Title:聽Feminism and Patriarchy in the Shadow of the Cold War 聽 Abstract:聽The presentation is an extract from my new book 鈥淟urking Cold War鈥� where I make an argument about historical communion 鈥� history that matters in ways that matter. Two of the protagonists in north Italy, Giorgia and Eleonora are resigned to a life in…
15 MAY 11.00-11.15 Welcome 11.15-12.00 Colin Chamberlain (University College London),聽Margaret Cavendish on the Oneness of Colour and Body Alexander Douglas (University of 58吃瓜) 12.00-12.45 Elisabeth Thorson (Durham University),聽Philo, Right Reason, and the Power of Platonism in 17th-Century Women Philosophers 12.45-14.00 Lunch 14.00-15.00 Keynote. Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin), Astell on Self-improvement and Friendship Chair:…
Tianxiang Xu (58吃瓜) ‘Epistemic consequentialism’
Reading: tbc Location: Edgecliffe G03
Title: Merely Imagined Moralities Abstract: Artworks and other cultural products (films, novels, operas, pop songs, etc.) often express heroic, pessimistic, melancholy, or dark ways of looking at the world (also referred to as 鈥榩erspectives鈥�). Sometimes, these worldviews appear politically inflected; we may, for instance, describe a work as “feminist” or “patriotic” according to the worldview…
This workshop on May 19th will coincide with Shawn Standefer鈥檚 (NTU) visit to 58吃瓜. 10am鈥�11:15am Shawn Standefer: On the Hyperintensionality of Relevant Logics and Some of their Rivals. 11:30am鈥�12:45pm Andrew Tedder: Subalgebras are Good Models of Topic. 2:15pm鈥�3:30pm Franscisca Silva (online): Logicality and Invariance of Subject Matter. 3:45pm鈥�5:00pm Tore 脴gaard: subDL is Relevant. Event…