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2007-2008:

Illuminations
Ninth Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquia
Scheduled Tuesdays
4:30-5:45 p.m.

Call for Papers
16th Meeting of the Alain Locke Society
The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
November 7 & 8, 2008

Center for Literature and Philosophy
University of Sussex, England
Inaugural Conference
June 12-14, 2008
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp/1-2-3.html
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/clp/1-2-3-8.html

The International Association for Philosophy & Literature
Global Arts/Local Knowledge, IAPL 2008
June 30-July 5, 2008
Melbourne, Australia
www.iapl.info

"The Politics and Poetics of Memory"
3rd Bi-Annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Student Conference
Call for Papers

English Department Literature Speakers Series
(Some events co-sponsored by Philosophy & Literature)

2006-2007:

The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the North American Victorian Studies Association will meet at Purdue, August 31-September 3, 2006. See link to the conference web site: http://www.purdue.edu/NAVSA/Conferences/2006/.

Illuminations
Seventh Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquia
Scheduled Tuesdays
4:30-5:45 p.m.

2005-2006:

Globalization and Resistance
2nd Graduate Student Conference of the English & Philosophy Ph.D. Program
March 3-5, 2006
Purdue University

2004-2005:

Conference on the Problem of Evil
April 1-3, 2005

View video of the "Evil-Talk After September 11: Is This the Final End of Theodicy?"

Illuminations Lecture Series

"The Kantian Project of Cosmopolitan Law"
October 15, 2004 - Public Lecture by Dr. Jürgen Habermas
Professor Emeritus, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a/M
View the on-line video of "The Kantian Project of Cosmopolitan Law"

2003-2004:

The Foucault Circle
Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Indiana)
March 5-7, 2004
Call for Papers

Identifications: Faith, Theory & Identity Making
Graduate student conference; Keynote Speaker: Merold Westphal, Distinguished Professor of Philosoph, "Faith and (non) Identity"
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Illuminations Lecture Series

2003:

Conference of The North American Sartre Society
Plenary speaker: Joseph Catalano, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Kean University of New Jersey; "Sartre's Ontology: From Being and Nothingness to The Family Idiot"

Foucault as Philosopher of Experience
Tom Flynn, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University
(Co-sponsored colloquium paper with the Department of Philosophy)

Illuminations Lecture Series

1999:

Trauma and Survival
(Co-sponsored with Jewish Studies) Cathy Caruth (Emory), "Parting Words: Trauma, Silence, and Survival"; Dominic LaCapra (Cornell), "Trauma, Absence, Loss"; Henry Greenspan (Michigan), performance of "Remnants."

1998:

Feminist Visions of the Future: Ethics, Politics and the Imaginary
(Co-sponsored with Women's Studies) Tina Chanter (Memphis), "Abject Bodies and Love"; Patricia Huntington (Loyola Chicago), "The Discursive Subject after Kristeva and Butler"; Kelly Oliver (SUNY Stony Brook), "Witnessing Ethics"; Ewa Ziarek (Notre Dame), "The Future of Feminist Politics?: Irigaray and Kristeva on Radical Democracy."

1995:

Fanon Today: Re-Readings, Confrontations, Engagements
(Co-sponsored with African American Studies and Research Center)

1992-1993:

Columbus Quincentenary
(Four-day symposium co-sponsored with American Studies, African American Studies, Comparative Literature, Convocations, and University Libraries)

1991-1992:

Remembering: Philosophical and Literary Perspectives
Edwards S. Casey (SUNY Stony Brook), "Remembering Revisited: New and Neglected Aspects"; Mario Valedés (Toronto), "Memory and Remembering in Ricoeur, Proust, and García Márquez"; Lucius Outlaw (Haverford), "Memory, Tradition, and the History of American Philosophy"

1990-1991:

Representing the Other