Congratulations to Professor Karyn Freedman of Philosophy, whose book, One Hour in Paris, has been longlisted for CBC's Canada Reads competition. The winner for 2016 was Professor Lawrence Hill of SETS with his book, The Illegal. The final five will be announced January 31, 2017. Find more information here: http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/12/the-canada-reads-2017-longlist.html
Professor Karyn Freedman writes on the Huffington Post Blog about implicit misogyny.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/karyn-l-freedman/steven-galloway-letter_b_1...
Our Associate Professor Stefan Linquist is principal investigator on a new SSHRC Insight Grant. Congratulations, Stefan!
SSHRC Insight Grant: $85,279.
It might come as a surprise that only a small fraction of the DNA in our cells (less than 2%) encodes the various proteins that build our hair cells, bone cells, neurons, and all other human cell types. This raises the question of what, if anything, the remaining 98% is doing?
Two recently-announced research grants include our own Associate Professor Maya Goldenberg. Congratulations, Maya!
SSHRC Insight Development Grant, $58,000 , 2016-2018
Primary Investigator: Dr. Janet Parsons, Applied Health Research Centre, St. Michael's Hospital
Our recent PhD graduate, Martin King, has just (June 2016) been awarded a three-year postdoc as part of the “Epistemology of the Large Hadron Collider” project at the University of Wuppertal. Congratulations Martin!
The Department has formed a Diversity and Climate Committee to work towards welcoming everyone into the practice of Philosophy.
We're delighted that our Associate Professor Stefan Linquist has just won the 2016 University of Guelph Faculty Association Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching. Much deserved—congratulations Stefan!
Our recent PhD alumni Joseph Arel and Niels Feuerhahn have just published their new translation of Heidegger’s Hegel with Indiana University Press.
With sadness we report the sudden passing of our colleague, Professor Brian Wetstein, on June 5, 2015. Brian had faced health challenges for some time and retired from the University in 2014.
Brian completed his PhD work in Philosophy (“The Role of Dialectic in Nietzsche’s Thought”) in 1994 at the University of Guelph, and had taught as a Lecturer at both UG and Guelph–Humber since that time. He was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2003.
