http://novaphds.powerblogs.com/ en-us 2009-04-27T20:04+00:00 http://novaphds.powerblogs.com/posts/1240862577.shtml ... Gregory Hoskins 2009-04-27T20:04+00:00 http://novaphds.powerblogs.com/posts/1240428777.shtml Yesterday Taylor Trussell defended his dissertation titled:... Gregory Hoskins 2009-04-22T19:04+00:00 “The Gift of Power: Foucault, Derrida, and Normalization”
]]> http://novaphds.powerblogs.com/posts/1209066231.shtml There have been several significant events in the graduate program recently.... Gregory Hoskins 2008-04-24T19:04+00:00
At the end of March Naz Pantaloni defended his dissertation proposal titled “The Im/Possibility of Democracy: Derrida and Habermas”

On Tuesday night Adriel Trott defended her dissertation titled “The Challenge of Physis: Reconciling Nature and Reason in Aristotle’s Politics”

Yesterday Ashley Vaught defended his dissertation titled “The Specter of Spinoza in Schelling's Freiheitsschrift”

(I was unfortunately unable to make any of these events.)

As many of you know already, on April 6 Mike Brogan, his wife Meghan and daughter Frances welcomed Gabriel Brogan to the world. Mike et al. will be moving to Maryland. He is set to take up his new job at St. John's.

What sort of outreach are we doing to invite these new phds to join our discussion? While I am still here at Villanova I do not mind helping out . . . but I need some info. (hint, hint, Joe).

On a final note: a panel on Hannah Arendt consisting of myself, Liam Kavanagh and Azadeh Erfani was accepted for the upcoming SPEP conference.


]]> http://novaphds.powerblogs.com/posts/1204674443.shtml Folks -... Gregory Hoskins 2008-03-04T23:03+00:00
A bit of news: Tim Kirk was (I believe) recently appointed to the National Ethics Committee of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. You can find their website at : http://www.nhpco.org/templates/1/homepage.cfm

Oh, another quick note: Several Villanova folks will be down in Fredericksburg, Va in early April for the North American Sartre Society meeting. I count: myself and the members of my panel (Dera Sipe and Rebecca Goldner of the VU graduate program), Farhang, and Jess Elkayam (sp?) who is also in the graduate program. Where else are VU people showing up? (Why wasn't the Hermeneutics Society meeting advertised here too?)

]]> http://novaphds.powerblogs.com/posts/1190417487.shtml Hi All:... Timothy Kirk 2007-09-21T23:09+00:00
A few things from here:

Andy Davis will be defending in a few weeks, on Hegel and Plato. Not sure who is on his committee.

Also heard a rumor that Mike Brogan will be defending in November, which is a nice suprise. He hasn't been back, but apparently has decided to finish up the dissertation.

Joe and Greg were to get married this summer; how did that go (yes, I could simply ask Greg, who is mere yards away daily)?

Finally, Farhang and Emily should be welcoming a child in the next few weeks.

All of this is very exciting!]]> http://novaphds.powerblogs.com/posts/1180194923.shtml So, Joe, how was your trip to Belgium? You gave a general lecture and then led a seminar?... Gregory Hoskins 2007-05-26T15:05+00:00
I heard from Matt Groe recently - he has accepted a 3 year position at Jacksonville University down in Florida.]]> http://novaphds.powerblogs.com/posts/1176645902.shtml I noticed the following on the Leiter report the other day:... Timothy Kirk 2007-04-15T14:04+00:00
Leigh M. Johnson (Penn State) hired by Rhodes College. AOS: 19th/20th C. Continental, Social and Political Philosophy.

Leigh tells me that she is to defend before the end of the semester. ]]> http://novaphds.powerblogs.com/posts/1163256614.shtml Hi Jamie -... Gregory Hoskins 2006-11-11T14:11+00:00 I must confess I am a bit surprised that no one else has written. I think SPEP was an unqualified success.
I was not in on the organization/administration side of things, but I think that Walter and the core of graduate students made sure that everything ran professionally and smoothly. The facilities were for the most part adequate for the task (I attended a few sessions at which it was possible to hear talking/laughing/cheering next door - I imagine this is just a reality of conferences at hotels though).
At the last minute I was given the opportunity to moderate a session, but in doing so I missed Farhang's panel. The feedback I received on Farhang's session and the other sessions with VU folks -- and there were quite a few -- was positive. Hopefully you will hear from, for instance, Farhang, Joe, Ammon, and Ted about their session.
There was an author's session on Caputo. His new "The Weakness of God" is out. He received more praise than criticism. One of the commentators - whose name I cannot now recall - at one point in the session revealled his t-shirt which carried a picture of Nietzsche and the inscription "What would Nietzsche do?" There was also an author's session on Walter Brogan's "Heidegger and Aristotle: THe Twofoldness of Being." I was not able to attend, but I believe that so many people showed up that it was moved to a larger room. (I may be confusing the attendance at his author's session with the audience for his lecture on Agamben and the state of exception. In any case, Walter drew large crowds.). I did not attend Badiou's talk, or Wendy Brown's.
The highlight of the event for me was the opportunity to see so many friends. Our graduate community is now spread out all over the place, yet we are a pretty tight bunch. I love it. Some people had good news to share (and I will let him/them share it). Some people brought along their good news, so to speak: we met Mike and Shannon's daughter and saw again Ammon and Heather's daughter. There were 20+ of us out for dinner Friday night; kids at one end, the married, the newly engaged, and the bachelors spread out from there. We are a growing community, literally and figuratively.

*On a wholly different matter: because I mentioned to a few of you that I would try it again . . . last sunday I did indeed run the NYC marathon for the second time, and I actually did meet my goal: I beat my previous time by 10 minutes and 6 seconds. Lance Armstrong beat my time by almost 2 hours . . . but at least I came in ahead of the guy in the rhinoceros costume!]]>