UT Arts and Humanities News

• Shepardson on Turkey’s historic city of Antakya
  


• Spirit Guide: How the Arson of a Black Church in Knoxville has Affected More Than the Church Community
  


• Knoxville native on campus Thursday
  


• UG Ethan Peebles presents research at regional conference
  


• New Book by Sinnreich, The Atrocity of Hunger
  


• Graduate Student Dario Vaccaro was Interviewed for the Philosopher's Nest Podcast
  


• Assistant Professor Georgi Gardiner Discusses Love on the Empowered Relationship Podcast
  


• Assistant Professor Georgi Gardiner's course was Featured in the APA's Syllabus Showcase
  


• UT Maus event mentioned in The Atlantic
  


• Beacon article on antisemitism
  


• Japan’s Laughing Buddha Hotei is merging into Santa Claus – both are roly-poly sacred figures with a bag of gifts
  


• Climate change and Christianity: Some Chattanooga area believers find small acts of stewardship are a start
  


• 40 Under 40 class of 2022: Knox News unveils top young professionals list
  


• David Kline's Key to Teaching Success
  


• 2022 MFLL Open House
  2022 MFLL Open House


• US poet laureate Joy Harjo receives honorary doctorate in humanities
  


• UTHC graduate fellow Alyssa Culp featured by UT Graduate School
  


• Arts & humanities faculty honored at 2022 Chancellor's Honors Banquet
  


• Havens receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant
  


• Andrew Hoyal Receives 2022 Charles H. Reynolds Distinguished Alumnus/a Award
  


• Italian Theater Students May 11 2022 Performance
  Italian Theater Students Spring 2022 Performance


• In and Out of Classroom, Megan Bryson Recognized for Work on Asian Religion
  


• Erin Darby Wins L.R. Hesler Award
  


• Megan Bryson Gives Conversations & Cocktails Talk on Buddhist Art and Artefacts
  


• Sara Rico-Godoy (PhD in Hispanic Studies May 2022) will be Assistant Professor of Spanish at Eastern Kentucky University beginning fall 2022. Congratulations, Sara!
  Sara Rico-Godoy (PhD in Hispanic Studies May 2022) will be Assistant Professor of Spanish at Eastern Kentucky University beginning fall 2022. Congratulations, Sara!


• Assistant Professor Georgi Gardiner receives the Chancellor's Notable Woman Award
  


• Religious Studies Majors Receive Volunteers of Distinction Awards
  


• Helene Sinnreich receives College Outreach Service Award
  


• David Kline Receives College Teaching Award
  


• Fifth Annual PGSA@UT Graduate Conference Features Stephen Gardiner, Diverse Graduate Presenters for Discussion of Ethics in Uncertain Times
  


• Megan Bryson Publishes Article in Crossroads
  


• Megan Bryson Publishes Article in Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia
  


• Michael Naparstek Publishes Co-edited Book on Tang Dynasty
  


• Sinnreich and Magilow Story in Daily Beacon
  


• Shepardson Co-edits New Book, Invitation to Syriac Christianity
  


• David Kline Publishes in Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0
  


• Morgan Schneider (doctoral student in Hispanic Studies) publishes essay in Spanish and Portuguese Review
  Morgan Schneider (doctoral student in Hispanic Studies) publishes essay in Spanish and Portuguese Review


• Vernacular Symposium March 4-5 2022
  Vernacular Symposium March 4-5 2022


• 'Maus' author Art Spiegelman to Speak Virtually at University of Tennessee Jewish Studies Program
  


• Shepardson Publishes Co-edited Book, Dealing with Difference
  


• GaboFest: A Celebration of Gabriel García Márquez
  GaboFest: A Celebration of Gabriel García Márquez


• Interview: Dr. Marla Frederick, a Preview of the Distinguished Lecture in Religious Studies
  


• Lisa Gasson-Gardner Published "Sara Ahmed"
  


• Erin Darby Published "Rachel’s Teraphim"
  


• Support Religious Studies!
  


• New York Review of Books mentions Professor Shepardon's upcoming co-edited book, Invitation to Syriac Christianity
  


• Books by Sinnreich and Levering celebrated
  


• Cabellos Receives Grant
  


• Pizza and Philosophy: Interest Event for Potential Majors and Minors
  


• David Kline Leads "The Bottom," A New Reading Series
  


• Larry S. Perry, II Joins Department
  


• Welcome New Lecturers
  


• Vernacular Journal Welcomes New Leadership
  Vernacular Journal Welcomes New Leadership


• Doctors without Borders talk: Sep 21 4pm Zoom
  Doctors without Borders talk: Sep 21 4pm Zoom


• Humanities Center Flourishes with Grant Funding
  


• Collaborative research from graduate student Jacob Smith and assistant professor Georgi Gardiner featured in the University of Cardiff's "Open for Debate"
  


• Spanish Studies in Costa Rica students visit coffee farm (July 2021)
  Spanish Studies in Costa Rica students visit coffee farm (July 2021)


• Bryson Receives Humanities Center Fellowship
  


• Helene Sinnreich and Erin Darby receive Gilya Schmidt Faculty Award
  


• Monica Black Appointed Associate Director
  


• 2021 Philosophy Commencement and Awards Ceremony
  


• Erin Darby named inaugural faculty director, Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
  


• Sara Rico-Godoy named Yates Dissertation Fellowship Recipient
  Sara Rico-Godoy named Yates Dissertation Fellowship Recipient


• Gardiner receives ACLS Fellowship for research on the epistemology of legal proof and rape accusations
  


• Religious Studies students Lauren Farkas and Lucas Fiet named Top Collegiate Scholars
  


• Religious Studies major Cody Hubbard presents research at NCUR
  


• MFLL Courses Taught in English for Fall 2021
  


• Board member Yassin Terou honored with 2021 CCI Diversity Award
  


• Erin Darby wins Global Catalyst Teaching and Service Award
  


• Graduate Student Teaching Awards Announced
  Graduate Student Teaching Awards Announced


• WUOT Interview with Katherine Marshall on Religion in International Development
  


• Fourth Annual Graduate Conference Brings Heather Douglas, Diverse Graduate and Post-doctoral Presenters to UT for Conversation on the Relationship between Science and Ethics
  


• WUOT Interview with Dr. Vasudha Narayanan, Mar 23 Anjali Lecture
  


• Religious Studies major Lucas Fiet presents research at regional SECSOR conference
  


• Religious Studies alumnus James Trimble "Volunteer 40 Under 40 Class of 2021"
  


• Board of Visitors member, Mayor Dan Brown, on urban removal
  


• Graduate student Jacob Smith and assistant professor Georgi Gardiner have been awarded a Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) award for their research on character evidence law
  


• Scott, Darby Recognized for Excellence in Teaching and Advising
  


• Megan Bryson cited as world expert by UK's Independent news
  


• Recent PhD, Devon Brickhouse-Bryson, publishes revised dissertation as book
  


• Thalos publishes a lighthearted article about a philosopher working from home
  


• 'Religious Studies: Sects Education' t-shirts available
  


• Erin Darby and Rachelle Scott win College Teaching and Advising Awards
  


• Larry Perry on Black Faith and National Healing
  


• Graduating Religious Studies minor Keely Williams, a first-gen success story
  


• Fourth Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Association at the UT Philosophy Conference
  


• Larry Perry on WUOT: Religion and the Black Lives Matter movement
  


• The University of Tennessee Meets Actor Daniel Sharman
  The University of Tennessee Meets Actor Daniel Sharman


• Rosalind Hackett Invited to become an Extraordinary Professor through the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
  


• Congratulations to Mark Hulsether on becoming Professor Emeritus
  


• Humanities Without Walls Program
  


• Perry, Shepardson, Sinnreich participate in Cost of Hate symposium
  


• French Virtual Table: Tuesdays 5pm-6pm on Zoom!
  French Virtual Table: Tuesdays 5pm-6pm on Zoom!


• Gehrman Pens Opinion Piece on UT Student Athletes
  


• Hedberg Publishes Book on Environmental Impact of Overpopulation
  


• Linh Mac Receives NASSP Award
  


• David Kline reflection
  


• Garthoff, Shteynberg, Bentley Publish Interdisciplinary Paper on Collective Learning
  


• Lidwin (major in Italian) Earns Fulbright Award
  Lidwin (major in Italian) Earns Fulbright Award


• Language & World Business Students Earn National Awards
  Language & World Business Students Earn National Awards


• Vernacular Symposium, February 2020
  Vernacular Symposium, February 2020


• Drew Holcomb Surprises a Religious Studies Class
  


• Board member Yassin Terou shows how refugees help us through a pandemic
  


• Sinnreich offers insight into story about Oak Ridge man facing deportation for his role as a German concentration camp guard
  


• Joan Nicoll Riedl Religious Studies Endowment Surprises and Delights Its Namesake
  


• Board member Yassin Terou feeds Tornado Victims
  


• Mark Hulsether speaks at apocalypse symposium
  


• Gardiner Wins Philosophy Essay Contest
  


• Seniors Ashley and Travis Cornell present research in Nashville for annual Tennessee Posters at the Capitol
  


• Spanish Immersion Day on March 7th!
  


• MFLL graduate students host 3rd annual Vernacular Symposium Feb 27-28
  MFLL graduate students host 3rd annual Vernacular Symposium Feb 27-28


• Helene Sinnreich on WUOT for Holocaust Remembrance Day
  


• Board member Dan Brown recognized by Knoxville's 2020 MLK Commission with Distinguished Service Award
  


• David Kline, MLK Day Daily Beacon essay
  


• From East TN to China in the 1930s: Dr. Bryson's students' film projects
  


• MFLL Grad Students Present at Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference
  MFLL Grad Students Present at Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference


• Hodges Receives Lorayne W. Lester Award
  Hodges Receives Lorayne W. Lester Award


• Gallmeier Receives Lecturer Excellence in Teaching Award
  Gallmeier Receives Lecturer Excellence in Teaching Award


• Bryson Receives Junior Faculty Teaching Award
  


• Garthoff Receives Collaborative Research Award
  


• The 'Ayn Gharandal Archaeological Project in Jordan on WUOT
  


• Megan Bryson guest on "Religion in Life"
  


• Manuela Ceballos noted as an emerging researcher to watch
  


• MFLL Courses Taught in English for Spring 2020
  MFLL Courses Taught in English for Spring 2020


• Interview: Omid Safi on the Muslim Love Poet, Rumi
  


• Students Uncovering Ancient Artifacts in Jordan
  


• Lillian Mashburn wins Service Award
  


• Hispanic Film Festival
  Hispanic Film Festival


• Religious Studies faculty and students help host Arab Fest
  


• Hackett Receives Honorary Chieftaincy in Nigeria
  


• Internet co-founder and Shakespeare expert discuss where machines and literature meet
  


• Ceballos wins Fellowship for 'Teaching Through Translation' Project
  


• In Daily Beacon article, David Kline urges students to rethink what it means to study.
  


