Departmental Colloquium

The Department of Philosophy’s regular colloquium series is one of the oldest in Canada. The series welcomes speakers to give talks every Thursday during the Fall and Winter semesters.

Additionally, the Department and its cognate units often host special colloquium series, workshops, and conferences – sometimes jointly with other departments, and either in addition to or as part of the regular colloquium series. The Department also sponsors the Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy, hosted by the Faculty of Law, and is home to a number of reading groups, some of which discuss work in progress by visiting, external faculty.

2024-25 Colloquium Schedule

Fall 2024

Sep 12. David Bakhurst (Queen's), "Anscombe versus Austin"

Sep 19. The Graham Kennedy Memorial Lecture: C. Thi Nguyen (Utah), “Scoring Systems and Mechanized Values”

Sep 26. Alexis Shotwell (Carleton) and Kilian Jörg (Futurama.Lab), “An Ecology of Moralizing”

Oct 2. Workshop on Black Male Studies, hosted by Dalitso Ruwe (Queen’s): Tommy Curry (Edinburgh), Norman Ajari (Edinburgh), Adebayo Oluwayomi (West Chester)

Oct 24. Ram Murty (Queen’s), “The Meaning of Yoga”

Oct 31. Serrin Rutledge-Prior (Queen’s), “On Animal Liberty”

Nov 21. Panel on Campus Protest, hosted by Meena Krishnamurthy (Queen’s): Shannon Dea (Regina), “Campus Protests and Universities’ Duties of Proximity", Dax D'Orazio (Queen’s), “After the Encampments: The Law, Policy, and Limits of Campus Expression", Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam), “On the Compatibility between Student Protests and Academic Freedom"

Nov 28. Lauren Bialystok (Toronto)

Winter 2025

Jan 16. Lesley Jamieson (Pardubice), "Moral Attention and Bad Sentimentality"

Jan 23. The Lorne Maclachlan Lecture on Kant: Samantha Matherne (Harvard), “Aesthetic Education: A Kantian Model”

Jan 30. Elizabeth Finneron-Burns (Western), “Do We Owe the Past a Future?”

Feb 27. The Alistair Macleod Distinguished Lecture: Heidi Hurd (Illinois)

Mar 13. The Gregory Vlastos Memorial Lecture: James Allen (University of Toronto)

Mar 20. Colin Farrelly (Queen’s), “Climate Geroscience: The Case for ‘Wisdom-Inquiry’ Science”