Events

The Simon Silverman Center's 26th Annual Conference on Phenomenology and Posthumanism took place on Friday March 7 and Saturday March 8, 2008. Click here for the conference schedule.

The Philosophy Department will sponsor its First Annual Earth Day Colloquium, Thursday April 17, 2:30-5:00 pm. Speakers will be Fred Evans (Philosophy), Michael Harrington (Philosophy), Dan Scheid (Theology), and James Vota (Journalism). Further details will be forthcoming.

Duquesne University will sponsor the SPEP annual meeting in October 2008 at the Pittsburgh Marriott. Details will be forthcoming.

On campus speakers and discussions:

Departmental Speakers Series 2007-2008

Graduate Student Paper Presentations

Graduate Student Colloquia

News - Faculty

Dr. Ronald Polansky's commentary on Aristotle's De Anima has recently been published by Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Dr. Jay Lampert (University of Guelph) taught, as a visitor, a graduate course in Hegel's Logic in Fall 2007. He recently published Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History (Continuum, 2006).

Dr. George Yancy's edited text, White On White / Black On Black (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2005.

Dr. Jennifer Bates (Ph.D. University of Toronto) has been appointed as an Assistant Professor in our department. Her specializations are Continental Ethics and Hegel. She will begin teaching in Fall 2007.

Dr. Michael Harrington (Ph.D. Boston College) has been appointed as an Associate Professor in our department. His area of specialization is Medieval Philosophy. He will begin teaching in Fall 2007.

We welcome into our department Fr. Casimir Nyaki CSSp., for a two year appointment before his return to teach in Tanzania.

Dr. Tom Rockmore is teaching spring term 2008 at the University of Beijing as a Fulbright scholar.

Dr. Rockmore was named a McAnulty College Distinguished Professor. Dr. Rockmore's reception.

Dr. Rockmore received a national NEH scholarship award for summer 2008.

Dr. Rockmore will give a series of lectures at the American University in Cairo in spring 2008 as a distinguished visiting professor.

Dr. Patrick Miller was named a Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies. He will be spending the academic year 2008-2009 at the Center in Washington, D.C.

Dr. George Yancy received the McAnulty Faculty Excellence in Scholarship Award for 2008.

Dr. Jessica Wiskus, from the Duquesne School of Music, won this year's APA Rockefeller Prize for her paper, "Depth-Light-Being: Mythical Time and the Musical Idea through Merleau-Ponty." She was awarded the prize at the APA - Eastern meeting in December 2006.

Cardinal Francis George (Archbishop of Chicago) gave an endowed lecture for the McAnulty College of Liberal Arts on March 13, 2008.

Recent Faculty Books

Dr. Tom Rockmore, Kant and Idealism, Yale University Press, 2007.

Dr. Tom Rockmore, In Kant's Wake, Blackwell, 2006.

Dr. Jennifer Bates, Hegel's Theory of Imagination, SUNY, 2004.

Dr. James Swindal and Harry Gensler SJ, eds, The Sheed and Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

Dr. Lanei Rodemeyer, Intersubjective Temporality: It's About Time, Springer, 2006.

Dr. Patrick Miller, CDC Reeve, co-editors, Introductory Readings in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Hackett, 2006.

Dr. Michael Harrington, Sacred Place in Medieval Neoplatonism, Palgrave, 2004.

News - Graduate Students

Joy Simmons' paper, "Simone de Beauvoir's Racial 'Others': An Exploration of Whiteness in America Day by Day" was just accepted for publication in the Simone de Beauvoir Studies Journal, Volume 23, 2007-2008. It is forthcoming in Summer 2008.

Stan Marlan's book, The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness, has been nominated for the 2006 Gradiva Award in the Best Book Category by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). The Gradiva is awarded for the best published, produced, or publicly exhibited work that advances psychoanalysis.

Graduate Student Awards

Tom Sparrow received a Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Scholarship for 2008.

Joseph Cimakasky received the Michael Strasser Award for the academic year 2007-2008.

James Stover received a Duquesne University Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Patrick Macfarlane received a 2006 Dean's Dissertation Fellowship from the McAnulty College of Liberal Arts.

Joshua Miller received a 2007 Dean's Dissertation Fellowship from the McAnulty College of Liberal Arts.

New Graduate Students

We welcome into our Graduate program the following new students for the academic year 2007-2008: Brock Bahler, Sarah Ball, Augustine Bangalie, Evan Dusheck, Daniel Gallagher, Preston Huck, Jennifer La, Kenneth Marlovits, Joshua McDaniel, Ian McHugh, Joseph Method, Filbert Mhasi, Molly Ness, Charles Scheerbaum, Kevin Storer, Mark Weimer, and Matthew Valentine.