Dialogue Series Schedule
The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce the schedule for the Fall 2024 Dialogue Series
Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place in Comal 116.
A full copy of this semester's Dialogue Series calendar can be viewed here.
Week V
Space and Place
| Monday, Oct. 21 | 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. | Thinking Globally, Acting Locally | Sarah Stanaland (Philosophy) Ethics and Society Class Teach-In |
| Monday, Oct. 21 | 4:00 p.m. | Moral Landscapes: How Space and Place Shape Collective Action | ΦΣΤ Tau Talks Sarah Stanaland (Philosophy) |
| Tuesday, Oct. 22 | 12:30 p.m. | Creating Capabilities and Mutual Aid: A Human Development Approach to Homelessness and Poverty | Dialogicians with Guest Interlocutor Ernesto Ramirez (Texas State Graduate Student) |
| Wednesday, Oct. 23 San Marcos Public Library 625 East Hopkins St. | 3:30 p.m. | Earthy Realism | Vince Lopes (Professor Emeritus, Biology) |
| Thursday, Oct. 24- Sunday, October 27 | Details Forthcoming | Texas Master Naturalist Events | https://txmn.tamu.edu/2024-annual-meeting/ |
| Thursday, Oct. 24 | 12:30 p.m. | Literary Cartographies from the West to the East | Dialogicians with Guest Interlocutors Melody Li (University of Houston, Chinese Studies) & Robert Tally (Texas State, English) |
Week VI
Education
| Monday, Oct. 28 | 4:00 p.m. | Pedagogies of Transformation: German Idealism and Freire’s Critical Pedagogy | ΦΣΤ Tau Talks Dylan Dunn (Philosophy Graduate Student) |
| Tuesday, Oct. 29 | 9:30 a.m. | Education and AI: A Defense of Socratic Pedagogy | Matthew Squires (Philosophy Graduate Student) |
| Tuesday, Oct. 29 | 12:30 p.m. | First Annual “Lift the Light” Commemoration of the Statue of Liberty: Defending Public Education in a Nation of Immigrants | Moderator: Dwonna Goldstone (History & African American Studies) Panelists: Juan Antonio Jasso (Texas A&M San Antonio, Educational Psychology & Leadership) [Tentative] Rael Morley (Social Work) Greg Moses (Philosophy) Pat Shields (Political Science) Poet Laureate: Amelie Juarez (Honors Student) |
Week VII
Love and Friendship
| Monday, Nov. 4 Comal 102 Zoom option | 2:00 p.m. | Other Selves: Aristotle on Friendship | Ellen Stansell (Philosophy) and Philosophy of Sex and Love Class |
| Monday, Nov. 4 | 4:00 p.m. | bell hooks’ vision of love | ΦΣΤ Tau Talks (Rebekah Ross, Philosophy) |
| Tuesday, Nov. 5 | 12:30 p.m. | Surviving Election Anxiety | Todd Salmi (Pastor, United Campus Ministry) |
| Wednesday, Nov. 6 San Marcos Public Library 625 East Hopkins St. | 3:30 p.m. | What Autistic People Can Teach Us about Love | Ellen Stansell (Philosophy) |
| Thursday, Nov. 7 | 12:30 p.m. | Ghandi, Love, and Satyagraha | Dialogicians (Mason Strohmeyer & Benjamin Orrell) |
| Friday, Nov. 8 | 12:30 p.m. | Animal Pragmatism and Horizons of Meaning | Engaged Ecology Spotlight Ron Stockdreher (Philosophy) |
Week VIII
Stoicism
| Monday, Nov. 11 | 4:00 p.m. | Stoicism for the Rest of Us: How to Practice Applied Stoicism | ΦΣΤ Tau Talks Elektra Jordan (Philosophy Graduate Student) |
| Tuesday, Nov. 12 | 12:30 p.m. | Philosophy on the Frontlines | Aidan Ross (Texas State Philosophy Alumnus, Team Leader/Medic, Ukraine) |
| Wednesday, Nov. 13 San Marcos Public Library 625 East Hopkins St. | 3:30 p.m. | Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics on Happiness | Jo Ann Carson (Philosophy) & Elektra Jordan (Philosophy Graduate Student) |
| Thursday, Nov. 14 | 12:30 p.m. | Stoicism: Objections and Replies | Dialogicians |
| Friday, Nov. 15 | 12:30 p.m. | What Does “Living in Harmony with Nature” Mean? | Engaged Ecology Spotlight |
Talk of the Times and Tau Talks are open forums on current events and philosophical issues led by members of Phi Sigma Tau, the philosophy honor society
The Acorn Symposium Dialogues are co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Philosophy Dialogue Series, and The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence.
The Philosophy Dialogue Series Program Endowment supports the Philosophy Dialogue Series and its outreach activities at the San Marcos Public Library.
Co-sponsors of the Philosophy Dialogue Series are the American Democracy Project, College of Liberal Arts, Common Experience, Gina Weatherhead Dialogue Fund, Alliance, Step Up For State, Sustainability Studies, The Alkek Library, Humanities Texas, National Endowment for the Humanities, ΦΣΤ (Phi Sigma Tau, the philosophy honor society), University Seminar, The New York Times, Honors College, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Vice President for Student Affairs.
If you require accommodations due to a disability in order to participate, please contact 512.245.2285 at least 72 hours in advance of the event.
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