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Visiting Speakers 2024/25

You are warmly invited to the 2024/25 Visiting Speaker Seminars hosted by UCD School of Philosophy. The seminars will take place in D520 Seminar Room, D5 Newman Building, UCD, Belfield on Thursdays from 4.30pm to 6.00pm (times may be revised occasionally so please check carefully). 

To register, please contact (opens in a new window)Natalie Turner at least one day in advance of the seminar. The schedule for the Spring Trimester 2025 is as follows:

Spring 2025

23 Jan
Francesca Raimondi (FU Berlin)
Marx revisited: Labour as a Modern Form of Habit and its Practical Critique

6 Feb
Daniel Vázquez (MIC Limerick)
Arguing Both Sides of a Question in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

20 Feb
Oisin Keohane (Dundee)
Escaping the Tower of Anglossolalia: Derrida on Forgiveness and the South African TRC

6 March
Ingvild Torsen (Oslo)
Is there a measure on earth? Heidegger on the normativity of art

27 March
Gerald Lang (Leeds)
Reasons, Production, Action: The Flight from Consequentialism

10 April
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (Copenhagen)
Can Women Philosophers be Ingenious? On the Debate about the Ingenium Philosophicum during the Early Modern Period

24 April
Gunnar Hindrichs (Basel)
Possibilities and Potentialities: Between Metaphysics and Praxis



Autumn 2024
12 Sept
Guy Longworth (Warwick)

26 Sept
Newman Annual Lecture
Sarah Coakley
Newman University Church, 87a St. Stephen’s Green, Saint Kevin’s, Dublin

3 Oct
RIP/UCD Lecture
Rahel Jaeggi

17 Oct
Christopher Bennett (Sheffield)

14 Nov
Nicolas de Warren (Penn State University)

28 Nov
Emily McTernan (UCL)

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