Events

April

Lecture: Santiago Zabala, "Being at Large: The Only Emergency is the Lack of Emergency"

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 
5:00-7:00 pm, Harriman Hall 214
Reception to Follow
Flyer [PDF]

Lecture: Patrick Grim, "Dynamic Visual Intelligence & The Art of Animation"

Monday, April 8th, 2013 
4:00-6:00 pm, Harriman Hall 214
Reception to Follow

Book Presentation: Walter Watson, The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's Poetics

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 
5:00-6:30 pm, Harriman Hall
Featuring Walter Watson, Adam Israel, and Lee Miller

Lecture: Andrew Flescher, "Addressing the Organ Shortage Crisis Short of Legalizing the Sale of Organs"

Thursday, April 11th, 2013 
5:00-7:00 pm, Harriman Hall 214
Reception to Follow

Philosophical Tools Lecture: Serene Khader, "Pornography"

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 
7:00 pm, Harriman Hall 214
[Flyer]

Book Presentation: Susan Bordo, The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen

This event has been cancelled.

Levinas Research Seminar: Social Proximity and Alterity

April 25-27th, 2013
Stony Brook Manhattan

Keynote Address: John E. Drabinski, "The Book and the Sea: On Loss and Diasporic Identity"
Levinas Research Seminar

John E. Drabinski teaches in the Department of Black Studies at Amherst College. He has written extensively on contemporary European and Africana philosophy, including his most recent book Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other, and he is currently completing a book-length project on Édouard Glissant's poetics.

Thursday, April 25th, 2013
5:00-7:00 pm
Stony Brook Manhattan, Room 313
Reception to Follow

Frontiers of Philosophy: 42 Years of Stony Brook Philosophy Department PhDs

April 26-28th, 2013
Stony Brook University, Wang Center
Plenary Speakers: Susan Bordo, Charles Johnson, Terry Pinkard, Paul Thompson 
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May

Dissertation Defense: Roberto Toledo, "Bruno Latour's Pragmatism and Its Implications for Expertise Critique: Ontology and Method for Stirring Controversies in Institutions"

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 
4:00 pm, Harriman Hall 214
Flyer [PDF]

Lecture: Virginia Held, "Justice, Violence, and the Ethics of Care"

Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 
1:00 pm, Humanities 1008

Upcoming Events

Dissertation Defense: Roberto Toledo

Wednesday, May 1st, 4pm
Harriman, 214

Lecture: Virginia Held

Wednesday, May 8th, 1pm
Humanities 1008