The Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Ethics (APPLE) research group at Queen's University welcomes all, via Zoom, to a talk in its 2022 speaker series on Friday, February 18th, by Anat Pick (Reader in Film at Queen Mary).

For more information, including the Zoom link, please contact Will Kymlicka (kymlicka@queensu.ca). Details about Anat Pick's talk can be found on the poster below.

APPLE Speaker Series: Anat Pick | Poster (PDF 737 KB)

Members of the Queen's community are welcome to join, over Zoom, a workshop on ‘De-stigmatizing Disability & Accessibility Needs’. Hosted by the Disability & Accessibility Network and the Equity Committee in the Philosophy Department, the workshop will feature presentations by Alan Jeans (Manager, Queen's Student Accessibility Services at Queen's), Karalyn McRae (Educational Development Fellow at the Queen's Centre for Teaching and Learning), and Christopher Riddle (Associate Professor and Director of the Applied Ethics Institute, Utica College, and former Queen's Philosophy PhD).

Zoom details have been circulated via email. For further information, please contact philosophy@queensu.ca, or see the poster below. If you have any accessibility needs that you would like accommodated for this event, please contact 13ps75@queensu.ca.

De-stigmatizing Disability & Accessibility Needs Workshop | Poster (PDF 102 KB)

Members of the Queen's community are invited to join, over Zoom, the next meeting of the 2021-22 Critical Phenomenology Reading Group (CPRG), which will welcome Qrescent Mali Mason (Haverford College), who will be sharing “Intersectional Ambiguity”, from On Ambiguity.

Qrescent Mali Mason's chapter and Zoom details have been distributed via email. If you are not on the mailing list but wish to receive the paper and further information, please contact either Adam Schipper or Alisha Sharma, conveners of the Critical Phenomenology Reading Group.

Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join, over Zoom, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by guest and former Queen’s colleague David Miller (Oxford), titled "Compensation for Historic Injustice".

Further details, as well as David's paper, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).

Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join, over Zoom, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by Kerah Gordon-Solmon (Queen's), titled, "Between All and Nothing: Or, Defending the Impermissible".

Further details, as well as Kerah's paper, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).

Members of the Queen's community are invited to join, over Zoom, the next meeting of the 2021-22 Critical Phenomenology Reading Group (CPRG), which will welcome Ann V. Murphy (New Mexico), whose paper is titled, “Kindred Spirits: Intercorporeity, Sense, and Dementia".

Ann's paper and Zoom details have been distributed via email. The Zoom link is also available on the poster linked below. If you are not on the mailing list but wish to receive the paper and further information, please contact either Adam Schipper or Alisha Sharma, conveners of the Critical Phenomenology Reading Group.

Critical Phenomenology Reading Group: Ann V. Murphy (New Mexico) | Poster (PDF 287KB)

Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join, over Zoom, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a chapter by guest Avia Pasternak (University College London), titled, "The Proportionality Test and Harm to State Officers".

Further details, as well as Avia's chapter, will be circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).

The Department of Philosophy is sponsoring movement classes from 1PM-2PM on Thursdays Jan 20, Jan 27, Feb 3, and Feb 17. The classes will be live on Zoom. The Zoom link will be shared via email. Keep your camera off, or turn it on for an interactive experience!

This will be a mid-week dance-based body refresh — no dance or movement experience required. Together (with a sense of humour about it all) we’ll move through easy-to-follow sequences set to energetic music. Throughout this session you’ll increase your range of motion, challenge your stamina, build strength and learn a couple humility-affirming dance moves along the way. You’ll be encouraged to customize your workout with modifications offered to amp up or tone down any exercise to suit your personal needs. Make this class a routine and you’ll feel energized, toned, bright and connected to your body! 

Our instructor, Alyssa Martin, is an award winning choreographer, director and educator. She is the Artistic Director of surrealist dance theatre company, Rock Bottom Movement, a creative home she founded in 2012. Her creations blur the lines of theatre, dance and comedy in mischievous conversation with her modern dance antecedents. She has toured her work internationally, working in residence at art centres including The Banff Centre, Stratford Festival Lab, The National Ballet of Canada and Canadian Stage. She most recently premiered a feature length experimental film, Bin Chicken, a commission for Toronto Dance Theatre. In addition to choreography, Alyssa works as a movement educator with people of all ages and experiences. She teaches Pilates and Dance Synergy at Mindful Movement Centre, Dance and Musical Theatre in the Performance Department at Ryerson University, Creative Composition at George Brown College’s Dance Program and has guest taught within Laurier University’s Opera Department. She also leads “NONDance” workshops for the Rock Bottom community. She holds her Pilates Mat and Reformer Certification (earned under the mentorship of Leslie Parker) as well as her BFA in Performance Dance from Ryerson University. She has supplemented her training with workshops in dance, movement and creative process in Montreal, New York, Berlin and Vienna. She approaches all that she does with a sense of play and places priority on the wellbeing of the individuals she is moving alongside!  Alyssa’s very excited to be leading these classes for Queen’s philosophers!

About Alyssa (JPEG 411KB)