• Hackett named 2019 Chancellor's Professor
  


• UT Humanities Center Receives NEH Grant for Black Arts History Symposium
  


• Service Learning in Latin America
  Service Learning in Latin America


• History Graduate Student Completes Research in China
  


• Yassin Terou, News Sentinel Person of the Year, joins Board of Visitors
  


• Winford Publishes Book on Black Banking and Civil Rights
  


• UTHC Intern Coralyn Nottingham Goes to National Humanities Alliance Advocacy Day in DC
  


• Graduate Student, Yuanyuan Liu, along with faculty member, David Palmer, have had an article accepted to the journal Erkenntinis titled, “Moral responsibility for actions and omissions”
  


• David Frank publishes new paper
  


• Tina Shepardson's 2014 book Controlling Contested Places released in paperback
  


• Department donates academic books to Nigerian University
  


• UT Humanities Center Announces Digital Humanities Fellowship Program in Collaboration with UT Libraries
  


• Amanda Bryant honored at undergraduate research event
  


• Italian Students Win EURECA Undergraduate Research Award
  Italian Students Win EURECA Undergraduate Research Award


• Department's Arab Fest in the news
  


• Religious Studies Faculty and Students Receive Chancellor's Awards
  


• Top UT Researchers Selected for Humanities Fellowships
  


• Second Annual Graduate Conference Brings Brison, Diverse Graduate Presenters to UT for Conversation on the Freedom of Speech
  


• Helene Sinnreich, Washington Post OpEd, Anti-Vaxxers and Holocaust Narratives
  


• Lecture: Truth, Beauty — and Violence: Vladimir Nabokov, John Keats, and the Unmentionable. Dr. Stanislav Shabrin, UNC
  Lecture: Truth, Beauty — and Violence: Vladimir Nabokov, John Keats, and the Unmentionable. Dr. Stanislav Shabrin, UNC


• The Last Lecture: Featuring Prof. Di Maria, April 9 5pm
  The Last Lecture: Featuring Prof. Di Maria, April 9 5pm


• Thalos Publishes Article on the Language of Freedom
  


• Courses taught in English, Fall 2019
  See our courses in English--many fulfill GenEd requirements


• David Kline will give his talk, “Heretical Humanities: Thinking a New Human Future with Sylvia Wynter” at the Critical Race Symposium: New Perspectives on Research and Scholar Activism.
  


• MFLL Talent Show
  MFLL Talent Show, March 2019


• MFLL Talent Show
  MFLL Annual Talent Show took place March 27, 2019


• Lecture: Truth, Beauty — and Violence: Vladimir Nabokov, John Keats, and the Unmentionable. Dr. Stanislav Shabrin, UNC
  Nabokov and Keats Lecture


• Rosalind Hackett and Big Ears Festival
  


• Rosalind Hackett interviewed on German radio
  


• Congratulations to Jordan Baker for successfully defending his dissertation for a Spring 2019 graduation.
  


• Arnold Cohen Named 2019 CCI Diversity Award Recipient
  


• Lecturer David Kline Presents at Forum Discussing Hope and Resiliency in a Nation Marked by Slavery
  


• Prof. Kaplan Publishes New Book: The Origins of Democratic Zionism
  Prof. Kaplan Publishes New Book: The Origins of Democratic Zionism


• Prof. Miller Awarded NEH Grant
  Prof. Miller Awarded NEH Grant


• Nasrallah's Dungan Lecture covered in Daily Beacon
  


• Amanda Bryant to Present Research to Legislators at Posters at the Capitol
  


• WUOT Interview with David L. Dungan Memorial Lecturer Laura Nasrallah
  


• 2019 French Film Series
  


• Prof. Mariani Establishes Collaborative Program with High School in Roseto, Italy
  


• Former graduate student Sanjay Lal has his first book, “Gandhi’s Thought and Liberal Democracy,” accepted for publication
  


• Erin Darby and Manuela Ceballos honored at the college's 2018 awards banquet
  


• David Frank publishes article with with Daniel Simberloff, Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science in the UT Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  


• Review of performance by the Kibeka Trio joined by flutist, violinist and philosophy lecturer Margaret Moore
  


• An Evening of Italian Theatre: December 4, 6pm !!
  An Evening of Italian Theatre: December 4, 6pm !!


• German Career Day at UT on Tuesday, Nov. 13 from 4 – 6 pm
  German Career Day at UT on Tuesday, Nov. 13 from 4 – 6 pm


• Dr. Lisa Parker's MFLL 199 Class on a Visit to DENSO, Maryville TN on October 10th 2018
  Dr. Lisa Parker's MFLL 199 Class on a Visit to DENSO, Maryville TN on October 10th 2018


• Cross-cultural communication between Chinese and American students
  On Thursday, October 25th, Chinese Program, the UTK Chinese Culture Club (CCC), Chinese Student and Scholars Association (CSSA), and Confucius Institute (CI) will jointly organize one of the largest cross-cultural events. This event is designed to encourage communication between Chinese and American students. Last year, over 250 Chinese and American students attended. This event is led by Chinese program and CCC.


• Arab Fest 2018
  ArabFest 2018!


• Spring Courses Taught in English
  MFLL Spring Courses Taught in English


• Update: Phillip Baites Wins IES Video Competition!
  Update: Phillip Baites Wins IES Video Competition!


• Mapping Knoxville across Time, Media and Cultures
  


• MFLL Hosts the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference
  MFLL Hosts the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference


• Alcocer and Duke Co-Edit Volume on the Cinema of Slavery
  Alcocer and Duke Co-Edit Volume on the Cinema of Slavery


• David Frank publishes article "Media representation of hemlock woolly adelgid management risks: a case study of science communication and invasive species control" in Biological Invasions
  


• Fall 2018 French Film Series!
  


• Thalos Discusses Concept of Freedom
  


• Language Practice at the International House
  


• Rosalind Hackett awarded Gerardus van der Leeuw fellowship at University of Groningen for fall semester
  


• Xinghua Wang, recent PhD and now a scholar at the Institute for Philosophy at the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences, has had a paper on Rousseau derived from her dissertation accepted for publication in The Philosophical Forum
  


• At the recent World Congress of Philosophy, Xinghua Wang, recent PhD, delivered a version of a paper on Rousseau derived from her dissertation and a paper on Rawls and justice in international relations
  


• Watch a video about our Italian program!
  


• Shepardson Named Religious Studies Department Head
  


• David Frank have been awarded the 2018 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize
  


• Congratulations to Lily Ying and Albert Hu on successfully defending their dissertations for a Summer 2018 graduation
  


• Congratulations to Zachary Tuggle on successfully defending his Master’s Thesis
  


• Rosalind Hackett honored with Yoruba names by Oba (King) of Erinmo, Nigeria
  


• Randal Hepner promoted to Distinguished Lecturer
  


• Humanities Center Announces Graduate Interns for Summer 2018
  


• Graduate student Michael Ball-Blakely has been awarded the 2018 Summer Dissertation Award, sponsored by the Prados Fund
  


• Congratulations to Graduate Student, Naomi Rinehold on being awarded the 2018 Thomas Fellowship
  


• Erin Darby receives faculty scholarship from UT Office of Community Engagement and Outreach to attend the Engagement Scholarship Consortium in MN in October 2018
  


• Minor Tiana Castillo receives prestigious Fulbright award to teach English in Vietnam
  


• FLavien Falantin (center) Leads Graduate Students in Public Presentations
  FLavien Falantin (center) Leads Graduate Students in Public Presentations


• Derek Galyon, Minor ’17, receives Fulbright to work on his master’s in international security and conflict studies at Dublin City University, Ireland
  


• Erin Darby named as Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentor of the Year Award for the College Arts & Sciences – Humanities Division
  


• Student of Italian Ryan Colbert sings an aria from Puccini’s La Bohème at the annual MFLL Awards Ceremony
  Student of Italian Ryan Colbert sings an aria from Puccini’s La Bohème at the annual MFLL Awards Ceremony


• MFLL Honors Its Outstanding Alumni
  


• Holly Villines New Editor-in-Chief of Vernacular!
  Holly Villines New Editor-in-Chief of Vernacular!


• Houston Newman has been accepted to Georgia State’s MA program fall 2018
  


• New and Rare MFLL Courses offered Fall 2018
  


• Julia Goncalves receives Critical Language Scholarship
  


• Kristen Beard, Philosophy BA student, will start PhD at University of Toronto in fall 2018
  


• Graduate student, Tylor Cunningham, has been awarded the 2018-2019 Shipley-Swann Graduate Fellowship
  


• Catherine Greer (PhD Candidate German Studies) Wins Prestigious Fellowships!
  Catherine Greer (PhD Candidate German Studies) Wins Prestigious Fellowships!


• Vernacular publishes new issue!
  Vernacular publishes new issue!


• Study Italian online this summer! Intensive Italian 123 – 6 credits- July 2018
  Study Italian online this summer! Intensive Italian 123 – 6 credits- July 2018


• New VOLstarter compaign for Undergraduate Research and Travel Fund launched to commemorate Rosalind Hackett’s stepping down as Head
  


• Rinehold, Windeknecht Participate in Research Day
  


• Iker Sedeño Awarded Critical Language Scholarship!
  Iker Sedeño Awarded Critical Language Scholarship!


• Congratulations to Kyrie Miranda (ABD Hispanic Studies) on being offered a tenure-track position at Francis Marion University!
  Congratulations to Kyrie Miranda (ABD Hispanic Studies) on being offered a tenure-track position at Francis Marion University!


• Children’s Book Receives International Coverage
  


• The 2018 Philosophy Graduate Student Conference was a success (03/24/2018-03/25/2018)
  


• Future faculty member, Georgi Gardiner awarded the Distinguished Scholarly Achievement at Rutgers University
  


• Wanessa Velloso and Devan Iturrian Promote MFLL & Soccer Tournament!
  Wanessa Velloso and Devan Iturrian Promote MFLL & Soccer Tournament!


