Apr
28
Thu
Latinx Philosophers Conference @ 716 Philosophy Hall, Columbia U.
Apr 28 – Apr 29 all-day

The 1st Latinx Philosophers Conference is an initiative of some Latin American PhD candidates in the Columbia Philosophy Department. We hope to initiate a tradition of annual conferences to serve the following ends. First, to foster the creation and development of a Latinx Philosophers Network in the United States. This network, in turn, will help us provide a space for camaraderie and collaborative work, as well as identify and pursue the common interests of Latinx Philosophers in the U.S. Second, to provide a space for discussing issues of particular relevance to Latinx from a philosophical perspective.

The conference will take place on April 29-30 and will be organized around two clusters of topics. The first day will be devoted to issues in Epistemology, Logic, Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science. The second day will focus on Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, and Latin American Philosophy. We are happy to announce that Otavio Bueno and Jorge Gracia will be our keynote speakers for each day, respectively.

We invite graduate students who identify as Latinx or who are interested in forming part of the Latino/a Philosophers Network to submit papers on any of the topics mentioned above. We encourage submissions by women. We also encourage submissions that discuss issues relevant to the Latinx experience.

Papers should not exceed 4000 words (or the equivalent of a 30-minute presentation). They should be prepared for blind review and sent as a PDF file to latinophilosophersnetwork@gmail.com. In a separate PDF attachment, please include your name, academic affiliation, email address, telephone number, paper title, and an abstract of no more than 250 words. Any questions can be directed to César Cabezas (cgc2125@columbia.edu), or Ignacio Ojea (ignacio.ojea@columbia.edu). Acceptances will be announced by March 15.

This event is supported by:

MAP (Minorities and Philosophy), and

The Center for Race, Philosophy and Social Justice at Columbia University

Of Grammatology Re-Translated: 40th Anniversary Edition – A Tribute @ Teatro, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia U
Apr 28 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

A panel discussion with Gayatri Spivak and invited guests

Event Location: Teatro, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies

This new release of Of Grammatology is a milestone in the history of an indispensable work of contemporary critical philosophy. In celebration, join us as we reflect on the importance of Jacques Derrida’s book with panelists:

Benjamin Conisbee Baer, Princeton University, Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University Mireille Calle-Gruber, Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Avital Ronell, New York University, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University

Featuring a performance by pianist and Columbia Scholar, Yohann Ripert.

Moderated by Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University.

No registration required. Seating is limited. First come, first seated.

Book Signing to Follow Event

Sponsored by: Barnard Center for Translation Studies, Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, Columbia Global Centers, Department of Philosophy at Barnard, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Institute of African Studies, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Department of French and Romance Philology, Johns Hopkins Press, Maison Française, Office of the Dean of Humanities, and South Asia Institute.

Oct
6
Fri
Selfishness and Self-Centredness in Neo-Confucianism – Philip J. Ivanhoe @ Heyman Center for the Humanities
Oct 6 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
The Columbia University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies (University Seminar #567) will convene Friday, October 6th, from 3:30 to 5:30pm in the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.
Our speaker will be Philip J. Ivanhoe, who will be presenting his chapter on selfishness and self-centredness in Neo-Confucianism from his forthcoming book: Oneness. The companion anthology to this book, The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self, will be published by Columbia University Press.
Feb
20
Tue
Minorities and Philosophy Spring Workshop Series @ Various Locations around NYC
Feb 20 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Chapters of Columbia, The New School, Rutgers, CUNY, NYU, and Princeton invite submissions from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from underrepresented groups for a workshop series (NY-MAPWorks) in spring 2018.

Dates: Jan 30th (NYU), Feb. 20th (New School), March 6th (CUNY), April 17th (Columbia), May 8th (NYU), 7-9:30pm.

Submission Guidelines:

To apply, please compete the following by December 15th, 2017:

  1. Send an extended abstract of 750-1,000 words (.pdf or .doc), prepared for blind review, suitable for a 25-30 minute presentation to a general philosophical audience to nymapshop@gmail.com.
  2. Provide your contact information by completing this google form.

Applications will only be accepted from individuals from groups underrepresented in academic philosophy.

Accepted participants will be notified by January 14th. For further details, see our philpapers posting at https://philevents.org/event/show/37294.

Mar
6
Tue
Minorities and Philosophy Spring Workshop Series @ Various Locations around NYC
Mar 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Chapters of Columbia, The New School, Rutgers, CUNY, NYU, and Princeton invite submissions from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from underrepresented groups for a workshop series (NY-MAPWorks) in spring 2018.

Dates: Jan 30th (NYU), Feb. 20th (New School), March 6th (CUNY), April 17th (Columbia), May 8th (NYU), 7-9:30pm.

Submission Guidelines:

To apply, please compete the following by December 15th, 2017:

  1. Send an extended abstract of 750-1,000 words (.pdf or .doc), prepared for blind review, suitable for a 25-30 minute presentation to a general philosophical audience to nymapshop@gmail.com.
  2. Provide your contact information by completing this google form.

Applications will only be accepted from individuals from groups underrepresented in academic philosophy.

Accepted participants will be notified by January 14th. For further details, see our philpapers posting at https://philevents.org/event/show/37294.

Mar
24
Sat
Columbia-NYU Philosophy Grad Conference @ 310 Fayerweather Hall, Columbia U
Mar 24 all-day

The 18th Annual Columbia-NYU Graduate Conference in Philosophy

The graduate students and faculty of the Columbia and NYU Philosophy Departments invite graduate submissions in any area of philosophy for a conference to be held on Saturday, March 24th, 2018 at Columbia University.

