December 5, 2015
Category Archives: Events
SOPHIA events will primarily take three forms, local conversations, professional gatherings, or online meetings or conversations. (We categorize business meetings under the category, “Organizing.”
How to Join our Video Conferencing Tool – Zoom
(Post updated Sept 7, 2016)
SOPHIA is experimenting with options for levering technology to build communities of philosophical conversation. One tool available to us for free is Zoom. Zoom will enable the hosting of video conference meetings with huge capacity and tools for recording meetings, among other functionalities. Joining a meeting is simple, yet it might be a good idea to watch a short video about the several ways in which one can join a SOPHIA conference call with Zoom. Before we get to that, consider the following:
It’s a good idea to test your video and audio settings in advance. If any of you would like to hold a quick call with me (ETW) to test out the connection and process, I’d be delighted to give the system as many practice runs as members would like. I think you’ll find that tools like these will 1) dramatically reduce the impediment that distance represents for our community building, and 2) archive our meetings for later viewing and sharing, so that we benefit more people and more deeply in holding our recorded meetings.
Here’s Zoom’s explanation of the process of joining a meeting:
If you have yet to join or renew your membership in SOPHIA via our new system, please take a few minutes visiting our Membership Levels page (our JOIN/RENEW MEMBERSHIP link).
SOPHIA will be hosting a panel at the 2017 Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association on Thursday, January 5th from 5:15-7:15 p.m. There have been some changes to our original plan. The presenters listed below reflect the updated plan:
Group Session
Topic: “The Value of and Impediments to Studying Philosophy for First Generation College Students”
Chair: George R. Lucas (U.S. Naval War College & Notre Dame University)
Speakers and titles:
Daniel Brunson (Morgan State University)
“Traditions are Precious Treasures? Pragmatic Reflections on Inculcating a Tradition You Only Recently Joined”
Bertha Manninen (Arizona State University)
“Why First Generation Students Stay Away From the Humanities – And How We Can Bring Them Back In.”
Seth Vannatta (Morgan State University)
“Challenges for First-generation Students Studying Philosophy”
| Date: | January 5, 2017 |
|---|---|
| Time: | 05:15-07:15 p.m. |
| Event: | SOPHIA Panel at the 2017 Eastern Division Meeting of the APA |
| Topic: | "The Value of and Impediments to Studying Philosophy for First Generation College Students" |
| Sponsor: |
The American Philosophical Association 302.831.1112 |
| Venue: |
Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel 410.547.1200 |
| Location: | 202 East Pratt Street Baltimore, MD 21202 USA |
| Public: | Public |
| More Info: | Click here for more information. |
If you haven't already, register for membership and JOIN SOPHIA!
Eastern APA Panel Planning for 2017
SOPHIA has the opportunity to hold a panel at the 2017 Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. The conference will run from January 4th to the 7th of 2017 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, in Baltimore, MD. Alongside SOPHIA’s other activities, we do aim to represent ourselves and what we do in the country’s professional organizations. Such meetings are also a good opportunity to recruit people into membership and to grow chapters, as people learn about opportunities to gather with SOPHIA folks who live near them.
We will post details about our panel here soon as an “event” post. Reach out if you have ideas for panels that would be valuable for us to hold either at this or at other professional associations. We want to spread the word in and beyond the academy about SOPHIA’s new phase of growth. More soon.
Total Website Redesign in Progress!
Welcome to the new home of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). We are working on an overhaul of the SOPHIA site. For now, if you’re looking to learn about SOPHIA, visit our old page, which is temporarily still available on the University of Mississippi’s servers here:
The panel was titled: “The Obligations of Philosophers.”
Also, if you haven’t checked out The Public Philosophy Journal, what are you waiting for? Seriously, they’ve got an awesome logo & they are experimenting with tools and processes that may revolutionize the way scholars review work, publish, and engage the wider public.