Tracy Llanera: Resentment, Guilt, and Shame Under Patriarchy Panel

Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera will be participating in a public panel on resentment, guilt, and shame under patriarchy live on Zoom on August 9, 2021. The event will begin with three short talks: Dr Louise Richardson-Self (UTAS) — “Affirmative Action, Gender, and Merit” Dr Tracy Llanera (UNDA/UConn) — “Misogyny, Feminism, and the Alt-Right“ Dr Filipa Melo Lopes (Edinburgh) […]

Tracy Llanera: Guest on “The Minefield”

Listen to Assistant Professor Tracy Llanera’s recent guest appearance on The Minefield with Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens on ABC Radio National.   In a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life. This episode addresses such questions as whether a […]

Jessica Tizzard: “Kantian Moral Psychology and Human Weakness”

Assistant Research Professor Jessica Tizzard’s article, “Kantian Moral Psychology and Human Weakness,” is forthcoming in Philosopher’s Imprint. *Abstract* Immanuel Kant’s notion of weakness or frailty warrants more attention, for it reveals much about his theory of motivation and general metaphysics of mind. As the first and least severe of the three grades of evil, frailty captures […]

Katrina Van Dyke: Wood/Raith Living Trust Summer Graduate Student Fellowship

Congratulations to graduate student Katrina Van Dyke, who has been awarded a Wood/Raith Living Trust Summer Graduate Student Fellowship! She is the first philosopher to receive the award since the graduate student fellowship’s inception.   Her project is titled Gendered Viewpoints and Objectification: Reconsidering Catharine MacKinnon’s Account of Desire and Power.  

Lewis Gordon: 2021 International Studies Association Eminent Scholar

Lewis Gordon is this year’s Eminent Scholar, an award given by the Global Development Section of the International Studies Association. In addition to the plaque documenting the award, a panel devoted to the honoree’s work, followed by a reception, will take place at the association’s international meeting, which will take place next March in Nashville, […]

Lewis Gordon: Pan-African Forums, Africa Day

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 […]

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).