ONEONTA, N.Y. --
The SUNY College at Oneonta will present its twelfth annual Undergraduate Philosophy
Conference on Friday, April 27, and Saturday, April 28, in the Morris
Conference Center on campus. The event attracts talented student and faculty
speakers from a broad spectrum of colleges and universities throughout the
United States. Admission to all presentations in the conference is free, and
members of the community are invited to attend.
This year's conference will feature keynote speaker John Hartmann, a
doctoral candidate at Southern Illinois University who won awards at the
1997 and 1998 conferences for his presentations while he was an
undergraduate student at Alfred University. At this year's conference,
he will examine human creativity and the complex relationship with
technology in a presentation titled "Chess and Technology" at 7:30 p.m.
on Friday in the Craven Lounge.
Conference activities will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Friday with six
concurrent presentations, including one by SUNY-Oneonta student Jeremy
Redlien, who will present "An Analysis of the Pragmatic Philosophies of
Farmer Wendell Berry." At 11:15 a.m. on Friday, SUNY-Oneonta Philosophy
Professor Ashok
Malhotra will offer "Yoga: A Philosophical Demonstration and Guided
Meditation."
On Saturday, the conference will begin at 9:30 a.m. with six
concurrent presentations, including one by SUNY-Oneonta student Stefan
Livingstone Shirley, who will speak on "Critical Theory & the Art of
Dragon-slaying: Are Role-Playing Games Art?"
In all, the conference will feature 38 papers presented by students
from 31 colleges and universities across the country and one from
Canada.
All presenters were selected by blind review from nationwide
submissions. Christopher Cappelletti of the University of Hawaii will
present "Condemned to History" at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday. Cappelletti is
the fifth recipient of the David Hall Memorial Essay Prize, awarded
annually to enable an exceptional undergraduate philosophy major from
Hawaii to travel to Oneonta and participate in the conference.
The conference presentations reflect a wide variety of interests
ranging from the "Dualism in Dance" to "Altruism in Spinoza's Ethics."
Each student presenter will address key concepts and ideas. A short
response by a discussant will follow the presentation, and each session
will conclude with a general discussion with the audience. Several
SUNY-Oneonta students will serve as discussants for presentations by
students from other colleges.
The conference will conclude with an awards luncheon on Saturday
afternoon. For several years, the proceedings of the SUNY-Oneonta
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference have been collected and published in
the Oneonta Philosophy Studies. The conference is sponsored by Oneonta
Philosophy Studies, the Philosophy Club, Student Association, and Ninash
Foundation.
More information about the conference is available from Dr.
Douglas
Shrader, Chair of the SUNY-Oneonta
Philosophy Department,
at (607) 436-2456. A conference schedule and abstracts of accepted
papers are available at the conference's web site at
www.oneonta.edu/pc.
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