Professor Lewis Gordon served as a panelist on the Pan-African Forums: Africa Day event hosted by The Elephant. *** To commemorate Africa Day, we think about how Pan-Africanism has reproduced itself, evolved theoretically and practically in different spaces through reflection and critique, and catalysed a range of important initiatives all over Global Africa, focusing on […]
Month: May 2021
Tracy Llanera: Interview on Ideas (CBC Radio Canada)
Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera and her co-author James Tartaglia (Keele University) were recently interviewed on the radio show Ideas (CBC Radio Canada). It will also air on Australia’s Radio National: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/good-news-for-nihilists-life-is-meaningless-after-all-say-philosophers-1.6036427. The focus was their book A Defence of Nihilism (Routledge, 2021).
Tracy Llanera: “Combatting Toxic Cultures in Academia”
Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera gave the opening remarks and a lecture titled “Subordination, Submission, and Suppression” on the theme “Combatting Toxic Cultures in Academia,” hosted by Women Doing Philosophy and Beyond the Ghetto, on May 21, 2021. The recorded public lecture can be found here.
Lewis Gordon: 47th Connecticut People’s World African-American History Month Celebration
Read about the 47th Connecticut People’s World African-American History Month Celebration, “Georgia On My Mind, The Third Reconstruction,” in People’s World. Professor and Department Head Lewis Gordon served as the keynote speaker for the event.
Colena Sesanker: Should Two- and Four-Year Degrees Be Free?
Check out alumna Colena Sesanker’s (2017) op-ed with Stephen Adair in The New York Times, “Should Two- and Four-Year Degrees Be Free?”
Christopher Rahlwes: From the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā in The Hudson Review
Read graduate student Christopher Rahlwes’ translation of Nagarjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā published in The Hudson Review (Spring 2021, Volume LXXIV, No. 1).
Heather Muraviov: Millikan Fellowship
The Department is pleased to announce that Heather Muraviov is the 2021 recipient of the Ruth Garrett Millikan Graduate Research Fellowship. The Fellowship will enable Heather to devote the summer to completing two chapters of her dissertation entitled “Liberatory Virtue Epistemology.” Her major advisor is Heather Battaly. For more information about the Ruth Garrett Millikan […]
Drew Johnson: Humanities Institute Fellow
Congratulations to doctoral candidate Drew Johnson for being selected as a fellow for the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (UCHI). Drew will be working on his dissertation, “A Hybrid Theory of Ethical Thought and Discourse,” which applies prominent recent philosophical theories of expression and representation to develop a novel “hybrid” theory recognizing the joint role of reason […]
Heather Muraviov: Excellence for Diversity and Inclusivity in a Syllabus
The Philosophy Department’s Climate Committee is pleased to announce that our inaugural Prize for Excellence for Diversity and Inclusivity in a Syllabus is awarded to Heather Muraviov’s syllabus for PHIL 1101, which demonstrated excellence in all three of these dimensions of diversity and inclusivity. Congratulations Heather! Thank you for designing an excellent syllabus. The committee […]
Heather Battaly and Casey Johnson: Character, Vices, and Authority
Tune into Character, Vices, and Authority with UConn Professor of Philosophy Heather Battaly and UConn alumna Casey Johnson (now Assistant Professor at the University of Idaho) on Thursday, May 13th, at 2:00 PM! When trying to make sense of the world, we rely on other people – for information, ideas, alternative perspectives, criticisms, and objections. […]