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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 […]
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