A&S Faculty and Staff Nominated for Sarah Bennett Holmes Award
Twenty six women will be acknowledged at the Holmes Award Luncheon on Thursday, March 6, including faculty and staff from the College of Arts & Sciences.
Twenty six women will be acknowledged at the Holmes Award Luncheon on Thursday, March 6, including faculty and staff from the College of Arts & Sciences.
What do politics have to do with the end of the world? UK Philosophy graduate Joan Braune recently finished her dissertation, which is focused on Erich Fromm's role - and break from - the Frankfurt School. She thinks that the connection between political renewal and dreams of catastrophe are detrimental to progress.
This November, scholars and activists from around the world will gather at UK to attend the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society. Arnold Farr, a philosopher and social theorist here at the University of Kentucky, is organizing the conference, which seeks to examine “Emancipation, New Sensibility, and the Challenge of a New Era.”
On April 6th, 2013, the UK Department of Philosophy will host its 16th annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. Organizer Justin Spinks is bringing together scholars and students to ponder and discuss the relationship between Philosophy and Community.