• Helene Sinnreich receives GSS (Graduate Student Senate) Graduate Research Mentor of the Year Award
  


• Lecture by Prof. Odile Cazenave, March 27th 3:30pm
  Lecture by Prof. Odile Cazenave, March 27th 3:30pm


• Lecturer, Nolan Hatley, has his paper, “The Early Nietzche’s Alleged Anthropocentrism” published in the Summer 2018 edition of Environmental Ethics
  


• See what Josh Deepan (French, May 2017) has been up to during his year as a paid Teaching Assistant in Avignon, France! (For more information about this program, search 'Teaching Assistant Program in France')
  


• Jessica Simms awarded Undergraduate Research Summer Internship Award
  


• Lecture on Puerto Rican Popular Culture: Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 5pm Hodges Library Auditorium
  Lecture on Puerto Rican Popular Culture: Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 5pm Hodges Library Auditorium


• Panel Discussion on Immigration in East Tennessee March 27th
  Panel Discussion on Immigration in East Tennessee March 27th. 6pm Toyota Auditorium, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy


• MFLL Talent Show April 5
  MFLL Talent Show April 5


• MFLL Soccer Tournament Scheduled for April 11th 4:30pm-7pm
  MFLL Soccer Tournament Scheduled for April 11th 4:30pm-7pm


• Manuela Ceballos awarded place in 2018-19 Wabash Workshop for Early Career Religion Faculty at Colleges and Universities
  


• Chinese Program News and Events
  


• French Connections Week Feb 26-March 2
  


• Nolan Hatley has paper, "The Green Antichrist? Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity and the Development of an Environmental Philosophy of Religion", accepted for presentation at the 2018 Long Island Philosophical Society meeting in April 2018
  


• Spanish Immersion Day on March 7th!
  


• Statement on White Nationalism and neo-Nazis on Campus
  


• Department launches Statement of Principle in response to recent events
  


• David Kline presents at the Inaugural Political Theology Network conference at Emory University
  


• Visiting Scholar to Lecture on Holocaust
  Visiting Scholar to Lecture on Holocaust


• Elias Journal Wins CELJ Award
  


• Documenting DACA in East Tennessee
  


• MFLL graduate students host inaugural Vernacular Symposium Feb 23-24
  MFLL graduate students host inaugural Vernacular Symposium Feb 23-24


• Lecturer, David Frank, to participate in the Spring Veritas on March 1, 2018
  


• Spring French Film Series Announced!
  


• Associate Professor Adam Cureton will be giving a talk at TEXxUTK on February 10, 2018 titled, “What Hiding my Disability Taught me About Care and Respect.”
  


• Screening of Mexican Film Desierto (2015) Tuesday Jan 24th 5pm
  


• Brazilian Film Series Spring 2018 Lineup!
  


• Yuanyuan Liu has paper accepted for presentation at the Georgia State Philosophy Student Symposium in February 2018
  


• Congratulations to recent PhD graduate, Xinghua Wang, who has accepted a position in the Ethics division of the China Academy of Social Sciences
  


• Karen L. Smith, a PhD graduate of our program, recently published an article in the Journal of Clinical Ethics titled Incapacitated Surrogates: A New and Increasing Dilemma in Hospital Care
  


• Nora Berenstain recently gave a talk titled, “Active Ignorance and the Rhetoric of Biological Race Realism” at the University of Minnesota on December 1st to a 230-person audience at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
  


• Popular German Band Visits UT While Touring the United States
  


• Rossy Toledo Recognized for Innovative Teaching
  


• Prof. Parker Spreads Study Abroad to Chile!
  Prof. Parker Spreads Study Abroad to Chile!


• Congratulations to faculty member, Adam Cureton, who has been awarded the College of Arts & Sciences Diversity Leadership Award
  


• Erin and Robert Darby receive the 2017 American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Membership Service Award
  


• Graduate student, Jiajun Hu had an article published by Philosophical Explorations titled, “Rethinking the Videogame Case: Trying and Intending”
  


• Manuela Ceballos has book proposal accepted by UT's Humanities Center for Manuscript Review Program
  


• Nov 15 Presentation on Benefits of Knowing French
  


• Congratulations to Trevor Hedberg, 2017 PhD Graduate, on his recent book contract with Routledge
  


• Join Us for a German Career Day & Intercultural Workshop
  


• UTK in Cuba Info. Sessions Nov 21 & Nov 30
  UTK in Cuba Info. Sessions Nov 21 & Nov 30


• Pi Delta Phi, the French Honor Society, Hosts France World Showcase
  Pi Delta Phi, the French Honor Society, Hosts France World Showcase


• UTK in Paris 2018 information session on Nov 1
  


• Celebración del Día de los Muertos
  


• Ryan Windeknecht will be hosting two Teaching and Learning Center workshops November 1st and November 8th
  


• Emory Prof. Peter Höyng (l) and UT's Jeff Mellor (r) Publish Translation of Important German Novel
  Emory Prof. Peter Höyng (l) and UT's Jeff Mellor (r) Publish Translation of Important German Novel


• Special MFLL Courses for Spring 2018
  MFLL offers special courses every semester; usually, these are courses that appear only once every few years, or as a special topics course even more rarely. They are open to students from all across the university.


• Nora Berenstain recently attended the Gaslighting and Epistemic Injustice conference at Claremont McKenna College where she presented a talk titled, “Whitewashing as Gaslighting in Feminist Epistemology” on September 23rd.
  


• Haley Osborn (Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish) Recognized for Cutting Edge Research
  Haley Osborn (Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish) Recognized for Cutting Edge Research


• Liz Wood (B.A. Linguistics '17) Presents Research at Language Conference
  Liz Wood (B.A. Linguistics '17) Presents Research at Language Conference


• John Nolt awarded Distinguish Service Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences
  


• Graduate Student, Jordan Baker's paper has been accepted to the American Philosophical Association - Pacific Division as a colloquium session
  


• Jon Garthoff to give a talk entitled, “Freedom, Responsibility, and Animal Moral Status” at the Law School at the University of Illinois on Friday, October 6th, 2017
  


• D'Elia-Zunino featured in "Advisor Spotlight"
  


• ChekhovFest
  ChekhovFest--A celebration of the works and life of Anton Chekhov, the inventor of the modern short story and theatre.


• Alex Brito (B.A. French ’17) Wins Coveted Undergraduate Research Award!
  Alex Brito (B.A. French ’17) Wins Coveted Undergraduate Research Award!


• ChekhovFest
  ChekhovFest--A celebration of the works and life of Anton Chekhov, the inventor of the modern short story and theatre.


• Philosophy Graduate student, Alex Richardson, recently traveled to Cordoba, Argentina to present a paper at the 2017 International Congress on Intergenerational Justice and Climate Change conference
  


• Tylor Cunningham, a Philosophy Graduate Student, recently returned from a recent trip to participate in the “Virtue, Skill, and Practical Reason conference held at the University of Cape Town
  


• Meet Prof. Liliana González
  Meet Prof. Liliana González


• Meet Rodica Frimu
  Meet Prof. Rodica Frimu


• “#HereIStand: Martin Luther, the Reformation and its Consequences
  October 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. The “#HereIStand: Martin Luther, the Reformation and its Consequences” which will be on display at the University of Tennessee in Hodges Library from September 5 – 21, 2017 delves into the time prior to the Reformation, the biography of Martin Luther, and the context and dynamics of the movement that unfolded after Luther’s posting of his 95 theses.


• First Annual PGSA@UT Philosophy Conference
  


• Fall 2017 Brazilian Film Series!
  Brazilian Film Series features four exciting movies. All films in Portuguese with English subtitles. Hodges Library Auditorium - 4:00 pm. Operações Especiais (Special Operations) - Dir. Tomás Portella (2015) - Sep 6 (Wed) Ponte Aérea (Air Shuttle) - Dir. Júlia Rezende (2015) - Oct 12 (Thu) O Duelo (The Duel: A Story Where Truth Is Mere Detail) - Dir. Marcos Jorge (2015) - Oct 24 (Tue) Hoje (Today) - Dir. Tata Amaral (2011) -- Nov 19 (Sun). For more information please see attachment.


• UT Humanities Center Launches New Program to Support Faculty Writing and Research
  


• Anne-Hélène Miller (French) invited as visiting professor this summer at the Centre for Medieval Studies in Poitiers, France
  


• Minor Derek Galyon publishes article on Nation of Islam in Pursuit
  


• Humanities Center Fellow Tore Olsson Tackles US-Mexico Agrarian History in New Book
  


• Minor Sarah Smith receives Elaine Evans Middle East Scholarship
  


• New Graduate Student Summer Travel Grants Available
  


• New Internships Provide Opportunities for Graduate Students
  


• Graduate student Jordon Baker was recently awarded a $10,000 Thomas Fellowship from UT’s College of Arts and Sciences
  


• LWB Program Provides Global Opportunities for Students
  


• Graduate student Donnie Barnett has been accepted into the summer 2017 Philosophy and Physical Computing program at Virginia Tech
  


• Elizabeth Williams, who completed her MA this semester, has accepted admission to the PhD program at the University of Indiana
  


• EJ Coffman has been reappointed as a Lindsay Young Professor for the period August 1, 2017 through July 31, 2019
  


• Undergraduates and lecturers win awards at Annual Awards Ceremony
  


• Nicholas Campbell (Hispanic Studies) Awarded Fulbright to Colombia
  Nicholas Campbell (Hispanic Studies) Awarded Fulbright to Colombia


• Philosophy department announces recent scholarship winners
  


• Chinese Program Hosts Local High School
  Chinese Program Hosts Local High School


• Congratulations to the winners of the Mark and Inge Moore Undergraduate Essay Contest
  


• Vernacular Publishes New Issue
  Vernacular Publishes New Issue


• Eric Bain-Selbo and Nancy Fraley receive inaugural Charles H. Reynolds Distinguished Alumnus/a Award
  


• Prof. Mariani to Lecture on Italian Filmmaker Ozpetek, Tuesday April 18
  


• Mark Hulsether to spend July 2017 in New York as a Coolidge Fellow at the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life
  


• Public Presentation on Colonial Peru by Rachel O'Toole
  Public Presentation on Colonial Peru by Rachel O'Toole


• Former grad student Nolan Hatley had a paper entitled “The Early Nietzsche’s Alleged Anthropocentrism" accepted in the journal "Environmental Ethics"
  


• Mark Hulsether awarded Fulbright and Research Chair in Arts and Humanities at University of Alberta, Canada (spring 2018)
  


• Manuela Ceballos awarded Newberry Short-Term Resident Fellowship for Individual Research
  


• Jenny Collins-Elliott invited to participate in NEH Summer Institute on "Diverse Philosophical Approaches to Sexual Violence" at Elon University
  


• Xinghua Wang defended her dissertation titled "The Significance of Rousseau's Concept of Amour Propre in Rawls" on April 3
  


• Trevor Hedberg defended his dissertation titled "Population, Consumption, and Procreation: Ethical Implications for Humanity's Future" on March 30
  


• Devon Brickhouse Bryson defended his dissertation titled "The Beauty of Understanding: Aesthetic Methods of Theory Evaluation" on March 27
  


• Braden Mayfield Wins Prestigious Italian Poetry Prize!
  Braden Mayfield Wins Prestigious Italian Poetry Prize!


