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• September 3-4, 2013: Abigail Klassen
  First Joint European/American Conference, European Network for the Philosophy of
  the Social Sciences (ENPOSS/PSSRT), University of Venice, Ca'  Foscari, Venice
  Speaker Topic: Social Constructionism and the Possibility of Emancipation

• May 27 - 30, 2013: Michelle Ciurria
  Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) 8th International Conference on
  Philosophy, Athens, Greece
  Speaker Topic: The Standard of The Reasonbale Person: An Avoidability Approach
  

• May 23 - 25, 2013: Abigail Klassen
  5th Christina Conference on Gender Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
  Speaker Topic: On the Very Notion of Social Constructionism as an Emancipatory Tool
  
  
• January 11 - 13, 2013: Khameiel Al-Tamimi
  Fourth International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy
  of Empowerment , Doha, Qater at the Qatar National Convention Centre
  Speaker Topic: Comparative Analysis on John Rawls and Chaim Perelman (To be
  published in the conference E-book Proceedings)
  
  
• November 1-4, 2012: Marc Champagne
  37th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Toronto
  Speaker Topic: A Necessary Condition for Proof of Abiotic Semiosis
  
  
• October 19-21: Andrew Parker
  Western Canadian Philosophical Association, Victoria, B.C.
  Speaker Topic: Hacker's Davidson: On Incommensurability
  
  
• October 18-20, 2012: Abigail Klassen
  66th Annual Mountain Plains Philosophy Conference, Storm Lake, Iowa
  Speaker Topic: On the Very Possibility of Sharing an Intention
  

• August 27, 2012: Abigail Klassen
  University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS)
  "Scientific Knowledge and the Transgression of Boundaries"
  Speaker Topic: The Boundaries of the Scientific and Discoverable, the Artefactual and Constructable
  or What There is and What There Might Be
  
  
• July 3-4, 2012: Marc Champagne and Ryan Tonkens
  The Machine Question: AI, Ethics, and Moral Responsibility, symposium held jointly
  by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour
  (AISB) and the International Association of Computing and Philosophy (IACAP),
  University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
  Speaker Topic: Bridging the Responsibility Gap in Automated Warfare
  
  

• May 27 - 29, 2012: Marc Champagne
  Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS)
  annual conference,  Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, Ontario.
  Speaker Topic: Psillos Thinks We Ought To Be Realists. But Why?
    

• May 27 - 30, 2012: Marc Champagne
  Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) annual congress,
  Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, Ontario
  Speaker Topic: Stuck Between Two Soup Cans: Limits of Rational Decision
  
  

• May 24 - 26, 2012: Marc Champagne
  Mind, Language and Cognition: Historical Perspectives, inaugural meeting of the
  Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy,
  McMaster University, Hamilton
  Speaker Topic: Russell, History and the Newman Problem
  
  
• May 10 - 12, 2012: Khameiel AL-Tamimi
  Fourth Biennial meeting of the Association for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies,
  Metaphysics and Science Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
  Speaker Topic: A Feminist Critique of the Universal Audience
  
  
• May 3, 2012: Michelle Ciurria
  PGSA Conference 2012, York University, Toronto
  Speaker Topic: Situationism, Responsibility and Blame
  
  
• March 10, 2012: Michelle Ciurria
  Center of Value and Ethics (COVE) Graduate Ethics Conference 2012
  Carleton University, Ottawa
  Speaker Topic: Situationism, Responsibility and Blame
  
  
• March 3, 2012: Abigail Klassen
  SAGA Knotty Encounters Interdisciplinary, Graduate Student Conference
  York University, North York
  Speaker Topic: Indigenous Worldviews versus Philosophy: The Politics of Knowing
  
  

• March 2 -3, 2012: Marc Champagne
  Imitation, Emulation and Forgery: Pretending and Becoming in the Medieval World, 33rd
  Colloquium of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
  Speaker Topic: John Poinsot On Why Mental Signs (Presumably) Can Never Fully Resemble
  Their Objects
  
  
• October 12 - 16, 2011: Michael Braund
  Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA 2011)
  Banff, Alberta
  Speaker Topic: Dragonfly
  
  
• October 8-9, 2011: Marc Champagne
  6th Annual Arche/CSMN Graduate Conference, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
  Speaker Topic: Is the Functionalist Account of Truth Too Good to Be True?
  
