Category : graduate

Reading and writing groups

Several reading groups will be continuing on next semester, and we will post more information about those here once it becomes available.

The weekly thesis/dissertation writing group that started last semester will continue through the spring (and probably beyond). For more information contact Kyoungnam, knpark123[at]gmail.com.

A hermeneutics reading group is starting up but hasn’t yet organized a meeting time. For more information contact Allan, abreedlove[at]luc.edu.

As usual, the Phenomenology Research Group has several event planned for the upcoming semester and will likely begin advertising reading groups soon. Stay tuned to their website: http://www.phenomenologyresearchgroup.net/ .


Philosophy Grad Student Happy Hour!

Hello,

 

You’re enthusiastically invited to…

 

The Philosophy Department’s Grad Student Happy Hour!

 

Who?                    Grad students, faculty, and staff members. This means you!

When?                 Friday, November 8th. 4-6pm.

Where?               Crown Center 200 East (The glass room on the second floor)

Why?                    To drown our sorrows, toast our successes, and enjoy each other’s company.

 

The department will provide drinks, so it would be great if you could bring a snack to share.

 

Let me know if you have any questions, and I hope to see you there!

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Molly Clasen

Office Assistant

Philosophy Department
Loyola University Chicago


“Animal: What Makes Us Human,” Lectures at Newberry Library/Chicago Humanities Festival, Nov 2

The Chicago Humanities Festival, The Newberry Library, and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago are pleased to announce a special opportunity for graduate students.
On Saturday, November 2 three dynamic scholars of American history and culture-Professors Peter Mancall (University of Southern California, History and Anthropology), Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University, English and American Studies) and Susan Scott Parrish (University of Michigan, English and Environmental Studies) -will deliver public lectures at the Newberry Library as part of the 24th annual Chicago Humanities Festival’s theme of “Animal: What Makes Us Human.”

 

In addition to their talks, these speakers will lead brief discussions for a small group of students about their work focusing especially on the topic of environmental history and “Animal Archives.” Refreshments and lunch will be provided; and participants in the seminar will receive free passes for the lectures. The discussions will be moderated by Daniel Greene, Vice President for Research and Academic Programs at the Newberry Library, and Professor Eric Slauter, Director of the Karla Scherer Center. All events will take place at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Avenue, Chicago. A schedule for this daylong event appears below, along with brief biographies of the speakers.

Interested students should please submit the following:

1. A brief biography (200 – 500 words) including his/her area of research
2. One to two questions s/he would like to pose during the seminars

Email applications and questions to eslauter@uchicago.edu with the subject heading “Animal Archives.” The deadline is Wednesday, October 23. Priority will be given to current graduate students who have not attended the seminar in previous years. Selected applicants will be notified by Friday, October 25.

SCHEDULE: November 2, 2013
LOCATION: The Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Ave., Chicago

9:30am: Peter Mancall seminar

10:30am: Peter Mancall lecture: “Pigs for Historians: A New View of Early America

11:40am-12:20pm: Lunch (boxed lunch provided to those who enroll)

12:30pm: Wai Chee Dimock lecture: “Hearing Animals in Thoreau

1:30pm: Wai Chee Dimock seminar

2:30pm: Susan Scott Parrish lecture: “Noah’s Kin

3:30pm: Susan Scott Parrish seminar

About the speakers:

Peter Mancall, Professor of History and Anthropology at USC, and the Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, is a historian of colonial North America, the early modern Atlantic basin, Native American history, and environmental history.  He is the Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California and the director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.He is the author of five books including Fatal Journal: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson-A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Artic (Basic Books, 2009); Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America (Yale, 2007; paperback 2010) and Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America(Cornell, 1995). He is currently writing American Origins, which will be volume one of the Oxford History of the United States. He is an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians and an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society. His work has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education,Bloomberg Businessweek, and American Heritage and been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”

Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, has written on American literature of all periods, from Anne Bradstreet to Star Trek. She argues for a broad conception of American literature, including materials both high and low, and scales both local and global.  Her work has appeared in publications ranging from Critical Inquiry to Los Angeles Review of Books toSalonShe is the author of the prize-winning Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time (Princeton, 2006), Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy (California, 1996), and Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism (Princeton, 1989), as well as the co-editor of Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton, 2007).She was a consultant for “Invitation to World Literature,” a 13-part series produced by WGBH and aired on PBS in 2010. Her lecture course, “Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner,” is available from Open Yale Courses. She is now at work on a digital humanities platform, “American Literature in the World,” which features a web-and-print anthology and an annual graduate conference.