• Emily Johnson receives the inaugural Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TLSAMP) Outstanding Faculty Award
  


• French Connections Week, March 27-April 1
  


• Former undergraduate student Hunter McKnight has been accepted into the Master of Logic program at the University of Amsterdam
  


• Contella Receives Prestigious NIAF Scholarship
  Contella Receives Prestigious NIAF Scholarship


• María Orcasitas Vicandi to present on language assessment: March 21 4:30pm
  Public Presentation by María Orcasitas Vicandi (Ph.D. Candidate, the University of the Basque Country): "Assessment in Three Languages: A Case Study in Basque, English, and Spanish." March 21 4:30 pm, HSS 109. Sponsored by Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Honor Society


• Trevor Hedberg has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship in the interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholars program in the Social Sciences and Humanities and the University of South Florida
  


• Joel MacClellan has accepted a tenure track position in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans
  


• Nolan Hatley will take part in a panel at the 2017 meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics
  


• Naomi Rinehold takes over the leadership of the Philosophy Graduate Student Association
  


• The Philosophy Graduate Student Association has sponsored several workshops on best practices in the classroom for GTAs
  


• Article features Pi Delta Phi French Honor Society
  


• MFLL International Talent Show on March 3rd
  


• Photos of Tom Heffernan’s Cocktails & Conversations Finale
  


• Taylor Thomas ’16 receives offer to pursue PhD in Religious Studies at Indiana University in Russian identity, literature, and religion.
  


• Humanities Center’s Heffernan Retiring; Endowment Named in His Honor
  


• Lecture on Italian Cinema by Dr. Frank Burke, Feb. 28th 11:10am
  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Italian Cinema Past and Present. A LECTURE BY DR. FRANK BURKE. Frank Burke, Queen’s University, Canada has just edited the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Italian Cinema, a 600-page compilation of essays on the history and criticism of Italian film. He will use the book as a point of departure to address a host of issues relevant to movies of il bel paese from the silent period to contemporary regional and postcolonial cinema. Of particular interest to Prof. Burke is the role of image, persona, and cliché in the reception of Italian films internationally, particularly in an Anglo-American context. What is it about Italian cinema that has led to its enormous appeal at certain times and to a relative lack of interest at others? What does the history of Italian cinema tell us not just about the films, but about ourselves as viewers? FEBRUARY 28, TUESDAY, HODGES 253, 11:10 AM


• New online course available this summer
  


• El Club de Español Presents Colombian Culture Night: Jan. 25th
  


• Elias Appointed as New Director of UT Humanities Center
  


• Nature Picks Blackwell's 'Fine Lines' as One of 2016's Best Books!
  


• Shepardson, Darby Honored at Annual Faculty Awards Banquet
  


• Nolt Honored at Annual Faculty Awards Banquet
  


• Parker, Silva-Filho, and Mariani Honored at Annual Faculty Awards Banquet
  


• Greg Bock to be promoted from Senior Lecturer to Assistant of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Texas at Tyler
  


• Graduate student Trevor Hedberg’s paper has been accepted for presentation at the 26th Annual Conference of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
  


• Todd Burkhardt published a book on Just War and Human Rights with SUNY Press
  


• Gottlieb (Hispanic Studies '16) Named Schwarzman Scholar
  Miranda Gottlieb, who graduated from UT last spring, has been named to the second class of Schwarzman Scholars, a highly competitive program that offers selected students the opportunity to earn a master's degree in China. She is the first UT student to be selected for the program, which launched in 2015.


• Three MFLL Faculty Receive 2016 College of A & S Awards!
  Mariani, Silva-Filho, & Parker Receive 2016 College of A & S Awards!


• UT French Students and Alliance Française Rendez-Vous
  UT French Students and Alliance Française Rendez-Vous


• Presentation on Mexican Popular Culture: Wed. Nov. 30th 4pm
  The Humanities Center Faculty Seminar on Latin American & Caribbean Studies will host a public presentation on Mexican popular culture by Enrique Chacón, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow in Latin American Literature & Culture in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures “In Praise of Violence: The Joy of Crime in the Music of El Movimiento Alterado” 4pm Wednesday, Nov 30 HSS 114


• Haley Osborn (Ph.D. Candidate in Spanish) to Present at MLA Conference
  Osborn will present a paper entitled "Inheriting Chains: Lighting Effects in Humberto Solás's Cecilia" at the MLA Conference, to be held in Philadelphia in January. Her presentation is part of a panel on the cinema of slavery in the Americas organized by Prof. Alcocer.


• Event for French students: Crêpes et Conversation!
  Crêpes et Conversation Sunday, November 20th - 2pm Practice your spoken French while learning how to make delicious, free crêpes by joining UT's Pi Delta Phi at our first ever Crêpes et Conversation! For additional information please contact abrito@vols.utk.edu


• November Newsletter Now Available Online!
  


• Professor Kaplan Travels to Amsterdam for 400th Anniversary of Ets Haim Library
  


• Undergraduate research and travel fund launched
  


• UTK Summer Abroad Program in Bologna, Italy
  UTK Summer Abroad Program in Bologna, Italy


• Día de los muertos / Day of the Dead
  Celebrate el Día de los muertos and vote for the best altars! Wednesday, Nov. 2nd, 12pm-5pm Hodges Library 1st floor.


• MFLL 199 Class Trip to Clayton- 2016
  MFLL 199 Class Trip to Clayton- 2016


• Prof. Susanna Delfino (Univ. of Genova, Italy) Lecture Oct. 25
  Prof. Susanna Delfino of the University of Genova and a participant in the UT/Univ. of Genova Cooperative Exchange Program will give lectures on “Italian Society Between Tradition and Innovation: New Perspectives.” Tuesday Oct. 25, 9:40am (Hodges Library 212). Please see attachment for more information.


• LispectorFest!
  


• Former UT Philosophy Major Duncan Cordry has won an international essay prize
  


• Megan Bryson presents research on Tantric Buddhism at conference in China
  


• David Palmer is the 2016 recipient of the David V. and Kathryn G. White Undergraduate Teaching Award
  


• Markus Kohl had two papers accepted summer 2016
  


• Nora Berenstain’s feminist epistemology paper "Epistemic Exploitation" was accepted for publication in Ergo
  


• Nora Berenstain receives the 2015 College Convocation Award for the Development of Interdepartmental Collaboration in Scholarship & Research from the UT College of Arts & Sciences
  


• Trevor Hedberg had two articles accepted for publication during the 2016 summer
  


• Former graduate student Kyle Chapel is attending Law School at the University of Houston
  


• Brazilian Film Series Fall 2016
  


• Arab Film Series Fall 2016
  


• Spanish Film Series Fall 2016
  


• Our Faculty, 2016-17
  Our Faculty, 2016-17


• UTK Hispanic Studies in Costa Rica Summer 2016
  UTK Hispanic Studies in Costa Rica, Summer 2016


• Mullane (Global Studies/French Studies '16) Receives Prestigious Assistantship
  Shannon Mullane (Global Studies/French Studies '16) receives prestigious TAPIF (Teaching Assistant Program in France) assistantship. She will be spending the year teaching English in Montauban, France. Congratulations, Shannon!


• Humanities Center Welcomes New Class of Fellows
  


• Religious Studies faculty play key role in creation of new Middle East Studies program
  


• Amy Atnip, who received an MA in Philosophy from UT in 2014, will enter law school at Vanderbilt University in the fall of 2016
  


• David Palmer is the 2016recipient of the David V. and Kathryn G. White Undergraduate Teaching Awar
  


• E.J. Coffman recently promoted to Full Professor
  


• Two Professors Receive Prestigious National Humanities Fellowships
  


• UT Humanities Center: Impact on Scholarship
  


• Humanities Center Announces Fellowship Winners
  


• Humanities Center Holds Annual Spring Luncheon
  


• Humanities Center Announces New Class of Fellows
  


• UT Ranks High on NEH Fellowships
  


• Heffernan Wins MLA Prize
  


• Professional Journal Has Center Location
  


• Students Earn Record Number of Awards and Scholarships!
  Alex Antonas Awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to Study in China // Jonathan Barsness Awarded Prestigious Boren Fellowship // Two Doctoral Students in Spanish Program Awarded UT Graduate School Fellowships // Alexandra Brito Awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Internship // Desiree Dube Awarded Fulbright Fellowship to Russia // Catherine Greer Receives Numerous Research Grants // Lucy Greer and Joud Monla-Hassan Awarded Summer Internships in Washington, DC // Joy Hancock Wins Dissertation Competition // Cheyanne Leonardo Received Two Awards and a Scholarship // Katie Plank Received Taiwan-United States Sister Relations Alliance Summer Scholarship // Please click on attachment for detailed information


• Susan Williams has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the Mary Lynn Glustoff Clerical Award
  


• Students receive awards at 2016 Awards Ceremony
  


• Rosalind Hackett delivers Lerner Symposium at Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society
  


• Barton Receives Inaugural Interdisciplinary/STEM Thesis Award
  Blake Barton (B.A. Hispanic Studies '16) is the recipient of the inaugural interdisciplinary/STEM honors thesis award for his essay on the medical themes in the fiction of Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, an essay he wrote under the mentorship of Prof. Rudyard Alcocer. Barton will begin his studies at the UT Medical School this fall.


