Symposium on La Reine-garçon

Innis Town Hall 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Canadian Opera Company (COC) will be mounting the Canadian composer Julien Bilodeau’s new opera, La Reine-Garçon, with a libretto by Michel Marc Bouchard. This one-day symposium will explore how La Reine-Garçon is grounded in Cartesian philosophy and contemporary theories of gender and performance.

Colloquium (Jocelyn Benoist, Sorbonne)

Jocelyn Benoist, a professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, is the author of, most recently, Toward a Contextual Realism (Harvard University Press, 2021). He is also a recipient of the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize. He works in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (James Bahoh, Memphis)

Jackman Humanities Building 519

James Bahoh, an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, focuses his research on phenomenology, post-phenomenological Continental philosophy, and ontology/metaphysics in the context of German and French thought from Kant to today.

Colloquium (C. Thi Nguyen, Utah)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

C. Thi Nguyen, an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, writes about trust, art, games, and communities, interested in the ways our social structures and technologies shape how we think and what we value.

History of Philosophy Research Group Talk (Sarah Tropper, Toronto)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sarah Tropper, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, specializes in early modern philosophy, medieval philosophy, and metaphysics.

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Stefan Linquist, Guelph)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Stefan Linquist, an associate professor at the University of Guelph, is a philosopher of biology with research interests in ecology, genomics, and evolution. His current work examines theoretical issues in genomics and ecology. 

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Alejandro Pérez Carballo, UMass Amherst)

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Alejandro Pérez Carballo, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, is interested in questions in the philosophy of mind and language, especially as they relate to issues in the philosophy of mathematics and metaethics, as well as in some questions in metaphysics and formal epistemology.

Other Epistemic Achievements – Global Perspectives

This conference, organized by Resa Hades and hosted jointly by the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University, will bring together scholars from different traditions to explore alternate pathways for theorizing epistemic achievements and virtues.

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