Colloquium Series

Our colloquium series is sponsored through the generous support of the Rubens Family Fund, the Robert Lewis Endowed Fund for Philosophy, the J.Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Fund, the Dean's Office, and friends and alumni of the philosophy department.

2011-2012 Colloquia

Thursday, May 3, 3:30-5 pm
Colloquium Talk in Slocum Commons
Entitled “Prostrating Before Adrasteia: Comedy and 'One's Own' in Book V of Plato’s Republic"
Sonja Tanner, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

Tuesday, March 6, 3:30-5 pm in McHugh Commons:
Colloquium Talk - "Weaving the Cosmos: Understanding Aztec Philosophy"
James Maffie, University of Maryland 

Tuesday, 7 February, 2012, 3:30 pm
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Title TBA
Linda Alcoff, Hunter College

Thursday, 15 December, 2011, 3:30 pm
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
"Integrating Philosophy with Anthropology in an Approach to Morality"
Professor David B. Wong, Duke University

Thursday, 10 November, 2011, 3:30 pm
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
"The Death of God and the Birth of Impressionism: Forms and Transformations of Narcissism in the 19th Century"
Professor John Riker, Colorado College

Thursday, 13 September, 2011, 3:30 pm
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
"Emotion, Perception, and Moral Judgment"
Professor Robert C. Roberts, Baylor University

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Archives of Past Colloquium Series

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2010 - 2011

Thursday, 14 October, 2010, 3:30 pm
Bemis Great Hall
"Enacting the Self: A Buddhist and Enactive Account of Emergence"
Professor Matthew MacKenzie, Colorado State University
Thursday, 18 November, 2010, 3:30 pm
Bemis Great Hall
Professor Judith Genova, Colorado College
Thursday, 9 December, 2010, 3:30 pm
Bemis Great Hall
Professor Cheshire Calhoun, Arizona State University
Thursday, 10 March, 2011, 3:30 pm
Bemis Great Hall
The Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture: Professor Robert Pippin, University of Chicago
Thursday, 31 March, 2011, 3:30 pm
Bemis Great Hall
Professor Troy Jollimore, California State University-Chico

2009-2010

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
McHugh Commons
"Testimony, Incredulity, and the Power of Ignorance"
Professor Lorraine Code, York University
Thursday, 25 February, 2010, 7 pm
Gates Common Room, Palmer Hall
"Race and Liberalism"
The Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Professor Charles Mills, Northwestern University
Thursday, 1 April, 2010, 3:30 pm
WES Room, Worner Center
"Friendship, Betrayal, and Trust: Tracing the Bodily Roots of the Existential Emotions"
Professor Maria Talero, University of Colorado-Denver

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

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