Two Philosophy department faculty members participated in a conference and colloquium this summer in Rome, Italy.

Dmitri Nikulin participated in a three-week colloquium titled, "The Birth of Social Sciences Out of the Spirit of Philosophy" at the Universita Gregoriana. Scholars from Europe and the United States read and discussed in German the works of Hegel, Schelling, August Wilhelm and Friedrich Schlegel, and Schleiermacher.

Alice Crary was across town at a conference titled, "Ethics, Virtue and the Self" at the Sapienza University where she lectured on the works of novelist J.M. Coetzee.