Category: News

• May 6, 2012

  CFP: The Inter – American Journal of Philosophy Special Edition

  The Inter – American Journal of Philosophy Special Edition – 2012 The 1812 Constitution of Cádiz and Its Influence in the Americas Call for Papers This year marks the 200th anniversary of the 1812 Constitution of Cádiz a document which has greatly influenced the development of constitutional rights, representative government, political conceptions of equality, and…
• February 28, 2012

  Leonard Harris in India

  See Photo Album Visiting Scholar, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Lecture Series: Critical Pragmatism (Alain Locke) Philosophy of Liberation (Tolerance, Cosmopolitanism) Insurrectionist Ethics
• March 1, 2011

  UNESCO: PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS

  UNESCO WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT “AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORA” Get the full report [pdf 1.2 mb] 18-20 April 2011 PURDUE UNIVERSITY, USA Conference languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Alain L. Locke Society, coordination, Alainlocke.com Leonard Harris, Ph.D. lharrisconferences@purdue.edu Register at: www.conf.purdue.edu/pdaa The conference will bring together philosophers…
• November 18, 2010

  Open Letter of Support for Philosophy at Howard University

  PURDUE U N I V E R S I T Y DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY Leonard Harris, PH.D. PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, PH.D. PROGRAM November 1, 2010 To: Sidney Ribeau, President, Howard University and Presidential Commission on Academic Renewal, Howard University, 2400 Sixth Street, Washington DC 20059 From: Leonard Harris, Professor of Philosophy; Board, Alain Locke Society;…
• February 7, 2009

  Carlin Romano Reviews New Alain Locke Biography

  A fine first biography of thinker Alain Locke Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher By Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth University of Chicago Press 432 pp. $45 Reviewed by Carlin Romano Inquirer Book Critic When Philadelphia-born Alain L. Locke (1885-1954), the first African American to win a Rhodes Scholarship, wrote home to his…
• February 7, 2009

  Page 99 Test Applied to New Alain Locke Biography

  The Page 99 Test blog has a motto by Ford Madox Ford: “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” Here’s the test applied by authors Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth to the new biography of Alain Locke: Alain Locke was the first African…