Susan Scott Parrishis an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan; she is also a Fellow at the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute (UM). Her research addresses the interrelated issues of race, the environment, and knowledge-making in the Atlantic world from the 17th up through the mid-20th century, with a particular emphasis on southern and Caribbean plantation zones. Her book American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World (North Carolina, 2006) was awarded both the Jamestown Prize and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize; the Emerson prize is given by the Phi Beta Kappa Society to one book each year for its contribution to understanding “the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.” Her recent projects include work on slavery and portraiture in the 18th-century Atlantic world, and a new edition of Robert Beverley’s 1705 History and Present State of Virginia (North Carolina, 2013). She is currently completing a book-length study of the ecological imagination of the U.S. South in the first half of the Twentieth Century.

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Eric Slauter
Director, The Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture
Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago
Visiting Editor, The William and Mary Quarterly

Anne E. Cullen
Program Assistant
Smith Center | Newberry Library
60 W. Walton St. | Chicago, IL 60610
312.255.3657
www.newberry.org


LUC Philosophy Placement Statistics for PhD Alumni

•             From 2010-2013, twenty-seven Ph.D. students have completed their degrees and graduated.

•             Of those, a small number have chosen non-academic careers (theater, community organizing, chaplaincy, business).

•             The rest have academic careers. Seventeen have full-time positions and five have one or more part-time positions.

•             Eleven alumni teach at non-religiously affiliated schools, and eleven teach at religiously affiliated schools.

•             Seventeen alumni teach at four-year colleges, and five teach at two-year colleges.

 

Any additional questions about these statistics or recent alumni placement, should be directed to Molly Clasen (contact info below).

 

Molly Clasen

Office Assistant

Philosophy Department
Loyola University Chicago

Crown Center 381

1032 West Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660

Phone: 773.508.2453

Fax: 773.508.2292
E-Mail: mclasen@luc.edu


               

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Justin Nordin and his wife on the birth of their baby girl over the weekend!


CFP: Kent State University Graduate Conference

The Department of Philosophy at Kent State University is pleased to announce the 21st Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference in Remembrance of May 4th.

Submission Deadline: January 19, 2014
Conference Date: March 15, 2014
Conference Website: http://philosophy.kent.edu/conference/
Submission Guidelines: We invite submissions on any philosophical topic, and from any research tradition in philosophy.  Submissions should be 3500 words or 30 minutes reading time. All submissions should be sent to philconf@kent.edu <mailto:philconf@kent.edu>. 


(Our very own!) CFP: LUC Graduate Conference: “Philosophy, Virtue, and Personhood”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Philosophy, Virtue, and Personhood

A Graduate Student Philosophy Conference at Loyola University Chicago April 11-12, 2014

Submission Deadline: December 15, 2013 Keynote Speakers:

 Gabriel Richardson Lear (University of Chicago) ␣ Hanne Jacobs (Loyola University Chicago)

Ancient to contemporary thinkers have struggled with questions about the transformation of the self and what it means to live well. Are multiple conceptions of the good life compatible with more univocal doctrines of goodness and wellbeing? We want to explore what role, if any, philosophy can play in helping us to constitute ourselves as persons, become better selves, or live better lives. The philosophy department at Loyola University Chicago invites papers from a broad range of philosophical perspectives, operating in both continental and analytic traditions, on topics pertaining to the role of philosophy in shaping the self and in living a good life.

All submissions should be submitted for blind review by December 15, 2013. Full papers (up to 3,000 words), with 100 word abstracts, should be sent to loyolaphilosophy2014@gmail.com in .DOC or .PDF format.


Workshop: Google tools and strategies, Jane Currie, LUC, Oct. 14

Google: Research Tips and Strategies

Monday  September 23th – 4 p.m.                            Monday October 14th – 4 p.m.

