Join us in Auerbach 320 or online this Wednesday, Feb. 28, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., for our next meeting of the University of Hartford Philosophy Club as new member Mark A. Sheridan presents a philosophical reflection on the search for extraterrestrial life. (See full document).
To join the meeting online, click here. If you have trouble joining, call Brian Skelly at 413.273.2273.
In the words of Mark Sheridan, treasurer of the Connecticut Poetry Society and retired managing director of J.P. Morgan & Co., "My personal passion since high school has been how we construct, understand and communicate with others, especially the radical other. In pursuit of this passion, I have lived and worked on four continents, taught at-risk inner-city high school students, obtained a PhD, written a dissertation on our attempts to communicate with extraterrestrials, and pioneered the use of question-based interactive poetry. The PhD, awarded in 2002 by Drew University in New Jersey was in Intellectual History. Perhaps the most compelling reason I went there was because I could jog to class!
An ongoing weekly tradition at the University since 2001, the University of Hartford Philosophy Club is a place where students, professors, and people from the community at large meet as peers. Sometimes presentations are given, followed by discussion. Other times, topics are hashed out by the whole group.
Presenters may be students, professors, or people from the community. Anyone can offer to present a topic. The mode of presentation may be as formal or informal as the presenter chooses.
Food and drink are served. Come and go as you wish. Bring friends. Suggest topics and activities. Take over the club! It belongs to you!