Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a presentation entitled "Starting a Bilingual Pre-College Philosophy Program" as part of the virtual panel "Starting a K-12 Philosophy Program," hosted by the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO).

Amy Reed-Sandoval's (Philosophy) work on feminism and migration justice was profiled in the Dutch publication Filosofie Magazine.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) gave a virtual presentation on children's philosophy in Mexico to the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas (Diplomado en Filosofía Para Niños) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) has been named Director of the Foundation for the Philosophy of Creativity. The foundation organizes conferences, conference sessions, and public lectures on the topic of creativity, and sponsors a pre- and post-doc fellowship program for scholars.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "Decolonial Feminism and the Open Borders Debate" in Social Philosophy Today.

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) presented "Children, Borders, and Adultification" at the New Horizons in Justice and Migration International Workshop at KU Leuven in Belgium. She also presented comments on Annamari Vitikainen's paper "LGBTIQ+ Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement".

Rachel Schell (Philosophy), an undergraduate philosophy major and student ambassador for the Las Vegas Philosophy for Children Initiative, gave a virtual presentation on her research on "selectively silent philosophical engagement among preschoolers" at the Second National Congress on Educational Research hosted by the Sierra Hildalguense Normal…

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) presented his paper, “Truth and the Topology of Assertion” and gave a workshop presentation on the foundations of the logical graphs developed by Charles Sanders Peirce at the biennial conference on Diagrams hosted by the University of Münster in Germany. The former has been published in Diagrammatic Representation and…

Dave Beisecker (Philosophy) recently participated in a workshop hosted by the University of Bergen in Norway and the journal, Hegel Bulletin, on the occasion of the release of a special issue dedicated to racism and colonialism in Hegel’s philosophy. Beisecker’s article, “American Hegelianism and its Impact on Indian Boarding School Policy,” co-…

Paul Schollmeier (Philosophy) presented his paper, “Happiness and Nothingness,” during the quinquennial meeting of the World Congress of Philosophy this past month at Sapientia University in Rome. The paper examines the limits of human knowledge and their implications for human welfare.   

Annie Vong (Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West), Zachary Billot (Lincy Institute; Brookings Mountain West), and Nicole Dias Del Valle (Political Science; Philosophy Law & Justice; Brookings Public Policy) recently co-authored a Brookings Institution blog post titled, "Youth voices in the 2024 election: What students want to see on the…

Amy Reed-Sandoval (Philosophy) published "The Struggle to Identify All the Dead Bodies in Mexico" in The New Yorker.