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The Chris Hookway Memorial Lecture

Monday, 2nd June 2025, 3pm - Council Room, Firth Court

This memorial lecture is in honour of Emeritus Professor Chris Hookway, who sadly died in October 2024.

The Philosophy of Disability and Difference - Special Lecture Series

WHERE: Broad Lane, Lecture Theatre 4

WHEN: 1st November, 2:30 - 4:30pm

'Cripistemologies of Chronicity: A "coalition of the 'left-behinds'"', Dr Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

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Expanding the Canon - Special Lecture Series

WHERE: Broad Lane, Lecture Theatre 4

WHEN: 11th October, 2:30 - 4:30pm

'Rethinking Responsibility', Professor Monima Chadha, University of Oxford

Please register here: 

Master class in Gender, Race, and Other Topics in Applied Philosophy of Language, with Professor Jenny Saul and Dr Ray Drainville

08/08/2024

Schedule:

1:00 - 1:40pm - PGR talk 1 with Q&A - George Surtees: "Friendship and Self-disclosure: How Epistemic Injustices Intersect"

Break (10 mins)

1:50 - 2:30pm - PGR talk 2 with Q&A - Carien Smith: "Much Ado about bullshit(ting): pseudoscientific conspiracy theories as a species of bullshit"

Break (10 mins)

2:40 - 3:20pm - PGR talk 3 with Q&A - Rae Fielding: "Why Husbands Shouldn't 'Help' With the Housework"

Break (10 mins)

3:30 - 5pm - KEYNOTE - Professor Jenny Saul & Dr Ray Drainville: "Can't Unsee: Dogwhistles Without Deniability"

15th - 17th July 2024

REGISTRATION REQUIRED THROUGH LINK BELOW:

Keynote Speakers:

Linda Martin-Alcoff (CUNY)
John Skorupski (St Andrews)
Dorothea Debus (Konstanz)
Christopher Woodard (Nottingham)
Ben Davies (΢��Ȧ)

Plus numerous talks from Postgraduate students.

Call for abstracts for Postgraduate talks (open to all) - deadline 17/05/2024.

Philosophy of Emotions Workshop
5th June 2024
Speakers;

• Sara Protasi (University of Puget Sound)
• Luca Barlassina (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of ΢��Ȧ)
• Laurenz Casser (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of ΢��Ȧ)

1st May 2024

New Directions in Animal Cognition & Ethics

15th May 2024

• Delphine Choquel (΢��Ȧ)
• Gerardo Viera (΢��Ȧ)
• Dorna Behdadi (Gothenburg)

EJP Symposium on the work of Robert Stern
18th - 19th May 2024

Speakers:

• Stephen Darwall (Yale)
• Robert Pippin (Chicago)
• Beatrice Han-Pile (Essex)
• Sebastian Gardner (UCL)
• Dina Emundts (Berlin)
• Sally Sedgwick (Boston)
• Paul Franks (Yale)
• Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)
• Wayne Martin (Essex)
• Adrian Moore (Oxford)

​�ċ�ċ�ċ�ċInclusive Language Knowledge Exchange event. 23rd May 2024
Speakers; 

• Matthew Cull  (Edinburgh)
• Fiona Woollard (Southampton)

Explaining Normativity Conference.
19th - 20th April 2024
Speakers

• Teemu Toppinen - Tampere University
• Vilma I Venesmaa - University of Helsinki
• Jessica Isserow - University of Leeds
• Pekka Väyrynen - University of Leeds
• Felicity Fu - Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou
• Neil Sinclair - University of Nottingham
• James Lenman - University of ΢��Ȧ
• James Brown - University of ΢��Ȧ
• Max Khan Hayward - University of ΢��Ȧ

Minorities and Philosophy Annual Lecture (and department seminar). Speaker Patrice Haynes - University of Nottingham.
26th April 2024

Philosophy Rocks
28th April 2024

Women in the History of Philosophy Annual Lecture (and department seminar) - “Susan Stebbing’s Philosophy of Physics”. Speaker - Frederique Janssen-Lauret - University of Manchester. 
1st March 2024

Bob Stern Festschrift Event
15th March 2024