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Coordinator, 2001 - 2007: Jack Russell Weinstein
Previous visitors and topics include:
2001-2002
"The
Road Not Taken: Rediscovering Adam Smith”
Jack Russell Weinstein, University of North Dakota
“Hacktivism, Civil Disobedience,
and Political Action in Cyberspace.”
Brian J. Huschle
Northwest Technical College
“Spirituality for Sale: Native
American Ceremonies in Navajo Mysteries”
Birgit Hans
University of North Dakota
"My 'God' is Bigger Than Your
'God': the Need for a God Concept for Our Time"
James W. Thomasson, University of Minnesota, Crookston
“The Restrictions on Sensory
Perception and Imagination in Descartes’ Meditation II”
T. Ann Scholl,
Minnesota State University, Moorhead.
“Queer as Black Folk: Mama JuJu
Speaks God-talk to her White Chil'"
Gayle Baldwin
University of North Dakota
“Hauntology: Derrida, Lacan, and
the Specters of History” Eric A. Wolfe
University of North Dakota
“Science, Success, and
Productivity: Has Our Philosophy of Research Changed”
Joseph N. Benoit, University of North Dakota
2002 – 2003
“Departmental
Research Panel: Faculty in the Department of Philosophy and Religion
Discuss Their Research.”
Faculty of the UND
Department of Philosophy and Religion
"Pilgrimage In India"
John Grimes
University of North Dakota
“The Jesus Seminar”
“The Consequences of Literacy
Re-examined”
Joyce Coleman
University of North Dakota
“Harmful
Death and Wrongful Killing”
Seetha Burtner
Westchester University
“How To Be An Empiricist”
Otavio Bueno
University of South Carolina
“Holocaust Testimony as Philosophy”
Bruno Chaouat
University of Minnesota
“Trembling Before G-D”
Film and discussion
Jack Russell Weinstein
University of North Dakota.
The
colloquium is also proud to have sponsored the 31st Conference on
Value Inquiry, April 10 - 12, 2002. A gathering of over one
hundred scholars from all over the world. For more details on this
special event click
here.
2003 –
2004
‘I Find Mr. Hobbes Quite Mistaken’:
Leviathan, its Critics, and the Politics of the
English Revolution 1651-1660
Mark
Jendrysik
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
University of North Dakota
“Questioning Philosophy and Rhetoric in
Plato's Gorgias”
Marina Berzins McCoy
Department of Philosophy
Boston College
“The Language of Battered Women”
Carol Winkelmann
Department of English
Xavier University
"Berdache, this queer, this other that questions"
Carlos
Etchegoyhen
Medical Doctor and Psychoanalyst, Uruguay
University of North Dakota, Visiting Scholar
A Bollywood Film
Festival!
“Fire” by Deepa
Mehta
“Bhaji on the Beach" by Gurinder Chadha
“Dilwalwe Dulhania Le
Jayenge”
by Aditya Chopra
"Hindu Nationalism, Diasporic Cinema, and
Transnational Desires: On Fire"
Jigna Desai
Department of Women's Studies
University of Minnestoa
"'A
Journey 'Behind the Veil'--A DuBoisian Reading of Enslaved Africans'
Grave Sites"
Angela Leonard
Department of American Studies
Loyola University
2004 - 2005
"Remembering
Derrida:
A Panel Discussion"
with Michael Beard,
Sheryl O'Donnell, and Eric Wolfe
UND Department
of English
moderated by
Jack Russell Weinstein,
UND Department of Philosophy and Religion
Movie and
Discussion:
"Super Size Me"
Discussion led
by
Lynn Lindholm
UND Department
of Philosophy and Religion
&
Jon Jackson
UND School of Medicine
"Narratives,
Commitments, and the Integrity of
the Self"
Lydia Moland
Department of Philosophy
Babson College
"Action
and Reaction:
How Retribution Complicates Our
Pursuit of the Good"
Paul Gaffney
Department of Philosophy
St. Johns University
"The
Concept of Hell in Buddhism:
The Mu-lien Myth of the Descent to Hell in order to Save his Mother"
Mariko Walter
Department of Religion
Bucknell University
"Bodily
Reports:
American Newspaperwomen and the Public
Sphere, 1880-1930"
Jean Lutes
Department of English
Villanova University
"A
Medieval Hindu Philosophy of Plurality
and Dialogue"
David Lawrence
Department of Religion
University of Manitoba
“‘One
little, shining piece of something
to believe in’: Reflections
on the Gulf Wars, Movies, and American
Warriors”
Jason
McEntee
Department of English
South Dakota State University
"Unmanaged
Care:
Towards
Moral Fairness in Health Care Coverage"
Sharona
Hoffman
Case Western Reserve
School of Law
The Jesus
Seminar:
"The Origins and Destiny of Jesus"
Facilitators:
Roy Hoover and Thomas Sheenan
2005 - 2006
“Beam Me Up to
the Philosopher’s Deck:
Star Trek’s
Philosophical Enterprise”
Dr. Judith Barad
Department of
Philosophy Indiana State University
“Thomas Hobbes and
the Natural Law Tradition”
Juhana Lemetti
Department of
Moral and Social Philosophy
University of Helsinki
2006 – 2007
“Opening the
Heart: Arousing the Mind of Universal Kindness”
A lecture from
the
Tibetan Lamas from Drepung Loseling Monastery
"Sacred Places,
Safe Spaces"
A
panel discussion co-sponsored by the UND Ten Percent Society.
“Then the Trees
of the Forest Shall Sing for Joy:
The Bible and the Global Environmental Crisis.”
Arthur
Walker-Jones
Associate Professor of Biblical Studies
University of Winnipeg.
Iraq War Forum:
"Can Democracy Be Imposed By An External Military Force"
Panelists:
Michael Beard, Department of English; Paul Sum, Department of
Political Science and Public Administration; Jack Russell Weinstein,
Department of Philosophy and Religion; Moderator: Janet Moen,
Department of Sociology
“‘More Impudent
Than the Other Women’:
Bishop Ambrose and the Arian Virgin”
Nancy
Weatherwax
Department of Philosophy and Religion
University of North Dakota
Phi
Sigma Tau Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
"David
Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature: shaping the social and economic
imperative’"
Dr.
William Henderson
Royal D. Alworth Jr., Institute for International Studies
University of Minnesota Duluth |
