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PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT Pittsburgh, Pa 15282 DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY 600 FORBES AVENUE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT PITTSBURGH, PA 15282 CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED 3 0 3 DUQUESNE GRADUATE PHILOSOPHY NEWS 2009 • Volume 2, Issue 1 FEATURED GRADUATE STUDENT FACULTY Kamal Shlbei is a doctoral student from Libya. He studied SCHOLARSHIP engineering in Libya, and worked in a cement factory for 10 years, then decided to study philosophy at Elmergib University, one of Libya’s three major universities, specializing in the Dr. Jennifer Bates’ manuscript humanities. He completed a master’s degree there, writing his Hegel and Shakespeare thesis, which has subsequently been published, on the priority on Moral Imagination was of existence over essence in the work of Mulla Sadra. He then accepted for publication by taught philosophy and logic for three years at Asmarya University, State University of New York which provided a grant for doctoral study. Press. Shlbei, his wife and four young children moved to the United Dr. Fred Evans’ monograph States early last year. After ESL study in Oklahoma City, he The Multi-Voiced Body: Society applied to Duquesne. At present, Shlbei is the only Libyan and Communication in the studying graduate philosophy in the United States. Age of Diversity was published by Columbia University Press. He plans to continue working on the problem of existence, particularly in postmodern In addition, Dr. Evans gave thought. In addition, Shlbei is a published poet, with one collection in Arabic entitled a keynote address for the Musica Teptehege Be (Music Enjoys Me). Sixteenth Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference at Kent State University. OINTS OF NTEREST P I Dr. Patrick Miller won the MEMORIAL FUNDS Dr. Tom Rockmore will be teaching in the spring semester at the University of Beijing in their SPEP Junior Scholars Prize for school of foreign philosophy. He regularly lectures in China and elsewhere. this year’s upcoming annual meeting, for a paper titled This has been a year of profound Dr. Fred Evans’ paper presentation and workshop in Ecuador last summer will be followed “Immanent Spirituality.” loss. Faculty members Eleanore up with a paper presentation and a team-taught course this summer at La Universidad Holveck, Wilhelm Wurzer and the Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia. The course will make use of his theory of society as a multi- Dr. Ron Polansky has been McAnunlty College’s Acting Dean voiced body and the work of his co-teacher, Professor Fabio López, on television journalism asked to edit the Cambridge Al Labriola all passed away in the and politics in Colombia. Companion to Aristotle’s spring. It was a time of mourning Nicomachean Ethics, published by Cambridge University Press. but also of remembering their Dr. George Yancy was cited in the May 2009 edition of Rolling Stone, in an article on Cornel West. Dr. Polansky also received the “Gratitude bestows unique and lasting legacies for McAnulty College’s Academic our department and for all of their CIQR - Critical Race Theory Speaker Series Excellence award for 2009. reverence, students through the years. This past semester in March the CIQR program partnered with Dr. George Yancy’s Critical Race Theory Speaker Series and the University of Pittsburgh’s Cultural Studies Program to Dr. Tom Rockmore used a allowing us to encounter We have established two memorial present a program titled A New Democracy? Economics, Culture and Difference. Speakers summer NEH grant award to included Franco Berardi (Accademia delle Belle Arti, Milan), Clarence Sholé Johnson (Middle work on a new manuscript on funds: the Dr. Wilhelm S. Wurzer Tennessee State) and David Schweickart (Loyola Chicago). aesthetics. everyday epiphanies, those Memorial Fund and the Dr. Eleanore Holveck Memorial Philosophy of the Environment Roundtable Dr. George Yancy co-edited transcendent moments of Fund. Each of these funds will Speakers at the most recent Philosophy of the Environment annual conference, held Critical Perspectives on bell provide money to support graduate in April 2009, this year were Karen Houle (University of Guelph) and three Duquesne hooks, published by Routledge. awe that change forever students in philosophy. You can faculty members: Michael Irwin (Sociology), Eva Simms (Psychology) and James Swindal Dr. Yancy is also editing, along donate online to these funds at (Philosophy). with Clarence Johnson, The Routledge Companion to how we experience life www.duq.edu/giveto. Duquesne Women in Philosophy Philosophy of Race. Duquesne Women in Philosophy (DWiP) hosted what is hoped will become an annual and the world.” event, a roundtable symposium featuring student work from across the University. This year’s John Milton event, In Her Shadow: Contending with the Spectre of Eve, took place on February 13 and - featured a paper presented by our department’s Holly Mohr. GRADUATE NEWS ALUMNI NEWS IN MEMORIAM Graduate Job Placement, 2009 Scholars in Residence Our annual alumni gathering took place this Natalia