News & Events

November 11, 2015

PAL Spring Preview

Mark your calendars now for these spring 2016 PAL events! ………….. Thursday Jan 14, 2016 PAL NEW YEAR PARTY 5-6:30pm, FHI Garage, Smith Warehouse PAL for Graduate Students! Come join us for happy hour cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Learn about the PAL Graduate Certificate and the Spring 2016 graduate courses. …………….. February 25-26 PAL Young…

October 21, 2015

PAL 2014-2015 Annual Report

PAL’s 2014-2015 Annual Report is now available. PDF: PAL 2014-15 Annual Report View on ISSU View past reports here.

October 19, 2015

Kate Manne – Trigger Discipline: On the Myth of Victim Culture

WEDNESDAY 4 November, 5pm Reception at 4:30pm FHI Garage, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 Duke University We are delighted to welcome one of the most interesting young women philosophers today to PAL. Kate Manne is an assistant professor of philosophy at Cornell University. She has recently been a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows,…

October 10, 2015

Beauvoir’s masculinities: thinking about the first sex and beyond

Beauvoir’s masculinities: thinking about the first sex and beyond a PAL lecture with Ursula Tidd Wednesday, Oct 28,5pm Reception at 4:30pm FHI Garage, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 Duke University Simone de Beauvoir’s is known and admired all over the world for The Second Sex, her pioneering and iconoclastic study of the situation of women and the…

August 28, 2015

The Pleasure of Producing Good Sentences

the TWP Faculty Write Program, the Forum for Scholars and Publics and the Centre for Philosophy, Art and Literature at Duke present: The Pleasure of Producing Good Sentences A Scholarly Writing Workshop with Aaron Sachs (Historian, Cornell) Friday, September 11 2-3:30pm in Old Chem 011 Academic writers typically evaluate their work at the level of…

April 22, 2015

PAL Graduate Certificate Courses – Spring 2016

*NEW* Film Philosophers/Film Makers LIT 620S (Cross listed in Theatre, VMS, English, DOCST and AMS) Professor Markos Hadjioannou Tu 4:40-7:10: Examines intersections between film, critical theory, and continental philosophy, from standpoint of spectatorship. Focuses on different approaches to film theory from a philosophical prism, and on different philosophers addressing film as a mediated visual interpretation of…

April 22, 2015

CFP: “Community, Reason, Tragedy”

Calling all graduate students! The University of Chicago Literature & Philosophy Workshop will be hosting an interdisciplinary graduate student conference titled “Community, Reason, Tragedy,” November 5th & 6th, 2015. We are pleased to have Professor Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke) as our keynote speaker. Download the call for papers here: CommunityReasonTragedyCFP Abstracts are due July 10th and should be sent to community.reason.tragedy@gmail.com. More information is available at communityreasontragedy.wordpress.com.

April 15, 2015

J.L. Austin Now – A Symposium

J.L. Austin Now A Symposium Tues Apr. 21 5pm 4:30pm Reception FHI Garage Smith Warehouse Bay 4 Duke University Sandra Laugier (Philosophy, Sorbonne, Paris) Estelle Ferrarese (Political Science, Strasbourg) Sarah Beckwith (English, Duke)

March 26, 2015

* (Updated 10/20/16) Graduate Certificate Courses–Fall 2015

ENG 822/LIT822. Writing Is Thinking. This course aims to teach graduate students at any level, from first-year students to dissertation writers, how to write well and with enjoyment, and how to make writing a part of their daily life as creative intellectuals. We will cover questions of style, voice, and audience, and learn to read academic prose as…

March 23, 2015

Hannah Arendt: A Symposium

Part of the PAL Intellectual Women Series Thurs. April 9 5pm-7pm Reception at 4:30pm FHI Garage Smith Warehouse Bay 4 Duke University The Bechdel Task: Arendt, Von Trotta, and Representing Women’s Lives by Lori Marso (Political Science, Gender Studies, Union College) Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Extrasubjectivity by Ella Myers (Political Science, Gender Studies, University of Utah)