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MSU Department of Philosophy Presents: Philosophy and HBCUs – A Conversation

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
at Morgan State University
presents a conference

PHILOSOPHY

and HBCUs:
A Conversation

Keynote Speaker: Tommie Shelby,
Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard University

Saturday, November 10, 2012
Quarles Room, Richardson Library
Morgan State University
Baltimore, Maryland

For more information, contact Dr. Anika Simpson at
anika.simpson@morgan.edu or at 443-885-3939.

Speakers will include Gertrude Gonzalez de Allen (Spelman College), Leonard Harris (Purdue University), Bill Lawson (University of Memphis), Charles Peterson (College of Wooster), Jaqueline Scott (Loyola University), Kris Sealy (Fairfield University), Tsenay Serequeberhan (Morgan State University), and Paul Taylor (Pennsylvania State University).

To register for the conference, please send your name, email address, institutional affiliation, and a tax-deductible check for $20 made out to the “MSU Foundation” with “Philosophy and Religious Studies” in the memo line to:

Conference on HBCUs and Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD 21251

On site registration will be available. Lunch will be provided for those who preregister.

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In conjunction with the conference, the department will be hosting a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the major in philosophy at Morgan. The celebration will take place on Saturday, November 10, from 7-9 pm at the Eubie Blake Center, 847 N. Howard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201.

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