Rudychev on Wilhelm Geoff Bagwell (ABD). Full-time Instructor, Xavier University. Dr. Zhu Liping, (Southwest China University). Dr. Zhu arrived year at the SPEP conference, held this year in Wurzer: “I took several classes Grant Julin (ABD). Assistant Professor, St. Francis College. in Pittsburgh in August, for a yearlong study. She has audited Pittsburgh. We plan to have another informal under his guidance: on philosophy courses at Duquesne and the University of Pittsburgh. She is of film and on Kant’s Third Critique. Emily Katz (Ph.D 2008) Part-time Instructor, Michigan State gathering at the upcoming SPEP conference writing on skepticism, specifically religious skepticism, and is Dr. Wurzer’s inspired and brilliant University. in Washington, D.C., October 29–31, 2010. interested in the problem of whether or not a skeptical position presentation made me interested James Stover (ABD) Full-time Instructor, Wheeling Jesuit can inform praxis: whether one can live out one’s skepticism. Information will be forthcoming. in the philosophy of art and film in University. She resolves the issue by examining the distinction between particular. I’ve made six conference skepticism about judgment and skepticism about belief. The presentations on the philosophy of Graduate Dissertation Defenses, 2008–2009 former is consistent with living a life; the latter is not. Featured Alumni film and published an article on the Kennenth Agede, The Transformation of Kant’s Transcendental philosophy of film. I also taught a course on the Philosophy Fr. Stephen Okello (Consolata Seminary, Kenya). Fr. Okello Mark Maller (Ph.D. 1996) Idealism: Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre. Directed by of Film at Duquesne. Dr. Wurzer’s reading of Kant’s Third spent nearly all of last year working on a monograph on Tom Rockmore. “Since my graduation I have been working as an adjunct Critique left a lasting impression on me, and now I’m writing Husserl he is hoping to publish in the near future. He presented professor for several colleges in the Chicago area. I my dissertation proposal on Hegel and Heidegger’s reading a paper on his findings. His particular interest is in defending Eric Duffy, Mounting the Stage of the World: Theory of the was adjunct assistant professor at Lewis University, of the Third Critique. I fondly remember Dr. Wurzer as a kind the theory of intersubjectivity that Husserl presents in Ideas II Subject as Actor in the Parallel Positions of Johann near Chicago, for many years. Presently, I teach and attentive listener and brilliant thinker.” Gottlieb Fichte and Jean-Paul Sartre. Directed by Tom and the Cartesian Meditations. introductory courses at the College of DuPage and at Rockmore. Wilbur Wright City College in Chicago. This term I am Dr. Habip Türker (Fatih University, Istanbul) arrived in Joy Simmons on Eleanore Holveck: teaching Social and Political Philosophy. I also serve April, and will be in residence for a full calendar year. He is “Dr. Eleanore Holveck immediately put Josh Miller, On Whether or not Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology as a writing consultant for students and an adjunct working on a comparison of Christian and Islamic aesthetics. me at ease in my first graduate level of Lived Body Experience Can Enrich St. Thomas reference librarian there. My primary research, recently, He has also done extensive work on the phenomenology class with her laid-back, personable Aquinas’s Integral Anthropology. Directed by James has been in the problem of evil from a very skeptical of Moritz Geiger and Nicolai Hartmann. He has found the demeanor. She arranged the chairs Swindal. position. I have also written an (unpublished) article on Phenomenology Center’s holdings in phenomenology to be in a circle so that we were all facing William James’ theory of universals and ethics. My novel Our graduate student organization (GSIP) sponsored its third extremely valuable for his research. each other and chatted casually about Getting Back was published by Writer’s Showcase in Simone de Beauvoir and philosophical annual Graduate Philosophy Conference in March. Kathleen 2003. It received favorable reviews. I also have written Higgins of the University of Texas was the invited speaker. Dr. Francoise Monnoyeur Broitman (Sorbonne) has studied literature. Her lectures felt more like extensively in France, working on Cartesianism and philosophy numerous philosophy book reviews for Choice, an conversations one might have with a Graduate students from several different universities presented academic library journal.” papers at the highly successful event. of science, and is conducting research on phenomenology. friend over coffee, yet in them she revealed an encyclopedic knowledge of French existentialism. She set the bar high for Dr. Kelly Arenson (University of Memphis) finsihed her We welcome news from alumni. Contact thompson@ Clayton Bohnet received a McAnulty College Dissertation duq.edu. other professors by taking a very personal interest in each Award for the 2009–2010 academic year for his project on the dissertation at Emory University on Plato and Epicurus. student’s research project.
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