Tag: events
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A New Hub for Bioethics Bowl Information
A new website serves as a centralized source of information for “Bioethics Bowl,” a learning competition modeled after the popular Ethics Bowl events, but…
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APA to End Experiment with Online Divisional Meetings
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has been experimenting with holding one of its three major conferences entirely online. The organization has now announced that,…
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American Association of Philosophy Teachers Upcoming 50th Anniversary (guest post)
The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) will be 50 years old next year.
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Philosophy Departments as Sites of Collective Intellectual Activities: A Follow-Up to the Poll
Has there been a “marked decline” in the “meaningful presence of faculty members in both formal and informal scholarly events—those that contribute to intellectual…
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Philosophy Departments as Sites of Collective Intellectual Activities: a Decline? (guest post & poll)
Has there been “a marked decline in faculty participation in seminars, colloquia, reading groups, and other intellectual gatherings that once formed the core of…
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Flipping the Conference: How Did It Go?
In a previous post, I shared the plans for a conference structured in a somewhat unusual way, the “Coffee Break Conference of Aesthetics.” The…
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“State of Philosophy: Challenges, Threats, and Strategies” Session at the APA
The Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA) is taking place this week in New York.
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Flipping the Conference
An upcoming philosophy conference is organized around those interesting and fruitful conversations that take place between the official talks.
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Free Online Philosophy Teaching Workshop
Cogtweeto and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and are putting on a free, two-day workshop on the teaching of philosophy.
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Reminder: A Place to Publicize Your Online Philosophy Events
This is just a reminder that if you’re holding an open, live, online philosophy event, you can list it here.
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Removal of Philosophy Professor from Institute Directorship Raises Academic Freedom Concerns
The administration at St. Olaf College has ended, one year early, the appointment of philosophy and religion professor Edmund Santurri as director of the…
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Networking and Mentoring Workshop for Graduate Student Women in Philosophy
Athena in Action, a networking and mentoring workshop for women graduate students in philosophy, will be taking place in June, 2022 at Rutgers University.
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Planning an Environmentally Friendly In-Person Conference (guest post)
After over a year of COVID-caused mass experience with online academic conferencing, there has been a lot of discussion about whether, for environmental reasons,…
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Online Conferences: The New Default (guest post)
In the following guest post,* a group of scholars make the case that the online conferences, the recent prevalence of which has been spurred…
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Will Conferences Recover? Should They?
With promising news of a vaccine, one might hope not just for saved lives, but a return to “normal life,” including the regular features…
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The Pandemic’s Largest Online Philosophy Conference to Date?
What may be the largest philosophy conference to have switched to an online format because of the COVID-19 pandemic is starting today.
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Open, Live, and Online Philosophy Events Spreadsheet
This is a reminder to list events on the Open, Live, and Online Philosophy Events Spreadsheet.
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Pandemic Effects on Conference & Event Planning for 2021 & Beyond
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused many upcoming academic events to be cancelled and many to be moved online. How is it affecting the planning…