Department of Philosophy Duquesne University 600 Forbes Avenue PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT Pittsburgh, PA 15282 3 0 3 Duquesne Graduate Philosophy News
Spring 2014 • Volume 7, Issue 1
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Our speaker series for the Fall 2013- Spring 2014 academic year featured many prominent thinkers as well as a special farewell talk from Dr. Tom Rockmore who retired from the department at the end of the spring semester. Our speakers for this year were as follows: JESSICA WISKUS (Duquesne), ERIC BROWN (Washington U), DERMOT MORAN (University College Dublin), PIERRE RODRIGO (U Bourgogne), HANS PEDERSON (Indiana U Pennsylvania), TOM ROCKMORE (DUQUESNE), JOHN PROTEVI (LSU), CRISTINA BUCUR (Silverman Center Fellow), DANA HOLLANDER (McMaster), We would like to announce the hiring of Dr. Jay Lampert. RAYMOND BRASSIER (American University of Beirut), Dr. Lampert received his Ph.D. from the University of THEODORE GEORGE (Texas A&M), and LLOYD GERSON Toronto in 1987 and specializes in Twentieth Century September 21, Karim Barakat, “Foucault’s Critical Subject,” (Toronto). For more information about our speaker series, News From Alumni Continental Philosophy, frequently working with figures Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Colloquium, Pittsburgh, PA. including the titles of the talks, please visit our website at such as Deleuze, Hegel and Husserl. Dr. Lampert has three http://www.duq.edu/academics/schools/liberal-arts/for- August 13-14, 2013. Boram Jeong, “The notion of Minjung - published books: Simultaneity and Delay (Continuum, graduate-students/programs/philosophy/speakers-series. Inventing ‘a people to come,’” Korean Philosophy Workshop: Our condolences to the Ramirez family, 2012), Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of History Korean Responses to Modernity/Coloniality. University of San we were all saddened by the news of Dr. (Continuum, 2006), and Synthesis and Backward Reference Francisco, San Francisco, CA. Invited Speaker. J. Roland Ramirez’ passing. Dr. Ramirez in Husserl’s Logical Investigations (Kluwer, 1995). Dr. taught in the department for 50 years, Lampert also has published articles in a variety of different Polansky Scholarship Funds Among others, a full list of which can be found on our covering the philosophical works of philosophical areas. Our department is very pleased to department website. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and more welcome such a distinguished scholar to the University. We We are pleased to be in the fourth year of the Ronald M. Polansky generally the field of Asian philosophy. look forward to his continued excellence as a teacher, a Graduate Student Scholarship awards. Recipients for summer Publications Dr. Ramirez was an excellent teacher philosopher and a colleague. 2014 will be: whose impact on the program will not be Joe Bertino (Greek) Tristana Martin-Rubio (German) Brock Bahler, “Emmanuel Levinas, Radical Orthodoxy, and forgotten. Our deepest sympathies go out The philosophy department would like to announce that Rory Dahl (German) Alessio Rotundo (French) an Ontology of Originary Peace,” Journal of Religious Ethics, to the Ramirez family as they go through Dr. Thomas Rockmore has received the title of Professor Ned Goertzen (German) Rebecca Warshofsky (German) forthcoming (Fall 2014). this difficult time. Emeritus of the McAnulty College and Graduate School Martin Krahn (German) Matthew Yaw (German) Ryan Johnson, “Another Use of the Concept of the Simulacrum: of Liberal Arts. During his 28 years at the university he
Deleuze, Lucretius, and the Practical Critique of De- “I remember when Ramirez retired, has published over 20 books and over 400 scholarly Any contributions to the Polansky Fund can be made directly Mystification,” Deleuze Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1: February 2014 English Prof. Baranik said he taught at Duquesne for 50 years. Afterwards articles (many of which have been translated into other at the reception, I mentioned to Ramirez that he taught at Duquesne languages). Dr. Rockmore had previously held the position to the department: c/o Chair of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA 15282. Jessica Patella Konig, “Christology and Whiteness, What Would longer than I was alive. Without skipping a beat, he said he did a lot of Distinguished McAnulty Professor of Philosophy. We are Jesus Do?” Edited by George Yancy, Book Review in Philosophy a things longer than I was alive. I found him to be a warm, caring and pleased to announce that his time at Duquesne has been and the Black Experience, APA Newsletter, Vol. 12 No. 2, Spring, brilliant man.” Dr. Douglas Peduti, Ph.D. Class of 2009. honored with the title of Professor Emeritus. 2013. Jacob Greenstine was awarded the 2013-14 Fulbright We would welcome any news from alumni! Silverman Phenomenology Center Fellowship. He has spent the year in Kassel, Germany, Among others, a full list of which can be found on our Contact us at [email protected]. conducting research for his dissertation on non-being in th th department website. For news on other events, see our website: www.duq.edu/philosophy This year’s Symposium took place February 14 and 15 , Aristotle’s Metaphysics with Prof. Dr. Gottfried Heinemann. and covered the topic: “Phenomenology and the African & Africana Worlds”. Faculty Scholarhip Highlights Graduate News
