Colloquium

Colloquium


Philosophy and Education Colloquium Series

Spring 2026

Thursdays, 5:30pm – 7:00pm, 433 Horace Mann

(Reception to follow in 334 HM)

 

January 29

The Graced Imagination: Storytelling and the Search for Truth, Beauty and Goodness in the 

Liberal Arts

Margarita Mooney Clayton, Princeton University

 

February 12

Becoming Oneself by Not Being Oneself

Sulki Song, Ph.D. student, Philosophy and Education Program

 

February 26

Bearing Witness to the Pain and Beauty in the World: An Author-Meets-Critics Encounter

Chair: Sara Hardman, Philosophy and Education Program

Book/ Author: The Witness as Educator by David T. Hansen, Philosophy and Education Program

Commentators:

Rachel Longa, Yale University

Darryl De Marzio, Portsmouth Academy

Megan J. Laverty, Teachers College, Philosophy and Education Program

 

Note: this session convenes in Thompson Hall 136

 

March 12

Philosophy as Gesture: Returning to the Unfinished Body

Chris Moffett, Digital Futures Institute, Teachers College

 

March 26

Reconceptualizing Pity for Moral and Social Justice Education

Emy Cardoza, Ph.D. student, Philosophy and Education Program

 

April 2

Town Hall meeting 

Faculty and students, Program in Philosophy and Education 

 

April 16

How Beautiful it is to be This Way with You: Articulating Pedagogy Through the Lens of Relational Aesthetics

Samantha Piede, Ph.D. student, Philosophy and Education Program

 

April 23: Master's Degree student presentations (I)

Sam Bolourtchi: A Cinematic Take on a Philosophical Dilemma: Breaking the Fourth Wall in Education

Zev GrossmanA Crisis in Art

Zixuan HuangOn Common Experiences and the Value of Having Common Experiences in Education

Deema KhumayisReanimating Education: The Fluidity of Folktales in the Digital Age

 

April 30  Master's Degree students presentations (II)

Seungyoon LeeDistinctive Individuality and Social Fragmentation: Education Relational Individuality in an Age of Isolation, Negation, and Fragmentation

Brittany Ober: What Is a Poetics of English Language Teaching, and Why Is it Important?

Stephen Onley: The Consent of the Incompetent: Can a Republic Govern Those It Refuses to Educate?

Jiaqi ZhuThe Philosophical Core of Education Lies in Promoting Human Well-being: The Practice of Cultivating an “Integrated Personality”

Addison Zipter: The Need for Philosophy in Undergraduate Teacher Education

 

 

May 7

Program Spring Party

 

For more information about the Philosophy and Education Program Colloquium, please contact the Colloquium coordinator, Professor David Hansen.  His email address is hansen@tc.edu

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