Digital Vita – Christopher P. Long

Pragmatism and the Cultivation of Digital Democracies

“Pragmatism and the Cultivation of Digital Democracies.” In Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural, edited by Marcia Morgan and Megan Craig, 37–59. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016. As technology enables…

Christopher LongSeptember 16, 2017

Grants, Fellowships, Awards Vita

Creating Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences

To support the Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HuMetricsHSS) initiative, Michigan State University has received a $309,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The collaborative HuMetricsHSS pilot aims to create a…

Christopher LongJuly 10, 2017

Journal of General Education Publication: Journal The Liberal Arts Vita

The Liberal Arts Endeavor: The Arts of Liberty in a Time of Uncertainty

“The Liberal Arts Endeavor: The Arts of Liberty in a Time of Uncertainty.” Journal of General Education, 65, 2 (2017), v-vi. Even if, as Hannah Arendt suggests, “we are always educating for a world that…

Christopher LongMarch 19, 2017

Articles Publication: Journal Vita

Reiner Schürmann: Care of Death

“Care of Death: On the Teaching of Reiner Schürmann.” Philosophy Today, January 31, 2017. doi:10.5840/philtoday201713141. A homage in the guise of an essay, this is the story of the last course Reiner Schürmann taught. As…

Christopher LongMarch 11, 2017

Presentation: Academic

Bianchi’s the Feminine Symptom – A Response

This is the text of the response I made to Emanuela Bianchi, The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014) at the 2016 meeting of the Society for…

Christopher LongOctober 21, 2016

Journal of General Education Publication: Journal Vita

The Liberal Arts Endeavor: On Editing the Journal of General Education

“The Liberal Arts Endeavor: On Editing the Journal of General Education.” Journal of General Education, 65, 1 (2016), v-vii. In accepting the editorship of the Journal of General Education: A Curricular Commons of the Humanities…

Christopher LongOctober 19, 2016

Digital Scholarship Presentation: Interactive The Long Road Vita

Bringing Your CV to Life

Traditionally, a curriculum vitae (CV) is an articulation of one’s qualifications and accomplishments in an academic context. The Latin root of the term suggests the extent to which the CV indicates a “course of life.”…

Christopher LongSeptember 30, 2016

Articles Publication: Journal Vita

Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics

de Avlillez, André Rosenbaum, Mark Fisher, Kris Klotz, and Christopher P. Long. “Public Philosophy and Philosophical Publics: Performative Publishing and the Cultivation of Community.” The Good Society 24, no. 2 (2015): 118–45. The emergence of…

Christopher LongJune 27, 2016

Presentation: Academic Presentations The Long Road Vita

Going Viral with Your Scholarship

Sharing your work online, especially in its early phases of development, can open new paths of inquiry and establish connections with scholars who can enrich your work.

Christopher LongMay 10, 2016

Presentation: Interactive Presentations The Liberal Arts The Long Road Vita

Tweeting the Liberal Arts @Muhlenberg #MCLA16

In his inaugural address as president of the college he founded, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg spoke of the values that animate the institution: "We do not regard an education as complete that aims only at improving the intellect,”…

Christopher LongFebruary 1, 2016

Articles Book Chapter Vita

On Touch and Life in the De Anima

“On Touch and Life in the De Anima.” In Phenomenology and the Metaphysics of Sight, edited by Antonio Cimino and Pavlos Kontos, (Leiden: Brill Academic Publisher, 2015, 69-94). Although Aristotle is often thought to give…

Christopher LongDecember 15, 2015

Articles Publication: Journal Vita

Tracking Plato’s Dogs

“Who Let the Dogs Out? Tracking the Philosophical Life Among the Wolves and Dogs of Plato’s Republic.” In Plato’s Animals: Gadflies, Snakes, Stingrays, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts, edited by Jeremy Bell and Michael Naas,…

