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2011-2012 Speakers and Conferences

6th Annual Duquesne Graduate Philosophical Conference: Aesthetics & Politics

Bayer Learning Center, Pappert Lecture Hall, Saturday, February 18th, 2012 from 10:00am to 4:30pm.

Our Keynote Speaker is Dr. Gabriel Rockhill, Villanova University, presenting "Immanence and Intervention: Towards a Radical Historicist Analytic of Practice"
The conference is open to the puclic and all are encouraged to attend.

A film screening of "Only God Can Save Us". Africa Room, Student Union Building, Friday, September 9, 2011 at 1:00PM.

- The film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring film maker Jeffery van Davis, Dr. Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University) and the Duquesne University's Department of Philosophy's first doctoral graduate, Dr. Ted Kisiel (Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University). This film looks at one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, Martin Heidegger and his rejection of democracy and support of Nazism in the 1930's. All are welcome to attend.

"Lacan on Love" Bruce Fink (Duquesne University / Psychology Department) in room 104 College Hall, Friday, September 23, 2011 at 3:30PM.

- Professor Fink's talk will address a number of themes in Lacan's commentary on Plato's Symposium.

"Reclaimed Voice? Echo's Own Echo" Lisa Folkmarson Käll (Uppsala) in Silverman Center, Friday, October 14, 2011 at 2:30PM. Co-sponsoring with the Center for Women's and Gender Studies.

- A talk on Merleau-Ponty, the Ovidean voice and originary repetition.

Symposium on Hegel's Science of Logic, with Dr. Jay Lambert (Guelph) Dr. David Morris (Concordia), Dr. Tom Rockmore (Duquesne), and Dr. John Russon (Guelph), in the Silverman Center, Friday, October 28, 2011 at 4:00PM.

Silvia Stoller (Vienna) November 17, 2011. Co-sponsoring with the Center for Women's and Gender Studies.

"The Collision of Derrida's Deconstructionism and Chinese Marxism" Wei Xiao Ping (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) in the Silverman Center, Friday, December 2, 2011 at 3:30PM.

Paolo Palmieri (Pittsburgh) in the Silverman Center, Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2:30PM.

Markus Gabriel (Bonn / New School) in the Silverman Center, Friday, March 9, 2012 at 2:30PM.

Department Highlights

Ron Polansky will be the Interim Chair next academic year, replacing James Swindal who will be the Acting Dean of the McAnulty College for the year.
Jennifer Bates received a College NEH award to host a conference on Hegel's Logic this coming semester on October 28th. The event will coincide with her teaching a graduate course on the text. Panel participants will be Jay Lampert (University of Guelph), John Russon (University of Guelph), David Morris (Concordia University), and Tom Rockmore.
Fred Evans’s recent work on public art prompted the forthcoming publication of an article, “Voices of Democracy: Citizenship and Public Art (Millennium Park)," in Outrage! Art, Controversy, and Society, eds. Andrea Ritivoi and Judith Schachter (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
Louis Bulter, an undergraduate major, has been award a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Munich for the academic year 2011-2012. Pittsburgh Tribune Article.
Daniel Selcer won a NEH Teaching Development Fellowship for 2011-2012. The project is entitled: "Atomic Thought: Philosophy and Science in the 17th Century."
Patrick Miller was awarded a Presidential scholarship for research in the summer of 2011.
Lanei Rodemeyer was the keynote speaker for the Interdisciplinary Association for Philosophy and Religious Studies (IAPRS) conference at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, April 16-17, 2010. Her talk was entitled, "Living In--and Out--of Time (a Phenomenological Description).”
Patrick Miller presented a series of posts, entitled “Crosswise Christ,” on the Immanent Frame, a blog sponsored by the Social Science Research Council.

Recent Faculty Publications

Patrick Miller Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy. Continuum Press, 2011.	Tom Rockmore Kant and Phenomenology. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Jennifer Bates Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination. SUNY Press, 2010. View it here.	Tom Rockmore Before and After 9/11: A Philosophical Examination of Globalization, Terror, and History. Continuum Press, 2011.
Daniel Selcer Philosophy and the Book. Continuum Press, 2010.	George Yancy, editor. The Center Must Not Hold. White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy. Lexington, 2010.
George Yancy, Black Bodies/White Gazes, Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.	Fred Evans,The Multivoiced Body: Society and Communication in the Age of Diversity, Columbia University Press, 2009.
George Yancy, editor, White On White / Black On Black, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2005.	Ronald Polansky, Aristotle's De Anima, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Graduate Student News

New 2011-2012 Graduate StudentsWe welcome into our graduate program the following new students for the Academic Year 2011-2012:

Mohammed Alhussain (B.A. University of Oregon)

Zoe Anthony (B.A. Westminster College)

Keith Crescenzi (B.S. Troy University)

Paul Digeorgio (B.A. University of North Florida)

Billy Dean Goehring (B.A. Missouri State University)

Jessica Konig (M.A. Graduate Theological Union)

Martin Krahn (B.A. Middlebury College)

Katie Mattix (B.A. Purdue University)

Hernan Martinez-Millán (M.A. Valladolid University)

Sila Ozkara (B.A. University of Toronto)

Brian Pines (B.A. University of Redlands)

Charles Salem (B.A. St. John's College-Annapolis)

Abdi Shaari (B.A. Arizona State University)

Ellen Shuman (B.A. Colorado State University)

Bethany Somma (B.A. Belmont University)

Kelsey Ward (M.A. Duquesne University)

Paul Zipfel (M.A. Brock University)

Graduate Student Awards

Deidre Black, Kelsey Ward, Nalan Sarac, and Chris Mountenay received the Ronald M. Polansky summer language study grants for 2010.
Kathy Weber is a recipient of a Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award for 2010.