Fall 2026

September 3, 2026
5:00pm Clemens 708
David A. Goldfarb
"The Negro Symphony Orchestra and its Polish-Jewish Conductor, Ignatz Waghalter"

September 24, 2026
5:00pm Clemens 708
Samuel Weber, Northwestern University (Emeritus)
"Looking, Taking, Seeing: Hamann’s Metacritique of Kant"

September 25, 2026
4:00pm Clemens 708
Samuel Weber, Northwestern University (Emeritus)
Philosophical Reading Group Workshop
Discussion of "Reconsidering Freud’s Uncanny: The Coppola Perspective"

October 1, 2026
5:00pm Clemens 708
Martin Hägglund, Yale University
“The Mortality of the Soul: Radicalizing Aristotle”

October 23-24, 2026
Kristeva Circle
Both days 9:00am-6:00pm Clemens 640
Keynote speaker, David Marriott will present October 24th at 3:30pm
“The Sense and Nonsense of Revolt”


Spring 2027

Donato Seminar
March 23-25, 2027
3:30-6:00 (each day: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
Peter Szendy, Brown University

April 15, 2027
5:00pm Clemens 708
Myrto Drizou, Nord University

May 14, 2027
5:00pm Clemens 708
Avery Goldman, DePaul University
Juan Manuel Garrido, Universidad Alberto Hurtado 
Philosophical Reading Group Workshop
Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

“Faux Subject, Authentic Habitus. The Changing Fate of the Class Impostor in Contemporary Culture”

Olga Szmidt, Jagiellonian University
Sponsored by Polish Studies Initiative

5:00pm in Clemens 708

Donato Seminar: '‘As the world goes…’: ‘Might makes right’ from Homer, Thucydides, and Plato to Freud, Weil, and Derrida

Michael Naas, Depaul University

Sessions:

• Tuesday, 31 March: “The Reason of the Strongest”
• Wednesday, 1 April: “Of Beasts and Bullies: The Claim to Natural Justice”
• Thursday, 2 April: “And the Force of Justice? From the Melian Dialogue to the Donroe Doctrine”

12:30pm Clemens 708 - each session

“The Drives of Deconstruction”

Isabelle Alfandary, Université de Paris III

5:00pm Clemens 708

"Scandalous Seductions: from Freud to #MeToo"
Melodia E. Jones Lecture Series/CSPC

Isabelle Alfandary, Université de Paris III

10:00am Clemens 904

“A(n) (Im)possible Comradeship? Central Europe, South Africa, and the Limits of Transcolonial Ecumene.”

Robert Kusek, Jagiellonian University

5:00pm Clemens 708

Seminar Commemorating the 5^TH Anniversary of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Death: “Jean-Luc Nancy and the Soul of Philosophy”

Juan Manuel Garrido, Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Aïcha Liviana Messina, Universidad Diego Portales

Sessions:

• Wednesday, 29 April: “Body and Soul” in 904 Clemens, 3:30-6:00
• Thursday, 30 April: “Life After Transplantation” in 904 Clemens, 3:30-6:00
• Friday, 1 May: “Sickness and World”  in 708 Clemens, 3:30-6:00 

Lecture: “We Have Always Been Action Theorists: Toward an Interdisciplinary Theory of Language for the Age of Generative AI"
708 Clemens Hall | 4 p.m.

Lauren Goodlad, Rutgers University

Workshop: “Teaching Critical AI Literacies”
708 Clemens Hall | 3 p.m.

Lauren Goodlad, Rutgers University

Book Seminar: On Kalliopi Nikolopoulou’s “Hunting for Justice: The Cosmology of Dike”
708 Clemens Hall | 4 p.m.

Jason Winfree, California State University at Stanislaus
Marina McCoy, Boston College

Trans Studies Symposium: "Trans Ethics, Affirmation, and Care"
708 Clemens Hall | 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

Lecture: "Memories of Violence: Argentina, Chile, Guatemala"
708 Clemens Hall | 5 p.m.

Enrique Díaz Alvarez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Milena Grass, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Event Postponed Jorge Gracia Seminar: “The Captive Maternal: Anti-Fascists in Search of the Beloved”

Joy James, Williams College

Event Postponed Jorge Gracia Seminar: “Confronting Counterinsurgencies: Cop Cities and Democracy's Terrors”

Joy James, Williams College