{"id":824,"date":"2023-08-10T13:05:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/phil\/?page_id=824"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:29:32","slug":"events-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/phil\/events-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--intro-text align-center\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--intro-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>The USC School of Philosophy supports a number of opportunities to hear from and interact with scholars from across the United States and around the world. Many of these opportunities are pitched at the advanced graduate\/faculty level, but care is taken to ensure that there are events which students at all levels can benefit from. To see what is happening now, visit\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/phil\/events-overview\/deparment-calendar\/\"_blank\">department calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2><strong>Our Event Types<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/phil\/colloquium-series\/\">regular department colloquium<\/a> brings guest speakers for a 2 hour talk and Q&amp;A session, and guests are often available during their visit for one-on-one meetings and group meals with students and faculty. The department hosts around 6 speakers a year.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/phil\/mlla\/\">Mind and Language<\/a> series supplements our regular colloquium series with 1-2 invited speakers per year, and highlights scholars whose research crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries between philosophy of language and mind with linguistics and cognitive science.<\/p>\n<p>Also ongoing is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/phil\/speculative-society\/\">Graduate Speculative Society<\/a>, which brings graduate students together in an informal setting to discuss their research and topics of shared interests.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/phil\/ucla-usc-grad-conference\/\">UCLA\/USC graduate conference in philosophy<\/a> features invited graduate student talks and a faculty guest speaker. <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/phil\/gps-california\/\">GPS California<\/a>\u00a0brings together underrepresented groups in philosophy, at the undergraduate level, for a chance to meet and greet graduate students and faculty in philosophy, and to learn more about studying philosophy at the graduate level.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a title=\"The Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Project\" href=\"https:\/\/www.philosophy.academy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Project<\/a> aspires to find the philosophy at the center of interpersonal conflict. <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/meaninglabusc\/lab-meetings?authuser=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Meaning Lab<\/a> hosts regular meetings related to ongoing research at the intersection of linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.<\/p>\n<p>Devoted to advancing interdisciplinary scholarship in legal, moral, and political philosophy, the\u00a0<a title=\"USC Center for Law and Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/lawphilosophy.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC Center for Law and Philosophy<\/a>\u00a0is a joint project of USC Gould School of Law and the School of Philosophy. The center also holds conferences, workshops, and other activities that enhance the study of law and philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>The School of Philosophy also regularly hosts notable conferences in various subjects, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/phil\/california-metaphysics-conference\/\">California Metaphysics Conference<\/a>. Additionally, in the summer of 2022, the USC School of Philosophy co-hosted the <a href=\"https:\/\/ml-la.github.io\/nasslli2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI)<\/a>\u00a0alongside the Department of Linguistics and the Program in Cognitive Science.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-824","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Events - School of Philosophy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Dornsife School of Philosophy hosts many talks across different series. 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