Duquesne Women in Philosophy Philosophy. The PSSCP is an annual, week-long, intensive Kelly Arenson published “Augustine’s Defense and Redemption of Social Philosophy,” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental (D-WiP) held their second seminar series held at Duquesne. The event includes a two-day the Body” in Studia Patristica in 2013. She argues that Augustine’s Philosophy, 17 (2), Fall,/Automne, 2013, 158-177; “Voices and the conference on February 8, participants’ conference held the weekend before the regular comments about the body in City of God and On Christian ‘Spirit of Place’,” in Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey: Giving 2014, entitled, “Subjectivity in sessions begin. In its first year, the event ran August 3-9, 2013. Teaching are not as depressing as they are usually taken to be. In Voice to Place, Memory, and Imagination, eds. Azucena Cruz-Pierre Question.” The keynote address, Forty applicants from twenty-two American and international addition, Dr. Arenson organized a panel on Plato’s Republic and and Donald A. Landes (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013), “Subjectivity Behind Bars: Social universities were selected to participate in a week of intensive presented a paper entitled “Plato on Why Injustice Can’t Kill You” 215-224; and “Citizenship and Public Art: The Political Aesthetics Death and Natal Resistance,” seminars on Schelling and Naturphilosophie, led by Iain at the annual Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy meeting at of New York’s 9/11/01 Memorial,” Belmont University Symposium was given by Dr. Lisa Hamilton Grant (U. of the West of England) and Jason Wirth Fordham University in October. Journal, Vol. 3, 2013/backdated 2012, 79-105). He also gave Guenther (Associate Professor (Seattle). The event was partially funded by an NEH Endowment four invited presentations, the most important of which were Dr. Lisa Guenther, Vanderbilt University of Philosophy, Vanderbilt Grant. Following upon this, James Bahoh, Dave Mesing, George Yancy, in 2013, published Pursuing Trayvon Martin: 1) Inaugural Speaker, “Citizenship and Public Art: The Political University). The conference began with a roundtable, which and Jason Wirth are editing a special edition of the journal, Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Aesthetics of New York’s 09/11/01Memorial,” and workshop, “The functioned as an avenue for discussing the presence of women and Comparative and Continental Philosophy, devoted to Schelling Dynamics, which was co-edited with Janine Jones (Lanham, MD: Clamor of Voices: Neda, Barack, and Social Philosophy,” for the women’s issues in academia. Throughout the day, graduate students and Naturphilosophie. The event for this summer will be August Lexington Books). The first paperback edition of this book will Colloquium Series of the Graduate Students in Philosophy, Texas and faculty members from various institutions around the world 2-8, 2014. In support of it, the organizers have been awarded be published in 2014 along with a New Preface written by the A&M, Nov. 13 and 14, 2013; and 2) “The Dilemma of Diversity: presented papers. The conference was a smashing success, and another NEH Endowment Grant. This year’s theme is “Formalism Editors. In 2014, Dr. Yancy published two books. One is Exploring Justice and the Primacy of Voices,” Ethics/Religion and Society D-WiP hopes to make it an annual event. and the Real: Ontology, Politics, and the Subject.” The seminar Race in Predominantly White Classrooms: Scholars of Color Reflect Lecture Series, Xavier University, 2011-2014, “Justice, Tolerance, leaders are Paul Livingston (New Mexico), Tom Eyers (Duquesne), (through Routledge’s Critical Thought Series), which is co-edited and Diversity,” Feb. 20, 2013. Over the past two years four doctoral students, James Bahoh and Bruno Bosteels (Cornell). with Maria Del Guadalupe Davidson, which just appeared in (Duquesne), Jacob Greenstine (Duquesne), Martin Krahn Tom Eyers had articles published recently in Philosophy Compass, print. The other one is How Does it Feel to be a White Problem? (Duquesne), and Dave Mesing (Villanova, Duquesne MA alum), For more information, please visit the PSSCP website: Postmodern Culture, Southern Journal of Philosophy and Umbr(a). (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014), which will appear in late founded the Pittsburgh Summer Symposium in Contemporary http://pghsummersymposium6.wix.com/pghsummersymp2014 2014. In 2013, Dr. Yancy also Guest Edited two scholarly journals: His second book, ‘Post-Rationalism’, is being published in The Western Journal of Black Studies, which was on the Hip Hop paperback in November of this year. His third book, ‘Speculative cultural work of James G. Spady; and, The Black Scholar, which Formalism: The Poetics of Form in Literature and Philosophy’ is Dissertation Defenses Dr. James Stover was on the role of Black philosophy. In 2013, he also published 7 complete and will appear next year. He