2013-2014 CONFERENCES
Fall 2013
Pyrrho: Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius
A Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
October 18/19 2013, Common Room of the Heyman Center, Columbia University
Organizers: Katja Maria Vogt / SAPERE
Contributors: Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins), Lorenzo Corti (Paris ENS), Christiana Olfert (Tufts), Elizabeth Scharffenberger (Columbia), David Sedley (Cambridge), Katja Maria Vogt (Columbia), James Warren (Cambridge)
For a brief description, please follow this link:
http://katjavogt.com/conferences/pyrrhonian-skepticism-in-diogenes-laertius/
2012-2013 CONFERENCES
Spring 2013
Doxa in Aristotle
A Workshop in Ancient Philosophy
April 26/27 2013, Philosophy Hall 716, Columbia University
Organizer: Katja Maria Vogt
Speakers: Rusty Jones (Harvard), Marko Malink (Chicago), Wolfgang Mann (Columbia), Ian McCready-Flora (Columbia), Christiana Olfert (Tufts), Christof Rapp (Munich), Barbara Sattler (Yale), Katja Maria Vogt (Columbia)
For a brief description, please follow this link:
http://katjavogt.com/conferences/doxa-in-aristotle/
The 13th Annual Columbia-NYU Graduate Conference in Philosophy
Keynote Speaker: Sarah Moss (University of Michigan - http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ssmoss/)
April 6th, 2013
New York University
5 Washington Place
Room 101
Program
Organizers:
Brittany Koffer (CU)
Laura Martin (CU)
Ignacio Ojea (CU)
Michelle Mary Dyke (NYU)
Vera Flocke (NYU)
Katherine Keene (NYU)
Questions: columbianyu.philgradconference@gmail.com
Call for Papers
2011-2012 CONFERENCES
Spring 2012
The 12th Annual Columbia-NYU Graduate Conference in Philosophy
Keynote Speaker: James Dreier (Brown)
April 14, 2012
9.30am-7pm
602 Hamilton Hall
Questions: columbianyuphilgrad@gmail.com
Conference Schedule
Fall 2011
Progic 2011
The Progic conference series is intended to promote interactions between probability and logic. The fifth installment of the series will be held at Columbia University in New York on September 10th and 11th of 2011. While several of the earlier Progic meetings included a special focus, Progic 2011 will honor Haim Gaifman's contributions to the intersection of probability and logic. Progic 2011 will consist of 11 talks. The following distinguished speakers have been confirmed:
Haim Gaifman (Columbia)
Rohit Parikh (CUNY)
Jeff Paris (Manchester)
Dana Scott (Carnegie Mellon)
Special Issue: We have made arrangements to publish all 11 papers from the conference in a special issue of the Journal of Applied Logic.
Local organizer:
Jeff Helzner
Progic Steering Committee:
Rolf Haenni
Jan-Willem Romeijn
Gregory Wheeler
Jon Willamson
Progic Schedule
2010-2011 CONFERENCES
Fall 2010
October 16th: Philosophy in Schools: A Conference to promote Philosophical Education in American Primary and Secondary Schools
The Columbia University Philosophy Outreach Program invites teachers, graduate students in philosophy, philosophy faculty members, and school administrators to attend.
Saturday, October 16th, 2010
Beginning at 10am, Cowin Center, Teachers College
Keynote Address: Robert Paul Wolff, Professor Emeritus (formerly Philosophy and Afro-American Studies), University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Conference Speakers:
-Mitch Green, NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia.
-David Hansen, Professor of Philosophy & Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.
-Deanna Kuhn, Director, Education for Thinking Institute, Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.
-Jana Mohr Lone, Founder & Director, Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children, University of Washington.
-Judith Revel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Paris I - Sorbonne.
-Paul Thomson, Philosopher in Residence, Columbia Secondary School.
-Eric Thomas Weber, Assistant Professor, Public Policy Leadership, University of Mississippi.
-Plus: Representatives of philosophy outreach programs from the University of Memphis, Yale University, New York University, and Columbia University.
Travel Grants Available for teachers and graduate students in philosophy from the U.S. Please contact the conference organizers for more details.
Professional Development Credit Available at Registration.
More Information: Please contact the conference organizers Michael Seifried (mms2135@columbia.edu) and Timothy Ignaffo (tfi2101@columbia.edu), or visit the website of the Columbia University Philosophy Outreach Program.
October 28th-30th: The Philosophy of Creativity Conference
What is creativity? How does it happen? How is it that creativity is manifest in discovery as well as invention, in science as well as art? In what ways might an audience participate in creating a work of art? What role does creativity play in the construction of the self?
Join us along with a distinguished cast of philosophers, cognitive scientists, and artists to discuss these and other questions as we explore this exciting and relatively new field of philosophy.
For more information, please see the conference website.
Contact: Professor Elliot Samuel Paul epaul@barnard.edu.
2009-2010 CONFERENCES
Fall 2009
October 2nd & 3rd, 2009
Women, Philosophy, and History: Conference Celebrating Eileen O'Neill and her Work
This conference will continue the groundbreaking work of Eileen O'Neill (Barnard, 1975) by examining the standard narrative of the history of philosophy from a feminist perspective. For general information, go to http://www.barnard.edu/bcrw/events.htm#oneill.
For the conference poster please click HERE and for the conference schedule please click HERE.
October 16th, 2009: The Dewey Workshop
The Dewey Workshop is jointly organized by the Columbia-Barnard Philosophy Department and the Philosophy of Education program at Teacher's College. It will take place on October 16th, and will run all day.
For the conference poster please click HERE and for the conference schedule please click HERE.
Spring 2010
February 6th, 2010: Desiring the Good in Plato
A one-day conference in 716 Philosophy Hall, organized by Katja Maria Vogt.
Speakers: Matthew Evans (NYU), Melissa Lane (Princeton), Dimitri El Murr (Paris 1), and Iakovos Vasiliou (CUNY).
Commentators: Taylor Carman, Wolfgang Mann, Christiana Olfert, Melissa Schwartzberg.
"Desiring the Good in Plato" is a year-long research project, jointly conducted by Dimitri El Murr (Paris 1) and Katja Maria Vogt (Columbia). The project is funded by the Columbia-Paris Alliance Program. The project involves a second conference in Paris, April 16th and 17th, organized by Dimitri El Murr.
April 10th 2010: NYU-Columbia Philosophy Graduate Conference
The 10th Annual NYU-Columbia Philosophy Graduate Conference will be held April 10th, 2010 at Columbia University.
The Keynote Speaker for the conference will be Roger White, associate professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For more information, please see the Conference Schedule and the Conference Website.
For further questions, please email gradconf@philcolumbia.com.
April 15th & 16th 2010: The 2010 Synthese Conference on Epistemology and Economics
The Department of Philosophy at Columbia University will be hosting the Synthese Conference on Epistemology and Economics will take place on April 15th and 16th. It will feature invited papers by Alexandru Baltag (Oxford), Cristina Bicchieri (Penn), Adam Brandenburger (NYU), Christian List (LSE), and Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund), as well as several contributed papers.
Additional details, including information about free registration, can be found in the attached PDF.
April 17th 2010: The SIPTA Workshop on Uncertainty The Society for Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) is sponsoring a workshop on uncertainty that will be held at Columbia on April 17th. The workshop will feature invited talks by Jim Joyce (Michigan) and Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon), as well as several contributed papers.
Additional details, including information about free registration, can be found in the attached PDF.
