Colloquia

The department hosts a colloquium series featuring invited speakers from across the country and around the world.

In 2025-26, our speaker line up is:

• Nov. 7: Kareem Khalifa (UCLA), "Unifying Sociological Theories of Race"
• Dec. 5: Carolina Flores (UC Santa Cruz)
• Jan. 30: Cameron Kirk-Giannini (Rutgers University-Newark)
• Mar. 20: Ron Mallon (Washington University in St. Louis)
• Apr. 10: David Lefkowitz (University of Richmond)

The Department of Philosophy is grateful to the Rachel and E.W. Thompson Philosophy Endowment and Foradas Philosophy Department Speaker's Series Endowment for supporting our conferences and colloquia.

Some Past Colloquium Speakers and other Talks

2023-24

3/1: Colloquium: Nomy Arpaly (Brown)
"Moral Worth: You Can't Have It Both Ways"
3:30-5:00 p.m.

11/10: Colloquium: Hrishikesh Joshi (Arizona)
"Socially Distributed Ignorance"
3:30-5:00 p.m.

10/20: Colloquium: Ben Bradley (Syracuse)
"The Sacrificer’s Dilemma"
3:30-5:00 p.m.

9/15: Colloquium: Tristram McPherson (Ohio State)
"Moral Concepts, Inefficacy, and Collective Action"
3:30-5:00 p.m.

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2022-23

4/14: Ethics & Data Science talk, Sina Fazelpour (Northeastern University)
"Justice in Sociotechnical Machine Learning Systems"
3:30-5:00 p.m.

4/2: 13th Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Keynote by Philip Yaure (Virginia Tech)

10/21: Colloquium, Sarah Stroud (UNC, Chapel Hill)
"Is There Such a Thing as Disagreement in Attitude?”
3:30-5:00 p.m.

10/11: Ethics & Data Science talk, Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)
"Why the Freedom to Obfuscate is a Precious Safeguard in Digital Societies"
3:30-5:00 p.m. (Zoom)

10/7: Colloquium, Danielle Wenner (Carnegie Mellon University)
“Structural Injustice, Exploitation, and Static Non-Ideal Theory"
3:30-5:00 p.m.

9/23: Colloquium, Quayshawn Spencer (Cornell University)
"A metaphysical mapping problem for race theorists and human population geneticists"
3:30-5:00 p.m. (Zoom)

2021-22

4/29: Colloquium, Myisha Cherry (University of California, Riverside)
"On James Baldwin and Black Rage"
3:30-5:00 p.m. (Zoom)

4/2-3: 12th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Keynote by Jonah Goldwater

10/29: COLL300 Talk, Jin Park (American University)
"Philosophy and Power"
3:30-5:00 p.m. (Zoom)

10/1: COLL300 Talk, Anand Vaidya (San Jose State University)
"Resisting the Allure of Illusionism"
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Zoom)

2020-21

3/12: Colloquium, Peter Van Inwagen (University of Notre Dame & Duke University)
"Does God Create Abstract Objects?"
4-5:30 pm (Zoom)