Colloquium Series
Inaugurated in 2006, the Philosophy Colloquium series has enabled the Department to offer lectures and seminars by leading and emerging scholars working in a wide range of philosophical discourses. The colloquium series has reinvigorated a long tradition of hosting visiting scholars at Colorado College.
Our colloquium series is made possible by 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.
2024-2025 Colloquium Series
Block 2, The John Hanwell Riker Lecture
Richard P. Boothby, Loyola University Maryland
Thursday, October 10, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
"Notes on the Most Radical Possible Theology"
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 3
Mariana Alessandri, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Thursday, November 7, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
"Feeling Good about Feeling Bad"
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 4
Cody Gomez, Colorado College
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
"The Obligation to Self-Destruct"
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 6, The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Amy Allen, Pennsylvania State University
Thursday, February 27, 2025, 3:30 p.m.
Lecture TBD
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 7
Karen DeVries, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 3:30 p.m.
Lecture TBD
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Archives of Past Colloquium Series
2023-2024 Colloquium Series
Block 2, The John Hanwell Riker Lecture
Matthew Decamp, University of Colorado, Denver
"Ethics and artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Exceptional, or Exceptionalism?"
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
South Hall Commons
Block 3
Tamara Fakhoury, University of Minnesota
"Audacious Integrity: On the Value of Imperfect Resistance"
Thursday, November 9, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 5
Hannah Zeavin, University of California, Berkeley
"Material, Envrionment, Matrix: How Mother Became a Medium"
Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
South Hall Commons
Block 6, The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Myisha Cherry, University of California, Riverside
"On Conversations"
Thursday, March 7, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 7
Eirik Harris, Colorado State University
"Virtue and Law: A Xunzian Approach"
Thursday, April 11, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
2022-23 Colloquium Series
Block 2, The John Hanwell Riker Lecture
Ryan Preston-Roedder, Occidental College
"Divine and Mortal Loves"
Thursday, October 13, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
South Hall Commons
Block 3
Megan Altman, Cornell College
"Rethinking Teleology: A Heideggerian Approach to the Connections Between Existentialism and Virtue Ethics"
Thursday, November 10, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
South Hall Commons
Block 5
Clare Carlisle, King's College, London
"How to Write a Life: George Eliot's Philosophical Art"
Thursday, February 9, 2023, 12:15 p.m.
South Hall Commons
Block 5
Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico
“A Mass of Fools and Knaves”: Psychoanalysis and the World’s Many Asininities
Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
South Hall Commons
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
John Kaag, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
"William James and the Sick Soul"
Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 8
Sabeen Ahmed, Swarthmore College
"Empire of White Supremacy: An Alternative Genealogy of Modernity"
Thursday, May 4, 2023, 3:30 p.m.
South Hall Commons
2021-22 Colloquium Series
Block 2, The John Hanwell Riker Lecture
Margret Grebowicz, University of Silesia in Kalowice, Poland
"Mountains and Desires"
Thursday, October 14, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 3
Olufemi Taiwo, Georgetown University
"Subjective Security"
Thursday, November 4, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Zoom presentation in Tutt Library Event Space
Block 4
Garry Hagberg, Bard College
"Visual Metaphors: On the Linguistic Structures of Hybrid Creatures in Art"
Thursday, December 9, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 5
Katie McShane, Colorado State University
"Egalitarianism in Environmental Ethics "
Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University
"Affective Gaslighting"
Thursday, March 10, 2022, 3:30 pm
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 7
Brian Burkhart, University of Oklahoma
"Indigenous Land-based Anticolonial Philosophy and Climate Change "
Thursday, April 7, 2022, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
2020-21 Colloquium Series
Block 2, The John Hanwell Riker Lecture
Yi-Ping Ong, John Hopkins University
"On Philosophical Imagination and Literary Form"
Tuesday, September 29, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Virtual, on Zoom
Block 3
Eric Schwitzgebel, University of California, Riverside
"Does Studying Ethics Make People More Ethical"
Thursday, October 29, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Virtual, Zoom
Block 5
Robbie Kubala, University of California, Sana Cruz
"Proust on Desire Satisfaction"
Thursday, February 4, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Virtual, Zoom
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Jonathan Lear, University of Chicago
"We Shall Not Be Missed: Living with the Threat of Ecological Catastrophe"
Tuesday, March 16, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Virtual, Zoom
Block 8
Anna Christina Ribeiro, Texas Tech
"Fiction, Embellishment, and the Poetic Imagination"
Thursday, May 6, 2021, 3:30 p.m.
