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November 14-15, 2025: Film and Philosophy<\/span><\/b><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Nicholas Whittaker (Philosophy, Wesleyan University), \u201cFilm-Philosophy and Sensuous Particulars\u201d
Respondent:<\/em> Rob Chodat (English, BU)<\/p>\n

Junko Yamazaki (East Asian Studies, Princeton University), \u201cImagining Sexual(ized) Violence in Cinema\u201d
Respondent:<\/em> Samia Hesni (Philosophy, Dartmouth)<\/p>\n

Francey Russell (Philosophy, Barnard College), \u201cThe Secret: Image, Sound, and the Unsaid in Hitchcock\u2019s Shadow of a Doubt<\/em>\u201d
Respondent<\/em>: Arianna Q. James (English and Cinema and Media Studies, BU)<\/p>\n

Eugenio di Stefano (Latin American Literature & Culture, University Nebraska), \u201c\u2019Give the People What They Want!\u2019: Audience, Form, and Skepticism in Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s Birdman\u201d
<\/em>Respondent<\/em>: Ben Roth (Philosophy, Emerson College)<\/p>\n

Matthew Strohl (Philosophy, University of Montana), \u201cGrief, Horror, and The Shrouds<\/em>\u201c
Respondent<\/em>: Tesla Cariani (Women\u2019s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Cinema and Media Studies; BU)<\/p>\n

Daniel Morgan (Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago), \u201cFilm Noir and Cinema\u2019s Actuarial Imagination\u201d
Respondent<\/em>: Kieran Setiya (Philosophy, MIT)<\/p>\n

Jonathan Foltz (English, Cinema and Media Studies, BU), \u201cCharlie in the House of Words\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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November 8-9, 2024: Knowledge, Perception, and Judgment<\/span><\/b><\/strong><\/h4>\n

<\/strong>Ben Roth (Philosophy, Emerson College), \u201cAesthetics, Non-Ideal Theory, and Philosophical Criticism\u201d
\nRespondent<\/em>: Maurice Lee (English, Boston University)<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Michael Clune (English, Case Western University), \u201cEsoteric Art\u201d
\nRespondent<\/em>: Samantha Matherne (Philosophy, Harvard University)<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Hande Tuna (Philosophy, University of California-Santa Cruz), \u201cBeyond Accuracy and Expertise in Aesthetics\u201d
\nRespondent<\/em>: Jess Keiser (English, Tufts University)<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Nancy Bauer, \u201cThe Moral Wrongs of Contemporary Higher Education\u201d
\nRespondent<\/em>: Robert Chodat (English, Boston University)<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Amanda Anderson (English, Brown University), \u201cRumination and Literary Form\u201d
\nRespondent<\/em>: Samia Hesni (Philosophy, Boston University)<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Nan Z. Da (English, Johns Hopkins University), \u201cOn the Difference Between Real and Artificial Intelligence, Beginning with Entailment\u201d
\nRespondent<\/em>: Juliet Floyd (Philosophy, Boston University)<\/p>\n

<\/strong>John Gibson (Philosophy, University of Louisville), \u201cCriticism and Aboutness\u201d
\nRespondent<\/em>: Yoon Sun Lee (English, Wellesley College)<\/p>\n

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October 13-14, 2023: Embodiment and the Body<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Theo Davis (English, Northeastern): \u201cCybernetic Somatics: An Attachment Perspective\u201d
Respondent: <\/em>Ben Roth (Philosophy, Emerson College)<\/p>\n

Licia Carlson (Philosophy, Providence College): \u201cEmbodied Music and Musical Bodies: An Ode to the Violin\u201d
Respondent<\/em>: Erik Broess (Musicology, BU)<\/p>\n

Aderemi Artis (Philosophy, University of Michigan-Flint): \u201cHarmony, Boredom, and Resolved Retreat: The Aesthetics of Bodily Movement in Open-World Videogames\u201d
Respondent: <\/em>Takeo Rivera (English, BU)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carter Mathes (English, Rutgers): \u201cResonant Bodies\u201d
Respondent<\/em>: Darien Pollock (Philosophy, BU)<\/p>\n

Maia Gil\u2019Adi (English, BU), \u201cSolid, viscous, dissipated: Her Body, Our Horror”<\/p>\n

A.W. Eaton (Philosophy, University of Illinois-Chicago): \u201cNaked, Fat, and Fabulous: Life Models in the Visual Arts\u201d
Respondent<\/em>: Jodi Cranston (History of Art & Architecture, BU)<\/p>\n

Laurie Shannon (English, Northwestern): \u201cFrailty\u2019s Name: Shakespeare, Natural History, and Human Being\u201d
Respondent<\/em>: Paul Katsafanis (Philosophy, BU)<\/p>\n

