February 2024

Gipson Institute: Eighteenth-century Catawba Women, Pottery-making, Identity, and Nation-building

Brooke Bauer, Ph.D. is a citizen of the Catawba Nation of South Carolina and an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She is the author of Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-building, 1540-1840.
Thursday, 2024, March 7 - 11:30am

Becoming One:Theology & Philosophy, Will & Intellect, Finite & Infinite in Spinoza

2024 Selfridge Lecturer: Michael Della Rocca, Yale University Becoming One: Theology & Philosophy, Will & Intellect, Finite & Infinite in Spinoza Join us for this talk by one of the most prominent Philosophers in America today. Michael Della Rocca is Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. A rationalist, monist, skeptic, and renegade analytic philosopher, he is the author of The Parmenidean Ascent, of two books on Spinoza's philosophy, and of many articles in metaphysics and the history of modern philosophy.

Thursday, 2024, March 7 - 4:30pm

Selfridge Lecture 2024: Michael Della Rocca, Yale University

“The original Sin of Analytical Philosophy” In this lecture, Professor Della Rocca examines five crucial and influential episodes from early analytical philosophy in which Frege, Russell, Moore, and others play key roles. In each episode, the debate is, he argues, structurally analogous to the debate over Cartesian mind-body interaction.

Wednesday, 2024, March 6 - 4:30pm