The Faculty Colloquium offers faculty an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with colleagues from different disciplines. By long-standing practice, colloquium presenters provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter’s short (10-15) minute exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is by design informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.

The Center makes the papers available in advance by providing a non-public URL to all who are on its listserv.
To subscribe to the Glasscock Center’s listserv, click here. To request the URL for an individual paper without subscribing to the listserv, please contact the center
in a timely manner at glasscock(at)tamu.edu or at
(979) 845-8328.

All colloquia will be held in the Glasscock Center Library, Glasscock Building, Room 311.

2 December, Wednesday, 4 p.m.
Benjamin McMyler (Philosophy)
"The Epistemic Significance of Address"

Wednesday, 27 January, 4 p.m.
Rola El-Husseini (Bush School)
"Leadership and Governance in Modern Shi'a Political Thought"

Wednesday, 10 February, 4 p.m.
Kevin Glowacki (Architecture)
"Early Travelers to Greece and the Sacred Landscape of Athens"

Wednesday, 24 February, 4 p.m.
Nandini Bhattacharya (English)
"Nation (De)Composed in Progressive Indian Cinema: Ritwik Ghatak, Guru Dutt and the Shifting Shapes of National Memory"

Wednesday, 10 March, 4 p.m.
Christian Brannstrom (Geography)
"The Making of an Irrigated Agricultural Landscape in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, 1900-1945"

Wednesday, 7 April, 4 p.m.
Margaret Woosnam (Architecture)
"Women in Architecture"

Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
4-5 p.m.

Glasscock Center Library, Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Benjamin McMyler, assistance professor of philosophy, will present his work-in-progress “The Epistemic Significance of Address.”

Professor McMyler interests are in self-knowledge and in the epistemology of testimony. His current research focuses on the role of authority relations in thought and action. McMyler has recently published “Knowing at Second Hand”, Inquiry, Vol. 50, No. 5 (Oct. 2007), 511-540. Forthcoming publications incluce “Believing What the Man Says About His Own Feelings,” in New Essays on the Philosophy of J. L. Austin, eds. Martin Gustafsson and Richard Sørli, Oxford University Press and "Testimony, Trust, and Authority," forthcoming from Harvard University Press.

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