Past Events

In this talk/workshop, publishing scholar and podcaster Hannah McGregor (Publishing@SFU) will discuss how to incorporate podcasting into your courses, the value (and perils!) of involving students in public-facing scholarship, and other ways academics can embrace the potential of the podcast. Participants are encouraged to bring syllabi-in-process, assignment ideas, and podcast aspirations!

Thesis Title: Dignity: A Salient Concept in Philosophy of Medicine ALL ARE WELCOME

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We had to postpone this event due to weather, but the change in date has meant that it now takes place during Global Soil Week! The inimatible Karen Houle asks participants to meet her at The Cannon in Branion Plaza for 12pm, for a compost-collecting parade through campus to the Organic Farm. From there, we'll tour the farm together, talk about compost, death, healthy earth practices as well as life, and growth, and we'll connect these things to our working senses of "feminism".

Thesis Title: Cruelty and Callousness in Virtue Ethics: Why the                           Virtuous Agent Acts Well Towards Animals   ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND  

Thesis Title: The Combination Problem of Panpsychism                              and its Possible Solutions   ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) was one of the longest military engagements of the middle ages, and one of its most significant. Yet while the conflict’s political, military, and socio-cultural aspects have been well-studied, the literature composed during the period has not. Thus, this thesis attempts to fill a gap in the scholarship of the Hundred Years War by analyzing the literature directed at four of the five successive English kings who took part in the conflict – Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI (c. 1377-1453) – by way of manuscript dedications, addresses, and gifts.

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A Social Network and Text Analysis of Charles Darwin’s Correspondence, 1835-1842   Popular and historical conceptions of Charles Darwin portray him as a lone scientific genius. My thesis challenges this picture by using digital tools from the digital humanities to analyze the collaborative process and extensive production timeline of his theory of evolution. Drawing on material generously provided by the Darwin Correspondence Project at Cambridge University, my work characterizes him as a project manager figure identified through trends in his

Occulted, Estranged and Inhuman Knowledges, hosted in Guelph, ON by members of the “Philosophy in the Dark” reading group, presents knowledge as a principle topic for interrogation through the mediums of philosophy, horror film, literature, visual arts and music. Knowledge (human and inhuman), the lack of knowledge, its perversion or theft, and the undermining of thought itself are all chief interests to our gathering. ​