ANNUAL PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE AT VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
The annual philosophy conference at Villanova University has been a tradition since 1996. Sponsored by the Philosophy Graduate Student Union (PGSU), it began as one of the first graduate philosophy conferences in continental philosophy. Now open for faculty as well as graduate students, the conference has drawn participants from all areas of philosophy, as well as from around the world.
29th Annual Conference
Philosophy Graduate Student Union Annual Conference
Philosophy, Nature, and Ecology
Conference: Friday, April 11th, 2025 (Zoom)
Saturday, April 12th, 2025 Fedigan room # 400
9:00-9:30 am Welcome Address (Dean Emory Woodard)
9:30-11:30am Panel I
9:30-10:30:
10:30-11:30:
11:30-12:30: Lunch
12:30-2:30 PM: Panel II
12:30-1:30:
1:30-2:30:
Break: 2:30-3:00
3-5pm:
Break: 5-5:30pm
2021: "Phenomenology and Its Worlds" (virtally)
Keynotes: Alia Al-Saji, PhD, McGill University; Megan Craig, PhD, Stony Brook University
2020: “Phenomenology and its Worlds” (canceled)
Keynotes: Alia Al-Saji, PhD, McGill University; Megan Craig, PhD, Stony Brook University
2019: “Political Epistemologies”
Keynote: José Medina, PhD, Northwestern University
2018: "Resistance: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theories"
Keynotes: Amy Allen, PhD, Penn State University; Jamieson Webster, PhD, Eugene Lang College of the New School
2017:"Philosophies of Incarceration and The Incarceration of Philosophy"
Keynote: Sarah Tyson, PhD, University of Colorado-Denver
2016: “Legacies of Colonialism and Philosophies of Resistance”
Keynotes: Enrique Dussel, PhD, UNAM; Nelson Maldonado-Torres, PhD, Rutgers University
2015: "New Encounters in French and Italian Thought"
Keynote: Jason E. Smith, PhD, Art Center College of Design
2014: "Feminism: Body, Image, Power"
Keynote: Lisa Guenther, PhD, Vanderbilt University
2013:"Apocalyptic Politics: Framing the Present"
Keynote Speakers: Mladen Dolar, PhD, University of Ljubljana; Alenka Zupančič, PhD, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Slavoj Žižek, PhD, Birkbeck, University of London; Catherine Malabou, PhD, Kingston University; John D. Caputo, PhD, Syracuse University and Villanova University
2012: "Critical Theories"
Keynote: Nancy Fraser, PhD, New School for Social Research
2011: "The Return of Metaphysics"
Keynote: Graham Harman, PhD, American University, Cairo
2010: “The Place of Psyche: Politics, Art, Nature”
Keynote: Jonathan Lear, PhD, University of Chicago
2009: “New French Thought”
Keynote: Bernard Stiegler, PhD
2008: “Time, History, Memory”
Keynote: David Wood, PhD, Vanderbilt University
2007: “Philosophy and Sexuality”
Keynote: Alphonso Lingi, PhD, Penn State University
2006: “Materialism”
Keynotes: Daniel Smith, PhD, Purdue University; Jay Bernstein, PhD, New School for Social Research
2005: “Philosophy and Art”
Keynote: Hal Foster, PhD, Princeton University
2004: “Empire, War, Violence”
Keynote: John Protevi, PhD, Louisiana State University
2003: “Psychoanalysis and Philosophy”
Keynote: Sara Beardsworth, PhD, University of Memphis
2002: “Race and Philosophy”
Keynote: Lewis Gordon, PhD, Brown University
2001: “Contemporary Feminist Theory”
Keynote: Tina Chanter, PhD, University of Memphis
2000: “Aristotle”
Keynote: Aryeh Kosman, PhD, Haverford College
1999: “Revolutions in Socio-Political Thought”
Keynote: Bill Martin, PhD, DePaul University