• Religious Studies majors receive top honors at Chancellor’s honors banquet
  


• Italian Club Opera Night
  Join us for Mozart's Opera Don Giovanni, a UTOT production. Saturday, April 16, 2016 @ 8:00 p.m.


• Graduate student Jordan Baker's paper "Rejecting Pereboom's Empirical Objection to Agent-causation" has been accepted for publication in Synthese
  


• Congratulations to Nolan Hatley, who successfully defended his dissertation, entitled "Anthropocentrism and the Long-Term: Nietzsche as an Environmental Thinker" on April 7
  


• Congratulations to Kyle Chapel who successfully defended his MA thesis, "Rawlsian Self-Respect and Limiting Liberties in the Background Culture" on April 6
  


• David Frank will be joining the department in the fall with a joint lectureship between the departments of Philosophy and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  


• Screening: Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life
  


• Mark Hulsether reviewed a book about evangelical hippies of the 1970s known as the Jesus People
  


• Congratulations to Marlin Sommers, who has passed his M.A. thesis defense with a thesis entitled "Virtue, Knowledge, and Goodness."
  


• Public Presentation: Slavery and Self-Representation
  Gerard Aching, Professor of Africana and Romance Studies, and Director of the Africana Studies & Research Center at Cornell University. April 5th 5pm UT Hodges Library Room 213


• RSA President Taylor Thomas visits Dr. Erin Darby in Jerusalem
  


• Tina Shepardson named Scholar of the Week
  


• RSA President Taylor Thomas wins Joseph A. Callaway student paper award from American Schools of Oriental Research at SECSOR meeting
  


• Megan Bryson receives prestigious ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) fellowship for 2016-17
  


• Graduate Student Trevor Hedberg's paper "Unraveling the Asymmetry in Procreative Ethics" has been accepted for publication in the APA Newsletter for Philosophy and Medicine
  


• Trevor Hedberg has two papers published and is finalist for national fellowship
  


• Eddy Falls’ paper "Tsongkhapa and the Myth of the Given." is forthcoming in the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy
  


• Former graduate student Todd Burkhardt, now Lt. Col. US Army, has had a revised version of his dissertation accepted for publication by SUNY
  


• Walter Riker, who received his Ph.D. from the department in 2006, has been granted tenure at the University of West Georgia
  


• Our former undergraduate student, Jared Riggs, won 2015 winner of the Ralf F. Munster Fellowship at Georgia State
  


• Fall Veritas forum featured Associate Professor Shaw in conversation with Dr. Marina McCoy, exploring how the ancient Greeks and the early Christians reflected on "Vulnerability and Virtue."
  


• Graduate student Nolan Hatley's paper "Nietzsche's Abolition of the Appearance/Reality Distinction and the Overturning of Platonism in Twilight of the Idols" has been accepted for presentation at the Spring 2016 Long Island Philosophical Society meeting
  


• Graduate student Nolan Hatley presented the paper "Nietzsche, Religion, and the Environment" as part of The Jerry Jackson Lectures in the Humanities
  


• Graduate student Eddy Falls co-conducted a teacher in-service workshop at McClung Museum
  


• Graduate student Devon Bryson's paper "Defending Ginet's Noncausal Account of Reasons-Explanation" has been accepted for presentation at the Central Division of APA in 2016
  


• Lecturer Josh Watson's paper"Thinking Animals and the Thinking Parts Problem," a paper on the metaphysics of human persons, has been accepted for publication in The Philosophical Quarterly
  


• Graduate student Trevor Hedberg's paper "Animals, Relations, and the Laissez-Faire Intuition" has been accepted for publication in Environmental Values
  


• Graduate student Trevor Hedberg will present his paper "Unraveling the Asymmetry in Procreative Ethics" as part of the main program of the 2016 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
  


• Graduate students and instructors Kyle Chapel and Naomi Rinehold are co-winners of the 2015 John Hardwig Prize for Teaching Excellence
  


• Jessica Shultz, Tess Arnold and James Williams awarded an undergraduate scholarship by the Department of Philosophy for AY15-16
  


• Co-winners of this year's undergraduate Mark and Inge Moore undergraduate essay contest
  


• UT Philosophy PhD and clinical ethicist Karen Smith educates the public
  


• Philosophy Major Kristen Beard has been selected to participate in the prestigious summer philosophy immersion program at Brown
  


• Graduate student Trevor Hedberg, receives the Department's 2015 Prados Summer Dissertation Fellowship
  


• PhD candidate Devon Bryson awarded a graduate student fellowship with the UT Humanities Center for AY15-16
  


• Trevor Hedberg and John Nolt will engage in a student/teacher philosophical debate in the forthcoming collection - Ecology, Ethics, and Hope
  


• UT Philosophy PhD and clinical ethicist Tom Harter continues to make a positive impact
  


• Assistant Professor Markus Kohl has been awarded an NEH Summer fellowship for work on his project on "Kant on Freedom: In theory and practice."
  


• Philosophy Major Madison Thornton's paper "Defending the Presuppositions Within Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 With a Special Focus on Finite Identity" has been accepted for presentation
  


• Assistant Professor Kristina Gehrman will spend AY15-16 as a fellow with the Tennessee Humanities Center
  


• Graduate student Laura Cutshaw will present her paper "Nichols' Empty Threat to Rationalism" at the upcoming Georgia State Student Philosophy Symposium
  


• Graduate student Osup Kwon wins 2015 Richard Aquila Essay Prize
  


• Congratulations to all the High School teams participating in this years Tennessee High School Ethics Bowl
  


• Assistant Professor David Palmer discusses his recent book
  


• The Department is pleased to announce that the 2015 fall graduate 'super seminar' on 'mind and language' to be taught by Assistant Professor Avery Archer will feature visits by John Brunero (Missouri-St. Louis); Kieran Setiya (MIT) and Nomy Arpaly (Brown)
  


• Graduate student Jordan Baker will deliver his paper "Dispositional Essentialism and the Problem of Structural Properties" at the 2015 meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society
  


• Graduate student Devon Bryson will present a paper "Changing a Mere Event into an Action," at the 2015 meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society
  


• Graduate student Nolan Hatley will present his paper "The Failure of Plato to Educate Aristotle Concerning the Good" at the 2015 meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society
  


• Graduate student Trevor Hedberg will present his paper "Restoring Biodiversity as Compensation for Climate Change" at the 2015 meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
  


• Matt Ruble's article "Must motivation be endogenous? A reply to Kjaersgaard" has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience
  


• Nolan Hatley will present his paper "Responsibilism and Skepticism: Kornblith, Epistemic Responsibility, and the Suspension of Judgment" at the annual meeting of the Long Island Philosophical Society
  


• Matt Ruble successfully defended his dissertation
  


• UT PhD and now UTKMC clinical ethicist Annette Mendola discusses physician assisted suicide on WBIR
  


• John Hardwig, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, published an invited OpEd in the Washington Post
  


• Lecturer Margaret Moore's article, "Mere Exposure to Bad Art," was selected as one of the five best articles in aesthetics and the philosophy of art for 2013
  


• Lecturer Margaret Moore's co-edited volume, "Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art," is now available
  


• Congratulations to Assistant Prof. Markus Kohl
  


• John Nolt's new monograph, "Environmental Ethics for the Long Term," has just been published by Routledge
  


• Graduate student Xinghua Wang will be presenting her paper "A Defense of Rawls's Two Stage Argument" at the 2014 Northwest Philosophy Conference
  


• Jiajun (Albert) Hu's paper "Two Senses of Abilities" has been accepted for presentation at the annual Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency Conference
  


• Recent PhD Roger Turner's paper "Kearns on Rule A" was accepted for publication by Philosophia
  


• EJ Coffman's work during a Tennessee Humanities Center Fellowship will soon be available
  


• Jason Fishel successfully defended his dissertation
  


• Lecturer Roger Turner's paper "More on Religious Exclusivism: A Reply to Richard Feldman" will appear in "Faith and Philosophy"
  


• Stephen Martin will be joining the Department as a full time lecturer this coming year
  


• Nora Berenstain has arranged for visits by Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State), Jessica Wilson (Toronto) and Katherine Brading (Notre Dame) to her Spring 2015 graduate 'super seminar'
  


• Graduate student Jason Fishel has accepted a full time tenure track position at Roane State Community College
  


• UT PhD Woods Nash has received a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
  


• UT PhD Toby Schonfeld has been appointed Director of the Program in Human Research Ethics at the EPA
  


• Jeremy Makely is the winner of the 2014 John Hardwig Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
  


• Mark your calendars: The 2015 UT Philosophy Spring Symposium will feature Clerk Shaw's work on Epicurus and Epicureanism.
  


• Graduate student Trevor Hedberg's paper "Epistemic Supererogation and its Implications" has been accepted for publication in Synthese
  


• Recipients of Philosophy Department Scholarships for Academic Year 2014-15
  


• Robert Nowell and Kristen Beard winners of this year's Mark and Inge Moore Undergraduate Philosophy Essay Contest
  


• Adam Cureton recognized for his outstanding student advising with a Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Advising
  


• Ph.D. candidate Trevor Hedberg and philosophy major Robert Nowell receive Chancellor's Award for Extraordinary Professional Promise
  


• Philosophy major Kathleen Connelly receives Chancellor's Award for Extraordinary Academic Achievement
  


• Philosophy major Eric Dixon recognized with Chancellor's Torchbearer Award
  


• Graduate Students Trevor Hedberg and Marlin Sommers will present an conferences
  


• 2014 Tennessee High School Ethics Bowl Results
  


• The Fall 2014 Tennessee Value and Agency ("TVA") conference will take place Nov. 7-9, 2014, and feature keynote addresses from Talbot Brewer (Virginia) and Amelie Rorty (Tufts)
  


• The Fall 2014 graduate 'super seminar' will be taught by Prof. Markus Kohl on the topic of 'Kant and the idea of a priori justification'
  


• Graduate student Trevor Hedberg is the winner of the first annual Richard Aquila Essay Prize
  


• Philosophy major Kristen Beardwill present her paper, ""On the Essentials of Pain and Security," at the British Conference for Undergraduate Research
  


• Kristina Gehrman will join its faculty as assistant professor of philosophy starting in August 2014
  


• Graduate student Lily Ying's paper, "Facing Death: An Objection to the No Subject Argument," has been accepted for presentation at the 2104 Meeting of South Carolina Society for Philosophy
  


