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Past Colloquium Events

February 21, 2020 · 4:00 pm6:00 pm · 002 Robertson Bowl

Philosophy Colloquium: Nihilism and the Abundance of Values

Paul Katsafanas, Boston University


February 19, 2020 · 4:30 pm5:30 pm · 130 Corwin

Environmental Humanities Colloquium: After Us the Deluge

Kadir van Lohuizen, NOOR


February 14, 2020 · 4:00 pm6:00 pm · Bowl 16, Roberston

Philosophy Colloquium: The Scientists Qua Scientist Makes No Assertion

Liam Kofi Bright, London School of Economics and Political Science


February 7, 2020 · 2:30 pm4:30 pm · 106 Woolworth

Music Decoding: Forgetting Perfection, Finding Results in Digital Musicology

Michael Scott Cuthbert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)


December 7, 2019 · 2:00 pm5:00 pm · D&R Greenway Land Trust at the Johnson Education Center, 1 Preservation Place

Literature and Environment: A Reading and Creative Writing Colloquium

William Gleason, Kate Thorpe, English


December 4, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 111 East Pyne

Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Salvage: Experiment, Engagement and the Environmental Humanities

Allison Carruth, UCLA


December 3, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 216 Aaron Burr

Book Talk: Aftershocks of Disaster

Yarimar Bonilla, Hunter College, City University of New York; Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rutgers University,


November 22, 2019 · 4:00 pm6:00 pm · A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz

Philosophy Colloquium: Inference to the Best Theory

Katrina Elliott, University of California, Los Angeles


November 13, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 111 East Pyne

Environmental Humanities Colloquium: A Woman of Many Masks

Iain McCalman, University of Sydney


November 5, 2019 · 6:00 pm8:00 pm · N107 School of Architecture

M+M: Fall 2019 Doctoral Colloquium: Session I: Ivan L. Munuera + Ying Sze Pek

Ivan L. Munuera, Architecture; Ying Sze Pek, Art and Archaeology


October 18, 2019 · 4:00 pm6:00 pm · Betts Auditorium

Inference to the Best Explanation as a Form of Non-Deductive Reasoning in Mathematics

Marc Lange, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


October 16, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 111 East Pyne

Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Humans as Acquired Taste

Jacob Dlamini, History


October 15, 2019 · 7:00 pm · 106 McCormick

Thinking on the Edge of the Abyss

Jan Zwicky, University of Victoria; Robert Bringhurst, poet


October 9, 2019 · 4:00 pm · 012 East Pyne

Epistemological Racism, Southern Theory, and Scholarly Ethics

Ryuko Kubota, University of British Columbia


October 4, 2019 · 4:00 pm6:00 pm · Betts Auditorium

Philosophy Colloquium: Three Justifications for Women’s Sport

Clare Chambers, Jesus College, University of Cambridge


September 30, 2019 · 8:00 am5:00 pm · Hinds Library, McCosh

Adventures in the Skin Trade: Thomas Southerne’s Oroonoko and the Marks of Religion

Kimberly Coles, University of Maryland


September 25, 2019 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 111 East Pyne

Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Once Upon a Tomorrow

Meera Subramanian, Science journalist


April 26, 2019 · 4:00 pm6:00 pm · Betts Auditorium

Philosophy Colloquium: Seeing Through the Clouds

John MacFarlane, University of California, Berkeley


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