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The NEIU Philosophy Colloquium Series began in 2014 and has been a regular department-sponsored event since Spring 2018. Its purpose is to give the �ڰ������� community access to all of the richness and diversity of contemporary professional philosophy. The Colloquium Series also provides professional philosophers with the opportunity to experience �ڰ������� firsthand and meet our students and faculty in an academic setting. All of the talks are free and open to the public.

Upcoming Talks

Past Talks

2024-2025

• , Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago, "Beyond the Value Free Ideal in Law & Science?"
• , University of Illinois at Chicago, "Doing Oligarchy Better: On the Politics of Effective Altruism.”
• Stacey Goguen, �ڰ�������,  “Why Politics & Religion Belong in Science (and what we still get wrong about values and objectivity).”
• , Loyola University Chicago, "The Asymmetry in Threat Perception: Military Threats v. Ecological Threats."
• Nathan Wood, City Colleges of Chicago, "The Real Value of Anti-Realism."

2023-2024

• , Oakton College, "Better Living through Pessimism."
• , Governors State University, "The Fire Next Time: Prescribed Burns as Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Epistemic Reparations."
• , Loyola University Chicago, "Justice and The Monty Hall Problem of Public Health."
• Will Behun, McHenry County Community College, "Not so much heretical as insane: myth in classical Gnosticism."
• , Loyola University Chicago, "The Problem of Misplaced Trust and Distrust."

2022-2023

• , University of Illinois at Chicago, "Berkeley's Political Metaphysics."
• , Loyola University Chicago, "Extracting Gold from the Counterfeiter’s Bag: al-Ghazālī on the Tradition of Philosophy in Islam."
• Sophia Mihic, �ڰ�������, "Freedom, Property, and Privacy: The Political Economy of Abortion and Reproduction After Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization."
• , Chicago-Kent College of Law, "The Inherent Problem with Mass Incarceration."
• , University of Chicago, "Do Billionaires Deserve Their Wealth?"
• Shireen Roshanravan, �ڰ�������, "Pretending-to-be and Masterful Political Performance."

2019-2020

• , Carnegie Mellon University, "Painfully Literal Dudes."
• , Free University, Amsterdam, “How Epistemic Injustice Can Deepen Disagreement.”
• , University of Chicago, “Is There Such a Thing as being Good or Bad at Philosophy?"
• , Grand Valley State University, "Collapsing Life and Art."
• , �ڰ�������, “Against a Single History: Luxemburg and a Decolonial Critique of Political Economy.”

2018-2019

• , University of Minnesota, “Recovering Early Modern Women Writers: Some Tensions.”
• *, Marquette University, “ A Relational Analysis of Oppression: Group Injustice and Institutional Mediation.”
• , Northwestern University, “Propaganda for Realists.”
• , Northwestern University, “What does it Mean to Have a Revolution in Culture? Frantz Fanon’s Speculative Method of Critique.”
• , Manchester University, “Philosophy, Democracy, and Mass Incarceration.”
• , Michigan State University, “Theorizing Testimony in Argumentative Contexts.”

2017-2018

• , Vanderbilt University, “The Antinomies of Meta-philosophy.”
• *, University of California, Berkeley, “Dominus before Domination: Harriet Jacobs and the Meaning of Slavery.” 

2016-2017

• John Casey, �ڰ�������, "Argument Pacifism."

2015-2016

• , Northwestern University, "Does Everything have a Cause?"
• , Northwestern University, "What is Punishment?"

2014-2015

• , Vanderbilt University, "Why We Argue: A Deliberative Democratic Reply to Plato.”

*Denotes scholar as a graduate of �ڰ�������