2008

January 2008

Friday, January 4  Comprehensive exams, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Friday, January 11  Comprehensive exams, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Monday, January 14  First day of classes

Wednesday, January 16  Oral exams

Friday, January 18  Shane Duarte, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Monadic Domination in Leibniz" Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

Monday, January 21  Farid Masrour, University of Arizona, "In Defense of Conceptualism" Clement Hall 317, 3:00 p.m.

Monday, January 21  Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday (no classes)

Wednesday, January 23  Student committee meeting (schedule for Spring 2008). 

Friday, January 25  Stephen Blatti, University of Oxford and Duke University, "Colocation, Constitution, and the Origin(s) of Art" Clement Hall 317, 3:00 p.m.

Monday, January 28  Tushar Irani, Northwestern University, "Reason and Madness in Plato" Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

Wednesday, January 30  Student committee meeting (schedule for Spring 2008).

February 2008

Friday, February 1   Benjamin McMyler, University of Chicago, "Authority, Evidence, and Second-Personal Belief," Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

Friday, February 8   Joel Yurdin, University of California, Berkeley, "Aristotelian Imagination and the Explanation of Behavior," Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

Friday - Saturday, February 15-16   Graduate Student Conference: Expanding the Notions of Community and Solidarity, Keynote: Tina Chanter (Feb. 15), DePaul University, Title TBA.

March 2008

Monday - Sunday, March 3-9  Spring break

Monday, March 10  David Scott, Dissertation defense, time and location TBA.

Friday, March 14  Camisha Russell, University of Memphis, "Black American Sexuality and the Repressive Hypothesis: Reading Black Sexual Politics with The History of Sexuality," Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

Friday, March 21  Arlette Barahona, University of Memphis, "Creating the Subject in Existence and Existents," Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

Friday, March 28  James Haile, University of Memphis, "The Black Boy Meets the Brown Boy: Black American Existential Perspectives on Franz Fanon," Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

April

Friday, April 4  Cigdem Yazici, University of Memphis, "Historical People in Heidegger and Culture," Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

Friday, April 11  Leigh Johnson, Rhodes College, "Reason and Racism," Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 22  Miguel de Beistegui, University of Warwick, Title TBA, Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

Friday, April 25  Bryan Bannon, University of Memphis, "Nature's Time and the Depersonalization of the Self," Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 23  Last day of classes

Thursday, April 24  Study day

Friday - Thursday, April 25 - May 1  Final exams (schedule)

May

Friday May 2  Steven Skultety, University of Mississippi, "Delimiting Stasis: An Interpretation of Politics V" Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

2007

December 2007

Wednesday, December 5  Last day of classes

Thursday, December 6  Study day

Friday, December 7  Research in Progress: Arlette Barhona, "Creating the Subject in Existence and Existents," commentator Kristin Gissberg, Clement Hall 213, 3:00 p.m.

Friday - Thursday, December 7-13   Final exams (schedule)

Thursday - Sunday, December 27-30  APA Eastern Division meeting in Baltimore, Maryland.

Friday, December 28  Kas Sagafi, President of the Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française (SAPLF) will be chairing a session at the APA Eastern Division meeting
(Group Session VI 8:15-11:15 p.m.). The speakers are Catherine Malabou (Université de Paris X-Nanterre), "Freud et la neurologie contemporaine: le sens de l'accident"; Rodolphe Gasché (University at Buffalo-State University of New York), "De-Closing the Horizon"; and François Raffoul (Louisiana State University), "Derrida and the Ethics of the Im-possible." For further information about the session or the society, please contact Kas Saghafi at ksaghafi@memphis.edu.