Past Activities
Noche Reading Sessions
“Noche” (short for “Noche Alegre,”) is a twist of the original “Noche Triste” which dates back to the UST of old. It’s a monthly discussion of featured authors / thinkers representative of the research thrusts of the Department. This activity primarily aims to promote philosophic discourse and widen the research horizon of our graduate and undergraduate students. It is open to the public but pre-registration is required.
CYCLE 1
October 31, 2020: Filipino Philosophy - Florentino Hornedo's “Free Fall: Postmodernism”
December 19, 2020: Aristotelian-Thomistic Philosophy and Scholasticism November Thérèse Bonin “The Emanative Psychology of Albertus Magnus”
January 30, 2021: Oriental-East-West Comparative Philosophy - Masahiro Morioka's “The Concept of Life in Contemporary Japan”
February 27, 2021: Continental European Philosophy - Byung-Chul Han's The Burnout Society
April 10, 2021: Anglo-American Philosophy - Nancy Fraser's “What’s Critical about Critical Theory? The Case of Habermas and Gender” (chapter of Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory)
CYCLE 2
May 1, 2021: Filipino Philosophy - Caroline Hau's “Privileging Roots and Routes: Filipino Intellectuals and the Contest over Epistemic Power and Authority”
May 29, 2021: Oriental-East-West Comparative Philosophy- Gayatri Spivak's “Explanation and Culture: Maginalia” and “Politics of Interpretation” (chapters of In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics)
June 26, 2021: Aristotelian-Thomistic Philosophy and Scholasticism - Rebecca Konyndyk's “Aquinas’s Virtues of Acknowledged Dependence: A New Measure of Greatness”
August 7, 2021: Continental European Philosophy - Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks
August 28, 2021: Anglo-American Philosophy - Martha Nussbaum's Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
