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Congratulations to Prof. Jennifer Komorowski on her new tenure-track appointment at Western University! TMU's loss is Western's gain.
Congratulations to this year's undergraduate Philosophy award-winners!
Prof. Michael Milona (external link) and Liz Rosenberg (MA Class of 2024) will present their co-authored paper, "Getting Real about the Guise of the Good (external link) ", on June 1st at the Canadian Philosophy Association conference.
Congratulations to Kirk Lougheed (external link) (MA Class of 2014), whose seventh monograph has just been published by Oxford University Press. It is entitled A Moral Theory of Liveliness: A Secular Interpretation of African Life Force (external link) .
Congratulations to Prof. Kym Maclaren, who is this year's recipient of the Faculty of Arts Students' Choice Teaching Award!

The Multiverse and Philosophy. This conference took place on the TMU campus from June 16-18, 2025.
On May 7th, 2025, 2:00-4:00pm, the Philosophy Department TRC Reading Group hosted a roundtable on Indigenous Philosophy and Theory, which included John Miller (external link) , (PhD Candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto); Renée Bédard (external link) , (Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at Western University); Cara Peacock (external link) , (PhD Student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto); and Jennifer Komorowski (Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University).

On May 9th, 2025, 2:00-4:00pm, The Society for Women of Ideas (external link) hosted a roundtable discussion on recent transnational feminist mobilization against gender-based violence, featuring four international scholars: Valentina Moro, Philosophy (Stony Brook University); Paola Rudan (History of Political Thought, University of Bologna); Verónica Schild (Political Science, Western University); and Verónica Zebadúa-Yáñez (Comparative Women's Studies, Spelman College).
Prof. Pirachula Chulanon (external link) co-organized a conference, entitled "Other Epistemic Achievements: Global Perspectives", which took place from May 2-4, 2025. He has also co-organized two other workshops, which are about how to integrate Chinese, Sanskrit, Indigenous, Latin American, and Africana philosophy into one's pedagogy. For complete details on these events, click here (external link) .
Prof. Jeta Mulaj has co-organized a series of online talks on social reproduction theory in a global context, titled “Critical Perspectives on Care.” [Details (external link) ]

Profs. Pirachula Chulanon (external link) and David Hunter (external link) organized a double author-meets-critics symposium, which took place on Febrary 14-15, 2025. The subject of the symposium, titled 'From Mind to World and Back', was two new books on self-consciousness: Matthew Boyle's Transparency and Reflection (OUP, 2024) and Anil Gomes's The Practical Self (OUP, 2024). [Details (external link) ]
Dec. 10-11, 2024: Virtual Conference of the Toronto Philosophy of Religion Working Group. [ (PDF file) Program].