July 6-7, 2012: Levinas Research Seminar (LRS) -- Two Guy L. Leonard Memorial Lectures were presented:
July 6, 2012: Professor Kas Saghafi
University of Memphis,LRS Invited Lecture
July 7, 2012: Professor Bettina Bergo
Université de Montréal LRS Keynote Lecture
"In my face'...What Husserl could learn from Levinas about Intersubjectivity"
November 16, 2011: Robert Drury King, Sierra Nevada College
“Systems Theory: The Fate of the Organism from Hegel‘s Logic to Autopoiesis”
October 27, 2011: Samantha Bankston, Sierra Nevada College
"Becoming and Quasi-Causality in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze"
April 29, 2011: New Directions in Environmental Philosophy and Eco-Criticism -- Flyer
J. Baird Callicott, Regents Professor and University Research Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies, University of North Texas
Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of North Texas
Roundtable: Callicott and Ybarra -- "New Directions in Environmental Philosophy and Eco-Criticism"
Lecture: Ybarra -- "Erasure by U.S. Legislation: Ruiz de Burton's Nineteenth Century Novels and the Lost Archive of Mexican American Environmental Knowledge"
Lecture: Callicott -- "The Temporal and Spatial Scales of Global Climate Change and the Limits of Individualistic and Rationalistic Ethics"
(co-sponsored by UNR's Department of English's Literature and Environment Program and Public Occasions Committee, the Gender, Race, and Identity program, the Department of Philosophy, and the Guy L. Leonard Memorial Endowment)
Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Topic: "Darwinian" and Post-Darwinian Models of Creativity and Innovation: Prospects and Problems
Associate Professor of Critical Theory, University of Toronto at Mississauga