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Professor T. M. Scanlon will present the 2012 Guelph Lecture in Philosophy: "What is Morality?" on Thursday, March 8,  5:30- 7:00 p.m. in the Academic Public Square, McLaughlin Library. Find out more about the talk and Dr Scanlon's work. 

Professor T. M. Scanlon will present the 2012 Guelph Lecture in Philosophy: "What is Morality?" on Thursday, March 8,  5:30- 7:00 p.m. in the Academic Public Square, McLaughlin Library.

Unfortunately Dr Scanlon's lecture has been cancelled due to illness. 

 New PhD students in social and political philosophy whose dissertations touch on ethical issues related to globalization are eligible to receive additional funding ($1,000 - $3,000) from the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change. For additional information please contact Monique Deveaux. 

Philosophy is a field that engages with every facet of life. However, academic philosophy these days could be doing a better job of engaging in dialogue with the public: this requires finding a common language, as well as being explicit about the relevance of the ideas at issue. \

Philopolis is a two-day festival that aims to facilitate just such an exchange through panel discussions, workshops and activities of many kinds. Find out more at the festival website. 

The 2012 Guelph Philopolis was a festival that manifested how Philosophy engages with every facet of life.  It achieved this through panel discussions, workshops and activities of many kinds. Find out more at the festival website.

The Department's famous Rural History Roundtable is ten years old! Congratulations to Dr. Catharine Wilson, Dr. Douglas McCalla and all the speakers and coordinators who have made the Roundtable a College of Arts institution over the years. The Winter 2012 Roundtable schedule will carry on this great tradition with speakers addressing tourism, consumer culture, rural amusements and more. Get the schedule (.pdf)

A University of Guelph economics professor belongs to a winning team in a prestigious humanities and social sciences research competition. Kris Inwood’s project in mining information from one of the largest population databases in the world was named one of the victors of the 2012 Digging Into Data Challenge today. Sponsored by Canada, the United States, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, the competition promotes innovative research using digital resources to learn about people and cultures and to develop multidisciplinary partnerships.

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