  
• July 6-10, 2011: Michael Braund and Daniel Hambleton
  Conference: International Conference on Perception and Action (hosted by the
  International Society for Ecological Psychology), Ouro Preto, Brazil.
  Speaker Topic: "Dragonfly: An Ecological Approach to Digital Architectural Design"
  
  
• July 4 - 6, 2011: Ryan Tonkens
  International Association of Computing and Philosophy
  Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
  Speaker Topic: Refuting the Reasons in Favour of Automated Warfare
  
  
• May 2011: Michael Bruand and Daniel Hambleton
  Invited talk: Architecture in Combination Speaker Series, University of Toronto
  Speaker Topic: Form Ever Follows Function: Affordance-Structures in Digital Environments
  
  
• May 30 - June 2, 2011: Ryan Tonkens
  Canadian Philosophical Association
  University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB
  Speaker Topic: The Ethics of Automated Warefare
  
  
• May 30 - June 1, 2011: Ryan Tonkens
  Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics
  Fredericton, NB
  Speaker Topic: Just Automated Warfare
  
  
• May 30, 2011: Daniel J. McArthur and Marc Champagne
  Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
  Speaker Topic: Addressing the Stance Stance: Voluntarism in Realism and Empiricsm
  
  
• May 28, 2011: Michelle Ciurria
  Law and Philosophy Graduate Conference 2011, Rights and Cultural Diversity,
  University of Stirling, Scotland
  Speaker Topic: Complicity and Criminal Liability in Rwanda: A Situationist Critique
  
  
• May 26-29, 2011: Ryan Tonkens
  Technology & Security: Society for Philosophy and Technology Biennial
  Conference. University of North Texas, Dallas, USA.
  Speaker Topic 1: Just automated warfare: The ethics of robotic war
  Speaker Topic 2: Why good parents would not fulfill their moral obligation to
  genetically enhance their unborn children.
  
  
• May 13 - 15, 2011: Daniel J. McArthur and Marc Champagne
  Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science, conference presented by the Fishbein Center for the History of Science
  and Medicine (University of Chicago) and the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
  (University of Toronto), Victoria College, Toronto, Canada
  Speaker Topic: When Constraints Fail to Constrain: A Critical Look at Ross and Ladyman's
  Information Theoretic Structural Realism
  
  
• May 5-6, 2011: Marc Champagne
  4th annual PGSA Conference, York University, Toronto
  Speaker Topic: One's a Crowd? A Critical Look at Greenwood's Delimitation of the Social
  
  

• April 8-9, 2011: Nicolae Irina
  2011 Conference of the Graduate Philosophy Society at Emory: Philosophy as a Way of Life
  Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
  Speaker Topic: The Socratic Task: Pierre Hadot and Kierkegaard's Method of Indirect Communication
  

  
  

• April 2-3, 2011: Presenters include: Matthew Crippen, Claudio Duran, Helen Fielding,
  Stephen Horne, J. Keeping, Matthew King, Tristan Laing, Lani Maestro,
  David McFarlane, Gary McNeely, Ellen Miller, Astrida Neimanis, Diego
  Nigro, Ed Pien, Mar'yana Svarnyk, and Francine Wynn.
  A conference at York University, Toronto, bringing together people working in fields such as philosophy,
  the visual arts,  music, and nursing, whose thinking and practice have been influenced by Sam Mallin's
  body-hermeneutic phenomenological method and its results, to collaboratively develop lines of thought they open up.
  For program details, see
  http://sites.google.com/site/bodyphilosophyart/
  
  

• March 2011: Mohamad Al-Hakim
   Legal Philosophy between State and Transnationalism Series, Osgoode Law School/York University
  Speaker Invited Commentary: Commentary on Anver Emon’s ‘Sharia in the Post-Imperial/Post-Colonial
  Muslim World: Legal Pluralism and the Contest for Legitimacy’
  
  
• March 25 - 26, 2011: Abigail Klassen
  De Philosophia, 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference, University of Ottawa
  Speaker Topic: Searle's We-Intentions, Collective Intentionality, and the Social Sciences"
  
  
• March 17 - 19, 2011: Marc Champagne
  Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images, 22nd Annual Conference of the Centre for
  Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
  Speaker Topic: Must An Icon Be Broken In Order To Function Properly?
  
