Montclair State University's

Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC)

presents

The Philosophy for Children Graduate Colloquium Series  



 

The Colloquium Series provides students and faculty an opportunity to present work-in-progress.  The Series will also include invited presentations from notable academics and teachers, including student alumni, speaking on issues related to education, philosophy and Philosophy for Children.

  • Colloquia are held on Fridays from 6pm to 8pm at the IAPC.  (Interested individuals are welcome to convene for dinner afterwards.) 

  • Refreshments and Professional Development Hours Provided.

  • Parking is free on Valley Road and Upper Mountain Avenue, which intersect Normal Avenue.  Paid parking is available at the “Red Hawk Deck” or in metered parking spaces indicated on our campus map.
     

Colloquium Schedule for 2004-5

October 22 -- Maya Levanon, Doctoral Student, MSU:
       The relationships between spiritual and philosophical practices

November 19 -- Professor Nina Yulina, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
       John Dewey

December 3 -- Professor Nina Yulina, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
       Richard Rorty

February 4 -- Darryl DeMarzio, Doctoral Student, Columbia
       On the Interpretation of Listening in Liberal Education

March 4 -- Dr. Bruce Novak, Foundations in Education, Northern Illinois University
       The Opening of the American Heart: How We Can End the War of “Jihad”
       and “McWorld” By Cooperatively and Publicly Instituting a Moral, Educative
       Democracy

April 1 -- Oleksandr V. Tyaglo, Chair of the Department of Philosophy & Political Science, National University of Internal Affairs, Kharkiv, Ukraine
       How to Teach Productive Thinking

April 29 -- Laurance Splitter, Hunter College, City University of New York
       Philosophical Inquiry and Authenticity

May 12 (Thursday) -- Professor Thomas Wartenberg, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College
      Screening Philosophy: popular narrative film as a source of philosophical exploration

June 10 -- Daniel Shepherd, Philosophy Graduate Student Fordham University & Stephanie Burdick, Philosophy for Children Graduate Student Montclair State University
       Critical and Creative Engagements with Children

June 23 (Thursday) -- Nadia Stoyanova, Ed.D. Candidate, Montclair State University
      On Argumentation in a Community of Mathematical Inquiry: A Dialectical Perspective
 

If interested in presenting as part of this series, please contact Megan Laverty (973-655-4351; lavertym@mail.montclair.edu)