EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy -- University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (October 15-17, 2009)

RECENT EVENTS

International Philosophical Seminar, Kastel Ruth, Italy (July, 2009)

“Consumer as homo sacer: Exile in the Marketplace”

Appignani Bioethics Center Conference, “Food, Famine and Future Technologies:

Ethical Dilemmas in a Hungry World.” The United Nations, New York, NY (May 22, 2009).

“Sovereignty and the Bio-Politics of Eating”

Conference Program (PDF)

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy – Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA (October 16-18, 2008)

Panel Discussion: "Nietzsche and Religiosity"

Moderator: Robert T. Valgenti, Lebanon Valley College

North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics– DePaul University, Chicago, USA (September 26-27, 2008)

“The Forgotten Lineage of Hermeneutics: Critique, Deduction, and Principle Formation”

“The Energy Show” – a Presentation by H. Peter Steeves for the Lebanon Valley College Colloquium Series (April 17, 2008)

Video excerpts of the performance can be found on YouTube:

ballet and potential/kinetic energy

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzcbn4EnNFo



photon magic and tesla coil

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZbBYlUjbdw



tornado story and beirut song 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ758rQiSmc

Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy – McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

Panel: "The World as Political Question"

Robert T. Valgenti, Lebanon Valley College, "Putting the 'Or' Back into World Politics: The Hermeneutics of Disjunction"

Peter Gratton, University of San Diego, "Rethinking the Mundane: The World as Political Project in the Work of Nancy"

Marie Eve Morin, University of Alberta, "There is No Cosmos: Latour's Cosmopolitics and Sloterdijk's Global Foam"

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy – DePaul University, Chicago, USA

"Gianni Vattimo and Utopian Thought After Metaphysics"

Moderator: Robert T. Valgenti, Lebanon Valley College

Speaker: Greg Johnson, Pacific Lutheran Univ

Respondent: Silvia Benso, Sienna College

International Philosophical Seminar, Kastel Ruth, Italy (July 3, 2007)

"Pushing through the Paradox: On the Hermeneutics of Origins."


Università di Torino, Italy (June 14, 2007).

"La Deduzione Ermeneutica."


International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) – Nicosia, Cyprus (June 6, 2007)

"Putting the 'or' back into the World Politics: Towards a Hermeneutics of Disjunction"


41st North American Heidegger Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL  (May 5, 2007).

"Towards Interpretation: The Leap from Dialectic to Phronesis in Heidegger's Early Work." 


A Conversation with Gianni Vattimo – Lebanon Valley College Colloquium Series (April 25, 2007)

Duquesne University Department of Philosophy Speakers Series (April 13, 2007).

"Hermeneutic Deduction"