This workshop will focus on the question of whether policy and practice of race/ethnicity in HE sector in the UK is about the least possible change without disrupting the existing status quo or is it about bringing about meaningful structural and cultural change/transformation. In bringing together leading academics and practitioners from the UK, the aim…
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Next Tuesday (31st March, 12-2pm) Carrie Fidgor (Iowa) will give a talk on “Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Psychology”. Abstract: Psychology began as the part of philosophy concerning the soul, and historically remained anthropocentric in a number of mutually supporting ways. Evolutionary theory threatened to upend this anthropocentrism with the possibility of psychological continuity across species,… |
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Professor Diana Paton, William Robertson Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh will speak on: ‘Gender history, Global history, and Atlantic slavery’. |
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Please plan joining us for a workshop + screening to celebrate the work of remarkable Soviet/Ukrainian feminist director Kira Muratova (1934-2018). Kira Muratova, who worked mostly in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, is one of the most innovative, imaginative, exciting and versatile directors to emerge out of the Soviet Union, where her early films were censored and her… |
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Spain/France | 1999 | 101 minutes | Spanish/Catalan/English Hosted by: Prof. Catherine O’Leary, School of Modern Languages A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress’ autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy’s father about the death of the… |
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Workshop on Logical Disagreement
Description: Over the last 15 years the epistemology of disagreement has been one of the most blooming research interests in epistemology. A special case of disagreement is logical disagreement, i.e. disputes regarding the validity of certain inference rules, or the status of fundamental logical principles. This Arché workshop is dedicated to the topic Logical Disagreement and related… |
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New Trends in the Study of Eleatism
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Democratic politics has always been a place of discussion, disagreement and debate. However, recent politics – especially in the age of social media – seems to be increasingly polarised. This raises the question of whether there are better and worse ways to debate controversial topics with each other – not just in public settings such as parliaments and the media, but also… |
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Workshop on Genealogy & Conceptual Engineering
In philosophy, genealogical analysis corresponds to an examination of the origins of specific concepts and accompanying practices. Some of the philosophers who have engaged in genealogical analysis are Hume, Nietzsche, Foucault, Bernard Williams, Edward Craig, Martin Kusch, among others. In this workshop, we will address questions such as: What are the relations between genealogical analysis… |