Professors Pleshette DeArmitt and Kas Saghafi will present lectures on Derrida, in a session entitled “What Remains--Of Mastery and Ipseity,” at The London Graduate School’s Inaugural Summer Academy in the Critical Humanities. Sarah Marshall, a doctoral student, was selected to participate in the week-long program of lectures and intensive workshops on European thought, which will take place between June 24 and June 27, 2013. The LGS Summer Academy program can be found here. 

The University of Memphis Philosophy Graduate Student Association will be hosting its 9th Annual Conference from April 5-7, 2013. This year's topic is The Philosophy of Labor with keynote speaker Jason Read (University of Southern Maine). Conference details can be found here.

Professor Shaun Gallagher's book, The Phenomenological Mind (2nd edition, 2012), co-authored with Dan Zahavi, was listed among the Outstanding Academic Titles by Choice. (See http://www.cro2.org/default.aspx.) In awarding Outstanding Academic Titles, the editors of Choice apply the following criteria to reviewed titles:

• overall excellence in presentation and scholarship 
• importance relative to other literature in the field 
• distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form 
• originality or uniqueness of treatment 
• value to undergraduate students 
• importance in building undergraduate library collections

The Phenomenological Mind has also been translated into Danish, Hungarian, Italian, and Japanese. Spanish and Korean translations are forthcoming.

Professor Shaun Gallagher was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Durham University England. The position runs for three years starting January 1, 2013.  Dr. Gallagher is also Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, a five-year appointment that started in August 2010.

The College of Arts and Sciences approved the award of a Professional Development Assignment for Professor Tim Roche for the fall semester of 2013. The sabbatical will support his research on a project entitled "Aristotle's Nicomachean Conception of Happiness." The project represents a final stage of a research agenda aimed at the production of a book defending a unique interpretation of Aristotle's conception of eudaimonia (happiness) in his Nicomachean Ethics.

Professor Tim Roche accepted an invitation by the Catholic University of Louvain, in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, to deliver a presentation on Aristotle's discussion of pleasure in book X of the Nicomachean Ethics. While there, Roche will also participate in a workshop on Aristotle on Pleasure along with eighteen other researchers from around the world. The event takes place between February 13 and February 17, 2013.

The University of Hertfordshire (UK) has awarded Prof. Somogy Varga a $4000 grant to map the influence of the Embodied and Narrative Practices Framework (Daniel D. Hutto and Shaun Gallagher) in field of clinical psychiatry, and to contribute to its further development. The work will involve cooperation with clinicians in the UK, Germany and Italy who are engaged in the design of novel diagnostic tools and methodological guidelines.

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