Christopher LongFebruary 19, 2015

Grants, Fellowships, Awards Vita

Mellon Grant Expands Support for the Public Philosophy Journal

Here is the press release we wrote for the second Public Philosophy Journal grant from the Mellon Foundation: Penn State has been awarded $549,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for an additional two years…

Christopher LongJanuary 9, 2015

Presentation: Interactive

Performing Collaborative Scholarship

In this interactive keynote address for the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference: Collaborating Digitally, I articulate a model of collaborative scholarship in Philosophy that has enabled me to bring undergraduate students and a wider community of…

Christopher LongNovember 13, 2014

Presentation: Academic Vita

Philosophy and the Networked Public

Philosophy has always been a public activity, although its relationship with the public and its own public nature have long been fraught with anxiety for philosophy and the public both. At this year’s Society for…

Christopher LongOctober 23, 2014

Presentations Vita

The Ethics of Philosophy in a Digital Age

To honor the work of Richard J. Bernstein, a group of colleagues and former students will gather at Stony Brook University for a conference entitled, Thinking the Plural: Richard J. Bernstein's Contribution to American Philosophy.…

Christopher LongSeptember 26, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

AltAc and the Engaged PhD

Without diminishing the centrality of the PhD research endeavor, how can we cultivate more engaged graduate students? This presentation situates the graduate research endeavor in its wider institutional and public context and suggests two concrete…

Christopher LongSeptember 15, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Socratic and Platonic Politics

This presentation argues that there is a difference, and a similarity, between the ways Socrates and Plato practice politics. Socratic politics, as depicted in Plato's dialogues, may be characterized as the practice of using spoken…

Christopher LongSeptember 5, 2014

Presentations The Public Philosophy Journal Vita

The Public Philosophy Journal at #DH2014

In this poster session, we present the project of the Public Philosophy Journal and our plans for cultivating a community of engaged scholars to sustain it. At the session, we explain our motivations for designing…

Christopher LongJuly 10, 2014

Presentation: Interactive Presentation: Other Presentations The Graduate Experience Vita

Cultivating an Online Scholarly Presence

Graduate students are often confronted with conflicting advice about how much of their academic work they should share publicly online. Although there are good reasons to consider carefully what one shares and how, graduate students…

Christopher LongMarch 27, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive Presentations Vita

Keynote Address: Socrates and the Politics of Finitude at #PCAP14

In this interactive keynote address to the Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient Philosophy hosted by Villanova University, I argue that the Phaedo is Plato's most eloquent political dialogue. We tweeted the keynote and the entire PCAP…

Christopher LongMarch 16, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Following the Footprints of Aristotle: On Kosman's The Activity of Being

Aristotle’s thinking is peripatetic. It moves along paths, some of which are well-worn, others newly cleared by the creative elasticity of his thinking. It pursues questions by traversing along a course for a stretch, on…

Christopher LongMarch 6, 2014

Articles Book Chapter Vita

The Peripatetic Method: Walking with Woodbridge, Thinking with Aristotle

“The Peripatetic Method: Walking with Woodbridge, Thinking with Aristotle.” In The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle, edited by Claudia Baracchi, (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014). Published in The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle (Bloomsbury Companions), this essay, entitled…

Christopher LongJanuary 15, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive The Public Philosophy Journal Vita

Public Digital Scholarship: The @PubPhilJ at the #APAEastern

This presentation on the Public Philosophy Journal, invited by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy, provides an update on the status of the development of the open access, open peer review journal. However difficult it…

Christopher LongDecember 29, 2013

Grants, Fellowships, Awards Vita

The Public Philosophy Journal $236,000 Mellon Grant

The Public Philosophy Journal, an innovative open access, open peer review online publication in philosophy, has received a one-year, $236,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will support the development of the…

Christopher LongOctober 16, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Socrates, Plato and Digital Scholarship at #ECDS

The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship asked me to give a version of the presentation at gave at #DH2013 last summer entitled eBook as Ecosystem of Digital Scholarship Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing the…

