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The UConn Meaning Group meets on a regular (mostly weekly) basis throughout the academic year to discuss recent and ongoing work in the areas of Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language. It consists primarily of faculty and graduate students in the Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy, but is open to anyone interested in the topics. Anyone who would like to be on the mailing list is invited to get in touch.

In Spring, 2020, regular meetings will be held on Fridays 12:30-1:30pm in Oak 338.

4/10 ** CANCELLED ** Logic Colloquium: Tyler Markkanen

** CANCELLED ** Logic Colloquium: Tyler Markkanen

Friday, April 10th, 2020

02:00 PM - 03:30 PM

Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus
Oak 110

** CANCELED (COVID-19) **

Join us for a talk by Tyler Markkanen in the Logic Colloquium.

Tyler Markkanen (Springfield College)

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https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

Contact Information: https://logic.uconn.edu/about
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4/15 Philosophy Brown Bag Series: Hu

Philosophy Brown Bag Series: Hu

Wednesday, April 15th, 2020

12:15 PM - 01:15 PM

Storrs Campus
MAN 002 (Basement Lounge)

This week: Mengyu Hu, TBD

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

Contact Information: Lionel Shapiro, lionel.shapiro@uconn.edu
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4/16 ECOM/SLAC Talk Prof. Prather

ECOM/SLAC Talk Prof. Prather

Thursday, April 16th, 2020

12:00 PM - 01:30 PM

Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus
Arjona

A Talk by Prof. Jonathan Prather (Wyoming)

Contact Information: dorit.bar-on@uconn.edu
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4/17 ** CANCELLED ** Logic Colloquium: Florian Steinberger (Birkbeck)

** CANCELLED ** Logic Colloquium: Florian Steinberger (Birkbeck)

Friday, April 17th, 2020

02:00 PM - 03:30 PM

Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus
Humanities Institute Seminar Room (4th Floor Homer Babbidge Library)

** Canceled (COVID-19) **

Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by Florian Steinberger (Birkbeck College, University of London).

All welcome.

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

Contact Information: https://logic.uconn.edu/about/
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4/17 Colloquium: Kit Fine

Colloquium: Kit Fine

Friday, April 17th, 2020

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Storrs Campus
FSB 216

TBA

Contact Information: Paul Bloomfield, phsb@uconn.edu
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4/22 Philosophy Brown Bag Series: Battaly et al.

Philosophy Brown Bag Series: Battaly et al.

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020

12:15 PM - 01:15 PM

Storrs Campus
MAN 002 (Basement Lounge)

This week: Heather Battaly and the Climate Committee

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

Contact Information: Lionel Shapiro, lionel.shapiro@uconn.edu
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4/24 ** POSTPONED ** Logic Colloquium: Toby Meadows (UC Irvine)

** POSTPONED ** Logic Colloquium: Toby Meadows (UC Irvine)

Friday, April 24th, 2020

02:00 PM - 03:30 PM

Storrs Campus, Storrs Campus
Humanities Institute Seminar Room (4th Floor Homer Babbidge Library)

COVID-19 related, Professor Meadows's talk will be rescheduled for the Fall.

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Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by Toby Meadows (UC Irvine), this years visitor in the UConn Logic Group – C-ALPHA faculty exchange.

https://logic.uconn.edu/affiliations/

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All welcome!

https://logic.uconn.edu/calendar/

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4/25 Philosophy Graduate Student Conference: Identity

Philosophy Graduate Student Conference: Identity

Saturday, April 25th, 2020

09:00 AM - 04:00 PM

Storrs Campus
TBD

The topic of this year’s conference will be Identity.

This notion has preoccupied philosophers from antiquity until today. This preoccupation has manifested itself in many ways, through problems that span across most areas of contemporary philosophy. Metaphysicians wonder about diachronic personal identity or composition as identity, philosophers of mind have in the past proposed the mind/brain identity theory, while philosophers of mathematics and logicians have been concerned with the logical relation of identity, or identity among different mathematical structures, or the metaphysical identity of numbers. Socially inclined philosophers have sought to account for minoritarian identities in philosophical discourse, and how self- and community-identity is affected or determined by factors such as gender and race. Philosophers of language have grappled with the identity of co-referring terms and the resulting Frege Puzzle, or vague identity.

The Philosophy Graduate Student Association of University of Connecticut at Storrs is very pleased to organize a conference in spring 2020 in order to discuss the many and often problematic faces of identity. We invite submissions on any of the philosophical areas mentioned, but also on topics that come from any other area as long as they are pertinent to the theme of identity, broadly construed.

We are very excited and honored to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Richard Kimberly Heck from Brown University. Prof. Heck will talk on issues of gender and sexuality.

For more information please visit https://philevents.org/event/show/79658.

Contact Information: Eno Agolli (eno.agolli@uconn.edu) & Michael Hegarty (michael.hegarty@uconn.edu)
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4/27 3rd Annual Aetna Celebration of Student Writing

3rd Annual Aetna Celebration of Student Writing

Monday, April 27th, 2020

03:00 PM - 05:30 PM

Storrs Campus
North Reading Room, Wilbur Cross Building

The Aetna Celebration of Student Writing (ACSW) is an annual UConn event held by the Aetna Chair of Writing to showcase student writing work and writing-related research. Students present their writing work completed in writing-intensive UConn courses (First-Year Writing, “W” courses) and/or research on the subject of writing, rhetoric, or a related topic. Individual and group projects are accepted.

The submission deadline to present at the ACSW Poster Fair is April 1, 2020. Visit http://bit.ly/submit2acsw or http://writing.uconn.edu for more details.

Contact Information: aetnachair@uconn.edu
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4/29 Philosophy Brown Bag Series: L. Shapiro

Philosophy Brown Bag Series: L. Shapiro

Wednesday, April 29th, 2020

12:15 PM - 01:15 PM

Storrs Campus
MAN 002 (Basement Lounge)

This week: Lionel Shapiro, TBD

A series of informal talks by philosophy faculty and graduate students. For a description and how to sign up, see http://philosophy.uconn.edu/brown-bags/.

Contact Information: Lionel Shapiro, lionel.shapiro@uconn.edu
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