The Illuminations Lecture Series is an interdisciplinary humanities lecture series sponsored by the Philosophy & Literature Program at Purdue University. The overall aim of the series is to foster an intellectual environment open to the interdisciplinary exploration of the humanities, primarily that between philosophy and literature.
Coordinated and hosted by graduate students in the program, Illuminations features a variety of guest speakers - including faculty, graduate students and industry professionals - who present on a range of topics in the humanities and their practice. In the Spring 2013 semester, the graduate student coordinators began recording the lectures and posting them to YouTube. Special thanks to Dr. Donovan Irven (Midwestern State University) for curating the playlist there.
How to Grow a Democracy: John Dewey on the Plasticity of the Pupil
Tom Sparrow (Slippery Rock University)
19 February 2015
It's All Uphill from Here: Joyful Rebellion in Camus' Philosophy and Literature
Eric Hamm (Lynn University)
12 February 2015
Which Way to Go? Deciding on a Planetary Politics: The Future Behavior of Capital’s Accumulation Regimes and its Modes of Crisis-Governance
Robert King (Sierra Nevada College)
4 December 2014
Deleuze, Protocols of Experience and the Experimental Novel
Ronald Bogue (University of Georgia)
25 September 2014
Representing the Enemy Other: Jarrett Kobek's Atta, Postmodern Narrative, and the Architectural Unconscious
John Duvall (Purdue University)
17 April 2014
James Joyce’s Oriental Women: Aladdin and ‘Circe’
Agata Szczeszak-Brewer (Wabash College)
3 April 2014
Philosophy as the Praxis of Life and Death: A Demonstration
Gabrielle Aruta (Montclair State University)
6 March 2014
The Communicative Turn in Philosophical Discourse
Calvin O. Schrag (Purdue University)
20 February 2014
Inner Sense and the Refutation of Idealism
Jacqueline Mariña (Purdue University)
23 January 2014
Power as Control and the Therapeutic Effects of Hegel’s Logic
Chris Yeomans (Purdue University)
5 December 2013
On the Idea of Metaphysical Poetry
Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University Chicago)
21 November 2013
Pedagogical Personae: On Two Approaches to Literature and Criticism
Daniel Morris (Purdue University)
26 September 2013
The Good, the Bad and the Funny: the Images of Socrates in Plato's Apology
Sophia Stone (Purdue University)
12 September 2013
‘so at the mercy of things’: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and Post-impressionism
Brian May (Northern Illinois University)
18 April 2013
On the Sources of Normativity: A Deleuzian Account
Daniel Smith (Purdue University)
28 March 2013
Girard, Levinas, and Substitution
Sandor Goodhart (Purdue University)
24 January 2013
Speculative Realism and the Philosophy of Tristan Garcia
Graham Harmon (The American University in Cairo)
14 January 2013
