The
Frings Colloquium series is named after Manfred S. Frings (1925-2008), who was
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul and an expert in
phenomenology, more specifically in the work of Max Scheler. The Colloquium
takes place three times a year, and it is an event in which one of our more advanced
graduate students presents a paper that reflects his or her most recent
research work. The speakers are selected, the events are organized, and the
papers are attended exclusively by graduate students.
2022-2023 Frings Colloquia
Title: After the Death of the Soul: Nietzsche, Aristotle, and Zambrano at the Threshold of Subjectivity
Speaker: Laura Campos
Date: October 28, 2022
Title: Between Voice and Silence: Althusser and the Status of Origin in Rousseau's Thought
Speaker: Jack Marchesi
Date: October 28, 2022
Archive
of Frings Colloquia
2015-2016
Title: TBA
Speaker: Owen Glyn-Williams
Date: October 19, 2015
Title: TBA
Speaker: Kristina Lebedeva & James Murphy (joint presentation)
Date: February 5, 2016
Title: TBA
Speaker: Güçsal Pusar
Date May 6, 2016
2014-2015
Title: TBA
Speaker: Floyd Wright
Date: November 7, 2014
Title: TBA
Speaker: Paul Turner
Date: February 6, 2015
Title: TBA
Speaker: Ian Moore
Date May 1, 2015
2013-2014
Title: There Is No Subject of Science: An Introduction to Materialist Mathematics
Speaker: David Maruzzella
Date: November 8, 2013
Title: Capitalist Unbecoming: on erotic thanatropism and the state-form
Speaker: Gil Morejon
Date: February 7, 2014
2012-2013
Title: A Middling Intellect - Resource and Poverty in the works of Plato and Zhuangzi
Speaker: Rohan Sikri
Date: October 4, 2012
Title: Plato's Solar Economy of the Good
Speaker: Ben Frazer-Simser
Date: February 8, 2013
Title: A Critique of the Inscrutability of Evil
Speaker: Imge Oranli
Date: April 26, 2013
2011-2012
Title: Schisthod: Heidegger and Descartes, with a Detour into Hyperbole
Speaker: James Griffith
Date: November 11, 2011
Title: Language, Theology, and Tacit Consent in Locke's Political Philosophy
Speaker: James Murphy
Date: January 27, 2012
2010-2011
Title:
State of Nature as Narrative: A Re-reading of Traditional Social Contact
Theories
Speaker:
Cavin Robinson
Date:
November 19, 2010
Title:
Foucault's Fantasque Animal
Speaker:
Perry A. Zurn
Date:
February 25, 2011
Title:
Homo Homini Lupus Sive Deus
Speaker:
Amanda Parris
Date:
May 20, 2011
2009-2010
Title:
On the Material Impediments to Sublunary Thought and Action in Siger of
Brabant's Questiones in Metaphysicam and De Necessitate et Contingentia
Causarum
Speaker:
Andrew LaZella
Date:
January 22, 2010
Title: Becoming Identities: The Philosophical Subject Intersectionality,
and Assemblage
Speaker: Heather Rakes
Date: March 19, 2010
Title: Is it Pseudo-Dionysius or Dionysus?: God's Drunkenness and
Our Critical Transgression
Speaker: Ben Frazer-Simser
Date: April 30, 2010