HOTEL BAR SESSIONS is the podcast where three philosophers sit down at the end of a long conference day to chop it up at the hotel bar… which, as we all know, is where the real philosophy happens.
HBS Co-Hosts (Season 6-9)
Dr. Richard A. Lee
Dr. Jason Read
Dr. Leigh M. Johnson
Professor of Philosophy,
DePaul University
(Chicago, IL)
Rick Lee is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. His interests include medieval philosophy, early modern European philosophy, Marx and Marxism–particularly the Frankfurt School, and the philosophy of comedy. He received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and from The New School for Social Research.
He is the author of The Thought of Matter: Materialism, Conceptuality, and the Thought of Immanence (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015) and you can find him on the internet at the links below.
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Southern Maine
(Portland, ME)
Jason did his BA at Hampshire College studying everything from anthropology to philosophy. He completed my MA and PhD in Philosophy at SUNY Binghamton in the Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Program.
He is the author of The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present (SUNY 2003), The Politics of Transindividuality (Brill 2015), and The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy (Brill 2022) as well as book on the politics of work forthcoming from Verso.
Jason blogs at Unemployed Negativity about politics, movies, Spinoza, and Marx.
You can find him on the internet by clicking the buttons below.
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Christian Brothers University
(Memphis, TN)
Leigh completed her BA in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, her MA in Philosophy at Villanova University, and her PhD in Philosophy (with a doctoral minor in African and African-American Studies) at The Pennsylvania State University. She wrote her dissertation on Derrida, truth commissions, and transitional justice, but her current teaching and research primarily focuses on the ethics and politics of emergent technologies.
Byond the academic grind, Leigh is an amateur musician and documentary filmmaker (you can see her short film Working in Memphis here), an innovative pedagogue (see her “Experiment in the Redistribution of Grades” here), an animal-lover, an (unofficial) Ambassador for Memphis, and a diehard believer that the fundamental components of every great song are three chords and a sad story.
Her previous podcast was Black Mirror Reflections, in which she interviewed leading experts and asked them to reflect on the moral, philosophical, and technological insights of the television series Black Mirror. You can listen to Black Mirror Reflections on all podcast streaming platforms or read about it on her blog at ReadMoreWriteMoreThinkMoreBeMore.
You can find her on the internet by clicking the buttons below.
Hotel Bar Sessions Co-hosts (Seasons 2-5)
Dr. Charles F. Peterson
Associate Professor/Chair of Africana Studies, Oberlin College and Director of the Gertrude B. Lemle Teaching and Learning Center
Dr. Leigh M. Johnson
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Christian Brothers University
Dr. Richard A. Lee
Professor of Philosophy, DePaul University
Hotel Bar Sessions Co-hosts (Season 1)
Dr. Ammon Allred
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director for the Interdisciplinary Public Humanities PhD Initiative, University of Toledo.
Dr. Leigh M. Johnson
Associate Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Christian Brothers University
Dr. Shannon M. Mussett
Professor, Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Utah Valley University