This past October, Nelson Maldonado-Torres was the keynote speaker at the UNESCO Conference Encuentro de Cátedras UNESCO de América Latina y el Caribe 2025! The meeting hosted, among a large number of scholars, UNESCO Chairs across all of Latin America. We extend our congratulations!
Spring 2026 Graduate Courses
Spring 2026 PHIL 5320: Seminar in the History of Philosophy: Aristotle. Charlotte Duffee, Tuesdays 11:30 am -2:00 pm Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a foundational text in the history of moral philosophy, and an intimate knowledge of it is essential for understanding later ethical views. This course will focus on Aristotle’s seminal work as well as […]
Tom Meagher Featured in “South African Journal of Philosophy”; Edited by Sarah Setlaelo
Tom Meagher, one of our PhD alumni, has the leading piece in the recent special issue of the South African Journal of Philosophy, which focuses on the thought of the major living South African Philosopher, Mabogo Percy More. The issue is edited by Dr. Sarah Setlaelo (recently a South African Fellow at Harvard), who will […]
Professor Sam Wheeler to Appear in December Issues of Nonsite
Professor Sam Wheeler’s essay, “Does ChatGPT refer with Names? Design Intention and Derivative Reference in Large Language Models,” is forthcoming in the December issue of nonsite.org. You may also read a near final version here. Congratulations, Professor Wheeler!
Ting-An Lin : “AI, Normality, and Oppressive Things” Wins Best Paper Award at AIES
Please join us in congratulating Assistant Professor Ting-An Lin, who’s co-authored paper (with Linus Ta-Lun Huang), “AI, Normality, and Oppressive Things” has just won a Best Paper Award at AIES (the AAAI/ACM conference on AI, Ethics, and Society), a top interdisciplinary conference on AI ethics. The extended abstract can be read here.
Lewis Gordon: Featured in Podcast “Philosophy Bites”
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs Lewis Gordon has recently featured in the podcast Philosophy Bites, in which the focus of discussion is the Martinican revolutionary philosopher, psychiatrist, and sociologist Frantz Fanon. The podcast is called Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon, listen to it here! Congratulations, Professor Gordon!
Lewis Gordon: Delivered Keynote at North American Sartre Society Meeting at ULV
In September of 2025, Lewis Gordon delivered the keynote speech at the American Sartre Society Meeting, which took place at LaVerne University. The conference focused on the thought of Sartre and Fanon. Click here for the conference schedule. There was also a session on Gordon’s work, which featured two alumni of the UConn Philosophy Department: […]
Michael Lynch: To Deliver Suter Distinguished Lecture at Michigan State University
Professor Micheal Lynch will be giving the Suter Distinguished Lecture on “Truth and History” next week on Friday, October 3rd at Michigan State University.
Ahmed AboHamad: To Deliver Fellow’s Talk on Political (Dis)engagement
Ahmed AboHamad, who was awarded the UConn Humanities Dissertation Fellowship this year (2025-2026), will be giving a Fellow’s Talk, titled “The Inward Turn and the Vices of Political (Dis)engagement.”
Lewis Gordon: Delivers Martha Nussbaum Distinguished Lecture at HDCA
Professor Lewis Gordon delivered the Martha Nussbaum Distinguished Lecture at the HDCA 2025 conference in Bradford, UK, presenting on “Freedom, with Respect to Justice and Decolonization.”