• Graduate students Jason Fishel and Lily Ying will be presenting papers at the upcoming annual University of Georgia Philosophy conference
  


• Philosophy major Robert Nowell will be spending spring 2014 as a visiting student at Harvard
  


• Jeff Cervantez will start a tenure track position at Crafton Hills College
  


• Philosophy major Robert Nowell's essay "Defending the Knowledge Norm of Assertion" will be published in a special issueof the undergraduate philosophy research journal, "Dialectic"
  


• Graduate student Jason Fishel will present his paper "Strange Bedfellows: Green Medicine, Restrictions, and Enhancing Autonomy" at the spring Pacific Division meeting of the APA
  


• Graduate student Jiajun "Albert" Hu's paper "Why Frankfurt-style Cases Fail to Undermine PAP" has been accepted for presentation on the main program of the next APA Pacific Division meeting
  


• Congrats to Lily Ying and Josh Watson who have had papers accepted for presentation at the next Tenn Phil Assoc meeting
  


• UT lecturer Karen Ehlebracht Smith has taken a new job as a clinical ethicist with the Wheaton- Franciscian Healthcare group in SE Wisconsin
  


• UT Philosophy welcomes two visiting scholars for AY13-14
  


• Graduate student Jordan Baker's paper "Wild Coincidences and Agent-Causes," has been accepted to the Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency Conference
  


• UT Philosophy Department highlighted its research cluster in the metaphysics of freedom and action theory
  


• Lecturer Margaret Moore's published research generates some press/public discussion
  


• Erik Krag (Ph.D., 2012) has taken a tenure track position as assistant professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
  


• Samuel Duncan will join us as a full time lecturer next year, AY2013-14
  


• EJ Coffman has been named a Lindsay Young Humanities Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences
  


• Congratulations to the winners of this years Mark and Inge Moore Undergraduate Essay Contest
  


• Award renamed after longstanding professor
  


• Nolan Hatley named the first recipient of the "John Hardwig Graduate Student Teaching Award
  


• Congratulations to the undergraduate recipients of UT Department of Philosophy Undergraduate Scholarships for AY2013-14
  


• Graduate student Matt Ruble’s paper “The Epistemology of Interdisciplinary Disagreement” has been accepted for presentation at the upcoming “Making Change Happen / Philosophy and Psychiatry: The Next Hundred Years” conference
  


• PhD candidate John McClellan has taken a full-time tenure track position as assistant professor of philosophy with Carson Newman University
  


• Lecturer Alex Feldt's dissertation was selected as the recipient of 2012 University of Oklahoma Provost’s Ph.D. Dissertation Award
  


• Philosophy major Kristen Beard has been selected for the highly selective and fully funded Carnegie Mellon Summer Program in Logic and Formal Epistemology
  


• Avery Archer will be joining us as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2013
  


• Graduate student Xinghua Wang's paper “A Weak Version of Belief-desire Model” was accepted for presentation at the 39th Conference on Value Inquiry: Virtue, Vice, and Character
  


• Graduate student Matthew Reese’s paper, “Moral Development in Virtue Theory and the Role of Narrative” has been accepted for the 39th Conference on Value Inquiry: Virtue, Vice, and Character
  


• Jason Fishel awarded 2013 Summer Dissertation Fellowship in Value Theory
  


• Philosophy major Jason Moeller’s paper “Valuing Nature – A History of Instrumentality” has been accepted for the main program of the First Annual Online Undergraduate Ethics Conference
  


• Philosophy major Eric Dixon is a finalist for a prestigious national Truman scholarship
  


• EJ Coffman and John Nolt have been awarded a research sabbatical for AY13-14
  


• Austin East took First Place in the 2013 East Tennessee Regional Ethics Bowl
  


• Lecturer Lisa Hicks successfully defended her dissertation on Nietzsche and will receive her PhD from the University of Chicago later this term
  


• UT Philosophy Department’s Scholarship and Essay Contests
  


• Joel Maclellan has been selected as a Summer 2013 "Human-Animal Studies Fellow"
  


• Graduate student Matthew Reese's paper, "Moral Development in Virtue Theory and The Role of Narrative" has been accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Narrative 2013
  


• Graduate student Jiajun "Albert" Hu's paper, "Asymmetry in Responsibility for Omissions: A Reply to Clarke's Explanation" has been accepted for presentation at the annual Mid-South Philosophy Conference
  


• Assistant Professor Clerk Shaw's book manuscript has been contracted for publication by Cambridge University Press
  


• David and Kathryn White Undergraduate Teaching Award
  


• EJ Coffman awarded UT Chancellor's Grant
  


• Lecturer Margaret Moore’s paper, “Mere Exposure to Bad Art” is now forthcoming in the British Journal of Aesthetics
  


• Graduate student Trevor Hedberg will present his paper "Abortion and Personhood: Can the Infanticide Objection be Eluded?" at the upcoming annual meeting of the Tennessee Philosophical Association
  


• Graduate student Grace Campbell will present her paper, “The Practice View of International Human Rights Doctrine: Prospects for Women’s Human Rights” at the International Studies Assoc Annual Meeting
  


• Graduate student Devon Bryson has had his paper “Changing a Mere Event into an Action” (on the non-causalism debate in action theory) accepted for presentation at the prestigious Shapiro Graduate Conference
  


• Graduate Student Roger Turner's paper "Haji on the Direct Argument" has been accepted for presentation at the American Philosophical Association's Pacific Division Meeting
  


• Dr. Dwight Van De Vate passes away
  


• PhD candidate Gavin Enck's paper “Ideals of Student Excellence and Enhancement” has been accepted for publication in Neuroethics
  


• Welcome to new lecturer Margaret E. Moore
  


• Graduate student Roger Turner's paper “Haji on the Direct Argument” has been accepted for presentation at the Florida State University Graduate Philosophy Conference on Free Will and Moral Responsibility
  


• The Department welcomes several new lecturers to its faculty ranks for 2012-13
  


• Best wishes to 2012 PhDs Erik Krag, Court Lewis and Joel MacClellan
  


• Jim Okapal (PhD, 2004) has been tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Philosophy at Missouri Western State University
  


• Nolan Hatley and Trevor Hedberg will be presenting work at the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress
  


• Graduate student Joel MacClellan's paper “How to Defend a Rawlsian Approach to Intergenerational Ethics”, has been accepted for publication in Ethics & the Environment
  


• Congratulations to the Spring 2012 Mark and Inge Moore Undergraduate Philosophy Essay Contest Winners
  


• Congratulations to the undergraduate recipients of Philosophy Department Scholarships for AY 2012-13
  


• Graduate students/instructors Matt Ruble and Stacie Hocke Johnson have been selected as the 2012 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors
  


• Lecturer Adam Kadlac will be taking a new position next year at Wake Forest University
  


• David Palmer named one of this year’s recipients of a Chancellor’s Teaching Award
  


• Lecturer Matthew Pamental’s essay “Pragmatism, Metaphysics, and Bioethics: Beyond a Theory of Moral Deliberation” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
  


• Graduate student Gavin Enck's paper, "The Morality of Enhancing Students," has been accepted for presentation at the 38th Conference on Value Inquiry
  


• Ms. Susan Williams selected as the 2012 Extraordinary Customer Service Award winner
  


• Laura Cutshaw's paper, entitled, "An Advocacy for Moral Judgement as proposed by Rossian Moral Pluralism" accepted for presentation at the Appalachian Regional Philosophy Colloquiu
  


• Pamela Hieronymi, UCLA, will be the second keynote speaker at our inaugural Tennessee Values and Agency (TVA) Philosophy conference
  


• Graduate student Jeremy Makely’s paper “Why Memory Really Isn’t a Generative Epistemic Source” has been accepted for presentation at the Northwestern/Notre Dame Graduate Epistemology Conference
  


• Ayca Boylu will be joining the department for AY 2012-13 as a visiting assistant professor
  


• Matthew Reese will be presenting his paper "Paul Audi's Failed Response to the Pairing Problem: How the Slippery Attempt Affects his Defense of Substance Dualism" at the 16th annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
  


• Graduate student and Ph.D. candidate Gavin Enck to receive 2012-13 Integrated Ethics’ Clinical Ethics Fellowship
  


• The Department is pleased to announce two new Undergraduate Major Concentrations
  


• Graduate student Trevor Hedberg's paper “Greater Knowledge in a Warmer World” has been chosen to receive the Karen M. T. Muskavitch Award for Graduate Work in Practical Ethics
  


• Graduate Students Jason Fishel and Gavin Enck have both had papers accepted for presentation at the 36th annual MidSouth Philosophy Conference
  


• Graduate student Lt. Col. Todd Burkhardt's paper "Jus Post Bellum: Ex Post Requirements arising from Ex Ante Obligations" will appear in the volume "Not Just Wars: Extensions and Alternatives to the Just War Tradition in the 21st Century"
  


• Graduate student Roger Turner will present his paper "More on Defending Religious Exclusivism: A Reply to Richard Feldman" at the joint meeting of the North Carolina/South Carolina Philosophical Associations
  


• Graduate student Joel MacClellan will present his paper "Recreating Eden? Natural Evil and Environmental Ethics" at the joint meeting of the North Carolina/South Carolina Philosophical Associations
  


• Graduate student Nolan Hatley will present his paper "Plato's Protagoras as Script: An Analysis of its Dramatic Structure" at the joint meeting of the North Carolina/South Carolina Philosophical Association
  


• Markus Kohl will be joining the UT Department of Philosophy in August 2012
  


• Lecturer Brian Chance has been selected to participate in a prestigious "Master Class" on Post-Kantian Idealism sponsored by the Journal of the History of Philosophy
  


• Nora Berenstain will be joining the faculty in August 2012 as Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  


• David Palmer has organized a "super seminar" for the Spring of 2013
  


• EJ Coffman announces Fall 2012 graduate “super seminar” focused on contemporary virtue epistemology
  


• Graduate Student Trevor Hedberg will present his paper "Moral Worth and Other-Regarding Inclinations: Revisiting Kant's Views of Beneficent Actions" at the 5th Annual Southeast Philosophy Congress
  


• Graduate student Trevor Hedberg has had his paper accepted for presentation at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
  


• John Nolt will be publishing a new text book, "An Introduction to Environmental Ethics: An Intergenerational Perspective," with Routledge Publishing
  


