{"id":24423,"date":"2026-03-16T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=24423"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T21:09:13","slug":"clasa-to-host-philosophy-scholar-thomas-nail-for-pair-of-events-march-18-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/03\/16\/clasa-to-host-philosophy-scholar-thomas-nail-for-pair-of-events-march-18-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy Department to host scholar Thomas Nail for pair of events, March 18-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24413\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24413 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/01\/Thomas-Nail.jpg?resize=300%2C292&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Black and white image of Thomas Nail standing before a wall of bookshelves full of books.\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/01\/Thomas-Nail.jpg?resize=300%2C292&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/01\/Thomas-Nail.jpg?w=504&amp;ssl=1 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Nail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thomas Nail, distinguished scholar and professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver, will be the guest speaker at a pair of Philosophy Department events on <strong>Wednesday, March 18<\/strong>, and <strong>Thursday, March 19.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>March 18, at 4 p.m., <em>The Figure of the Migrant<\/em>,<\/strong> in Room 317 of the Briggs Building: The talk introduces the main ideas of Nail&#8217;s books, <em>The Figure of the Migrant <\/em>and <em>Theory of the Border,<\/em> rethinking the nature of political philosophy and history from the perspective of migration. Nail has expanded his analysis to incorporate the advent of climate change and migration in deep Earth history. The conversation will step back and look at the longest and widest frame for which to illuminate the current events of unprecedented global migration and climate change.<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 19, at 10 a.m., <em>The Birth of Order from Chaos: Perspectives from Comparative World Mythology<\/em>, <\/strong>in Loranger Architecture Building Exhibition Space: The conversation explores the meaning of the word \u2018chaos,\u2019 from an immanent worldview where the oldest native language cosmogonic texts say the cosmos was born from chaos. During this lecture, Nail will present a summary of his research from his latest two unpublished books, <em>The Birth of Chaos<\/em> and <em>The Birth of Order<\/em>. His presentation will outline the common features of the world\u2019s oldest recorded cosmogonies and argue that they offer a compelling movement-oriented alternative to post Axial-Age worldviews.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to the works mentioned above, Nail is the author of numerous books, including <em>Theory of the Earth, Marx in Motion, The Philosophy of Movement, Lucretius I, II, III<\/em>, and <em>Being and Motion<\/em>. His research focuses on the philosophy of movement.<\/p>\n<p>The March 18 event is co-sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/academics\/special\/clasa\/index.php\">Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive<\/a> (CLASA).<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome to attend to these free events. Please contact Gail Presbey at <a href=\"mailto:presbegm@udmercy.edu\">presbegm@udmercy.edu<\/a> with any questions or for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distinguished speaker Thomas Nail will speak at a pair of Philosophy Department-hosted events on March 18 and 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":24413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[2083,194,4072,205,7247,7248],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/01\/Thomas-Nail.jpg?fit=504%2C491&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6lV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24423"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25306,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24423\/revisions\/25306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}