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Forry & Micken Speaker Series - Tommie Shelby on "The Idea of Prison Abolition: Slavery and Its Legacy"

Thu, Mar 30, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Fayerweather Hall, 115 - Pruyne Lecture Hall

Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard University wi...

Forry & Micken Speaker Series - Myisha Cherry on "The Misuses of Anger: Audre Lorde, Self-Hatred, and the Anger it Fuels"

Thu, Apr 20, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Fayerweather Hall, 115 - Pruyne Lecture Hall

Myisha Cherry, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of California - Riverside. will be presenting a lecture on "T...

Erin Kelly, Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University

Forry & Micken Speaker Series - Erin Kelly on 'Restorative Justice'

Thu, Apr 27, 2023
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Fayerweather Hall, 115 - Pruyne Lecture Hall

Erin Kelly, Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University will be presenting a lecture entitled 'Restorative Justice' on Thurs...

Student Achievements

Anurima Chattopadhyay'24

Stefania Gray Award for Best Graduate Student Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Conference Paper

Anurima Chattopadhyay is a philosophy major from Pasadena, California. She hopes to pursue a career in medicine and is interested in the intersection of health and healing with sociocultural development and philosophical narratives. Drawing much inspiration from Elliot Turiel's The Culture of Morality and Jonathan Lear's Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, she has written on the significance of loss of meaning, and testimonial injustice in healthcare settings, among other topics.

Gillan Chalono'23

Beinecke Scholarship

Gillan Chalono is from Fort-de-France, Martinique and is a student at Amherst College majoring in Philosophy. Informed by his work as a political organizer, his philosophical interests lie in the social and ethical implications of distributive justice, gender, and race.

Harith Khawaja'19

Knight-Hennessy Scholarship

Harith Khawaja, from Lahore, Pakistan, is a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and J.D. candidate at Stanford Law School. He graduated from Amherst College in 2019 with degrees in philosophy and computer science.