Spring 2026
January 23, 2026 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Daniel Muñoz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title & Location TBA
4:15pm
February 8, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Philosophy conference honoring Dion Scott-Kakures, Scripps College
Participants include: Paul Hurley, Claremont McKenna College; Michael McKenna, University of Arizona; Al Mele, Florida State University; and Yuval Avnur (Scripps College).
10am-12:15pm and 2pm-4:45pm, Hampton Room
February 12, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Brook Ziporyn, University of Chicago
"Zhuangzi"
Time, & Location TBA
February 17, 2026 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Rachana Kamtekar, Cornell University
Title, Time, & Location TBA
February 26, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Daniel Nolan, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Zoroastrianism"
Time, & Location TBA
February 27, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Daniel Nolan, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Impossible Fictional Characters"
Time, & Location TBA
March 5, 2026 (held at Pomona College)
Sontag Lecture
Talia Mae Bettcher, California State University, Los Angeles
4:15pm, Pearsons 101
March 12, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Rosanna Picascia, Swarthmore College
"Indian Non-Buddhism"
Time, & Location TBA
April 3, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Peter Adamson, University of Munich
"Arabic Philosophy"
Time, & Location TBA
April 9, 2026 (held at Pomona College)
Coleen Macnamara, University of California, Riverside
Title TBA
4:15pm, Pearsons 202
April 13, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Merlan Lecture
Samuel Scheffler, New York University
Title, Time, & Location TBA
April 16, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Alexus McLeod Indiana University, Bloomington
"Chinese Confucianism"
Time, & Location TBA
May 1, 2026 (held at Scripps College)
Monima Chadha, Oxford University
"Indian Buddhism"
Time, & Location TBA
Fall 2026
October 22, 2026 (held at Pomona College)
Meradjuddin Khan Oidermaa, Stockholm University
Title, Time, & Location TBA
Past Events
September 26, 2025 (held at Pitzer College)
Carlos Montemayor, San Francisco State University
"Cultivating Attention in the Era of AI"
2:45–4 pm, Avery 201
October 9, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Laura Callahan, University of Notre Dame
"Epistemic Emulation"
4:15pm, Humanities 201
October 23, 2025 (held at Pomona College)
Shieva Kleinschmidt, University of Southern California
"Decompositional Multitude and Multilocation"
4:15pm, Pearsons 101
Canceled: November 13, 2025 (held at Pomona College)Meilin Chinn, Santa Clara University"Musical Thinking"4:15pm, Pearsons 101
November 14-15, 2025 (held at Scripps College)
Virtual Reality as Metaphor Workshop (schedule)
Hampton Room (on the second floor of Malott)
November 21, 2025 (held at Claremont McKenna College)
Caroline Bowman, Barnard College
"Hegelian Autonomy and lnternalized Oppression"
Kravis 164, 4:15pm
November 21, 2025 (held at Pitzer College)
Carolyn Dicey Jennings, University of California, Merced
"Attention, Technology, and Social Unity"
2:45–4 pm, Avery 201