General News

The Southeast Roundtable on Philosophy of the Americas (SERPA) meets annually to provide an informal, helpful atmosphere for presenting work-in-progress in the areas of American/the Americas and pragmatist philosophy. We welcome submissions for next year’s workshop, which will be on September 20, 2019. https://philosophy.charlotte.edu/about-us/southeast-roundtable-philosophy-americ…

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The department is offering a new study abroad opportunity, PHIL 3390/5050: What is the Life Worth Living? Ancient Ethics in Athens, which goes to Greece for eight days in the summer semester (May 12-21, 2019). The bulk of the course takes place in Athens, with day trips to the mountains of Delphi and the Greek […]

Mariana Ortega, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Penn State, will give a talk on January 24 from 2:30-4:00pm at the UNC Charlotte Atkins Library (Halton Reading Room). In her talk—titled “Memento Vivere: Shadow Ground, Aesthetic Memory, and the Border”—she will discuss the production of spaces of mourning in connection to memory practices—not for the dead […]

Kathryn Sophia Belle, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Penn State, is giving a talk on November 26 from 1:00-2:15pm in the Philosophy seminar room (Cedar, 2nd floor). In her talk—titled “1949: Claudia Jones and Simone de Beauvoir 70 Years Later”—she will imagine a debate between Claudia Jones (“An End to the Neglect of the Problems […]

Graduate Recruitment of Underrepresented Philosophers (GROUP) is a one-day, expense-paid workshop to be held at UNC Charlotte on November 7, 2018 for up to ten promising prospective M.A. students in philosophy from traditionally underrepresented groups. GROUP is designed to increase the diversity of the academic pipeline in the discipline by recruiting a diverse group of […]

Dr. Robin James recently published “The Other Secret Twist: On the Political Philosophy of The Good Place” in the Los Angeles Review of Books. She argues that the NBC sitcom The Good Place, although it appears to stay at the level of Ethics 101, actually “shows us a fairly well-developed political philosophy . . . […]

The Philosophy Department congratulates Dr. Andrea Pitts for their receipt of a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. This fellowship is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. This award aims to support scholarly research in the humanities by assisting junior faculty with their research projects. […]

Please join MAP to participate in our exciting Spring Film Series! These films will be shown Mondays at varying locations at 5:00 pm. Please contact Camilla for further information. We look forward to seeing everyone and partaking in some awesome discussion! Dr. Andrea Pitts is a professor of Philosophy, Latin American Studies, and Women’s and […]

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