This is my last reminder, I promise. But seriously, what are you doing tomorrow night that is cooler than listening to Dr. Sparrow lecturing on and discussing the body, phenomenology, and plasticity? Come check out “From Lived Bodies to Plastic Bodies” tomorrow (thursday) at 6:00pm at East End Book Exchange (4754 Liberty Ave). Register on the Facebook Event to give us a better headcount!
What’s Up This Week?
16 Mar- 3/18, 6:00pm – The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group is reading Tom Sparrow’s “From Lived Bodies to Plastic Bodies” in preparation for his public lecture later in the week. East End Book Exchange.
- 3/20, 6:00pm – The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network is please to announce its third public philosophy lecture, featuring Dr. Tom Sparrow of Slippery Rock University, who will be offering a lecture and discussion based upon his paper “From Lived Bodies to Plastic Bodies” at the East End Book Exchange.
- 3/21, 6:00pm – Dr. Erik Craig will be presenting “The lost language of being: Exploring ontology’s endangered destiny in existential thought and practice” as part of Duquesne’s Psychology Department’s Distinguished Speaker Series. Duquesne University: 105 College Hall.
Tom Sparrow at the East End Book Exchange
14 MarDon’t miss our third official Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network lecture next thursday (March 20th) at 6:00pm at the East End Book Exchange. We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Tom Sparrow of Slippery Rock University will be offering a lecture and discussion based upon his paper “From Lived Bodies to Plastic Bodies.” Want to go deeper? The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be be discussing his paper in preparation for the lecture, on Tuesday at 6:00pm (also at East End Exchange). Why not come to both events and get a double dose of Sparrow? The official Facebook can be found here.
This Week:
9 Mar- 03/11, 6:00pm – The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be discussing Sara Ahmed’s “A Phenomenology of Whiteness”.
- 03/14, 3:00pm – Dana Hollander (McMaster University) will be presenting at the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center.
This Week:
17 Feb- 02/18, 6:00pm – The Pittsburgh Contenintal Philosophy Reading Group will be examining Chris Nagel’s “Phenomenology without “the body”?”
- 02/22 – “Philosophy of Time” 8th Annual Duquesne University Graduate Conference in Philosophy, at the Duquesne University Africa Room.
This Week:
9 Feb- 02/11 – The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be reading Catherine Malabou’s “Of the Impossibility of Fleeing — Plasticity.”
- 02/14-15 – The 32nd Annual Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center Symposium, “Phenomenology in the African & Africana Worlds.”.
PghCPRG 1 Year Birthday!
23 JanThe Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be celebrating its one year birthday Saturday at 8:00 pm, be there. Contact me for more information: pittsburghphilosophy@gmail.com

This Week:
19 Jan- 01/21 – This week the Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be tackling Levinas’ “Existence Without a World”
This Week:
10 Jan- Tue. 01/14/14, The Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Reading Group will be examining Tom Sparrow’s “Bodies in Transit: The Plastic Subject of Alphonso Lingis”
- Fri. 01/17/14, Dr. Bucur will be presenting “From Ipseity to Kenosis: Reflections on Ricoeur’s Itinerary to the Face-to-Face” at Duquesne’s Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center
LINK: Bucur Lecture Promo 17 January 2014


