Illustration by NAKS Member Tamara Fakhoury
2021-2022
Each V-NAKS Meeting is part of one or more series
(descriptions and zoom link below)
May 19th, 2021
"Kant and Race: (How) Should We Teach Kant's Views on this topic?"
V-NAKS "Kant and____" Series
Speaker: Jameliah Shorter-Bourhanou (College of the Holy Cross): "Must I Teach Race?"
Speaker: Elvira Basevich (U-Mass, Lowell): "Teaching Kant: How to Welcome a Racist into the Philosophy Classroom"
Speaker: Patrick Frierson (Whitman College): "Teaching Race in the Groundwork"
Chair: Bennett McNulty (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
June 2nd, 2021
"Spontaneity and Teleology in Kant's Theory of the Understanding"
V-NAKS "Choose Your Ideal Commentators" Series
Speaker: Claudi Brink Herz Prize 2020 Winner (UC-San Diego)
Ideal Panel: Hannah Ginsborg (UC-Berkeley) and Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU)
Chair: Andrew Chignell (Princeton University)
June 16th, 2021
"Kant and the Primacy of Epistemic Normativity"
V-NAKS "Choose Your Ideal Commentators" Series
Speaker: Reza Hadisi (University of Arizona)
Ideal Panel: Patricia Kitcher (Columbia University) and Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh)
Chair: Andrew Chignell (Princeton University)
June 30th, 2021
"The Unity and Uses of Reason"
V-NAKS Classic Format Series
Speaker: Thomas Sturm (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Commentator: Saniye Vatansever (Bilkent University)
Chair: Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown University)
July 14th, 2021
"One precise way in which Schelling or Hegel improves on Kant's Theoretical philosophy"
V-NAKS Incubator Series
Incubatees: Naomi Fisher (Loyola-Chicago), Anton Kabeshkin (Potsdam), Jake McNulty (NYU)
Chair: James Kreines (Claremont-McKenna)
July 28th, 2021
V-NAKS Women Scholars Network Series
Details TBA
August 11th, 2021
"Kant and the Current IberoAmerican Scene" (15-min presentation)
"Kant On the Mathematical Schematism"
V-NAKS "Kant and____" Series & V-NAKS Classic Format Series
Speaker: EfraÃn Lazos (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Commentator: Katherine Dunlop (University of Texas at Austin)
Chair: Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval (Princeton/UC-Davis)
August 25th, 2021
V-NAKS Women Scholars Network Series
Details TBA
For Zoom link and registration click here
Series descriptions
V-NAKS "Choose your Ideal Commentators" series
Here we ask an up-and-coming scholar to name a “dream team” of commentators for one of their works-in-progress. The commentators don’t prepare anything in advance, but they are allowed to interrupt occasionally and ask clarifying questions during the talk, and then add a couple of questions at the end. Sort of like “Shark Tank” for Kantians. This is followed by the usual sort of Q&A.
V-NAKS "Kant and _____" Series
Here we fill in the blank in ways that are not typical for anthologies and conference discussions.
V-NAKS Classic Format Series
This is the typical talk/commentary format. No pre-reading is required.
V-NAKS Women Scholars Network Series
This series features members of the NAKS Women Scholars Network, which was founded in 2021. For more information on the Network, please contact us.
V-NAKS Incubator Series
Here speakers give a short, 10-15 minute "poster-style" presentation of a new or in-progress idea, followed by a Q&A/brainstorming session of 15-20 mins.
Virtual NAKS is organized by Andrew Chignell, Huaping Lu-Adler and Elizabeth Li.
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