Graduate Student Micah Trautmann Receives Center on Forced Displacement Fellowship
The Department would like to commend and congratulate graduate student Micah Trautmann for being awarded a year-long dissertation fellowship at BU’s Center on Forced Displacement, in association with their upcoming Mellon Sawyer Seminars on border externalization. As a research fellow, Micah will continue work on his dissertation, “Refugees and a Right to Place,” help organize […]
Department Welcomes Visiting Scholars Giulia Battistoni and Lei-lei Qi
The Department is pleased to welcome two new visiting scholars into our midsts: Giulia Battistoni (University of Verona) and Lei-lei Qi (South China University of Technology). Giulia Battistoni is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Global Fellow and Teaching Assistant at the University of Verona. Her main research interests […]
Chair Sally Sedgwick Announces Publication of New Book
The Department would like to wish warm congratulations to Professor and Department Chair Sally Sedgwick in announcing the publication of her new book, Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit. The book will be published by Oxford University Press on May 30 2023, and is available for pre-order now. Click here for more info […]
BU Philosophy Student Vanessa Hanger Receives Prestigious Buck Scholarship
The Department of Philosophy would like to congratulate Vanessa Hanger, a Philosophy undergrad, on receiving the prestigious Augustus Howe Buck Scholarship for 2022! The Buck Scholarship dates as far back as 1917, and is one of the highest honors awarded to undergraduate students here at BU. Vanessa is an exceptionally active member of our community, […]
Professor Paul Katsafanas, Grad Students, & Alumnus Presenting in North American Nietzsche Society Conference
The Department is pleased to share that Professor Paul Katsafanas, graduate students Joel Van Fossen and Caroline Wall, and alumnus Ian Dunkle will be presenting at the 2022 North American Nietzsche Society Conference in two weeks. The Conference will be held on October 7th and October 8th, 2022, at Brown University. You can find the […]
Philosophy Undergrad Paul St. Cyr wins Karbank Fellowship, Pens Promethean Play
The Department is proud to share that one of our Karbank Fellows this year, undergraduate student Paul St. Cyr, used the support from the Karbank Fellowship to write a play, and recently put it on for the public for the first time. The play, called “False Idols and Glass Titans,” is a reimagining of the […]
Professor Victor Kumar Featured in BU’s The Brink: “Why It’s So Hard to Give Up Meat”
Professor Victor Kumar was recently featured in an article and Q&A on The Brink, a news outlet dedicated to sharing the pioneering research conducted at Boston University. The article, “Firing Up the Grill? Why It’s So Hard to Give Up Meat” features Professor Kumar’s work on “the psychology — and ethics — of switching from […]
Grad Student Lewis Wang and Dept. Chair Sally Sedgwick to Present Papers at UK Kant Society Conference
The Department is pleased to share that current graduate student Lewis Wang and Professor & Department Chair Sally Sedgwick have been selected to present papers at the UK Kant Society’s conference this September in London, titled “The Revolutionary Kant”. The UKKS, founded in 1994 by Graham Bird, “exists to encourage the study of all aspects […]
Graduate Student Cansu Hepcaglayan to Present at Eastern APA 2023
The Department is pleased to share that Cansu Hepcaglayan has had a paper selected for presentation at the American Philosophical Association’s 2023 Eastern Division Meeting. Cansu will present in the Concerned Philosophers for Peace group session, and her paper is titled, “How to Cultivate Civic Friendship in Polarized Societies”. The Meeting takes place this upcoming […]
Philosophy of the Geosciences Group Co-Authors Paper, Speak at Conferences, and More
Members of Professor Alisa Bokulich’s Phi-Geo Research Group published a co-authored paper on “Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking”. The paper started as a project of philosophy undergraduate (now alumna) Gloria Grand-Pierre, funded by the BU Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program in the 2020-2021 academic year, and […]