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Penn State is proud and excited to host the Collegium of Black Women Philosopher's this week at the Hintz Alumni Center. This is an important gathering of philosophers and we look forward to an excellent conference.

Penn State is happy to host the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Association, April 24-25, 2009.

For those attending SPEP in Pittsburgh this year, here is a list of our students and faculty participating on the program in order of their speaking appearances:

Christopher Long, moderator, Ancient Philosophy Society panel, Thursday, 9am, Salon 2.

Michael R. Paradiso-Michau, "My Genius is in My Nostrils: What and How Nietzsche's Nose Knows," SPHS Program, Thursday, 12pm, Pittsburgh Room.

Jeffrey Nealon, respondent in book session on his book, Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and Its Intensifications since 1984, Thursday, 12:30, Marquis A.

Véronique Fóti, moderator on book panel for Babette Babich's Words in Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros in Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, Thursday, 3:15, Salon 2.

Michael Schleeter, "The Advent of Desire in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit," Thursday, 3:15, Marquis B.

Len Lawlor, moderator, Plenary Session with Moira Gatens, Thursday, 8pm, Power Center Ballroom, Duquesne Campus.

Michael R. Paradiso-Michau, "Non-Monstrous Doubles and Nietzschean Empathy," Friday, 9am, Marquis B.

Camisha Russell, "African American Sexuality and the Repressive Hypothesis: Reading Patricia Hill Collins with Michel Foucault," Friday, 2pm, Marquis B.

Dennis Schmidt, speaker at the Scholar's Session on Rodolphe Gasché, Saturday, 9am, Marquis C.

Robert Bernesconi, moderator, Contract and Domination by Charles Mills, Saturday, 9am, Center City A.

Alphonso Lingis, "Experience of Mortality: Phenomenology and Anthropology," Saturday, 9am, Salon 2.

Kathryn Gines, "The Existential Philosophy of Richard Wright," Saturday, 1:30pm, Salon 1.

Christopher Long, "Between Natality and Mortality: The Torments of Autonomy," Saturday, 1:30, Center City B.

Len Lawlor, "Auto-Affection and Becoming: Following the Rats," IAEP Keynote Speaker, Saturday, 8pm, Center City A and B.

Jared Hibbard-Swanson, "Self-Realization or Self-Fashioning? Spinoza, Deep Ecology and the Problem of Ecological Subjectivity," IAEP Program, Sunday, 10:45am, Gumberg Library 202.

If you will be in Pittsburgh, please make every effort to attend these sessions and support our faculty and students.