• Lecturer Colin McQuillan a Kant scholar, among other things, has received a contract from Northwestern University Press to publish his book, tentatively titled "On the Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason"
  


• Lecturer Shidan Lotfi. Shidan successfully defended his dissertation, "A Theory of Flourishing," at Florida State University
  


• Recent Ph.D. Thomas Harter has accepted a position with Gundersen Lutheran Health System (Wisconsin) as Associate Clinical Ethicist in the Department of Medical Research
  


• Graduate student John Regan's paper "I need your help to be autonomous" has been accepted for presentation to the Southeast Philosophy Congress next spring
  


• UT Philosophy putting on a good show at the annual Tennessee Philosophical Association meeting
  


• Jason Fishel's paper "Coercion and Its Effect on Knowledge of the Divine in Paul Moser's The Elusive God" has been accepted for presentation at the next meeting of the Tennessee Philosophical Association
  


• Graduate student Roger Turner has had his paper "Jesus' Return as Lottery Puzzle: A reply to Donald Smith" accepted for publication by Religious Studies, a prominent journal for philosophy of religion
  


• Joel MacClellan has had his paper "Recreating Eden? Natural Evil and Environmental Ethics" accepted for presentation at an ISEE (International Soc. Environmental Ethics) session at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Associatio
  


• Graduate student Devon Bryson recently presented his paper "An Impasse over Epistemic Value" to the Central States Philosophical Association
  


• PhD candidate Erik Krag's paper "A New Timing Objection to Frankfurt Cases" has been accepted for presentation in a colloquium session at the upcoming meeting of the APA Pacific Division
  


• Karen Smith and to USAF Maj. Bill Uhl successfully defended their dissertations
  


• Assistant Professor of Philosophy, killed in accident on the highway in Pennsylvania
  


• Jeff Cervantez has accepted a tenure-track position at Roane State Community College
  


• Congratulations to graduate students and soon-to-be Drs. Woods Nash and Matt Deaton
  


• Joel MacClellan has had his paper "Is Biocentrism Dead? Unresolved Problems for Life-Centered Ethics" accepted for presentation to the International Society for Environmental Ethics at the 2011 meeting at the Eastern APA
  


• The Philosophy Department is pleased to publish its Spring 2011 Newsletter
  


• John McClellan will begin teaching this fall as assistant professor of philosophy at Carson Newman College
  


• UT PhD (2009) Frank Mashburn has taken a tenure track position teaching philosophy with Pellissippi State Community College in East Tennessee
  


• Graduate Student Woods Nash's paper "The Moviegoer's Cartesian Theater: Moviegoing as Walker Percy's Metaphor for the Cartesian Mind" will appear in a special issue of Perspectives on Political Science
  


• John Nolt and incoming faculty member Jon Garthoff secure a UT Haines Morris Grant to support a Spring 2012 symposium focused on animals, ethics and law
  


• The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce that Dr. Colin McQuillan will be joining the department as a lecturer next year
  


• Adam Kadlac has had his paper entitled "Irreplaceablity and Identity" accepted by Social Theory and Practice
  


• Brian Chance has had his paper "Causal Powers, Hume's Early German Critics, and Kant's Response to Hume" accepted for publication by Kant-Studien
  


• Philosophy Department sponsored Ethics Bowl earns praise
  


• Berry Cave Salamander as an endangered species
  


• Graduate students and instructors Jeff Cervantez and Gavin Enck have each been recognized with an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for academic year 2010-11
  


• Congratulations to undergraduates Ms. Maggi Hume and Mr. Matthew Reese, winners in the 2011 Mark and Inge Moore Undergraduate Essay Contest
  


• Congratulations to undergraduates Evangeline Hobbs, Maggi Hume, Andrew Moffatt, Jennifer Baldwin, and Aaron Campbell
  


• PhD candidate Woods Nash has accepted an offer to start in August 2011 as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, tenure-track, at Marywood University in Pennsylvania
  


• Undergraduate Spenser Powellhas been awarded a UT summer research grant to pursue his study: The Limits of the World: Revisiting the Transition in Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language
  


• Joel MacClellan has been awarded for 2011-12 one of the three very prestigious Yates Dissertation Fellowships funded by the University of Tennessee
  


• The Department is very pleased and fortunate to be able to announce the addition of four new members as of August, 2011: Adam Cureton, John Garthoff, David Palmer, and Matthew Pamental
  


• Graduate Student Matt Ruble will present his paper "Personal and Doxastic Justification in the Ethics of Belief" at the upcoming annual meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society
  


• Graduate Student Jack Powers will present his paper "Duhem's Thesis?" at the upcoming annual meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society
  


• Joel MacClellan's paper "Size Matters: Animal Size, Contributory Causation, and Ethical Vegetarianism" has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Animal Ethics
  


• Eric Thompson's paper "Assertion and Pragmatic Encroachment: A Reply to Jennifer Lackey" has been accepted for presentation at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP)
  


• Graduate student Roger Turner has had his paper "On Kelly, on Leite, on Kelly: In Defense of Instrumentalism" accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Philosophical Society
  


• Graduate student Gavin Enck has had his paper "Cognitive Enhancers, Students, and Virtues" accepted for presentation at the "Exploring Human Enhancement" conference
  


• Graduate students Matt Deaton and Trevor Hedberg will be presenting papers at the 20th annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
  


• The Philosophy Department is excited to report that its proposed revisions to its undergraduate curriculum and major are working their way through the approval processes
  


• Sarah Kenehan recently passed her PhD dissertation examination with honors
  


• Graduate student Court Lewis was recently appointed by the Knox County Commission to the Knox County Ethics Committee
  


• Graduate student Eric Thompson will be presenting his paper "Assertion and Pragmatic Encroachment: A reply to Jennifer Lackey" to the annual meeting of the Tennessee Philosophical Association in November
  


• Graduate student Jeff Cervantez's paper "Intuitive Justice: Thoughts on Neutralizing Luck" has been accepted for presentation in a colloquium session at the upcoming meeting of the APA Pacific Division
  


• Graduate student Trevor Hedberg will present his paper "The Circumstances of Justice and the Role of Justice as Fairness" at the annual meeting of the Tennessee Philosophical Association in November.
  


• Graduate student Nolan Hatley will present his paper "Ataraxia: Why Nietzsche Rejects Epicurus" at the 2010 meeting of the Tennessee Philosophical Association
  


• Graduate student Jacob Bethem will present his paper "Distinguishing Sportsmanship" at the 2010 meeting of the Tennessee Philosophical Association.
  


• Third Faculty Search Approved
  


• Graduate Student and US Army Major Todd Burkhardt has been appointed to the Board of Advisors for the Warrior Research Center at Auburn University
  


• Graduate Student Gavin Enck's paper "Cognitive Enhancers, Students, and Virtues" was accepted for the main program of "Transforming Humanity" Conference
  


• Graduate Student Matt Deaton is organizing again this year the annual East Tennessee “Ethics Bowl” for regional high school students
  


• Graduate student Jeff Cervantez will present his paper “Intuitive Justice: Thoughts on Neutralizing Luck,” to the forthcoming annual meeting of the Southwest Philosophical Society.
  


• UT Philosophy Ph.D. John Fitzpatrick publishes his second book on John Stuart Mill
  


• Associate Professor Heather Douglas wins National Science Foundation Scholars Award
  


• Two faculty searches approved
  


• John Nolt and Lee Shepski receive grants to bring distinguished visitors to campus
  


• EJ Coffman receives grant to put on Spring 2011 symposium on “The Ethics of Belief”
  


• Shidan Lotfi Joins Department
  


• Brian Chance Joins Department
  


• Heather Douglas Delivers Commentary on Keynote Address at 2010 CSPO Conference
  


• PhD student Grace Campbell wins UNC-Asheville Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award
  


• Ted Richards Has Two Articles Accepted for Publication
  


• Ted Richards' Edited Collection Soccer & Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game Release This Month
  


• 2010-11 Philosophy Scholarships Winners Announced
  


• Associate Professor David Reidy Appointed Department Head
  


• John Hardwig, Professor of Philosophy, Announces Retirement
  


• Two Lecturer (Teaching) Positions Available
  


• Undergraduate Amanda DeBuhr has paper accepted at APPE conference
  


• Tom Harter has accepted a two-year Fellowship in Advanced Bioethics from the Cleveland Clinic Department of Bioethics
  


• Meghan Bungo’s paper selected to receive the first annual Karen M. T. Muskavitch Prize for Graduate Work in Ethics
  


• Walter Riker Accepts tenure-track Position at the University of West Georgia
  


• Good Without God? The Problem of Justice and Human Rights
  


• Review of Heather E. Douglas, Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal
  


• Pamela Grace, former Philosophy graduate student, wins National Jesuit Book Award
  


• Massimo Pigliucci appointed head of the Philosophy Department at the City University of New York-Lehman College
  


• UT Philosophy major Morgan Thompson is one of twenty students nationwide to be selected for the 2009 Colorado Summer Seminar in Philosophy
  


• Heather Douglas, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
  


• Douglas's Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal published this May by University of Pittsburgh Press
  


• Two UT Knoxville Faculty Named National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows
  


• Former Graduate's Recent Book Receives Positive Reviews from Prominent Venues
  


• Former graduate Student Revised Dissertation Accepted for Publication by Edwin Mellen Press.
  


• Reidy wins NEH Fellowship
  


• Tom Harter Awarded Pacific APA Graduate Student Paper Prize
  


• Reidy wins Berger Prize: Second Time in the Previous Three Awards
  


• Lee Shepski Joins Department
  


• Associate Professor David Reidy named one of eight Lindsay Young Professors for 2008-9
  


• Greg Bock (Ph.D. student) accepts tenure-track offer at Walters State
  


• Energy Conference to Highlight Role of Ethics, Responsibility
  


• Lee Shepski (University of Arizona) joins department next Fall
  


• Three Ph.D. students named Baker Scholars
  


• Kenehan Has Central APA Paper Accepted
  


• Betsy Postow, In Memoriam
  


• Reidy Book Recognized
  


• Douglas Wins Interdisciplinary Studies Award
  


• Nash Receives Teaching Excellence Award
  


• Leutwiler Receives Scholarships
  


• Undergraduate Essay Contest Winners Announced
  


• Arnold Receives SARIF Research Grant
  


• Riker to Vanderbilt
  


• Bustos Publishes in "The Journal of Value Inquiry" and has APA Eastern Division Paper Accepted
  


• Riker Publishes in "Political Studies"
  


• Kenehan Wins Fellowship
  


• Bustos Receives ISSE Dissertation Fellowhip
  


• Kabasensche to Washington State
  


• Undergraduate Essay Contest Announced !
  


