| Ida B. Wells Philosophy Conference |
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The 3rd annual Ida B. Wells Conference will take place this year on October 30-31, 2009. The Ida B. Wells Conference is organized by the Ida B. Wells Association, founded by University of Memphis graduate students to promote discussion of philosophical issues arising from the African American experience and to provide a context in which to mentor undergraduates. Professors Sybol Cook Anderson (St. Mary's College) and Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University) will be this year's keynote speakers. Conference program:  . Conference poster: . |
| Miller Nets Another Award |
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Congratulations to Prof. Sarah Clark Miller, recipient of the 2009 March of Dimes Young Scholar Award in Perinatal Bioethics from the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Prof. Miller will present her award-winning paper, "Visual Intimacies: Ultrasound, Reproductive Autonomy and the Pregnancy Relationship," at a plenary session at the upcoming ASBH meeting in Washington, D.C. |
| Saghafi's New Book |
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Prof. Kas Saghafi's Apparitions—Of Derrida's Other will soon be published by Fordham University Press (November 2009). Prof. Saghafi's book examines exemplary instances of the relation to the other—the relation of Moses to God, Derrida's friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, Derrida's relation to a recently departed actress caught on video—to demonstrate how Derrida forces us to reconceive who or what the other may be. Further information is available here. |
| Read All About It ... in Sophia |
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The first edition of the University of Memphis Department of Philosophy newsletter, Sophia, is now available here: . Keep up with departmental happenings throughout the year on our News page. |
| "Discover Your Major Day" Award |
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Congratulations to the Undergraduate Philosophy Circle whose table at this year's "Discover Your Major Day" won 2nd place in the Table Decorating Contest! Special thanks to Mollie Owens, Cathy Wilhelm, and Connie Diffee for all their hard work. More photos are available here. |
| Spindel Conference 2009: The Sexes of Evolution |
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Under the direction of Prof. Mary Beth Mader, this year's Spindel Conference took place on September 24-26, 2009. The topic was The Sexes of Evolution: Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, and Evolutionary Theory. Main program speakers included Claire Colebrook (Penn State University), Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern University), Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond), Kelly Oliver (Vanderbilt University), and Luciana Parisi (Goldsmith's, University of London). Further conference information is available here. A Daily Helmsman article about the conference is available here |
| Adkisson Named Master's Fellow in Philosophy |
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Congratulations to Traci Adkisson, recipient of one of this year's Part-Time Masters Scholarship Awards. Traci's title for 2009-10 will be Master's Fellow in Philosophy. |
| Philosophical Horizons Conference: Keeping the Child in Mind |
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Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and made possible through support from the Tennessee Board of Regents, the Squire Family Foundation, and the Marcus Orr Center for the Humanities, Keeping the Child in Mind: A Conference About Philosophy for Children was held on September 11-12, 2009. Gareth Matthews, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts and author of Philosophy and the Young Child (1980), Dialogues with Children (1984), and The Philosophy of Childhood (1994), will be the keynote speaker. Local teachers and administrators, as well as the general public, are invited to attend. More information about the Philosophical Horizons program is available here. Further conference information is available here. A Daily Helmsman article about the conference is available here. |
| Arenson Joins the Faculty |
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We are very pleased to announce that Kelly Arenson (PhD, Emory University) joined the department this fall as an assistant professor. Before coming to Memphis, Prof. Arenson, who specializes in ancient philosophy, previously held an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. |
| Granby Receives Meritorious Teaching Award |
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Congratulations to Clifton Granby who was recently awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Assistant Meritorious Teaching Award. Clifton was selected from among 250 graduate teaching assistants to receive this award. |
| Philosophy Major Named Outstanding Undergraduate Student |
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Matthew Ludlow, an Economics and Philosophy double major, has received this year's College of Arts & Science Dean's Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student. Matthew is an active duty Marine Staff Sergeant. After graduating in May with a 4.0 GPA, he will be commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps and will return to the operating Marine forces. Matthew will pursue postgraduate studies in philosophy while serving as a Marine officer and plans to teach philosophy at the university level following his military career. |
| Philosophical Horizons Program Wins Two Grants |
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The Department's Philosophical Horizons program has been awarded a $93,500 Access and Diversity Initiative Grant from the Tennessee Board of Regents. The second grant, from the Squire Family Foundation, will fund a conference dedicated to the topic of teaching philosophy to children. This conference will be held at the University of Memphis this autumn. Philosophical Horizons is a grassroots program developed by the Department of Philosophy and dedicated to introducing the practice of philosophy into Memphis area schools. Recent articles about this program have appeared in The Commercial Appeal and The Daily Helmsman. |
| Debes Wins University's Highest Teaching Honor |
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Congratulations to Prof. Remy Debes who was recently awarded the university's highest teaching honor, The Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award. Prof. Debes will receive this award at the university's convocation ceremony on April 29th. Congratulations also to Prof. Sarah Clark Miller for being named a finalist for this award. |
| Miller Wins Research Award |
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Congratulations to Prof. Sarah Clark Miller whose paper, "Global Responsibility and Relational Normativity," was recently awarded the Untenured Faculty Paper Prize at the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. |
| Golden Named Research Fellow at Kierkegaard Library |
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Congratulations to PhD student, Timothy Golden, who has been named a Summer Research Fellow at the Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota |
| Mader Delivers Singer Lecture |
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Prof. Mary Beth Mader recently gave the Linda Singer Memorial Lecture at Miami University of Ohio. Her lecture was entitled "Ontology of Genealogy: Sexual Difference in Recent French Thought." |
| Bernasconi to Deliver Hurst Lecture |
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Prof. Robert Bernasconi will deliver the 49th Annual Hurst Lecture, entitled "The Policing of Race Mixing and the Birth of Biopower," at American University in April. |
| Tollefsen and Colleagues Win NSF Grant |
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Prof. Deb Tollefsen and colleagues Rick Dale, Roger Kreuz, and Andrew Olney have received a three-year, $670,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the dynamics of human interaction in small task groups. |
| Erasmus Mundus EuroPhilosophie Program |
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The Department of Philosophy was invited by the European Union to participate in the Erasmus Mundus EuroPhilosophie Program. This is a Master's program comprised of a consortium of seven European Union universities (including those in Germany, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic) and three "third-country" partners from non-EU countries. The Department of Philosophy was the only department in the United States invited to participate. The program provides students and scholars from EU participating universities the opportunity to study philosophy at the University of Memphis. The program also provides our graduate students and faculty the opportunity to travel as visiting scholars to Departments of Philosophy within the consortium. |
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