IC 120     

Everyone uses Google, but many are unaware of the wide variety of Google’s services and features.  The more you know about how Google works, the better it can serve your academic needs.  This workshop discusses selected Google features and capabilities, and identifies techniques that can make Google an effective resource for finding scholarly information.

 

 

Jane P. Currie

Reference Librarian

Loyola University Chicago

773-508-2773

jcurrie@luc.edu


Correction to previously announced WMU Grad Conference dates, Dec. 6-8

The previous message announcing the 7th Annual WMU Grad conference
incorrectly stated that it would occur Dec. 7th-9th. The actual conference
dates are Dec. 6th-8th. The deadline for submissions is still October 18th.

Please see the conference’s philevents page for further information.

http://philevents.org/event/show/11631

Matt Miller
Department of Philosophy
Western Michigan University


The department wants to put together a newsletter about you. Help them out!

Hello Current & Former Grad students,

 

The department is putting together a congratulatory email celebrating any major life events (marriages, babies, new jobs, etc.) that have occurred since Spring of this year. If you have any information to include in our email, please feel free to send it my way so we may add it and share it with other graduate students and faculty.

 

Thank you,

 

Molly Clasen

Office Assistant

Philosophy Department
Loyola University Chicago

Crown Center 381

1032 West Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660

Phone: 773.508.2453

Fax: 773.508.2292
E-Mail: mclasen@luc.edu

 


CFP: 7th Annual Northern Graduate Philosophy Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

7th Annual Northern Graduate Philosophy Conference
November 8-9, 2013
Northern Illinois University

Keynote Speaker: Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California
Friday, November 8, Holmes Student Center, University Suite
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Submissions by graduate students of approximately 3,000 words in length on any topic in mainstream analytic philosophy are welcome. Submissions accessible to a general philosophical audience will be favored.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Please send the following as separate attachments in .pdf or WORD (.doc, .docx) format to philgsac@niu.edu:

1.      A cover page, containing the following information:

a.      Author’s name

b.      Institutional affiliation

c.      Contact information (email, phone number)

d.      Title of paper

e.      Topic area of paper

f.        Word count

2.   The paper itself, free from all identifying information. Please include a title page with an abstract (no more than 150 words).

 

Responses to submissions will be sent by September 30, 2013.

Please direct all questions concerning the conference to the NIU Graduate Student Advisory Council in Philosophy: philgsac@niu.edu

We gratefully acknowledge sponsorship by the Department of Philosophy, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School of Northern Illinois University.


CFA WMU Bioethics/Medical Humanities Conference, Sept. 26-27

FWD: from AGSP listserv

[To whom it may concern,]

I just wanted to send word along to your department (especially graduate students) regarding a bioethics/medical humanities conference nearby at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. It’s only 2-2.5 hours drive from Chicago. The conference takes place September 26-27, and they’re accepting abstracts through July 15.

The primary focus “will be on emergent technologies in health care and humanities, and how these affect patient care, the patient experience, and the effectiveness of the practice of health care, though proposals in any area of medical humanities are welcome.” I’ve attached the full CFA.

 

Cheers,

Alex B. Neitzke

Department of Philosophy

Michigan State University


Graduate Student Orientation and BBQ

Hello current and future Graduate Students!
 
This email is to let you know that the Graduate Student Fall Orientation and Barbeque will be on August 30th. The orientation for new students will be from 3:00-4:30pm in the Crown Auditorium and the barbeque for all current students will be 4:30-7pm in the Crown Lobby.
 
Due to student requests, we were hoping to have the event a week earlier but were unable to secure a space on campus. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
 
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
 
Thank you, and enjoy your day!

Best,
Molly
 
Molly Clasen
Office Assistant
Philosophy Department
Loyola University Chicago
Crown Center 381
1032 West Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660
Phone: 773.508.2453
Fax: 773.508.2292
E-Mail: mclasen@luc.edu

Graduate Summer Research Award winners have been announced!

Congratulations to Russell Newstadt, Rebecca Scott, and Carlo Tarantino, the recipients of this year’s Graduate Summer Research Awards. Best of luck on your summer projects!


Grad Student & Faculty Pot-luck next Wednesday at 4:30!