check back at this page: https://decolonialphilosophies.blogspot.com/.

 

Thursday, May 18, 2023, 2:00p-3:30p
Dr. Johan de Jong
(Leiden University)
Location: Lokey Education, Room 176
Title: TBD

Spring 2022 Philosophy Dept. Talks & Events

Thur April 7
10:00-11:30am
Workshop on Foucault’s Speaking the Truth about Oneself with Daniele Lorenzini (University of Warwick)
Location: on-campus, room TBD
Note: contact Colin Koopman to register and receive a copy of the in-advance reading.

Thur April 7
2:00-3:30pm
Daniele Lorenzini (University of Warwick)
Location: Lokey 117
Title: Fanon, Foucault, and the Politics of Truth

Friday April 8
10:00-11:30am
Workshop with Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (University of Groningen)
Title: “On Genealogizing Without Universals and the Revisable A Priori”
Location: on-campus, room TBD
Note: contact Colin Koopman to register and receive a copy of the in-advance reading.

Friday April 8
2:00-3:30pm
Workshop featuring Daniele Lorenzini (University of Warwick) plus Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (Syracuse University) [via zoom] and Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (University of Groningen)
Title: “Critique and Possibilizing Genealogy”
Location: on-campus, room TBD
Note: contact Colin Koopman to register and receive a copy of the in-advance reading.

Friday April 22
Workshop on Equality in Data Curation with the UO Data Ethics team. This event is part of the “Responsible Data Science” workshops, a joint venture developed by collaborators from the UO Data Science Initiative, UO Department of Philosophy, UO School of Law, and Oregon Health Sciences University. Scheduled for Friday, April 22nd at 2:00p, the focus will be on tools for understanding the conceptual underpinnings and historical contexts of data structures, fields, and variables defining our databases.  There will be discussion of the value of equality and the very meaning of equality itself (does equality imply sameness, difference-sensitive treatment, or something else?). And there will be an overview of tools for assessing and identifying potential inequalities in data design itself. Bring a dataset (specifically, a database schema, or taxonomy of some kind) with you, either one you use or one you plan to use, and we’ll take a hands-on approach.

Thursday April 28
2:00-3:30pm
Seminar with Olivier Del Fabbro (ETH Zurich)
Location: SCH 250c
Title: “Biologization” of Technology in Gilbert Simondon’s On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects

Thursday May 5
2:00-4:00pm
Roundtable discussion with Dr. Scott Pratt (UO), Dr. Barbara Muraca (UO), Dr Kurt Russo (Lummi), and Jay Julius (Lummi)
Location: EMU 245 – Gumwood Room
Title: Science in Ceremony

Thursday May 12
2:00-3:30pm
Speaker: Youjin Kong (Oregon State University)
Location: Lokey 117
Title: Challenging Social Injustice through Philosophy of AI

Friday May 20
2:00-3:00pm
Location: Hedco Education Bldg Room 220
Workshop on Data Privacy with the UO Data Ethics team.

Thursday May 26
2:00-3:30pm
Speaker: Erin McKenna (University of Oregon)
Title: Wild Writing: Navigating Challenging Research Terrain

 

Summer 2022 Departmental Events

The Summer Institute in American Philosophy at the University of Oregon
Dates: August 8-13, 2022

Featuring concurrent sessions and plenary presentations by Steve Bullock, the former Governor and Attorney General of Montana; Lee McBride, the author of Ethics and Insurrection: A Pragmatism for the Oppressed; and John Kaag, the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and co-author of Drone Warfare (War and Conflict in the Modern World).  Each speaker will offer their perspective on the fate of democracy in response to current events.

 

Fall 2022 Philosophy Dept. Talks & Events

Thur, October 20, 2022, 2:00p-3:30p
Yankel Peralta García
(UNAM)
Title: “Latin America and the Marxist Theory of Value”
Location: Zoom

 

Thur, October 27, 2022, 2:00p-3:30p
Autumn Womack (Princeton University), delivering UO’s Annual New Media & Culture Lecture
Title: “Unruly Matters: Data, Blackness, and Aesthetics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Location: Knight Library Browsing Room, with reception to follow
Additional Information: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/newmediaculture/2022/05/31/autumn-womack-new-media-culture-lecture/
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy, IRES, Comparative Literature, and English

 

Thur, November 10, 2022, 2:00p-3:30p
Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University)
Title: Interpretating Genome Wide Association Studies and Polygenic Scores: Lessons from Lewontin
Location: Esslinger Room 105

 

Winter 2023 Philosophy Dept. Talks & Events

Tuesday, January  17, 2023, 2:00-3:30 pm
Dan Li (Indiana University)
Location: Gerlinger Hall Room 242
Title: Machines Learn Better with a Better Data Ontology

 

Thursday, January 19, 2023, 2:00-3:30 pm
Aja Watkins (Boston University)
Location: Gerlinger Hall Room 242
Title: Rates of Climate Change: Now and in the Deep Past

 

Tuesday, January  24, 2023, 2:00-3:30 pm
Jacob Neal (Rotman Institute at Western University)
Location: Gerlinger Hall Room 242
Title: Scientific Change in the Molecular Life Sciences: The Rise of the Dynamic View of Proteins

 

Spring 2023 Philosophy Dept. Talks & Events

Thursday, April 6, 2023, 2:00-3:30 pm
 Dr. Luis Tapia Mealla (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés & National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Location: Lokey Education, Room 176
Title: How Do We Think of Social Diversity?

Abstract:  Today’s call for diversity in the United States quite often reduces itself to body count.  René Zavaleta Mercado (1937-1984) confronted the question of respecting diversity in the analysis of social reality in the twentieth century. Towards a History of the National-Popular in Bolivia, now translated into English for the first time, confronts this question not only in terms of mere inclusion and exclusion but, as our speaker points out, in terms of a “motley” social situation, devising methodology to represent its demand. It is time that we in the United States take this text out of its silo and use it to think diversity beyond the inevitably hierarchized “intersection” model.

Thursday, April 13, 2023, 2:00p-3:30p
Dr. Edward Casey (Stony Brook University)
Location: Lokey Education, Room 176
Title: “Awe and Empathy Re-examined”

Professor Casey is a Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University working in aesthetics, philosophy of space and time, ethics, perception, and psychoanalytic theory among many topics.

 

 


For additional information about UO Philosophy Department events, contact Nicolae Morar, Chair, Colloquium and Special Events Committee.