  
• March 10-12, 2011: Nicolae Irina
  International Conference; "Existential Philosophy and Ethics"
  Sartre Society and the Institute of Philosophy, Free University, Berlin, Germany
  Speaker Topic: "Works of Love" and Kierkegaard's Ethical Standpoint
  
  
• March 9, 2011: Abigail Klassen
  Forum d'études et de recherches autochtones de l'Université d'Ottawa,
  Graduate Student Workshop in Indigenous Studies
  Speaker Topic: "Aboriginal" Rights, Worldviews versus Philosophy, and the Limits of  Intercultural
  Dialogue"
  
  
• March 4,  2011: Marc Champagne
  10th annual conference of the Joint Programme in Communication and Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto
  Speaker Topic: Semiotic Inquiry: A Thousand and a Half Years of Vitality
  
  
• January 2011: Khameiel Al-Tamimi
  Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA). University of Windsor
  Speaker Topic: A Gendered Analysis of the Role of Authority in Argumentation
  (Published in the OSSA conference proceedings)
  
  
• December 2010: Mohamad Al-Hakim
  

  Between Rawls and Religion International Conference, LUISS University
  & John Cabot University, Italy
  Speaker Topic: ‘A Nonpublic Defense of Public Reason’
  
  

• November 12 - 13, 2010: Marc Champagne
  Epistemology in the Early Analytic Tradition, International Symposium organized by the Canadian Society for
  Epistemology (CSE), Carleton University, Ottawa
  Speaker Topic: Remedying a Lacuna in Russell's Early Analysis of Objectivity
  
  

• September 10 - 12, 2010: Mike Braund
  Consciousness and Experimental Psychology (CEP)
  British Psychological Society, St. Anne's College, Oxford University
  Speaker Topic: From Mechanism to Dynamic Structures: The Reciprocity of Ecological Perception
  
  

• September 10 - 12, 2010:  Marc Champagne
  Consciousness and Experimental Psychology (CEP)
  British Psychological Society, St. Anne's College, Oxford University
  Speaker Topic: Organisms, Values, and Umwelten: Locating Normativity in the Natutral Order
  
  

• September 2010: Mohamad Al-Hakim
  International Criminalization Conference, Queen’s Law School
  Speaker Invited Commentary: Commentary on  Ron Levi and Heather Schoenfeld's 'Institutionalizing
  International Criminal Law: Criminalization as a Big, Slow Moving Process'
  
  
• Date: TBA, 2010: Tristan Laing
  EPTC Congress, Location: TBA
  Speaker Topic: Working on the Turn: Heidegger's Neitzsche 1 and 2 in the light of Contributions.
  
  

• July 24 -26, 2010:  Ryan Tonkens
  North American meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy,
  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg
  Speaker Topic: On the Creation of  Virtuous Machines
  
  

• July 2-4, 2010: Ryan Tonkens
  Society for Applied Philosophy (SAP) Anuual Conference, Oxford, U.K.
  Speaker Topic: The Virtues and Vices of Rigging the Natural Lottery.
  
  

• June 27 - July 1, 2010: Nicolae Irina
  The Sixth International Kierkegaard Conference, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, USA.
  Speaker Topic: Ethical Responsibility and Faith: Reconsidering the Actuality of
  Kierkegaard's Standpoint.
  
  

• June 9-12, 2010: Ryan Tonkens
  Canadian Bioethics Society annual conference, Kelowna, B.C.
  Speaker Topic: A Parent-Centered Approach to Prenatal Genetic Alteration.
  