Virtual, Zoom
2019-20 Colloquium Series:
Block 1
Shay Welch, Spelman College
"Embodied Cognition and Native American Ways of Knowing"
Thursday, September 5, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 2, The John Hanwell Riker Lecture
Robert Beshara, Northern New Mexico College
"Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis"
Friday, October 4, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 3
James Maffie, University of Maryland
"The Centrality of Reciprocity in Mexica and Andean Philosophies"
Thursday, October 31, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 5
Alexus McLeod, University of Connecticut
"Between Worlds: The Nature of the Cosmos in Ancient Maya Philosophy"
Thursday, January 30, 2020, 3:30 p.m...
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center,
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
C. Thi Nguyen, Utah Valley University
"Played: The Gaming of Culture"
Thursday, March 5, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 7
Anne Waters, State University of New York (SUNY)
"Some Core Philosophical Tenets of American Indian Thought: Identity (Place, Space), Shared History (Place, Time), and Personality"
Thursday, April 2, 2020, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
2018-19 Colloquium Series
Block 2
John Riker, Colorado College
"Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Re-vitalizing Contemporary Life"
Thursday, October 11, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 3
Mary Ann Cutter, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
"Managing Uncertainty in Medicine: What Philosophy Can Teach Us"
Thursday, November 1, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Max Kade Theater, Armstrong Hall
Block 4
Adam Cureton, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"Ideals of Respect: Identity, Dignity and Disability"
Thursday, November 29, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
South Hall Commons
Block 5
Jeanine Weekes Schroer, University of Minnesota, Duluth
"The Moral Intractability of Racism"
Thursday, February 7, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center,
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Sharon Krishek, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Love and Selfhood"
Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
Block 7
Jana Mohr Lone, University of Washington, Seattle
Sara Goering, University of Washington, Seattle
"Why Philosophy for Children Matters - Both to Philosophy and to Children"
Thursday, March 28, 2019, 3:30 p.m.
South Hall Commons
2017-18 Colloquium Series
Block 2
Sarah Tyson, University of Colorado Denver
"Sharing Resentment, Rewriting Scripts: Alternative Responses to the Stanford Rape Trial"
Thursday, September 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 3
Jennifer McWeeny, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Why Feminism Entails Panpsychism"
Tuesday, October 31, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 4
Yong Dou (Michael) Kim, Colorado College
"To Be Two?: Feminist Encounters with Sex and Love"
Thursday, December 14, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 5
Katherine Behar, Baruch College, City University of New York
"What Makes Sense? On Nonhuman Sensing, Peripheries, and Object-Oriented Feminism"
Thursday, February 8, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Linda Martín Alcoff, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
"Echoes of Rape and Resistance"
Thursday, March 1, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 7
Laboria Cuboniks
"Xenofeminism Manifesto"
Thursday, April 12, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
WES room, Worner Center
2016-2017 Colloquium Series
Block 2
Lisa Guenther, Vanderbilt University
"The Living Death of Solitary Confinement"
Thursday, October 13, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Barbara Yalich Boardroom, Spencer Center
Block 3
Camisha Russell, Colorado College
"Hollywood Reflections: Nina and other Epistemic Injustices"
Thursday, November 3, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Slocum Commons
Block 4
Helen Daly, Colorado College
"On Insults"
Thursday, December 8, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Barbara Yalich Boardroom, Spencer Center
Block 5
Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz
Thursday, February 9, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
Celeste Theater, Cornerstone Arts Center
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Nancy Snow, University of Oklahoma
Thursday, March 2, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
Block 7
Jose Medina, Vanderbilt University
"Shooting the Racist Imagination"
Thursday, March 30, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
2015-2016 Colloquium Series
Block 2
Christopher Preston, University of Montana
"Backing into- and out of- the Anthropocene: Rewilding and Climate Engineering in the 'Age of Man'"
Thursday, October 1, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
Block 3
Ashby Butnor
"Situating Zen Feminism"
Thursday, November 5, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 5
Shaun Nichols, University of Arizona
"Death and the Self"
Thursday, February 4, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
James Tully, University of Victoria
"Richard Gregg and the Power of Nonviolence"
Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
