Fall Colloquia 2024
October 29, 2024 (held at Scripps College)
Cosmic Meaning Workshop
Participants include: David Benatar, University of Capetown; Iddo Landau, University of Haifa; Saul Smilansky, University of Haifa; and Rivka Weinberg, Scripps College.
10am-5:30pm, Hampton Room
October 30, 2024 (held at Pomona College)
Caterina Pellò, University of California, Santa Barbara
“What is it to be a Pythagorean”
4:15pm, Pearsons 202
November 21-22, 2024 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
James Baldwin at 100 Symposium
Participants include: Ryan Preston-Roeder, Occidental College; Myisha Cherry, University of California, Riverside; and Melvin Rogers, Rutgers University.
Spring Colloquia 2025
February 7, 2025 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Nina Emery, Mount Holyoke College
Title, Time & Location: TBA
February 13, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Merlan Lecture
Shelly Kagan, Yale University
Title, Time & Location: TBA
February 14, 2025 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Rachana Kamtekar, Cornell University
Title, Time & Location: TBA
February 20, 2025 (held at Pomona College)
Sontag Lecture
Zoë Johnson King, Harvard University
Title, Time & Location: TBA
March 3, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Bias in a Social Context
Participants include: Ángel Pinillos, Arizona State University; Gabbrielle Johnson, Claremont McKenna College; Cailin O’Connor, UC Irvine; Alex Madva, Cal Poly Pomona
Time & Location TBA
April 4, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Workshop on Deference
Participants include: Alex Worsnip, University of North Carolina; Elise Woodard, King’s College; Heather Battaly, University of Connecticut; Michael Hannon, University of Nottingham
Time & Location TBA
April 22, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Rachel Fraser, University of Oxford
Title: TBA
Time & Location TBA
April 25, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Conspiracy Theories
Participants include: Elise Wang, California State Fullerton; Eli Alshanetsky, Temple University ; Sinan Dogramaci, University of Texas; Miriam McCormick, University of Richmond
Time & Location TBA
Fall Colloquia 2025
September 18, 2025 (held at Pomona College)
Meilin Chinn, Santa Claa University
Title, Time, & Location TBA
Past Events
February 29, 2024 (held at Scripps College)
Merlan Lecture
Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University
"Human Extinction and the Morality of Procreation"
4:30pm, Location Balch Auditorium
March 21, 2024 (held at Pomona College)
Allison Murphy, Carleton College
"Friendship: A Virtue?"
4:15pm, Pearsons Hall 202
April 17, 2024 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Jennifer Morton, University of Pennsylvania
"True Grit: Striving in the Face of Adversity"
Athenaeum Dinner program
December 1, 2023 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Olivia Bailey, UC Berkeley
"Getting Better: on some neglected costs of moral sensibility change"
4:15pm, Kravis 62 (Lower Court, in the Freeberg Forum)