Colloquium Series
Each academic year, the department hosts the Colloquium Series where visitors are invited to share recent work with department members and the UIC community. The speakers are selected by a committee of faculty and graduate students. Below you will find the list of speakers for this series from 2014 to the present.
2024-2025
Fall 2024
October 28, Barbara Montero (Notre Dame): "Free Speech, Harm, and the Mind-Body Problem"
November 18, Seyed Mousavian (Loyola): "Avicennan Abstraction"
Spring 2025
February 24th, Emily Katz (Michigan State): “What does Mathematical Thinking Actualize?”
March 10th, Valerie Tiberius (Minnesota): Talk TBA
April 28th, Kyla Ebels Duggan (Northwestern): Talk TBA
2023-2024
November 6, Claire Kirwin, (Northwestern)
November 20, Pascal Brixel, (Northwestern)
April 1, Richard Kim, (Loyola)
April 15, Alan Nelson, (UNC-Chapel Hill)
2022-2023
April 17, Emmalon Davis (Michigan)
2021-2022
October 4, Yuriko Saito (RISD)
October 18, Emily Fletcher (UW Madison)
November 8, Jessica Gordon Roth (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
March 7, 4-6PM José Medina (Northwestern) [format TBD]
April 4, 4-6PM Tamar Schapiro (MIT) [format TBD]
2020-2021
October 12, Farid Masrour (UW Madison)
October 26, Megan Hyska (Northwestern)
February 8, Gabriel Lear (UChicago)
February 22, Sara Bernstein (Notre Dame)
March 8, Robin Jeshion (USC)
March 15, Dominic Lopes (University of British Columbia)
April 5, John Campbell (UC Berkeley)
2019-2020
October 7, Sukaina Hirji (University of Pennsylvania)
November 4, Katharina Kraus (Notre Dame)
November 18, Matt Boyle (UChicago)
January 13, Van Tu (Bowdoin College and University of Michigan)
January 15, Justin Vlasits (Tübingen)
January 23, Allison Piñeros Glasscock (Toronto)
January 27, Jonathan Fine (Yale)
March 16, José Medina (Northwestern)
April 6, Yuriko Saito (RISD)
2018-2019
September 24, Bernhard Nickel (Harvard)
October 11, E.J. Green (MIT) (Neuroscience Colloquium)
November 5, Anton Ford (UChicago)
March 11, Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown)
April 29, Sarah Buss (Michigan)
2017-2018
September 18, Jonathan Lear (UChicago)
October 2, Margaret Urban Walker (Marquette)
November 6, Patricia Blanchette (Notre Dame)
January 22, Sarah Paul (UW Madison)
February 5, Dan Hausman (UW Madison)
March 5, John McDowell (Pittsburgh)
2016-2017
August 29, Paul Franks (Yale)
September 29, Muhammad Ali Khalidi (York)
October 17, Meena Krishnamurthy (Michigan)
November 14, Fabrizio Cariani (Northwestern)
January 30, Sasha Newton (UIUC)
April 24, Peter Railton (Michigan)
2015-2016
September 21, Christopher Shields (Notre Dame)
November 2, Matthew Hanser (UC Santa Barbara)
November 20, Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
April 11, Karen Bennett (Cornell)
April 18, Andrea Westlund (UW Milwaukee)
2014-2015
October 6, Kate Abramson (Indiana)
November 10, Talia Bettcher (Cal State LA)
March 30, Craig Callendar (UC San Diego)
April 13, Alex Byrne (MIT)