The Viennese Jewish Museum (Jüdisches Museum Wien) has an exhibit based on Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Lewis Gordon’s article “Rarely Kosher,” which focuses on “What color are Jews?”. Find more information on the Viennese Jewish Museum website. Prof. Gordon also wrote a special essay for the catalogue, entitled “Eine Schwarz-jüdische Reflexion über die Hautfarbe von Juden” […]
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Lewis Gordon: To Give “African Studies Review” Distinguished Lecture at Annual ASA Meeting
This month, at the 68th annual African Studies Association meeting, Lewis Gordon will deliver the African Studies Review distinguished lecture. The title of Prof. Gordon’s lecture is “Fanon’s African Dream.” Find more information on ASA’s website, and in the attached photo. Congratulations, Professor Gordon!
Nelson Maldonado-Torres: Delivered Keynote at UNESCO Conference Encuentro de Cátedras UNESCO de América Latina y el Caribe 2025
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: […]