We are involved in organizing and running a number of conferences, workshops, and symposia each year.
Conferences, workshops and symposia, 2007-8
The Art of Performance: a conference in honor of James HamiltonInvited speakers include Noël Carroll (Temple University), David Davies (McGill University), James Hamilton (Kansas State University), Sherri Irvin (University of Oklahoma), Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia), Aaron Meskin (University of Leeds), Daniel Nathan (Texas Tech University), and David Osipovich (Marist College) [Some photos from the conference may be found here.]December 1-2, 2007Time 9 AMLocation Dickens 203
A Figure of Speech: a conference on metaphorInvited speakers include Anne Bezuidenhout (South Carolina), Elizabeth Camp (University of Pennsylvania), Robyn Carston (UCL), Michael Glanzberg (UC Davis), Sam Guttenplan (Birkbeck College), David Hills (Stanford), Michiel Leezenberg (Amsterdam), Ernie Lepore (Rutgers), Douglas Patterson (Kansas State), Esther Romero (Granada), Marga Reimer (Arizona), Belen Soria (Granada), Josef Stern (Chicago), and Deirdre Wilson (UCL). Sponsored by the Center for Cognitive Sciences and Semantics of the University of Latvia and the Department of Philosophy at Kansas State University.December 17-28, 2007Time TBALocation University of Latvia in Riga