Upcoming Events

Guest lecturer Frederick Neuhouser’s take on “How to Criticize Inequality: Lessons from Piketty” Whereas most critiques of inequality criticize disparities in wealth directly—emphasizing the evils and dangers of inequality itself—in fact, the most effective justifications for inequality have historically been indirect, proceeding from a certain conception of the right to...

The CU Denver Philosophy’s Haber Lecture Series kicked off the academic year with “The Work of Community in C.S. Pierce and Jane Addams” by Roger Ward of Georgetown College Abstract: The standard story of a community in American thinking often begins with English Puritans, and though that worldview is well...

In June, Professor of philosophy David Hildebrand presented an invited, sponsored keynote entitled “Democratic Habits and the Challenges of Information Technologies” at the conference “Democratic Education Revisited” at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His paper argued that new, algorithmic, and “big data” technologies are tracking and changing the nature...

inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE will kick off with a panel discussion facilitated by Curator Boram Jeong in the Grace Gamm Theater prior to the opening reception. The panel will include local participating artists including Erin Hyunhee Kang, Sammy Lee, Renluka Maharaj, Liz Quan, Chinn Wang, and Thomas Yi. This is a...

Professor Candice Shelby recently talked to the Denverite regarding the arrests that are happening at Union Station. Read here for the full article .

Join us as we welcome Dr. David Kim from the University of San Francisco's Philosophy department on April 28, 2022, at 3:30p. He will be discussing xenophobia as a form of civic ostracism and its distinctive effects in anti-Asian racism. In doing so, he offers a sympathetic critique of the...

From CU Denver Dean's Notes Candice L. Shelby, Professor of Philosophy, was recently interviewed by Montel Williams for his new Youtube show/podcast, Free Thinking with Montel . She gets personal about how addiction affected her own family and explains how her research focus developed from her frustration with existing treatment...