Check out CBC Radio‘s coverage of Professor Lewis Gordon‘s lecture in St John’s, Newfoundland, where he presented a lecture in a historic pub!
Read the article here, included with a recording of Professor Gordon’s lecture.
Faculty
Paul Bloomfield and Alumna Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco featured in New Work in Philosophy
Professor Paul Bloomfield and Alumna Alycia LaGuardia-LoBianco’s article, “The Axiology of Pain and Pleasure,” has been featured in New Work in Philosophy!
Check out the article here!
2023 -2024 UCHI/CLAS Undergraduate Research Fellows
Congratulations to the 2023 – 2024 UCHI/CLAS Undergraduate Research Fellows who have been supervised by our wonderful junior faculty members!
Breanna Bonner (Project advisor: Ayanna De’Vante Spencer)
“‘The Space Between Black and Liberation’: Analyzing Black Women’s Experiences of Intersectional Invisibility Within Liberation Movements”
Annabelle Bergstrom (Project advisor: Julian J. Schlöder)
“Minds Among Minds: A Pragmatist View of the Social and Spiritual Self in a Hyperconnected World”
Nathan Howard (Project advisor: Tracy Llanera)
“Homofascism: The Queering of Hate”
Dana Miranda: APA Essay on Black Issues in Philosophy
Congratulations to our very own alum, Dana Miranda, whose essay “The Blacker the Madness: The Balmy Methodologies of La Marr Jurelle Bruce” has been recently published on The Blog of the American Philosophical Association.
Dana Miranda is now an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Fellow at the Applied Ethics Center in UMass Boston!
Check out the essay here!
Tracy Llanera: Awarded Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera for being awarded a Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship! Professor Llanera will write a new book titled The Misfits of Extremism.
Her book aims to place non-traditional extremist agents of Islamic fundamentalism and white supremacy at the front and center of philosophical and political debates. The work will offer a new theoretical framework for understanding the nature and character of extremism and extremist commitment, the dynamics of power and agency, and the problems of blame and moral accountability.
Winners of the UCHI Undergraduate Humanities Research Fellowship
Congratulations to undergraduate students Anabelle Bergstrom and Nathan Howard for being awarded the UCHI Undergraduate Humanities Research Fellowship for 2023 – 2024!
Anabelle will work on the project “Minds Among Minds: A Pragmatist View of the Social and Spiritual Self in a Hyperconnected World,” supervised by Assistant Research Professor Julian Schloeder.
Nathan will work on the project “Homofascism: The Queering of Hate,” supervised by Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera.
Heather Muraviov: Awarded Residential Fellowship from the University of Notre Dame
Congratulations to Heather Muraviov for being awarded a residential fellowship at The Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame to study the nature and value of intellectual humility in contexts of oppression.
Check out more information on the award here.
Lewis Gordon: Featured in Inside Higher Ed Article
Professor Lewis Gordon was featured in Inside Higher Ed‘s article “Addressing an ‘Epidemic’ of Hatred” where he highlights ways the histories of Black and American Jewish communities intersect.
Check out the article here!
Heather Muraviov and Tracy Llanera: Talk at California State Fullerton Philosophy Symposium
Congratulations to PH.D. student, Heather Muraviov, and Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera for presenting at the California State Fullerton Philosophy Symposium on Examining Extremism this week!
Heather’s talk is titled “Countering Extremist Mindsets through Liberatory Epistemic Virtues” and focuses on an application of Cassam’s view of extremist mindsets and radicalization to agents who resist oppression and engage in liberatory struggles.
Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera’s talk is titled “Extremist Women and Fanaticism,” and focuses on women and their propensity to become fanatics in extremist groups.
Tracy Llanera: “Vain Feminists” Published in Forma de Vida Journal
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera for her essay, “Vain Feminists” (or “Feministas Vaidosas”), being published in Portuguese and English in the Forma de Vida journal! Forma de Vida is the journal of the Program in Theory of Literature at the University of Lisbon.
Check out Dr. Llanera’s essay here!