In 2014-2015 PAL is hosting our third biennial Writing is Thinking Young Scholars Workshop. This year, in addition to our spring workshop and lectures, PAL has inaugurated the first year of sponsored Graduate Student Writing Groups. We have 11 PAL-sponsored groups meeting this year.  This page is an overview of past and future WIT events…

PAL’s 5th Annual Young Scholars Workshop: Philosophical Inquiry and the Humanities: History, Literature, and Feminism Feb 6th—Feb 7th Invited and local Young Scholars have the opportunity to work closely with visiting speakers Richard Moran, Philosophy, Harvard and Sabina Lovibond, Women’s Studies, Oxford. Download the PAL Young Scholars 2014 Application. Application includes the full schedule for the workshop and description…

March 1st, 2013 Writing is Thinking II: Taking It to the Next Level In spring 2011 we organized the first, extremely successful, Writing is Thinking workshop. The focus then was on how to make writing part of daily life, how to get down to writing, how to think of oneself as a writer, and how…

April 5th-6th, 2012 The 3rd Annual Young Scholars Workshop consisted of the public PAL event, “Philosophy, Literature and Film: Two Lectures by James Conant and Cora Diamond.” The following day there was a closed all-day workshop from 9am to 6pm, limited to 20 invited participants (from Duke and other universities, and including James Conant and…

2nd Annual Young Scholars Workshop 2011 Writing is Thinking: Writing as a Way of Life in the Academy This 2-part writing event and workshop was sponsored by the Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature (PAL), The Thompson Writing Program and the Graduate School at Duke University. The 2nd Annual PAL Young Scholars Workshop was designed…

2nd Annual Young Scholars Workshop 2011 Writing is Thinking: Writing as a Way of Life in the Academy This 2-part writing event and workshop was sponsored by the Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature (PAL), The Thompson Writing Program and the Graduate School at Duke University. The 2nd Annual PAL Young Scholars Workshop was designed…

February 19-20, 2010 PAL hosted a workshop for young scholars working on ordinary language philosophy in relation to literature and other arts, or in relation to more general problems in the humanities. The workshop brought together young scholars (graduate students, recent Ph.Ds and junior faculty) from Duke and from other universities. The workshop aimed to…