Keynote Speaker:

Richard Moran
Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

Submission Guidelines

  1. Submissions Deadline: Please make your submissions by following the
    instructions provided at ColumbiaNYU.wordpress.com by December 17th,
    2017 (Notification by February 1st, 2018).
  2.  Papers must meet the following requirements:
  • All papers must be between 3,000 and 5,000 words in length, suitable for
    a presentation of 30-40 minutes to a general philosophical audience.
  • Submit papers with a separate cover sheet in .pdf format that includes the
    following information: name, home institution, contact details, area of
    paper (e.g., metaphysics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, etc.), and an
    abstract of no longer than 300 words.
  • Papers must be submitted in .pdf and blind-review format.

Organizing Committee

Martina Botti, Olivia Branscum, Anthony Garruzzo, Chuyu Tian, Helen Zhao (Columbia), Alan Barat, Banafsheh Beizaei, Sophie Cote, Clara Lingle, Stephan Pohl (NYU)

Please note that only submissions by current graduate students will be considered.

Submissions by mail will NOT be accepted. Please email further questions to:
columbianyu.philgradconference@gmail.com

Apr
17
Tue
Minorities and Philosophy Spring Workshop Series @ Various Locations around NYC
Apr 17 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Chapters of Columbia, The New School, Rutgers, CUNY, NYU, and Princeton invite submissions from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from underrepresented groups for a workshop series (NY-MAPWorks) in spring 2018.

Dates: Jan 30th (NYU), Feb. 20th (New School), March 6th (CUNY), April 17th (Columbia), May 8th (NYU), 7-9:30pm.

Submission Guidelines:

To apply, please compete the following by December 15th, 2017:

  1. Send an extended abstract of 750-1,000 words (.pdf or .doc), prepared for blind review, suitable for a 25-30 minute presentation to a general philosophical audience to nymapshop@gmail.com.
  2. Provide your contact information by completing this google form.

Applications will only be accepted from individuals from groups underrepresented in academic philosophy.

Accepted participants will be notified by January 14th. For further details, see our philpapers posting at https://philevents.org/event/show/37294.

May
4
Fri
Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society @ Columbia University Philosophy Dept. 716
May 4 – May 5 all-day

The Eastern Study Group of the NAKS invites submissions for its 15th annual meeting to take place at Columbia University on Friday and Saturday, May 4–5, 2018. Our host this year is Professor Patricia Kitcher.

Conference Flyer

Keynote Speakers:

Stephen Engstrom (Pitt)

Paul Guyer (Brown)

Submissions of detailed abstracts (1,000 words) or papers (no more than 5,000 words, including notes and references) should be prepared for blind review as PDF files. Please include a word count at the end of your abstract or paper. Please supply contact information in a separate file. If you are a graduate student, please indicate this in your contact information.

The selection committee welcomes contributions on all topics of Kantian scholarship (contemporary or historically oriented), including discussions of Kant’s immediate predecessors and successors. Reading time is limited to 30 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of discussion. The best graduate student paper will receive a $200 stipend and be eligible for the Markus Herz Prize. Women, minorities, and graduate students are encouraged to submit.

Papers already read or accepted at other NAKS study groups or meetings may not be submitted. Presenters must be members of NAKS in good standing.

Papers will be posted in the “members only” section of the NAKS website and circulated in advance among participants, who are expected to have read them at the time of the conference.

ENAKS receives support from NAKS and host universities. Earlier programs are available on our website: http://word.emerson.edu/enaks/

For questions about ENAKS or the upcoming meeting, please contact Kate Moran (kmoran@brandeis.edu).

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2018

Time: May 4–5, 2018

Place: Columbia University

Please send all abstracts electronically to Kate Moran, kmoran@brandeis.edu

May
8
Tue
Minorities and Philosophy Spring Workshop Series @ Various Locations around NYC
May 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Chapters of Columbia, The New School, Rutgers, CUNY, NYU, and Princeton invite submissions from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from underrepresented groups for a workshop series (NY-MAPWorks) in spring 2018.

Dates: Jan 30th (NYU), Feb. 20th (New School), March 6th (CUNY), April 17th (Columbia), May 8th (NYU), 7-9:30pm.

Submission Guidelines:

To apply, please compete the following by December 15th, 2017:

  1. Send an extended abstract of 750-1,000 words (.pdf or .doc), prepared for blind review, suitable for a 25-30 minute presentation to a general philosophical audience to nymapshop@gmail.com.
  2. Provide your contact information by completing this google form.

Applications will only be accepted from individuals from groups underrepresented in academic philosophy.

Accepted participants will be notified by January 14th. For further details, see our philpapers posting at https://philevents.org/event/show/37294.

Oct
12
Fri
How I Came to Conclude that Confucian Discourse is not Philosophy, Eske Møllgaard (U. Rhode Island) @ Columbia University Religion Dept. 101
Oct 12 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

The paper follows and elaborates on a line of argument in my book The Confucian Political Imagination, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan this summer. I do not address the main argument of the book, but sum up a line of thought that has gradually taken form since I began to read Confucian texts. I explain what I learned about reading Confucianism from my teacher Tu Weiming, and why I could not follow the philosophical turn in American Confucian studies. I point to the importance of reading in an emphatic sense, and argue that the philosophical approaches to Confucian texts often leads to an impoverished reading of these texts. Then I provide my own suggestions towards a definition Confucian discourse. I briefly point to the historical reasons Confucian discourse is not philosophy, and finally I ask if all this really matters.

THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY

Welcomes:

Eske Møllgaard (University of Rhode Island)

With a response from:

Andrew Lambert (College of Staten Island, CUNY)