This week: Amy Karofsky (Hofstra), "Necessitarianism"

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Expression, Communication, and Origins of Meaning” followed by a light reception.
For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/2018-19fellows/.
If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.

Brian Hitsman, PhD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Thursday, February 28, 2019
12:30 – 1:30pm

"Population health management for smoking cessation in low income smokers"

**About the Speaker**

Dr. Brian Hitsman is Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine & Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, and a member of the Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. He received his BS in psychology from Alma College (Michigan) and MS and PhD in clinical health psychology from the Chicago Medical School, finishing his psychology internship in health/psychology behavioral medicine at Brown University's Clinical Psychology Training Consortium. He completed a two-year fellowship in tobacco dependence and treatment in 2004 in the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center at Brown, and was on the faculty until leaving for Northwestern in 2008. Dr. Hitsman’s work focuses on the causes and treatment of tobacco use and dependence among disadvantaged and underserved adult populations.

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Visit our webpage to view the 2018-2019 InCHIP Lecture Series lineup, access the live web stream (when available), view the archives, and learn more about the lecture series: https://chip.uconn.edu/lecture-series/2018-2019-lecture-series/.

Talk by Jamie Dreier of Brown University

In this joint presentation, philosophers Linda Martín Alcoff (author of Rape and Resistance) and Susan Brison (author of Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self) will explore the new moment we are in given the #MeToo movement’s efforts to expand the public discussion of rape. Speaking about rape in the news media, in legal contexts, or just in one’s personal life is difficult given the ways in which our speech is so often used against us or for other purposes than reducing sexual violence. How can we create the conditions for fair assessments as well as a better understanding of the nature of the experience?

The Meaning Group will have a special meeting Wednesday, March 6, at 9:30am in Oak Hall 338. We will have a guest speaker, Chris Tancredi (Keio University, Japan). Title to be announced.

The UConn Meaning Group meets on a regular (mostly weekly) basis throughout the academic year to discuss recent and ongoing work in the areas of Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language.

Follow the link below for details and contact information.

This week: Michael Lynch

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

Talk by Jacob Urowsky, Professor of Philosophy at Yale University

This week: Robin Jenkins, "Anti-Factives: What are they? Why don't they exist?"

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

The 56th Annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Program with Claudia Rankine

Wednesday March 13, 2019

•Afternoon reading: c. 12:30 p.m. (time to be finalized shortly), Greater Hartford Classical Magnet School, 85 Woodland St, Hartford
•Evening reading 7 p.m., Konover Auditorium, UConn Storrs
Both readings are free and open to the public.

Claudia Rankine, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of five collections of poetry including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (Graywolf 2008) and the bestselling Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf 2014), which uses poetry, essay, cultural criticism, and visual images, to explore what it means to be an American citizen in a “post-racial” society. A defining text for our time, Citizen was the winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the NAACP Image Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the LA Times Book Award for poetry.

In all her work, whether writing about intimacy or alienation, Rankine’s voice is typified by intensity and candor. Her poetry is both innovative and thoughtful, often crossing genres as it tracks startling yet precise leaps of the mind. As the Judges Citation for the Jackson Prize notes, “The moral vision of Claudia Rankine’s poetry is astounding. In a body of work that pushes the boundaries of the contemporary lyric, Rankine has managed to make space for meditation and vigorous debate upon some of the most relevant and troubling social themes of the 20th and 21st centuries…. These poems do the work of art of the highest order—teaching, chastening, changing, astounding, and humanizing the reader.” Among her numerous awards and honors, Rankine is the recipient of the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts.

For more information, please visit our website at http://wallacestevens.uconn.edu/

Talk by Karen Frost-Arnold, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hobart & William Smith Colleges

This week: Alexus McLeod

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

Our UCHI Fellow will be presenting their research talk on “Toxic Speech” followed by a light reception.
For more information, please visit https://humanities.uconn.edu/2018-19fellows/.
If you require accommodation for this event, please contact uchi@uconn.edu at least one week prior to the event.

Opportunity for students considering graduate study in Philosophy at UConn to meet faculty and current graduate students, and to get a sense of life in the Department of Philosophy. For further questions, please contact Mitch Green, Director of Graduate Studies, at Mitchell.green@uconn.edu

The recipient of this Fellowship will be an outstanding ABD graduate student in Philosophy who will use it to further her or his research and professional preparation in the summer of 2019.

The Ruth Garrett Millikan Graduate Research Fellowship was created in 2017 with the aid of generous admirers, friends, and colleagues of Professor Ruth Garrett Millikan, one of the world’s most distinguished living philosophers, and a cherished member of UConn’s philosophical community.

Opportunity for students considering graduate study in Philosophy at UConn to meet faculty and current graduate students, and to get a sense of life in the Department of Philosophy. For further questions, please contact Mitch Green, Director of Graduate Studies, at Mitchell.green@uconn.edu

Join us for a talk by Benedict Eastaugh (Munich, MCMP) in the Logic Colloquium!


https://logic.uconn.edu/

Colloquium

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

The annual prep meeting for philosophy graduate students who are going on the academic job market.

More information forthcoming.

More details forthcoming.

Join us for a talk by Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Munich, MCMP) in the Logic Colloquium!


https://logic.uconn.edu/