Philosophy Pedagogy and Professionalization Workshops aim to prepare current graduate students to teach philosophy in an academic setting. In order to supplement the department’s strong scholarship and provide students with practical pedagogical skills, NSSR faculty, alumni, and advanced NSSR PhD students with teaching experience take turns to facilitate the workshops, which are constructed around various pedagogical topics including: discussion techniques, basic classroom management, preparing and delivering a lecture, designing a syllabus, teaching close-reading skills, and navigating issues of gender and race in the classroom.
Organizer: Dora Suarez
suard440@newschool.edu
The Anthropology and Philosophy Reading Group aims to fill a gap in studies. By reading together some classic texts in anthropological theory, we analyze how this field can contribute to classically philosophical topics (such as metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, political philosophy, ethics, etc.). We also want to have a better grasp of how philosophy and anthropology were historically intertwined. In the previous semesters, we have read and discussed Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's groundbreaking Cannibal Metaphysics, one of the authors linked to the so-called ontological turn in anthropology; and several works on anthropological exchange theory (from Mauss' The Gift to several contemporary anthropologists, such as Chris Gregory, Marilyn Strathern, Marshall Sahlins, and David Graeber). In Fall 2021, the group will read Marilyn Strathern's Relations: An Anthropological Account (Duke, 2020), which makes a theoretical investigation on the notion of relation, exploring the term's changing articulations and meanings over the past three centuries in order to show how the historical idiosyncrasy of using an epistemological term for kinspersons (“relatives”) was bound up with evolving ideas about knowledge-making and kin-making
Organizer: Allan Hillani
allanmh@newschool.edu
The Philosophy and Communism Reading Group is a new group in Fall 2021.
Organizer: Bryan Doniger
donib074@newschool.edu
The Wittgenstein Workshop is a research group that meets a few times a semester and invites scholars and NSSR faculty and students to present work-in-progress. While an interest in Wittgenstein might be helpful in attending, it is by no means necessary.
Organizers: Weiouqing Chen, Kyle O'Dowd
nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com
People in Support of Women in Philosophy is a group dedicated to the advancement of women and those who experience marginalization within the field of philosophy. Our group meets weekly to workshop papers, help members prepare for conference presentations and seminars, host guest speakers, and in general celebrate the work of our women and gender-non-conforming colleagues and mentors. Men are welcome and encouraged to take part as allies.
Organizer: Dominique Lassalle
pswip@newschool.edu
The New York Phenomenology Research Group continues the long and storied tradition of phenomenological investigation at NSSR, introducing the next generation of students to the panoply of thinkers and topics for which phenomenology is known. No previous knowledge is required — all one needs is a willingness to return to the things themselves!
Organizer: Daniel Wagnon
phenomenology@newschool.edu
Minorities and Philosophy (MaP) is an international organization encompassing a collection of chapters from different philosophy departments that examine and address issues of minority participation in academic philosophy. Through MaP’s network, students can exchange ideas on topics related to minorities and philosophy, meet and support peers, and learn from other philosophy departments.
Organizer: K. Eskins
The New York German Idealism Group is a joint undertaking of the philosophy departments of Columbia University and The New School that organizes four events per semester, inviting scholars from the New York area and beyond to share their work on Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy in a workshop format.
Organizers: Agnese Di Riccio, Mithra Len
nygermanidealism@gmail.com