Scholarly Activities of the Graduate Students

Sean Gerard Ferrier

Publications:

"The Mode of Perception: On Film and Literature in Merleau-Ponty and Dürrenmatt." Proceedings of the Kent State University May 4th Graduate Student Conference (2003, forthcoming).

Compilation of Index for Foucault and Theology, ed. James Bernauer and Jeremy Carrette. (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing, 2004)

"Words: A Note on the Sudden Collapse of Discourse within the United States." New Thinking I:1 (Winter 2003).

Presentations:

"The Mode of Perception: On Film and Literature in Merleau-Ponty and Dürrenmatt." Tenth Annual Kent State University Graduate Student Conference, Kent State University (Ohio), March 15, 2003.

"The Bauhaus and the Movement towards Fascism in Weimar Germany." 7th Boston Area Graduate History Symposium. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. March 29, 2003.

John Mannousakis

Publications:

Theos Philosophoumenos: Six Approaches of Contemporary Philosophy on the Question of God (Athens: Ellinika Grammata, 2004). (In Greek).

"Thinking at the Limits: Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion in Dialogue with Richard Kearney"  in Philosophy Today, Spring 2004, pp. 3-26.

"Phenomenologies of Ultimacy" in Research in Phenomenology 34 (2004), pp. 235-265.

"The Phenomenon of God: from Husserl to Marion‰ in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 78:1 (2004), pp. 53-68.

Presentations:

"The Fool, the Ugly and the Pervert:  Forms of Common Alterity," Tolerancia: XV Congreso Interamericano de Filosofía, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.  Lima, Peru, 12-16 January, 2004.

Conferences organized:

"St. Paul: Between Athens and Jerusalem." 3rd International Summer Conference. Boston College and the American College of Greece. Athens, Greece, 10-12 June 2004. (http://www.acg.edu/conference/)

John Mannousakis was also awarded the Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship (2004-5) and was nominated for a Junior Fellowship by the Society of Fellows at Harvard University in 2004.

Dalia Nassar

Graduate Research Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany, October 1, 2004-July 31, 2005

Presentations:

"Conservatism and Quietism in Hegel's Political Philosophy" at the APA Eastern Division meeting in Boston, MA, Dec. 27-30, 2004.

 “Intuition and Mediation in Schleiermacher’s On Religion,” Collegium Phaenoemologicum Conference, Città di Castello, Perugia, Italy, July 16-17, 2004.

“Novelty and Judgment in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Boston, Massachusetts, November 6-8, 2003.

Publications:

“Heroes and Fanatics: Discernment and Critique in Hegel’s Political Philosophy,” Idealistic Studies, forth-coming Winter 2004.

Serena Parekh:

Publications:

"A Meaningful Place in the World: Hannah Arendt on the Nature of Human Rights" in The Journal of Human Rights Vol. 3, number 1, March 2004, p 41-53.

Presentations at Conferences:

"Women's Rights are Human Rights‚: A Philosophical Analysis" at The New England Women's Studies Association (NEWSA) Conference,  University of Connecticut (Storrs Campus). April 2, 2004.

"Can Aristotle Save Liberalism?" at Emory University 10th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference. Atlanta, GA. February 6-7, 2004.

"The Most Anti-Socratic Conclusion that Plato Ever Reached" at SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy). Boston, MA. November 6-8, 2003.

Serena was also the recipient of a Fortin Memorial Grant to participate in a seminar on International Human Rights Law at the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. June 21 to July 2, 2004 and a Fortin Memorial Grant to do research at  the École Normale Superieure in Paris, France, Summer 2003.

Nathan Smith and Jason Taylor:

eds.  Descartes and Cartesianism  a collection of papers presented at the 2004 Boston College Graduate Student Philosophy Conference (Cambridge Scholars' Press: London, forthcoming, 2005).

Phillip Stambovsky

Publications:

Myth and the Limits of Reason, Revised Edition, with a foreword by Louis Dupre (Lanham, Md.: University Press  of America, 2004).

Philosophical  Conceptualization  and  Literary  Art: Inference, EREIGNIS, and Conceptual  Attunement to the WORK of Poetic Genius  (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004).

Presentations:

"Emily Dickinson, Rudolf Otto, and the 'Virtual Materialities' of the Numinous." International Association for Philosophy and Literature, 28th Annual Conference, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, N.Y., May 2004.

"Rudolf Otto, Emily Dickinson, and the Numinous." Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature.  University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., Sep. 2004.

Corey W. Dyck:

Publications:

"The Subjective Deduction and the Search for a Fundamental Power"; in Kant-Studien (forthcoming 2006)

"Is Cartesian or Leibnizian Substance the Concern of Kant's 1st Paralogism?"1; in Descartes and Cartesianism, N. Smith and J. Taylor, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005)

"Spirit without Lines: Kant's Attempt to Reconcile the Genius and Society"; in Idealistic Studies, 34:2 (2004) (Award) 2003-04:  Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Graduate Scholarship (for research under direction of Prof. Klaus Düsing, Universität zu Köln, Germany)

Presentations:

"Die ursrpünglichen Erkenntnisquellen: Die Frage nach den Grundkräften in der subjectiven Deduction";, Philosophisches Kolloquium, Universität zu Köln (May 2004)

"The Original Sources of Cognition: The Subjective Deduction in the Kritik der reinen Vernunft";, Boston University Graduate Student Kant Conference, Boston University, Boston, MA (April 2004)

Brian Gregor

Publications:

“Eros that Never Arrives: A Phenomenological Ethics of the Erotic.” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 9, No.1. (2005).

“Repetition and the Task of Mourning:

Three Narratives.” Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005. Special issue on Kierkegaard. (forthcoming).

“Selfhood and the Three R’s: Reference, Repetition, and Refiguration.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2005. (forthcoming).

Presentations:

“Nakedness, Shame, and the Other: A Discussion of Bonhoeffer and Levinas.” Presentation as part of a panel entitled “Levinas, Theology, and Politics,” at the Loyola University Chicago Graduate Conference. March 18, 2005.