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This virtual conference, "The Self and the Selfless" brings together academics from across the globe, posing questions around the philosophical thought of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Featuring international leading Weil and Arendt scholars, the conference focuses on how these thinkers can assist us in navigating our own "Dark Times." .

The talks are all posted on the website and the conference itself will involve panel discussions around the talks, so it is recommended but not required that all registered participants pre-view the talks. Registration ends Friday April 9, 2021. Pease visit the website and .

This conference is organized by Kathryn Lawson (���˴�Ƭ) and Joshua Livingstone (���˴�Ƭ). 

The conference will hear plenary addresses from:

• Lissa McCullough (California State University Dominguez Hills) on Weil
• Elvira Roncalli (Carroll College) on Arendt
• Marie Cabaud Meaney (International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria) on Weil and Arendt

It will feature:

• Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College at Western University)
• Benjamin Davis (University of Toronto)
• Diane Enns (Ryerson University)
• Alzbeta Hajkova (Purdue University)
• Marina Lademacher (University of Sussex)
• Paolo Monti (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca)
• Rose Owen (University of Chicago)
• Silvia Panizza (University College Dublin)
• Ian Rhoad (American University)
• Scott Ritner (Temple University)
• Maria Robaszkiewicz (Paderborn University)
• Ilya Shodjaee-Zrudlo (McGill University)
• Tom Sojer (University of Erfurt)
• Sam Sokolsky-Tifft (Purdue University)
• Christopher Thomas (Manchester Metropolitan University)
• Philip Wilson (University of East Anglia)

is happy to sponsor a virtual symposium on recent PhD Kyle Johannsen’s recent book, Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering. The symposium will be held over Zoom. It will feature commentaries by Nicolas Delon (New College of Florida), Bob Fischer (Texas State), Gary O’Brien (Oxford), and Clare Palmer (Texas A&M).

For information about the book, please see the description below.

You may also be interested in , that recently aired on the New Books Network.

“Though many ethicists have the intuition that we should leave nature alone, Kyle Johannsen argues that we have a duty to research safe ways of providing large-scale assistance to wild animals. Using concepts from moral and political philosophy to analyze the issue of wild animal suffering (WAS), Johannsen explores how a collective, institutional obligation to assist wild animals should be understood. He claims that with enough research, genetic editing may one day give us the power to safely intervene without perpetually interfering with wild animals’ liberties.”

Questions addressed include:

• In what way is nature valuable and is intervention compatible with that value?
• Is intervention a requirement of justice?
• What are the implications of WAS for animal rights advocacy? 
• What types of intervention are promising?

Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join, over Zoom, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by Tom Parr (Warwick): "Against Credentialism". Further details, as well as Tom's paper, have been circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).

The Philosophy Department’s Equity Committee invites you to another session in our ‘Equity in a Pandemic’ series: ‘Work During COVID: Frontline, Remote, Precarious’, a panel with Stephanie Premji (McMaster) and Lesley Jamieson (Queen’s). The panel is scheduled for 4pm, Thursday, April 1, on Zoom. Further details will be provided closer to the event, over email. Contact Christine Sypnowich for more information at: christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca

Equity in a Pandemic: ‘Work During COVID: Frontline, Remote, Precarious' (Poster PDF 479KB)