  

• May 30 - June 2, 2010: Ryan Tonkens
  Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Conference, Concordia University, Montreal
  Speaker Topic: A Vindication of the Precautionary Principle
  
  

• May 28-30, 2010: Nathan Harron
  Canadian Association for Food Studies, Congress 2010: "Connected Understanding"
  Speaker Topic: Why don't we know?: Epistemology of ignorance and the modern food system.
  
  

• May 28-30, 2010: Marc Champagne and Daniel J. McArthur
  Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science's annual conference,
  Concordia University, Montreal
  Speaker Topic: On Structural Realism's Optimistic Meta-Induction.
  
  
• May 22-23, 2010: Serife Tekin
  Association for the Advancement of Philosophy an Psychiatry (AAPP) conference on "
  Philosophical Issues in Evidence-Based Psychiatry", New Orleans, USA
  Speaker Topic: Evidence in psychiatry: a case for patient memoirs.            
  
  
• May 12, 2010: Jeremy Petch
  Canadian Association for Health Service and Policy Research annual conference:
  Speaker Topic: Diverse Inclusive Governance: A New Approach to Aboriginal Health Governance.
  
  
• April 15-17, 2010: Serife Tekin
  Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP) annual meeting, Atlanta, USA (Recipient of the
  SSPP Graduate Travel Award)
  Speaker Topic: Self, narratives and mental disorder.
  
  
• April 13-17, 2010: Brandon Fenton
  Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona
  Speaker Topic: Epiphenomenalism meets Qualia in Practical Deliberation and Action:
  Seeing isn't Believing?
  
  
• March 13, 2010:  Nathan Harron
  University of Guelph Philosophy Graduate Student's Association Conference: 'Bodies in the World"
  Speaker Topic: Understanding Obesity: risk and responsibility assumed.
  
  
• February 2010: Mohamad Al-Hakim
  

  Legal Philosophy between State and Transnationalism Series, Osgoode Law School/
  York University

  Speaker Invited Commentary:  Commentary on Andrew March’s ‘Is Modern Religious Liberty
  Sufficient for the Islamic Legal Maqsad (‘Ultimate Objective’) of Hifz al-din (‘Preserving Religion’)?
  
  
• January 2010: Khameiel Al-Tamimi
  University of Windsor's Graduate Student Conference, University of Windsor
  Speaker Topic: A Feminist Reading of Aristotle's Rhetoric
  
  
• November 20 - 22, 2009: Matthew Crippen
  150 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Impact on the Humanities and Social Sciences at
  San Diego State University
  Speaker Topic: William James and his Darwinian Defense of Freewill.
  
  
• November 6 - 7, 2009: Marc Champagne
  Concepts of Knowledge, international symposium organized by the Canadian Society
  for Epistemology (CSE), Carleton University, Ottawa
  Speaker Topic: Knowledge: An Offer You Can't Refuse.
  
  
• November 6-8, 2009: Susan Dieleman
  How to Achieve Justice: Rorty on Redescription and Justification.  Concerned Philosophers
  for Peace at the University of Dayton, Dayton, OH.
  
  
• October 22-24, 2009: Susan Dieleman
  Revisiting Rorty: Developing Feminist-Pragmatist Epistemic Resources.
  Hypatia: 25th Anniversary Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  
  
• August 2009: Mohamad Al-Hakim
  Moral Responsibility International Conference, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
  Speaker Topic: Agent Responsibility in Hate Motivated Crimes
  

  
  

• May 2009: Mohamad Al-Hakim
  Canadian Philosophical Association, Carleton University
  Speaker Topic: Dworkin's Home Within Islam
  
  

• January 2009: Khameiel Al-Tamimi
  Ontario Society for The Study of Argumentation (OSSA), University of  Windsor
  Speaker Topic: Feminist Alternatives to Traditional Argumentation. (Published in the
  OSSA conference proceedings)
          

• November 2007: Mohamad Al-Hakim   
  Freedom of Expression and Dialogue between Cultures and Religions Colloquium,
  Laurentian University
  Speaker Topic:  ‘Liberalism, Value Pluralism, and the Need for Cultural Recognition’
         
  

• June 2007: Mohamad Al-Hakim
  Global Citizenship Conference, McMaster University  
  Speaker Topic:  ‘Authority and Islamaphobia’