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November 4-5, 2022: Autonomy
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Kristin Gjesdal (Philosophy, Temple), \u201cNature, Poetry, and Politics: Three Women Philosophers\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Michael Prince (English, BU)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Hannah Kim (Philosophy, Macalester College), \u201cNorth Korean Aesthetics and National Autonomy\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Yoon Sun Yang (World Languages and Literatures, BU)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Anna Kornbluh (English, University of Illinois-Chicago), \u201cCollapsing Autonomy: Antifictionality and Antitheory as Contemporary Literary Style\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Samantha Matherne (Philosophy, Harvard)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Adriana Clavel-Vazquez (Philosophy, Oxford), \u201cSituated Artworks and Aesthetic Autonomy\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Rodrigo Lopes de Barro (Romance Studies, BU)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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H\u00e9ctor Hoyos (Comparative Literature, Stanford), \u201c\u201cBorges and the Crucible of Aesthetic Autonomy in Latin America\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Juliet Floyd (Philosophy, BU)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Thi Nguyen (Philosophy, Univ. of Utah), \u201cArt as a Shelter from Science\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Theo Davis (English, Northeastern)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Sanjay Krishnan (English, BU), \u201cThe Idea of Resistance in the Postcolonial Novel\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Daniel Star (Philosophy, BU)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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October 23, 2021: Art, Democracy, and Public Life<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Jonathan Neufeld (Philosophy, College of Charleston), “Aesthetic Civil Disobedience and Aesthetic Public Reasons”
\nRespondent: <\/em>Carrie Preston (English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; BU)<\/p>\n

Mark Christian Thompson (English; Johns Hopkins), \u201cCritical Blackness: Angela Y. Davis and the Frankfurt School\u201d
\nRespondent:<\/em> James Haile III (Philosophy; University of Rhode Island)<\/p>\n

Lisa Siraganian (Comparative Thought and Literature; Johns Hopkins), \u201cInstitutionalizing Form: From Yves Klein\u2019s Neo-Avant-Garde to Contemporary Literary Studies\u201d
\nRespondent: <\/em>Invild Torsen (Philosophy; University of Oslo)<\/p>\n

Emilio Sauri (English; UMass-Boston), \u201cMaterialism, Postcritique, and the Art of the Novel”
\nRespondent: <\/em>Ben Roth (Writing Program; Harvard)<\/p>\n

Paul C. Taylor (Philosophy; Vanderbilt), \u201cAgainst the Aesthetics of Racial Innocence: Assembly, Groundwork, and Other Stories”
\nRespondent: <\/em>Ianna Hawkins Owen (English and African American Studies; BU)<\/p>\n

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November 1-2, 2019: Wittgenstein and Literature<\/strong><\/o:p><\/h4>\n

Michael LeMahieu (English; Clemson), \u201cWriting After Wittgenstein\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Espen Hammer (Philosophy, Temple)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/o:p><\/p>\n

Toril Moi (Literature, Romance Studies, English; Duke), \u201cWittgenstein and Literary Criticism\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Richard Eldridge (Philosophy; Swarthmore)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Henry Pickford (German; Duke), \u201cWittgenstein\u2019s Styles\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: John Gibson (Philosophy, Louisville)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/o:p><\/p>\n

Hannah Eldridge (German; University of Wisconsin), \u201cWittgenstein and Lyric\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Kristin Boyce (Philosophy; Mississippi State)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/o:p><\/p>\n

Magdalena Ostas (English; Rhode Island College), \u201cStoried Thoughts: Wittgenstein and the Reaches of Fiction\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Nancy Bauer (Philosophy; Tufts)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Robert Chodat (English; BU), \u201cAppreciating Materials: Criticism, Science, and the Very Idea of Method\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Avner Baz (Philosophy; Tufts)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Sarah Beckwith (English; Duke), \u201cForms of Life\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Naomi Scheman (Philosophy; University of Minnesota)\u00a0<\/em><\/o:p><\/p>\n

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Ben Ware (Philosophy; King\u2019s College London), \u201cWittgenstein\u2019s Modernist Subjectivity: Apocalypse and Ethics\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Respondent<\/em>: Garry Hagberg (Philosophy; Bard)<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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October 26-27, 2018: New Directions in Literature & Philosophy
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James Haile III (Philosophy; U Rhode Island), \u201c\u2018American Theatricality\u2019: The Intellectual Content and Philosophical Context for Ralph Ellison\u2019s Invisible Man<\/em>\u201d
\nRespondent<\/em>: Rob Chodat (English; BU)<\/p>\n

Yi-Ping Ong (Comparative Thought and Literature; Johns Hopkins), \u201cAnna Karenina Reads on the Train: Readerly Subjectivity and the Poetics of the Novel\u201d
\nRespondent<\/em>: Nancy Bauer (Philosophy; Tufts)<\/p>\n

Corina Stan (English; Duke), \u201cDecadence, the \u2018End of the West,\u2019 and the Refugee Crisis\u201d
\nRespondent:\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Helena de Bres (Philosophy; Wellesley)<\/p>\n

John Gibson (Philosophy; Louisville), \u201cAn Aesthetics of Insight\u201d
\nRespondent:\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Magda Ostas (English; Rhode Island College)<\/p>\n

Kristin Gjesdal (Philosophy; Temple), \u201cModern Times: Reading Ibsen With Hegel\u201d
\nRespondent:\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Martin Puchner (English, Comparative Literature; Harvard)<\/p>\n

Oren Izenberg (English; UC-Irvine), \u201cDear Friend: Staying Oneself in the Presence of Another\u201d
\nRespondent:\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Ben Roth (Writing Program; Harvard)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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