Anastasiia Grigoreva was awarded the 2021 Ralf F. Munster Fellowship for Outstanding First-Year Graduate Student. This is awarded on the basis of academic excellence, including coursework and participation in other academic activities. Anastasiia presented her work at several conferences this year, including Catcalling as dispositional misogyny: Locating catcalling within the discourse on patriarchy-enforcing speech, presented online at the Social Ontology 2021 Conference of the International Social Ontology Society (ISOS), San Diego, CA, (August 2021) and at the 38th International Social Philosophy Conference of the North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP, July 2021), and Nonbinary Russians: The excluded by Robin Dembroff’s account of genderqueer. Paper presented online at the 2nd Annual Arizona Feminist Philosophy Graduate Conference, Tucson, AZ (May 2021). She has an upcoming presentation of her paper "Toward complete gender abolition: Slowly but surely," at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Annual Meeting in February 2022.
Theodore Craig founded the Forum for German Philosophy (FFGP) in summer 2021 as a way of providing academic resources to graduate students studying German philosophy by coordinating reading/discussion groups, paper workshops, and events. This summer the FFGP hosted a reading/discussion group on Kant’s Groundwork, and this fall, they began a group on Hegel’s Encyclopedia Phenomenology. The FFGP also hosted an event on the topic of “Sensation” and “Sensible Consciousness” in Hegel with guest-speaker, Andrew Werner (Yale), on Sunday, November 7th, 2021.
Carter Delegal presented his paper “Genealogies and Patriotic Obligations”, into the Georgia Philosophical Society’s online workshop, on December 2, 2021.
Spencer Kinsey had his poster: "Determination, Potentiation, and Translation: A Critique of Burnston's Solution to the Interface Problem," accepted to the American Philosophical Association Central Division Annual Meeting in February 2022. His paper, "Vehicle Realism and the Hopfieldian Revolution in Neuroscience," was also accepted for presentation at Philosophy of Neuroscience Graduate Student Showcase, APA Pacific in April 2022.
Maximiliana Rifkin presented her paper "What Counts as Ideological Domination?" at the Georgia Philosophical Society's Conference on Rights, Obligations, and Freedom on Dec. 2, 2021. She also had her paper, "On the Construct Stability of Gender Identity in Neuroscience," accepted to the 113th Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP) in March 2022, and the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Session 'Philosophy of Neuroscience Graduate Student Showcase', with commentary by Dr. John Bickle and Dr. Lauren Ross, April 13th-16th 2022.
Isaac Shur presented his paper “Should Private Property Have Term Limits?”, into the Georgia Philosophical Society’s online workshop, on December 2, 2021.