Capen Lectures & Seminars since 2009

Fall 2017 Capen Lectures
José Medina, Northwestern ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Taking responsibility for racial violence: Shooting the racial imagination, Lecture 1
Racist Propaganda and Epistemic Activism , Lecture 2

Fall 2016 Capen Lectures: Agency and Suffering—Women Then and Now
Christia Mercer, Columbia ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Meditating on Truth: How women changed the course of philosophy 1300-1600 and laid the groundwork|
for Descartes’ Meditations, Lecture 1
Early modern women, suffering and agency: The Case of Anne Conway (1631-79), Lecture 2
Race, Gender, and Suffering in the Prison Industrial Complex, Lecture 3

Fall 2016 Capen Lecture Series: Philosophy and Its History
Barry Smith, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
"Philosophome: The Future of the History of Philosophy"

Thomas D. Sullivan, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of St. Thomas
“Philosophy Unshackled”

Russell F. Pannier, William Mitchell College of Law
“Burying the philosophical past: Reflections on the endlessly recurring philosophical impulse to start all over again."

Carlos Alberto Sanchez, San Jose State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
"Mexican Philosophy and the Trope of Authenticity"

Robert Gooding-Williams, Columbia ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
"History of African American Political Thought and Antiracist Critical Theory"


Fall 2015 Capen Lectures: Facing Ferguso
n
Paul C. Taylor, Pennsylvania State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Facing the Fire: On Mr. James Baldwin and Others, Lecture 1
Facing Foolishness: On Philosophy and the Academy, Lecture 2
Facing the Future: What Will Happen To All That Beauty?, Lecture 3


Fall 2014 Capen Seminar: On Life
Juan Manuel Gamido, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
The Knowledge of Life, Lecture 1
The Poetry of Life, Lecture 2
The Promise of Life, Lecture 3


Fall 2013 Capen Symposium: Metaphysical Fundamentals
Lynn Baker, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Massachuetts
Jorge J. E. Gracia, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
John Heil, Washington ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Ted Sider, Cornell ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Erwin Tegtmeier, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Mannheim, Germany
Javier Cumpa, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½

Fall 2013 Capen Seminar: Navigating Race Theory Today
Linda Martin Alcoff, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
The Future of Whiteness, Lecture 1
Anti-Latino Racism, Lecture 2
A Realist Theory of Social Identity, Lecture 3

Fall 2012 Capen Seminar: Racist Logics
Robert Bernasconi, Penn State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
I am also a racist, Lecture 1
I am not a racist, but…, Lecture 2
I do not see race, Lecture 3

Fall 2011 Capen Seminar
Andrés Claro, Universidad Chile
The Arts of Language as Political Resistance and Transcendental Revolution: The Great Traditions of Love Poetry

Fall 2010 Capen Seminar: Time, Desire, Affec
t
David Marriott, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of California, Santa Cruz
History of Consciousness Program
The Exile of Black Representation, Lecture 1
The Black Time-Image, Lecture 2
Whither Fanon? The Afterlife of Postcolonial Sovereignty, Lecture 3

Fall 2009 Capen Seminar
Mirta Kupferminc, Arist - Buenos Aires
From Words to Images: A Jewish View on Borges
Jorge J.E. Gracia, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½
Carlos Estévez's Images of Thought

Spring 2009 Capen Lecture
Andrés Claro, Universidad Chile
Broken Vessels: Philosophical Implications of Poetic Translation (The Limits, Hospitality, Afterlife and Marranism of Languages)