Owen Clifton awarded visitorship at Oxford University’s Global Priorities Institute
PhD Candidate Owen Clifton has been awarded a visitorship at Oxford University’s Global Priorities Institute (GPI) for Trinity Term 2023.
Equity and Food: A Panel Discussion
Date
Wednesday March 29, 20233:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
Queen's University, Watson 517The Equity Committee of the Queen’s Department of Philosophy invites you to join us for "Equity and Food: A Panel Discussion", with Lee Bess (Scientist, Entomologist), Elaine Power (Professor of Kinesiology), and Ayla Fenton (Food Systems Manager Loving Spoonful), moderated by Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, (Queen’s National Scholar, Anishinaabe Knowledge, Language and Culture). Further details can be found on the poster below.
Political Philosophy Reading Group: Owen Clifton (Queen’s)
Date
Monday March 27, 20233:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
Watson 517Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by Owen Clifton (Queen’s), titled "Associative Duties and the Formal Priority of Distributive Justice".
Further details, as well as Owen's paper, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).
David Bakhurst on NPR’s “The Academic Minute”
David Bakhurst, George Whalley Distinguished University Professor and John and Ella G. Charlton Professor of Philosophy, and Executive Editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education, was recently featured on NPR’s “The Academic Minute”, discussing why education matters to philosophy.
Tracking (In)Justice
Recently launched on February 23rd is a new online database created as part of a SSHRC-funded collaborative project by a team of researchers and front-line organisations across Ontario and Canada, and built in part by Catherine Stinson's Ethics and Technology Lab at Queen's University. Tracking (In)Justice has been created to monitor and provide information about the date and location of police violence as well as age, race, and gender of victims when available based on publicly available sources.
Departmental Colloquium: Jan Zwicky (Victoria)
Date
Monday March 13, 20234:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Queen's University, Watson Hall Room 517The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Jan Zwicky (Victoria) to give a talk, titled, "The Syntax of Ethical Style". The abstract can be found on the poster below.
Departmental Colloquium: Andrew Lopez (Queen's University)
Date
Thursday February 2, 20234:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Queen's University, Watson 517The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of its regular colloquium series, which will welcome Andrew Lopez (Queen's University) to give a talk, titled, "It's Just a Joke: Thinking Online Politics with Jorge Portilla". The abstract can be found on the poster below.
Departmental Colloquium: Andrew Lopez (Queen's University) | PDF Poster
Dalitso Ruwe at TEDxQueensU
Dalitso Ruwe, newly appointed Assistant Professor in Black Political Thought, will speak at TEDxQueensU, this February 5th, at the Kingston Grand Theatre.
Trans Philosophy Colloquium Series: Rowan Bell (Missouri)
Date
Tuesday January 17, 20234:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location
Queen's University, Watson 517The Department of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to the first meeting of its Trans Philosophy Colloquium Series, which will welcome Rowan Bell (Missouri) to give a talk, titled, "Playful Resistance: Gender Norms as Games". The abstract can be found on the poster below.
Trans Philosophy Colloquium: Rowan Bell (Missouri) | PNG Poster
David Bakhurst on Education as Philosophy’s Blindspot
In a recent piece of public philosophy, published in Aeon, David Bakhurst, George Whalley Distinguished University Professor and John and Ella G. Charlton Professor of Philosophy, argues that education has been ignored by contemporary philosophers, and that this must change.