Events

FALL 2021 EVENTS

Philosophy Department Colloquium

Romanell Center Annual Conference

Romanell Workshops

ROMANELL CENTER EVENTS EVENTS

December Workshop
11/17/21
Join us for the Romanell Center Workshop, December 4, 2021 (Saturday) in 141 Park Hall, UB North Campus. Our day-long workshop features lively debates and discussions by Romanell Fellows and colleagues. Ben Bradley (Syracuse) will deliver the keynote, “Against Discounting Future Preferences.”
2021 Romanell Center Annual Conference
11/28/21
Join us for the Romanell Center Annual Conference, November 5, 6, and 7, 2021 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) in Park Hall, UB North Campus. Our three-day conference features debates and discussions by Romanell Fellows and keynotes by: Christopher Boorse, “Human Psychological Nature: Why Attacks from Philosophy of Biology Fail” and “The Suicide of the Harmful-Dysfunction Analysis”; plus Maureen Condic, “When Does Human Life Begin? A Scientific Perspective and Counter-Arguments.”
Romanell Center Workshop
10/11/21
October 9, 2021
Saturday, 9:00am to 6:00pm
Park Hall 141, UB North Campus

FALL 2020

Romanell Center Speaker Series

A Functional Alternative to Radical Capacities
12/1/20
Join us online December 11, Friday, 2:00 p.m. EST, as Catherine Nolan delivers the talk: "A Functional Alternative to Radical Capacities." The online event is part of the Fall 2020 Speaker Series hosted by the Romanell Center. Contact David Hershenov, dh25@buffalo.edu
The Elephant in the Room: Towards a Dispositional (and Unifying) Account of Addiction
10/30/20
The Romanell Center for Clinical Ethics and the Philosophy of Medicine is pleased to announce the Fall 2020 Speaker Series is being delivered in the virtual format of Zoom. Join us on Friday, November 13, when Robert Kelly delivers the talk, "The Elephant in the Room: Towards a Dispositional (and Unifying) Account of Addiction."
The Impossibility of Digital Immortality
5/17/21
The Romanell Center for Clinical Ethics and the Philosophy of Medicine is pleased to announce the Fall 2020 Speaker Series is being delivered in the virtual format of Zoom. On October 14, Barry Smith delivered the first talk, “The Impossibility of Digital Immortality.” A recording of Smith's presentation is here.

FALL 2019

August 29, 2019
Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Park Hall 141
Samantha Matherne (Harvard)
"Edith Landmann-Kalischer’s Moderate Objectivism About Aesthetic Value"

September 12, 2019
Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Park Hall 141
Keith Hankins (Chapman University)
"Social Choice and the Tradeoff Between Utilizing and Imputing Information"

October 3, 2019
Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Park Hall 141
Yasuo Deguchi (Kyoto University)

October 16, 2019
Wednesday, 6:00 p.m. Knox Hall 20
Romanell Center Debate:
Should Physician-Assisted Suicide be Legal?

October 18 & 19, 2019, Conference
A Collection of Individuals
Capen Conference and Book Launch

October 24, 2019
Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Park Hall 141
Stephen Grimm (Fordham)

November 1, 2019
Friday, 2:00 p.m., Park 141
Maurizio Ferraris
"The Internet: A Political Approach"

November 7, 2019
Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Park 141
Donald Baxter (UConn)

February 8, 2019, Lunchtime talk
Friday, 2 -1:30pm, 141 Park Hall
Chris Haufe, (Case Western)
“The Priority of Promise.”

February 21, 2019, Thursday, 4 – 6pm, 141 Park Hall
Karen Frost-Arnold (Hobart & William Smith)
"Epistemic Justice and the Challenges of Online Moderation"

February 29, 2019
Department Colloquium
Thursday, 4 – 6pm, 141 Park Hall
Andrea Borghini, Università degli Studi di Milano
“Outline of a Metaphysics of Dishes and Recipes”

March 8, 2019
Baldy Center Distinguished Speaker Series
Friday, 12:30 – 2:30pm, 509 O’Brien Hall
Christina Bicchieri, SJP Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
"Social Similarity and the Erosion of Social Norms.”
Co-sponsored with the Baldy Center and the Center for Global Health Equity

March 14, 2019, Macalster Bell
Department Colloquium
Thursday, 4 – 6pm, 141 Park Hall
“Photographs as Tools of Moral Persuasion”

March 29, 2019, Open House for Potential Grad Students
Friday 3:30pm – 5:30pm, 141 Park Hall
Lewis Powell, UB Philosophy
“Locke, The Abuses of Language, and the Construction of Public Language”

April 4, 2019, Kwong-loi Shun (Berkeley)
Thursday, 4pm – 6pm
Co-sponsor: UB Confucius Institute

April 5, 2019, Bioethics Workshop
Niagara University, 1:30 – 6:15pm

April 11, 2019, Richard Bett
"Humor as Philosophical Subversion, Especially in the Skeptics”
Department Colloquium
Thursday, 4 – 6pm, 141 Park Hall

April 6, 2019, City of Good Neighbors Philosophy Conference
Saturday, 9am – 5pm, 141 Park Hall
Participants: Devonya Havis (Canisius); Nic Bommarito (UB); Leigh Duffy (Buff State); Brandon Absher (D’Youville); Steve Petersen (Niagara); and Mark Warren (Daemen).

See April 6 Conference Program here.

See April 6 Conference Flyer here.

May 2, 2019, Donald C. Ainslie (Toronto)

“Leibniz and Hume on Rational Animals”
Department Colloquium
Thursday, 4 – 6pm, 141 Park Hall

May 9, 2019, Department Review of Graduate Students
Thursday, 4 – 6pm, 141 Park Hall

May 11, Romanell Workshop
International Workshop on Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
Saturday, 10:00am to 6:00am
141 Park Hall, North Campus

May 13, Application Deadline
Mary C. Whitman Scholarship
Undergraduate Award, up to $2,000.

SUMMER 2019

July 25-27, 2019
Romanell Summer Conference
John Martin Fischer Keynoter
See UBNow article: Philosopher to argue against an afterlife at Romanell Conference

July 31-Aug 2, 2019
10th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY

SPRING 2020

March 5, 2020 Thursday, 4:00 p.m., Park 141
Hagop Sarkissian (CUNY Grad Center / Baruch College)
Works in X-Phi, moral psychology, and Chinese philosophy. This talk is co-sponsored by the Confucius Institute.