CSU Stanislaus
Department of Philosophy

Lecture Series

Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., and located in the Faculty Development Center, Room 114 (Building # 30 - see map), and are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Dr. Daniela Vallega-Neu (667-3794), or Dr. Alejandro Vallega (667-3457).


Philosophy Department Lecture Series 2007
March 2 Daniela Vallega-Neu, CSU Stanislaus: "Embodied Time: On Rhythm in
the Work of John Cage."
March 16 Symposium on Philosophy and Music with John Kamitzuka.
(South Dining Room.)
March 23 Josh Hayes, Santa Clara University. Topic TBA.
April 27 Al Lingis, Penn State University. Topic TBA.
May 11 John Sallis, Boston College: “The Politics of Music.” (FDC 118)
Philosophy Department Lecture Series 2006
March 3 Jeff Bernstein, Holy Cross College: “God or History: Schelling’s
Appropriation of Spinoza.”
March 10 Ashley Pryor, Toledo University
April 14 David Wood, Vanderbilt University: “Negative Capability and Beyond.”
April 28 Jeff Yoshimi, UC Merced: “Husserl and Heidegger on Belief.”
May 12 Claudia Baracchi, New School: “On War, From Plato to Freud.”
Philosophy Department Lecture Series 2004-2005
December 3
Walter Sterling, St. John’s College: “A Matter of Trust: Concessions to The World of Becoming in Plato’s Image of the Divided Line.”
November 19
Darren Hutchinson, CSU Stanislaus : "Buzz: An Essay in Paraphenomenology."
October 27
Marc Froment-Meurice, Vanderbilt University. A lecture in Honor of Jacques Derrida.
Philosophy Department Lecture Series 2003-2004
April 30th
Eddo Evink, University of Tilborg, Netherlands: "(In) finite Responsibility: Jacques Derrida on Metaphysics and Ethics."
March 19th
Veronique Foti, Penn State University: "From and Agonistic of Powers to Deferred Homecoming: Heidegger, Hoelderlin, Sophocles."
November 21
James DiGiovanna, City University of New York: "Aesthetics and the Human Argos Project."
October 17
Stuart Kendall, Boston University: “Man and Animal: Bataille in the Pit.”
October 10
James Risser, Seattle University: “The Sociality of Life in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics.”

Philosophy Department Lecture Series 2002-2003
September 13
Andy Young, CSU Stanislaus, “Speaking Without Ground: Heidegger, Nishitani, and Impermanence.”
October 4
Ben Pryor, Toledo University, “Law in Abandon: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Critical Study of Law.”
November 8
John Lysaker, University of Oregon: “Art: the Uncommitted Crime.”
November 15
Chares Scott, Penn State University, “Helen, Heidegger, and the Wisdom of Nemesis.”
March 21
Walter Brogan, Villanova University, “Plato’s Symposium: E-Motion and the Heart of Being.”
April 16
David Farrell Krell, “Antigone’s Clout: Hölderlin and Lacan on Sophocles’ Heroine
May 9
Ladelle McWhorter, “A Foucaultian Genealogy of Racism.”

Philosophy Department Lecture Series 2001-2002
September 28
Karen Feldmann, UC, Berkeley, “Reflections on Mourning and the Twentieth Anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.”
November 9
Chris Nagel, CSU Stanislaus, “Politics and the Possibility of War.”
November 30
Peter Manchester, SUNY, Stony Brook, “Time and Soul in Aristotle.”
April 26
Susan Schoenbohm, Penn State University, “Revisiting the Question of What Makes Living Worthwhile.”
March 15
Omar Rivera, Penn State University, “On Imagination.”
May 3
Francois Raffoul, Louisiana State University, “The Tear of Life and the Need for Philosophy.”
May 17
Rick Lee, Penn State University, “The Trouble With Force.”

Philosophy Department Lecture Series 2000-2001
October 20
John Sallis, Penn State University, “Death and Fire: The Strange Space of Klee’s Paining.”
February 25
Dr. Heidi Marx, “Knowledge and Learning in Medieval Philosophy.”
April 27
Mary-Lou Sena, University of Seattle, “Nietzsche’s New Grounding of Metaphysics: The Mimetic Character of the Sensuous.”
April 14
Abraham Schoener, St. John’s College, “Circe’s Charms and the Punishment of Those Who Divide Mind from Body.”
March 24
James Risser, Seattle University: “Gadamer’s Hermeneutics Today.”

Updated: Wednesday, February 14, 2007

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