Colloquium & Events » Past Colloquium Speakers

• January 22  Professor Lydia Goehr, Columbia University
  "All About Eve: Contest and Hubris in Politics and the Arts (from the Ancients to the Moderns)"
• February 5  Professor David Granger, State University of New York at Geneseo
  "John Dewey, Albert Barnes, and the Experience of Art: From Thomas Hart Benton to Jackson Pollock and Beyond"
• February 19  Professor Shaireen Rasheed, Long Island University
  "Sexualized Spaces in Public Places: Women, Islam and a Phenomenological Ethics of the Erotic"
• March 5  Professor Caroline Heller, Lesley University
  "At the Archives: Finding the Building Blocks of Thought that Hover Over Our Lives"
• March 26  Professor Anne-Marie Drouin-Hans, Université de Dijon, Côte d’Or (France), Président de la Société Francophone de Philosophie de l’Éducation
  "Utopia as a Tool for Analyzing Education"
• April 9  Professor Jin Shenghong, Nanjing Normal University (China)
  "Vindicating Philosophy of Education in Our Time"
• April 23  Mark Jonas, Program in Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
  "Friedrich Nietzsche and the Democratic Promise of Education"
• April 30  Professor Philip W. Jackson, University of Chicago
  "Philosophical Thoughts on the Final Day of Poetry Month"

• September 25  Sigal Ben-Porath, University of Pennsylvania
  
• October 2  Jan Massachelein, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
  
• October 23  Jim Garrison, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  
• November 2  Ninni Wahlström, Örebro Universitet (Sweden)
  
• November  20  Jonas Soltis, Teachers College, Columbia University
  
• December 4  Katja Vogt, Columbia University
  

• January 24  René V. Arcilla, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Humanities and the Social Sciences in the Professions, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University
  “Perfectionism's Educational Address”
• February 7  Inna Semetsky, The Research Institute of Advanced Studies for Humanity, University of Newcastle, Australia
  “Dewey, Deleuze and Educational Experience”
• February 14  Laura De Sisto, Lawrence University Fellow in the Liberal Arts and Sciences
  “Education is a Humanism: Reconceptualizing the Activity of Teaching and Learning”
• March 6  Avi Mintz, Program in Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
  “The Labor of Learning: A study of the Role of Pain in Education”
• April 17  Douglas S. Hutchinson, Fellow of Trinity College and Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada
  "Principles of Higher Education in Aristotle's Lost Dialogue “Protrepticus to Philosophy”
• May 1  Thomas James, Provost and Professor of History and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
  “Young Kurt Hahn: Wellsprings of Experience in Education”

• September 20  Professor Suzanne Rice , Department of Curriculum and Teaching, University of Kansas
• October 4  Professor Laurance Splitter, Hunter College, City University of New York(CUNY)
• October 18  Professor Audrey Thompson, University of Utah
• November 1  Professor Dimitri Nikulin,  New School for Social Research
• November 8  Professor Rebecca Kukla, University of South Florida
• November 29  Professor Stephanie Mackler, Cornell College Mount Vernon, IA

• February 1  Professor David Kennedy, Educational Foundations, MSU
• March 1  Professor Claudia Barracchi, New School for Social Research
• March 29  Professor Thomas Wartenburg, Mount Holyoke College
• April 19  Ben Blair, Program in Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
  
• April 26 Professor Emily Robertson, Syracuse University
• May 3 Darryl De Marzio, Program in Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
  

• September 21  Professor Maughn Gregory, Montclair State University
• October 5  Professor Michael Smith, Princeton University
• October 26  Francis Schrag, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• November 2  Professor Amelie Rorty, Harvard University
• November 16  Professor Philip Kitcher, Columbia University
• November 30  Professor Ben Endres, SUNY, New Palz

• September 22  Megan Laverty, Teachers College, Columbia University
• October 6  Wendy Kohli, Fairfield University
• October 27  Wiel Veugelers, Amsterdam University & University for Humanistics (Utrecht)
• November 17  Frederick Neuhouser, Barnard College & Columbia University
• December 8  Barbara Applebaum, Syracuse University

• April 7  William Proefriedt, Queens College, City University of New York
• April 21  Clive Beck, Ontario Institute for the Study of Education, University of Toronto
  "The Case for Formal Teacher Preparation: A Social Constructivist Perspective"
• May 5  Shilpi Sinha, Program in Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
  

• September 23  Professor Aine Donovan, Dartmouth College
  "Mission Driven Education: Infusing Meaning into the Work of the Professoriate"
• October 7  Professor Barbara Stengel, Millersville University
  "Be Not Afraid? The Experience of Fear, the Purpose of Education, and the Role of Imagination"
• October 28  Professor Jon Levisohn, Brandeis University
  "The Virtue of Virtue: Virtue Epistemology and the Formation of Educational Goals"
• November 11  Dr. Meira Levinson, Boston Public Schools
  "Push Me-Pull You, or, Should Citizenship have Standards? A Classroom-centered Reflection on Civic Education, NCLB, and the Reign of Standardized Testing"
• December 9  Professor Vincent Crapanzano, CUNY Graduate Center
  "The Betwixt and the Between: Notes on Imaginative Horizons"

• January 22  Professor Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon, Northwestern University
  "Growing Tolerant through Dialogue: The Role of Listening"
• February 5  Professor Maria Antonaccio, Bucknell University
  "Moral Formation and the Task of Education"
• February 19  Professor Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University
  "Art, Aesthetics, and the Rest of Life"
• March 4  Professor Deborah Kerdeman, University of Washington
  "Pulled Up Short: Another Look at Understanding for Learning and Teaching"
• April 1  Doris Santoro, Program in Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
  "The Space of Good Teaching"
• April 15  Yoshiko Nakama, Program in Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
  "Searching for Moral Education in an Age of Nihilism: An Examination of Keiji Nishitani's Philosophy of  Emptiness"
• April 22  Professor Ann Diller, University of New Hampshire
  "Love and Hatred in the Moral Life: Educational Investigations"

• September 18  Richard Eldridge, Swarthmore College
  "Expressive Freedom and Aesthetic Education"
• October 2  Megan Laverty, Montclair State University
  "Philosophical Dialogue: Is it Enough for Moral Education"
• October 16  Paul Standish, Dundee University (Scotland)
  "The Language of the Curriculum: Rethinking Education after Levinas"
• October 30  Colette Gosselin, College of New Jersey
  "Experience and the Construction of Worth"
• November 13  Victor Kestenbaum, Boston University
  "John Dewey on Practice and the Transcendent"
• December 4  Robbie McClintock, Teachers College, Columbia University
  "Kant and Instructional Design"

• January 30  Stephanie Mackler, Teachers College, Columbia University
• February 13  Paul Farber, University of Western Michigan
• February 27  Reba Page, University of California at Riverside
• March 13  Harvey Siegel, University of Miami
• April 3  Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University
• April 17  Catherine Elgin, Harvard University