Block 7
Alberto Hernandez-Lemus, Colorado College
"Bad Logic or Bad Faith"
Thursday, April 7, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
2014-2015 Colloquium Series
Block 2
Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame
"Three Foundations of Moral Knowledge: Perception, Intuition, and Emotion"
Thursday, October 2, 2014, 2:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
Block 3
Matthew Ratcliffe, Durham University
"Existential Feeling and Interpersonal Experience in Depression"
Thursday, November 6, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Slocum Commons, Slocum Hall
Block 4
John H. Riker, Colorado College
"Ancient Theology and Contemporary Self Psychology: Monotheism, Monoselfism, and the Transgressions of Omnipotence"
Thursday, December 4, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Slocum Commons, Slocum Hall
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Patrice Maniglier, University of Paris
"The Others' Truth"
Thursday, March 5, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 7
Candice Shelby, University of Colorado Denver
"Problems of the Mind, Then and Now"
Thursday, March 26, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 8
J.P. Rosensweig, Philosophy Institute of Chicago
"What is Wisdom?"
Thursday, May 7, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
2013-2014 Colloquium Series
Block 3
Derrick Darby, University of Kansas
"Why the Rich and Poor Don't See Eye to Eye on Inequality and Why this Matters for Justice"
Thursday, November 1, 2013, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 4
Chad Kautzer, University of Colorado at Denver
"When Rights Go Wrong: Hegel, Honneth, and Contemporary Social Pathologies"
Thursday, December 12, 2013, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 5
Sara Goering, University of Washington
"Disability and Quality of Life Judgments: Exploring the Disability Paradox"
Thursday, January 30, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Jonathan Lee, Colorado College
"The Philosophical Act: Diogenes/Lacan/Godard"
Thursday, March 6, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 8
Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines and the European Graduate School
"Discovering and Thinking about Technology"
Thursday, May 1, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
2012-2013 Colloquium Series
Block 2
James D. Reid, Metropolitan State University of Denver
"Things and Persons in Early Heidegger: A Kantian Exercise in Moral Ontology"
Thursday, October 4, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 3
Mi-Kyoung (Mitzi) Lee, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Greed and Justice in Aristotle's Ethics"
Thursday, November 1, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 4
Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado at Boulder
"We Fight for Roses, Too: Time-Use and Gender Global Justice"
Thursday, December 6, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 5
Terry Horgan, University of Arizona
"Newcomb's Problem: An Antinomy of Practical Reason"
Thursday, January 24, 2013, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico
"Thinking Love: Heidegger and Arendt"
Thursday, March 7, 2013, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 7
Marion Hourdequin, Colorado College
"Environmental Ethics and the Anthropocene"
Tuesday, April 2, 2013, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
2011-2012 Colloquium Series
Block 1
Robert C. Roberts, Baylor University
"Emotion, Perception, and Moral Judgment"
Thursday, September 13, 2011, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 3
John Riker, Colorado College
"The Death of God and the Birth of Impressionism:
Forms and Transformations of Narcissism in the 19th Century"
Thursday, November 10, 2011, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 4
David B. Wong, Duke University
"Integrating Philosophy with Anthropology in an Approach to Morality"
Thursday, December 15, 2011, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 5
Linda Alcoff, Hunter College, City University of New York
"Dussel's Transmodernism"
Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall, Worner Center
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
James Maffie, University of Maryland
"Weaving the Cosmos: Understanding Aztec Philosophy"
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
McHugh Commons
Block 8
Sonja Tanner, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
"Prostrating Before Adrasteia: Comedy and 'One's Own' in Book V of Plato's Republic"
Thursday, May 3, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Slocum Commons
2010-2011 Colloquium Series
Block 2
Matthew MacKenzie, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
"Enacting the Self: A Buddhist and Enactive Account of Emergence"
Thursday, October 14, 2010, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
Block 4
Cheshire Calhoun, Arizona State University
"Living with Boredom"
Thursday, December 9, 2010, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
Block 6 - The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Robert Pippin, University of Chicago
"Ordinary Modernism: Agency and Fate in American Film Noir"
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
Block 7
Troy Jollimore, California State University,Chico
"Does Love Make Us Blind?
