• Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire: a workshop — with Andrew Cole, Frank Ruda, and others

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

    This one-day workshop is hosted by Professor Rebecca Comay. Visiting speakers will be Andrew Cole (Princeton) and Frank Ruda (Dundee).  A full schedule and list of participants will be posted closer to the date of this event. 

  • Difference and Alterity: Critical Models in Modern Thought

    108 N Munk Centre, 1 Devonshire Place 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Programme Friday October 25 2:00-2:15 Opening Remarks 2:15-3:00 Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, The Same Is the Different: Nature, Fortune, History in Machiavelli 3:00-3:45 Oleg Gelikman, The Quake of the Real: on the Ontology of Relation in Montaigne 3:45-4:15 Coffee Break 4:15-5:00 Willi Goetschel, Writing Otherwise: Montaigne and La Boëtie 5:00-5:45 Warren Montag, ... Read More

  • Ethics and Political Philosophy Group Talk (Nicholas Vrousalis, Erasmus Rotterdam)

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

    Nicholas Vrousalis, an associate professor of Practical Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, works on distributive ethics, democratic theory, and the history of political philosophy, with an emphasis on Kant, Hegel, and Marx.

  • Continental Philosophy Research Group Talk (Espen Hammer, Temple)

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

    Espen Hammer, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Temple University, is a Norwegian philosopher whose main focus is on the post-Kantian European tradition of philosophy. Most of his work deals with questions of ethics, politics and subjectivity.