was recently invited to Aristotle’s Ethics: A Viable System for Today’s Life and Business articles and was made Book Series Editor of Lexington Books on speak in a special session at the Modern Languages Association Dr. Joseph Cimakasky Director: Prof. Ron Polansky the theme: Philosophy of Race. meeting in Vancouver in January 2015 on the topic of the ‘digital All of a Sudden: The Role of exaiphnés in Plato’s Dialogues Assistant Professor of Philosophy (TT), Wheeling Jesuit University humanities’. Director: Prof. Ron Polansky Additionally, as a part of his Critical Race Theory Speaker Series, Dr. John Fritz Awards Dr. Yancy brought Matthew W. Hughey to campus where he gave Daniel Selcer recently published a treatment of early modern Character, Time, and Place in the Dialogues of Plato a talk entitled, “White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the ‘operational’ knowing, “From Scientia Operativa to Scientia Director: Prof. Ron Polansky The 2013-2014 Charles J. Dougherty Philosophy Graduate Student Shared Meanings of Race”. Dr. Hughey is Associate Professor of Intuitiva: Producing Particulars in Bacon and Spinoza” in Teaching Award was won by Andrew Jussaume. Dr. James Haile Sociology and Affiliate Faculty in the Institute for African American Intellectual History Review. Last May he spoke on the ontology of The 2013 Philosophy Essay Prize was awarded to Bethany Somma, Black Existential Philosophy: Truth in Virtue of Self-Discovery Studies at the University of Connecticut. the multitude in Hobbes and Spinoza at the American University for her paper, “Adoptees and Philosophers: Searching for Self and Director: Prof. Jim Swindal of Beirut. In January he co-organized and spoke on the panel, Stability in Stoic Therapy”. Ron Polansky edited The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s “Diagrammatology: The Space of the Diagram in Early Modern Visiting Assistant Professor (non-TT), Dickinson College Sila Ozkara has received the 2013 Phi Kappa Phi honor society Nicomachean Ethics. Published by Cambridge University Press in English Literature”, at the Modern Language Association conference Dr. David Hoinski Love of Learning award. She plans to use the award to purchase an June 2014. in Chicago. In March he commented on a paper on Spinoza and Humanlife and the Advent of Philosophy: A Theory of Philosophical edition of Hegel’s works in German. emotion at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Autobiography Jennifer Bates had a very eventful year; including the completion conference in Chicago. Also in March, he organized and responded Director: Prof. Ron Polansky Ryan Johnson received the Graduate School’s Award for Excellence of a Co-Edited book, Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy to a series of interdisciplinary panels on “Renaissance Axiomatics: in Scholarship. Dr. Ryan Johnson (Eds. Jennifer Ann Bates and Richard Wilson). Two refereed articles: Euclid in Thought, Print, and Practice” at the Renaissance Society of “Confusing Matters: Romeo and Juliet and Hegel’s Philosophy The Problem: The Theory of Ideas in Ancient Atomism and Deleuze Jacob Graham is the recipient of Duquesne’s first Distinguished America conference in New York City. Dissertation Award in the Humanities Division for his work, “The of Nature” in “Thinking With Shakespeare” Special Edition of Director: Prof. Daniel Selcer Flourishing Self in Aristotle and the Authentic Self in Heidegger.” Memoria di Shakespeare. Eds. Rosy Columbo and Nadia Fusini. Dr. Kazue Koishikawa Jacob defended in March of 2012, his dissertation was directed by Forthcoming, 2014.”Hegel and the Concept of Extinction.” In A Phenomenological Analyses of the Relation Between Dr. Michael Harrington. Philosophy Compass, Continental Series. Edited by Andrew Intersubjectivity and Imagination in Hannah Arendt Cutrofello. Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Barnes. Forthcoming, 2014. Director: Prof. Lanei Rodemeye Presentations Additionally, Dr. Bates was interviewed by Heidelberg University Dr. Christopher Mountenay In the Shadow of Anaximander: Philosophical Temperaments and about her research (past and present). This interview can be found March 21-23, 2014, Martin Krahn, “Habit, Death, and Repetition in Schopenhauerian Pessimism in Nietzsche’s ‘Philosophy in the Tragic in the Heidelberg University Research Alumni Newsletter, January, Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature,” Ontario Hegel Organization (OHO) Age of the Greeks’ 2014. Conference, McGill University, Montreal, QC. Director: Prof. Patrick Miller February 21-22, Sean Skedzielewski, “The Principle of Reason and Fred Evans is entering his third and last year as a member of the Dr. Harry A. Nethery IV The Destiny of Being” Catholic University of America Graduate Executive Committee for the Society of Phenomenological and Husserl and Foucault on the Subject: The Companions Conference, Washington D.C. Existential Philosophy (SPEP). During the 2013 academic year, he Director: Prof. Lanei Rodemeyer published three papers: “The Clamor of Voices: Neda, Barack, and Visiting Assistant Professor (non-TT), Duquesne University continued on back
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