The Graduate Colloquium is an amicable and relaxed venue for engagement with the work of the Department’s graduate students. It is a great opportunity for graduate students to gain experience presenting, to share and receive feedback on current work, and to workshop new ideas.
For the 2024-2025 school year, this colloquium will be meeting at 2:30pm in Watson Hall, Room 122 on the following Fridays:
Fall 2024 Schedule
September 27: Dean Joseph, "Trusting Conspiracy Theories"
October 4: Sofie Vlaad, "You Died: Soulslikes and the Aesthetics of Difficulty"
October 11: Jessica McMullin, "Naturalism and Constructivism in Environmental Thought: A Wittgensteinian Approach"
October 25: Session Cancelled
November 1: Yuanjin Xia, "Pedagogical Labour: Rediscover an Overlooked Tradition within the Standpoint Theory"
November 8: Joel da Silva, "Minding the Gap"
November 15: James Winslow, "Partial Aggregation, the Relevance Relation, and Moral Pluralism"
November 29: Isabel Xu, "The Contribution of Bargaining Models in Justifying the Theory of Racial Capitalism in Bright et al.’s paper “On the Stability of Racial Capitalism”".
December 6: Speaker TBA
Winter 2025 Schedule
Winter Schedule TBA