The Graduate Colloquium is an amicable and relaxed venue for engagement with the work of the Department 91制片厂 鈥檚 graduate students. It is a great opportunity for graduate students to gain experience presenting, to share and receive feedback on current work, and to workshop new ideas.
For the 2024-2025 school year, this colloquium will be meeting at 2:30pm in Watson Hall, Room 122 on the following Fridays:
Fall 2024 Schedule
September 27: Dean Joseph, "Trusting Conspiracy Theories"
October 4: Sofie Vlaad, "You Died: Soulslikes and the Aesthetics of Difficulty"
October 11: Jessica McMullin, "Naturalism and Constructivism in Environmental Thought: A Wittgensteinian Approach"
October 25: Session Cancelled
November 1: Session Postponed
November 8: Joel da Silva, "Minding the Gap"
November 15: James Winslow, "Partial Aggregation, the Relevance Relation, and Moral Pluralism"
November 29: Isabel Xu, "The Contribution of Bargaining Models in Justifying the Theory of Racial Capitalism in Bright et al. 91制片厂 鈥檚 paper 鈥淥n the Stability of Racial Capitalism鈥".
Winter 2025 Schedule
January 16: Sofie Vlaad, "Bad Art"
January 23: Yuanjin Xia, "Egalitarian Perspectives on Caregiving: The Privatization Thesis Reconsidered"
February 6: Melinda Robinson, "Love and Imagination: On Iris Murdoch 91制片厂 鈥檚 Philosophy of Creativity"
March 6: Joel da Silva, "Does Charles Mills's Black Radical Rawlsianism Depend on Ideal Theory?"
March 13: Sadie Elliot, 鈥淎gamben, Anthropology, and Analogy鈥
March 27: L茅o B茅dard, "Is Canada Failing Refugees? Asylum, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Bill C-12"