Monday, April 4, 2011, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
2009-2010 Colloquium Series
Block 1
Robert Martin, Hamilton College
"Constituting Democratic Culture: Dissent in the Great Debate over the Constitution"
Thursday, September 17, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
Block 2
Jonathan Lee, Colorado College
"Archaic Gestures and Modernist Poetics"
Thursday, October 15, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
WES Room, Worner Center
Block 3
Robert Hanna, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Living with Contradictions: The Logic of Kantian Moral Principles in a Nonideal World"
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
WES Room, Worner Center
Block 5
Professor Lorraine Code, York University
"Testimony, Incredulity, and the Power of Ignorance"
Thursday, January 28, 2010, 3:00 p.m.
McHugh Commons
Block 6 - The J.Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Professor Charles Mills, Northwestern University
"Race and Liberalism"
Thursday, February 25, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Cornerstone South Theater
Block 7
Professor Maria Talero, University of Colorado, Denver
"Friendship, Betrayal, and Trust: Tracing the Bodily Roots of the Existential Emotions"
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 3:30 p.m.
WES Room, Worner Center
2008-2009 Colloquium Series
Block 2
Philip Cafaro, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
"The Environmental Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States"
Thursday, October 16, 2008, 3:30 p.m.
WES Room, Worner Center
Block 3
Carol Cleland, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Answering the Question: 'What Is Life?'"
Thursday, November 6, 2008, 3:30 p.m.
WES Room, Worner Center
Block 5
Rick Furtak, Colorado College
"Love, Subjectivity, and the Truth about the World"
Thursday, February 5, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
WES Room, Worner Center
Block 6
Valerie Tiberius, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
"Wisdom and Work"
Thursday, February 26, 2008, 3:30 p.m.
WES Room, Worner Center
Block 7 -The J. Glenn and Ursula Gray Memorial Lecture
Owen Flanagan, Duke University
"The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in the Material World"
Thursday, April 9, 2009, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
2007-2008 Colloquium Series
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.
Block 2
Jane Cauvel, Colorado College
"J. Glenn Gray's Vision of Philosophy"
Thursday October 11, 2007, 3:30 p.m.
Slocum Commons
Block 3
Martin Woessner, City College of New York, City University of New York
"Philosophy in a Time of War"
Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
Block 4
Carl Ficarrotta, United States Air Force Academy
"Fighting Wars and Moral Responsibility"
Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall
Block 5
Iain Thomson, University of New Mexico
"Heidegger on Ontotheology: The History That We Are"
Thursday February 7, 2008, 3:30 p.m.
Bemis Great Hall
Block 6
John Riker, Colorado College
"Ancient Wisdom, Modern Lives: Why the Greeks Still Matter"
Thursday March 6, 2008, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall
Block 7 - The J. Glenn Gray Memorial Lecture
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Columbia University
"The Promise of Politics"
Thursday, April 10, 2008, 3:30 p.m.
Gaylord Hall
2006-2007 Colloquium Series
Block 4
Marion Hourdequin, Colorado College
"Must Naturalists Be Nihilists?"
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 3:30 p.m.
McHugh Commons
Block 5
Jesse Prinz, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
"The Emotional Construction of Morals"
Monday, January 29, 2007, 3:30 p.m.
WES Room, Worner Center
Block 6 - The J. Glenn Gray Memorial Lecture
Nancy Sherman, Georgetown University
"The Blessings and Curses of Being a Stoic Warrior"
Thursday, April 12, 2007, 3:30 p.m.
Slocum Commons
Block 7
Candace Upton, University of Denver
"Virtue Ethics, Character, and Moral Psychology"
Thursday, April 26, 2007, 3:30 p.m.
McHugh Commons