Christine Sypnowich, Professor and Department Head, takes up a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, April-June, to work on a manuscript about G.A. (Jerry) Cohen, the eminent Canadian political philosopher who for many years was the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory in Oxford.
Date
Thursday March 17, 2022Location
Queen's University, Watson 517Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join, in person, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by Dalitso Ruwe (Queen's), titled "Black Minds Matter".
Further details, as well as Dalitso's paper, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).
It is with great sadness that the Philosophy Department shares the tragic news that our former PhD student, Ryan McInerney, passed away on December 23, 2021. He was 33.
Josh Mosley, M.A. Student and Gaels Football Offensive Lineman, has been signed to the CFL team, the Calgary Stampeders.
Date
Friday February 18, 2022Location
Queen's University, ZoomThe Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Ethics (APPLE) research group at Queen's University welcomes all, via Zoom, to a talk in its 2022 speaker series on Friday, February 18th, by Anat Pick (Reader in Film at Queen Mary).
For more information, including the Zoom link, please contact Will Kymlicka (kymlicka@queensu.ca). Details about Anat Pick's talk can be found on the poster below.
Date
Thursday February 10, 2022Location
Queen's University, ZoomMembers of the Queen's community are welcome to join, over Zoom, a workshop on ‘De-stigmatizing Disability & Accessibility Needs’. Hosted by the Disability & Accessibility Network and the Equity Committee in the Philosophy Department, the workshop will feature presentations by Alan Jeans (Manager, Queen's Student Accessibility Services at Queen's), Karalyn McRae (Educational Development Fellow at the Queen's Centre for Teaching and Learning), and Christopher Riddle (Associate Professor and Director of the Applied Ethics Institute, Utica College, and former Queen's Philosophy PhD).
Zoom details have been circulated via email. For further information, please contact philosophy@queensu.ca, or see the poster below. If you have any accessibility needs that you would like accommodated for this event, please contact 13ps75@queensu.ca.
De-stigmatizing Disability & Accessibility Needs Workshop | Poster (PDF 102 KB)
Date
Friday February 11, 2022Location
Queen's University, ZoomMembers of the Queen's community are invited to join, over Zoom, the next meeting of the 2021-22 Critical Phenomenology Reading Group (CPRG), which will welcome Qrescent Mali Mason (Haverford College), who will be sharing “Intersectional Ambiguity”, from On Ambiguity.
Qrescent Mali Mason's chapter and Zoom details have been distributed via email. If you are not on the mailing list but wish to receive the paper and further information, please contact either Adam Schipper or Alisha Sharma, conveners of the Critical Phenomenology Reading Group.
Date
Thursday March 3, 2022Location
Queen's University, ZoomFaculty and graduate students are welcome to join, over Zoom, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by guest and former Queen’s colleague David Miller (Oxford), titled "Compensation for Historic Injustice".
Further details, as well as David's paper, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).
Date
Thursday February 3, 2022Location
Queen's University, ZoomFaculty and graduate students are welcome to join, over Zoom, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by Kerah Gordon-Solmon (Queen's), titled, "Between All and Nothing: Or, Defending the Impermissible".
Further details, as well as Kerah's paper, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).
Udo Schüklenk, Professor of Philosophy and Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics, was interviewed by the CBC, both on the radio and in print, about whether COVID patients who are unvaccinated by choice should be given less priority than othe
