Philosophy Pedagogy and Professionalization Workshops are aimed at preparing current graduate students to teach philosophy in an academic setting. In order to supplement the department’s strong scholarship and provide students with practical pedagogical skills, NSSR faculty, alumni, and advanced NSSR PhD students with teaching experience take turns facilitating the workshops, which are constructed around various pedagogical topics including discussion techniques, basic classroom management, preparing and delivering a lecture, designing a syllabus, teaching close-reading skills, and navigating issues of gender and race in the classroom.
Organizer: Lena Nowak-Laird
The Wittgenstein Workshop is a research group that meets a few times a semester and invites scholars and NSSR faculty and students to present work-in-progress. While an interest in Wittgenstein might be helpful in attending, it is by no means necessary.
Organizer: Kyle O'Dowd
The New York German Idealism Group is a joint undertaking of the philosophy departments of Columbia University and The New School that organizes four events per semester, inviting scholars from the New York area and beyond to share their work on Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy in a workshop format.
Organizers: Leksa Zhang, Thomas Cantone, Joe Hamilton, Ethan Jacobs
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Minorities and Philosophy (MaP) / People in Support of Women in Philosophy (PSWIP): These joint groups serve as a space within the Philosophy department to explore various works of philosophical texts produced and popularized by racial and sexual minorities who fall outside of the traditional canon. Meetings range from social gatherings to reading and writing workshops.
Organizers: Daniel Renteria and Sarah Bello