Department Colloquia
Our colloquium series is sponsored through the generous support of the Rubens Family Fund, the Robert Lewis Fund, the J.Glenn Gray Memorial Fund, the Dean's Office, and friends and alumni of the philosophy department.
2009-2010 Colloquia:
Thursday, 17 September, 2009, 3:30 pm
Bemis Great Hall
"Constituting Democratic Culture: Dissent in the Great Debate over the Constitution"
Professor Robert Martin, Hamilton College
[part of Colorado College's Constitution Day celebration]
Thursday, 15 October, 2009, 3:30 pm
WES Room, Worner Center
"Archaic Gestures and Modernist Poetics"
Professor Jonathan Lee, Colorado College
Thursday, 5 November, 2009, 3:30 pm
WES Room, Worner Center
"Living with Contradictions: The Logic of Kantian Moral Principles in a Nonideal World"
Professor Robert Hanna, University of Colorado-Boulder
Thursday, 28 January, 2010, 3:30 pm
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Title TBA
Professor Lorraine Code, York University (pending confirmation)
Thursday, 25 February, 2010, 7 pm
South Theater, Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center
Title TBA
J. Glenn Gray Lecture
Professor Charles Mills, Northwestern University
Thursday, 1 April, 2010, 3:30 pm
WES Room, Worner Center
Title TBA
Professor Maria Talero, University of Colorado-Denver
Past Colloquia (2008-2009):
Thursday, 16 October, 2008, 3:30 pm
WES Room, Worner Campus Center
"The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States"
Professor Philip Cafaro, Colorado State University
Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 3:30 pm
WES Room, Worner Campus Center
"Answering the Question, 'What is Life?'"
Professor Carol Cleland, University of Colorado-Boulder
Thursday, 5 February 2009, 3:30 pm
WES Room, Worner Campus Center
"Love, Subjectivity, and the Truth about the World"
Professor Rick Furtak, Colorado College
Thursday, 26 February, 2009, 3:30 pm
WES Room, Worner Campus Center
"Wisdom and Work"
Professor Valerie Tiberius, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
Thursday, 9 April, 2009, 3:30 pm
Location TBA
J. Glenn Gray Lecture
Professor Owen Flanagan, Duke University
Past Colloquia: The J. Glenn Gray Colloquium Series, 2007-2008
Over the course of the 2007-2008 academic year, the Department of Philosophy celebrated the life and work of J. Glenn Gray, Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College from 1948 until his death in 1977. One of the most influential, inspiring, and beloved professors in the history of Colorado College, Professor Gray made many important and enduring contributions to the discipline of philosophy. He is the author of Hegel and Greek Thought, The Promise of Wisdom, and The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle, among other writings. Gray also served as the General Editor of the first translations of Martin Heidegger's works into English.
Thursday 11 October, 3:30 pm, Slocum Commons
"J. Glenn Gray's Vision of Philosophy"
Emerita Professor Jane Cauvel, Colorado College
Wednesday 14 November, 3:30 pm, Bemis Great Hall
"Philosophy in a Time of War"
Martin Woessner, City College of New York
Wednesday 12 December, 3:30 pm, Gaylord Hall
"Fighting Wars and Moral Responsibility"
Carl Ficarrotta, United States Air Force Academy
Thursday 7 February, 3:30 pm, Bemis Great Hall
"Heidegger on Ontotheology: The History that We Are"
Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico
Thursday 6 March, 3:30 pm, Gaylord Hall
"Ancient Wisdom, Modern Lives: Why the Greeks Still Matter"
Professor John Riker, Colorado College
Thursday 10 April, 3:30 pm, Gaylord Hall
The J. Glenn Gray Memorial Lecture 2008
"The Promise of Politics"
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Columbia University