• Undergraduate Scholarships Announced !
  


• Faculty Searches
  


• Grad Student Wins APA Prize
  


• Graduate Students Win APA Prizes
  


• Mendez Wins the Undergraduate Essay Contest
  


• Spring Ethics Conference
  


• Riker Wins Graduate Teaching Award
  


• Johnson Conducts Research at Oak Ridge
  


• Cohen Retires
  


• New Faculty Hires
  


• Reidy Wins Berger Prize
  


• Arnold Wins “Best Paper” Award
  


• Undergraduate Awards
  


• Erin Darby leaves for NEH Fellowship in Jerusalem
  


• Tina Shepardson receives prestigious National Humanities Fellowship
  


• Megan Bryson receives book contract with Stanford UP for Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in SW China
  


• Rosalind Hackett delivers talk at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City
  


• Tina Shepardson publishes article on Jews of Fourth-Century Antioch
  


• Tina Shepardson's promotion to Full Professor honored at Faculty Bookplate Reception, October 12, 2015
  


• Emily Johnson receives OUP book contract for This Is Our Message: Women's Leadership in the New Christian Right
  


• Judaic Studies searches for new Director
  


• Destruction of temples in Syria hits home for UT faculty pair
  


• Robert Cremins, Kirby Trovillo, and Felipe Oliveira were the 2015 recipients of the Lusby and Hodges Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
  


• Religious Studies minor Allison Gose wins Marco prize for essay
  


• Interview with Erin Darby about ancient Judean pillar figurines
  


• Rosalind Hackett's book New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa is published
  


• Rosalind Hackett and major Olivia Bradley participate in study and service abroad program in Uganda
  


• Through Study and Service Abroad (in Uganda) Keep Smiling!
  


• Faculty research seminars announced: Late Antiquity (Shepardson) and Centers and Peripheries in East Asia (Bryson)
  


• Rachelle Scott featured in PBS program
  


• Tina Shepardson elected to board of North American Patristics Society
  


• Erin Darby travels to Jordan, Switzerland, and Israel for Summer Research
  


• Majors receive awards at 2014 Annual Awards Ceremony
  


• Rosalind I. J. Hackett serves as Mellon Fellow at University of Cape Town, May 2014
  


• Tina Shepardson’s new book, Controlling Contested Places: Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy, is published by University of California Press
  


• Erin Darby first recipient of the new F. Stanley Lusby and John O. Hodges Teaching Endowment
  


• Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Maestro Lucas Richman lectures on renowned composer Ernest Bloch
  


• Megan Bryson presents her research at Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies, Belgium, December 2013
  


• Department of Religious Studies announces search for Assistant Professor of Islam
  


• Rosalind I. J. Hackett delivers keynote address at Elon University on religious terrorism in Africa
  


• Religious Studies Majors and Minors receive recognition at the 2013 Awards Ceremony and Graduation party
  


• Megan Bryson wins Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award at Chancellor’s Honors Banquet
  


• Alissa Reeves, major in English and Religious Studies, wins award for Extraordinary Professional Promise at Chancellor’s Honors Banquet
  


• The McClung Museum exhibition, Zen Buddhism and the Arts of Japan, curated by Dr. Megan Bryson last fall, won an excellence award from the TN state museum association
  


• Emeritus professor John Hodges featured in TN Today
  


• Emeritus professor John Hodges featured in Knoxville News Sentinel
  


• Paula Fredriksen’s lecture featured in Daily Beacon
  


• Mark Hulsether published “We Do Not Need to Live Like Rats Fighting for Scraps” in Dharma World
  


• Rachelle Scott delivers lecture at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs
  


• Tina Shepardson wins 2012 College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Award for Academic Outreach
  


• Professors Make Archaeological Finds in Jordan; Epigrapher to Speak Tuesday
  


• Professor Gilya Schmidt recently published an essay on prejudice and hate in the publication Dharma World
  


• Megan Bryson, co-curator, Zen Buddhism and the Arts of Japan at UT’s McClung Museum speaks on "From Zen Art to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
  


• Rosalind Hackett and Randal Hepner publish article in Religious Dispatches about a controversial crusade in war-affected northern Uganda
  


• Gilya Schmidt publishes book on rural Judaism in Germany
  


• Lecturer Kelly Baker writes on the new Klan in the Atlantic magazine
  


• Lecturer Megan Bryson writes on “’Newddhists’ in the News”
  


• Kelly Baker named UT’s Scholar of the Week for her recent publications on the Klan
  


• Religious Studies students publish their undergraduate research in Pursuit.
  


• Distinguished American religion scholar Professor Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Dept. of Religious Studies, UNC Chapel Hill, lectures on "Saints of Darkness: Mormons, Race, and the Issue of an African American Priesthood"
  


• Workshop on Islam for teachers
  


• Tina Shepardson's research on Controlling Contested Places: Fourth Century Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy supported and featured by the American Academy of Religion
  


• Noted author on religion in the U.S. Jeff Sharlet delivers Second Annual Memorial Lecture, February 28, 2012
  


• Rachelle Scott appointed North American editor of journal, Fieldwork in Religion.
  


• Professor Rosalind Hackett co-editor of new book on religion and conflict in Africa
  


• Rachelle Scott wins College Advising Award, November 29, 2011
  


• Professor Rosalind Hackett leads UT study and service abroad program to Uganda in July/August 2011
  


• Majors attend Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion conference in Louisville, KY, March 2011
  


• Rachelle Scott speaks on Buddhism, gender, and the environment at Baker Center Centripetal Luncheon on Wednesday April 20, 2011
  


• Research project and achievements of major Jenny Bledsoe featured in Torchbearer
  


• First David L. Dungan Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor Bart Ehrman (Jan. 27) now available for viewing online.
  


• Only Jewish Professor in China to extend US speaking tour.
  


• Rosalind I. J. Hackett appointed to the Academic Council of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University
  


• Religious Studies Association screens film on religion and social activism.
  


• Sarah Pike gives lecture on "Tree-Huggers to Eco-Terrorists: Childhood Religious Experience and Radical Environmentalism"
  


• Mark Hulsether responds to Newsweek article on growing popularity of Religious Studies
  


• Position announcement for Assistant Professor in Islam at UTK
  


• Tina Shepardson delivers pre-game Faculty Showcase Lecture on ""The Bible Tells Me So: The Politics of Biblical Interpretation"
  


• Professor Rosalind Hackett was interviewed on Al-Jazeera television on Pentecostalism in Africa in July 2010
  


• Professor Rosalind Hackett was elected as President of the International Association for the History of Religions for 2010-15 at the XXth World Congress in Toronto, Canada on August 21, 2010
  


• Kelly Baker delivers paper at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism
  


• UT Knoxville Selected to Host Visiting Professor from Israel
  


• Dr. Rosalind Hackett, Professor of Religious Studies visits the Royal Kingdom of Bhutan for pre-conference site visit in June-July 2010
  


• NEW COURSE OFFERED - Religion & Society in North America
  


• Tina Shepardson organizes an American Academy of Religion Regional Workshop on “Religion and Culture in Late Antiquity” at UT from April 30-May 1
  


• Professor John Hodges Lectures at Chinese Universities Over Spring Break
  


• Professor Miriam Levering publishes chapter in important Zen Buddhism series
  


• Tibetan monk/author to speak in Knoxville
  


• Religious Studies Scholar Shepardson on the Fast Track for Success
  


• Professor Mark Hulsether writes on Tiger Woods' public apology and rituals of confession
  


• Emeritus Professor Lee Humphreys speaks out on the name of Jesus and the formation of early Christianity
  


• Dr. Marco DiGiulio Receives Prestigious Fellowship for Summer 2010
  


• The Department of Religious Studies and the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies Presents Alexander Mishory, 2009-2010 Schusterman Visiting Israel Professor
  


• Rosalind Hackett to give Centripetal lecture on sound and religion on March 24, 2010
  


• Hulsether's piece in Religion Dispatches on "Top Five (Less Sensational But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson" circulates widely and is featured in the Utne Reader
  


• Screening of Trinta
  Brazilian Film Series, Sunday, January 31st, 5pm. Hodges Library Auditorium. Subtitles in English.


• MLL Talent Show March 1
  "Fifteen Minutes of Fame." International Talent Show. Tuesday, March 1, 6:30pm Cox Auditorium.


• Mariani to Teach New Italian Course in Spring
  


• MFLL Spanish Ph.D. Program Achieves High National Ranking
  


• Vigil Held for Paris Victims
  


• Goethe Festival! November 12-13
  


• Screening of Cafundó
  


• Public Presentation: Turkish 'Soap Power': A New Kind of Cultural Penetration
  


• Public Presentation: The New Frontier of Turkey's Foreign Policy, Chance or Challenge?
  


• Book Launch: Nos pasamos de la raya / We Crossed the Line
  


• Study Abroad in Costa Rica Summer 2015
  


• State Department Scholarship!
  


• Italian Students in Urbino and Florence!
  


• Hughes Receives Academic Support Award!
  


• German Tea Attracts 160!
  


• Paige Scrivener Awarded Prestigious Boren Scholarship
  


• Tostoy Festival April 23-24, 2015
  


• New Award for Honors Theses Combining STEM and MFLL Majors
  


• Public Presentations: Archaeology of Graeco-Roman Technology
  


• MFLL Soccer Tournament
  


• ¿Hablas español?
  


• MFLL Dessert Contest a Hit!
  


• The Worker ’s Illustrated Magazine, 1921-1938: Germany’s Other Avant-Garde
  


• Maria Stehle Participates in Online International Lecture Series
  


• “ LA MAFIA OGGI IN ITALIA” A LECTURE BY SUSANNA DELFINO
  


• Russian Poetry Reading Contest
  


• New Scholarship Opportunity for MFLL Undergraduates!
  


• French Novelist Wins Nobel Prize in Literature!
  


• Senior Kelsey Ray Awarded Prestigious Translation Scholarship
  


• International Education Week at UT
  


• International Education Week: French Program
  


• Russia Week!
  


• Blackwell wins book award
  


• MFLL Open House!