Albert J. Fitzgibbons Lecture Series
2022
| Friday, March 18 Devlin 101 | Fitzgibbons Panel on eco-philosophy featuring Catherine Keller (Drew University), Brian Treanor (LMU) and Jason Wirth (Seattle University). Hosting Earth. Poetics of the Earth. |
| Monday, April 11 Devlin 101 | Lorenzo Simpson (Stony Brook) Race and the Politics of Memory |
| Saturday, April 23 Heights Room | Guestbook/Fitzgibbons conference, “Hosting Earth.” Screenings and Panel Discussion Films include Poetries of the Earth, The Dolphins Way, How the Trees See Us, Healing Earth. Keynote: Mary Robinson |
Previous Lectures
2021
| Friday, October 22 Devlin 101 | Josh Hayes (Alvernia University) "Cosmopolitanism and Civil Friendship: A Dialogue Between Islam and the West" |
2020
| Tuesday, February 11, Devlin 010. 4:30 p.m. | Joel Reynolds (UMass Lowell), "Worldcreation: Disability, Justice, and the Promise of Care" |
| Thursday, March 12, Devlin 010, 4:30 p.m. | Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount), "Climate Change and Ecological Conversion" |
2018
| Thursday, March 22, | Shannon Vallor (Santa Clara), "Artificial Intelligence and the Shrinking Space of Moral Reasons" |
2016
| Thursday, November 17 | Professor Mark Murphy (Georgetown University), "The Fundamentality of Authority" |
2015
| Wednesday, October 21 | Professor David Garland (New York University, Edinburgh University School of Law), "The Punitive Society: Foucalt's Discipline and Punish and America Today" |
2014-2015
| Friday, October 3 | Francois Raffoul (Louisiana State University), "The Question of Ethics" |
| Tuesday, March 17 | James Corbett, Charlene Galarneau, Paul Weithman, "Justice in Access to Healthcare" |
| Wednesday, April 23 | John Haldane, "Philosophy, Ethics and Society: Taking History Seriously" |
2013-2014
| Saturday, December 7 | Between Past and Future: Centenary Celebration of Paul Ricoeur. Fitzgibbons centennial conference in commemoration of the centennial of Paul Ricoeur. |
| Tuesday, October 15 | Julia Kristeva (University of Paris VII Diderot, Emeritus), "A Tragedy and a Dream: Disability Revisited," |
| Wednesday, October 30 | Edward McGushin (Stonehill College), “Socratic Irony and the Courage of the Truth: On Foucault’s Final Lectures” |
2012-2013
| September 14 | Ed McGushin, "Can the Care of Self Still Speak to us Today? Derrida, Focault and Patocka on the Challenge of Bringing Philosophy to Life" |
| October 12 | Robert Audi, "Rationality and Religious Commitment" |
| November 29 | Bret Davis, "Knowing Limits - Toward a Nonwillful Perspectivism with Nietzche, Heidegger and Zen" |
| April 4 | Thomas Pogge "Are We Violating the Human Rights of the World's Poor" |
| April 17 | Robert Gooding-Williams, "Obama, Dubois, Autobiography" |
| April 22-23 | Patricia Owens, "Encountering Afresh the Mystery of Good and Evil" |