Weekend Seminars for Graduate Students
I ran graduate seminar retreats in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2024, and 2025. These weekend seminars were reminders of what academic work is all about, namely, working together in philosophical friendship on one topic in a peaceful settings.
2025: Politics of Exception. Arendt and Schmitt
from left to right: Ashley Krieger, Jacob Fortman, Chase Halsne, Lotz, Delphine Michaud, Sean Cleary, Reese Haller, Scott Peyton, Sarah Rundle
2024: Reification 2.0.
from left to right (upper row): Alex Vlasov, Cristóbal Arellano Borges, Chase Halsne, Reese Haller, Delphine Michaud, Rebecca Pincus, (lower row) Lotz, Matt Kelley, Ashley Krieger, Peighton Connor
2010: Adorno and Heidegger
from left to right (upper row): Terry Echterling, Matthew Johnson, Steven Schoonover, Esme Murdock, Corinne Painter (WCC), Dustin Byrd, Anna Malavisi, Mladjo Ivanovic, Andrew Woodson, (lower row) Lotz, Ivan Guajardo, Michael Brown
2008: Heidegger, Being and Time
from left to right (upper row, 4th): Gerard Kuperus (USF), Ivan Guajardo, Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht, John Wallace, Terry Echterling, Corinne Painter (WCC), Marjolein Oele (USF), 3rd: Carlos Melendez, Shannon Proctor, Steven Schoonover, 2nd: Michael Brown, Matthew Johnson, Sophie Vick, 1st: Joe Stramondo
2006: Intersubjectivity from Hegel to Levinas
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Foucault Seminar in 2006
The Foucault seminar in 2006 turned out to be a wonderful experience for both me and students (what a surprise!). Check this page out for more. Here is the group during a visit to the alternate incarceration facility in South-East Michigan, a so called “boot camp”:
Christian Lotz 