Christopher LongSeptember 25, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive Presentations Vita

Reading the Death of Socrates

Returning to Wittenberg for the first time since graduating in 1991, I gave an interactive, live-tweeted, lecture on Reading the Death of Socrates. The paper argues that the Phaedo is Plato's most eloquent political dialogue,…

Christopher LongSeptember 19, 2013

Digital Humanities Presentation: Academic Vita

Performative Publication in a Digital Age

New affordances in dynamic modes of digital scholarly communication have enabled authors to tailor the content of our texts to the forms in which they appear in public. This presentation focuses on two performative publication…

Christopher LongAugust 14, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

eBook as Ecosystem of Scholarly Communication

Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing the Politics of Reading (forthcoming Cambridge University Press) is an enhanced digital book that attempts to use digital media technology to cultivate the political practice of collaborative reading for…

Christopher LongJuly 19, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

The Politics of Reading … in China

NANJING, China - I must admit, I am a bit uneasy about delivering this talk on Plato and the Politics of Reading here at Nanjing University. You see, I am simply not sure what it…

Christopher LongMay 22, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Putting the Liberal Arts into Practice @NewmanU

The Liberal Arts are not so much a set of disciplines to be studied as they are a set of habits to be practiced. This is the central point and main theme around which my…

Christopher LongMarch 26, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

PPJ Workshop at PPN13

Publicness and collaboration are two of the virtues we hope the Public Philosophy Journal will embody. To that end, we want the creation and development of the journal to put those virtues into practice. So,…

Christopher LongMarch 16, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Public Philosophy in Digital Dialogue

There is a difference between the ways Socrates turns those with whom he speaks in Plato's dialogues to consider questions of justice, beauty and the good and the ways Plato's writing turns his readers to…

Christopher LongMarch 15, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Public Philosophy Journal

Philosophy is often mistakenly viewed as distant from public life, secluded in the Ivory Tower away from the public concerns of civil society. However, the affordances of digital scholarly communication have enabled philosophers increasingly to…

Christopher LongFebruary 15, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Keynote Address: Liberal Arts and Politics

From its earliest articulation in Ancient Greek thinking, the first principle and ultimate end of an education in the liberal arts has always been to live an excellent human life. Because, however, human life can…

Christopher LongNovember 27, 2012

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Plato and the Politics of Reading

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - To give a lecture on the politics of collaborative reading without inviting one's listeners to become active participants would be a performative contradiction. So, in this lecture, Plato and the Politics…

Christopher LongOctober 21, 2012

Articles Publication: Journal Vita

Socrates: Platonic Political Ideal

Christopher P. Long, "Socrates: Platonic Political Ideal," Ideas y Valores, 61, 149: 2012. This essay articulates the differences and suggests the similarities between the practices of Socratic political speaking and those of Platonic political writing.…

Christopher LongSeptember 22, 2012

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

On Touch and Life in the De Anima

CITTÀ DI CASTELLO, Umbria, Italy - Late last year, I received a very kind set of questions from Matteo Cosci, a PhD student in Italy at the University of Padua, about my book Aristotle on…

Christopher LongJuly 24, 2012

Articles Publication: Journal Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Attempting the Political Art

Christopher P. Long, "Attempting the Political Art," Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 27 (2012): 153-74. The main thesis of this essay is that the practice of Socratic political speaking and the…

Christopher LongMay 28, 2012

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

ALP at Penn State: A Vision of the New Research University

University budgeting and strategic planning was the focus of the final Academic Leadership Program (ALP) sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) held at Penn State, April 12-14, 2012. No two topics have more…

Christopher LongApril 22, 2012

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

ALP at University of Chicago: Virtues of an Education for Democracy

In her address to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Academic Leadership Program at the University of Chicago last Thursday, Martha Nussbaum offered a compelling defense of a liberal arts education. She advocated for an education…

Christopher LongFebruary 20, 2012

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