Nathan Kellen
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Over the years I've done quite a bit of administrative work, including two administrative positions and organising a number of conferences and events.

Fall 2017-Spring 2019
Research Assistant
Humility & Conviction in Public Life - $5.75MM John Templeton Foundation funded grant


As a research assistant on the Templeton funded Humility & Conviction in Public Life project housed at the UConn Humanities Institute I organized an interdisciplinary workshop on "Political Polarization and Epistemic Arrogance" and assisted with other project activities and events.

Fall 2014-Fall 2017
Coordinator
Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning (ECOM) interdisciplinary research group


As Coordinator for Dorit Bar-On's interdisciplinary "Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning" (ECOM) Research Group at UConn I organized multiple workshops and conferences, semesterly reading groups and speaker series and assisted in grant writing and other research activities.

Conferences Organised

As primary or co-organiser:

46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy
May 18-20, 2018 -- UConn Logic Group (w/ Jared Henderson & Marcus Rossberg)

"Political Polarization and Epistemic Arrogance"
April 6-7, 2018 -- Humility & Conviction in Public Life project (w/ Michael P. Lynch)

"Human and Nonhuman Animals: Minds and Morals"
May 11-13, 2017 -- ECOM Research Group (w/ Dorit Bar-On)

"What's In a Word?"
December 2-3, 2016 -- ECOM Research Group (w/ Dorit Bar-On)

"Expressive Language: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Origins"
November 19-20, 2015 -- ECOM Research Group (w/ Dorit Bar-On)

"Truth Pluralism and Logical Pluralism"
April 17-19, 2015 -- Pluralisms Global Research Network

"What's the Point? Pointing and Gestural Communication"
March 6-8, 2015 -- ECOM Research Group (w/ Dorit Bar-On)

"The A Priori" - 2nd Annual UConn Philosophy Graduate Conference
February 20, 2016 -- UConn Philosophy Graduate Student Association (w/ Hanna Gunn)

"Realism and Anti-Realism" - 1st Annual UConn Philosophy Graduate Conference
November 8th, 2014 -- UConn Philosophy Graduate Student Association (w/ Hanna Gunn)

As assistant organiser:

"Emotions and Expressions"
April 20-21, 2018 -- ECOM Research Group (primary: Dorit Bar-On & Jordan Ochs)

"Abstractionism and Neologicism"
April 26-27, 2014 -- UConn Logic Group (primary: Marcus Rossberg)

Events Organised

Pacific APA 2018 -- Prisma Global Research Network Meeting
March 28, 2018

Pacific APA 2017 -- Prisma Global Research Network Meeting
April 14, 2017

1st Annual PGSA Interdisciplinary Lecture -- David Chalmers
September 17, 2015 (w/ Hanna Gunn)

Comments

Aaron Cotnoir's "Parts of Proper Classes"
May 11, 2018 -- 2nd Annual Grover Alumni Lecture, UConn

Steven J.W. Dalglish's "Dealing With Truth Ache: Semantics and Contextualism about Truth"
March 30, 2017 -- "The Liar (And Other True Things)" Sixth Annual Philosophy and Linguistics Ohio State Workshop

Shay Logan's "Unnameable Objects and Universal Quantification"

January 6, 2016 -- Eastern APA 2016

Brendan Cline's "The Robustness of Global Evaluative Skepticism"
November 8th, 2014 -- "Realism and Anti-Realism" 1st Annual UConn Philosophy Graduate Conference

Service

Journal Refereeing: Inquiry, Erkenntnis

Session Chairing: Pacific APA 2017, Eastern APA 2017

UConn Philosophy Graduate Student Association -- President (F2014-S2016)

UConn Philosophy Department Representative to CLAS Prospective Student Open House (S2016)
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