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Spring 2026 Colloquium Series
The Colloquium Series is an effort to build intellectual community within and beyond Curriculum & Instruction. Each semester the colloquium organizes several events, including guest speakers, panel discussions, feedback on in-progress work, and mini-conferences.
Join NAU Philosophy for Traveling to Animal Worlds with Dr. Andrew Lopez, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Lopez will be discussing the phenomenology of animal worlds – that is the world from the animal’s perspective – and how humans can relate to these worlds. Location: Liberal Arts 209 Time: Thursday February 26, 2026, 4pm to 530pm Dr. Andrew Lopez discusses the phenomenology of animal worlds and how humans can relate to these worlds. #NAUphilosophy #CALisPhilosophy #AnimalWorlds Join NAU Philosophy and Professor Jonna Vance for a free lecture: Perceiving Value and Social Disagreement It is a commonplace that we see shapes, hear pitches, and feel textures. But can we also perceive values such as goodness and badness? In this talk, Professor Vance presents a range of evidence that we do, and discusses how this reveals an under-explored source of difficulty in certain kinds of social and political disagreements. Thursday | April 9 | 4 PM Liberal Arts Building | Room 204 #CALisPhilosophy Join NAU Philosophy and Professor Elizabeth Brake for a free lecture: Emotional Abuse Despite the now common use of the concept in everyday life, emotional abuse has been almost completely ignored by philosophers. In this talk, Prof. Brake aims to define emotional abuse, and then explore the ways in which emotional abuse morally wrongs the victim. Thursday | April 23 | 4 PM Liberal Arts Building | Room 204 #CALisPhilosophy 
