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2020/21

Visiting Speakers 2020/21

Spring 2021

Date Speaker Topic

Jan 21

Professor María Pía Lara, Universidad Autonóma Metropolitana, Mexico City ‘The Feminist Imaginary through the Cinematic Imagination’.

Feb 04

Prof Beate Rössler, University of Amsterdam.   'What does it mean to be human in the digital world?'  

Feb 18

Professor Philipp Rosemann, Maynooth University, Ireland  ‘The Creative Word: Reflections on the Augustinian Episteme’  

March 04

Professor Cressida Heyes, University of Alberta, Canada 'Fast Death, Slow Death: the Biopolitics of Pandemic Temporality'

March 25

Professor Martin Seel, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany ‘Nature, Art and the Landscapes of Human Flourishing’
April 08 Professor Richard Kearney, Boston College, USA 

'The Philosophy of Touch: Recovering our Senses'

April 22 Professor Lois McNay, Oxford University, UK  'The incompatibility of Formalism and Negativism: On Rahel Jaeggi’s Critique of the Forms of Life’ 

 Autumn 2020

Date Speaker Topic
Sept 24 Professor William Scheuerman (Indiana University) ‘Good-Bye to Non-Violence?’
Oct 8 Professor Barbara Vetter (Free University, Berlin) ‘Agency and Modal Knowledge’
Oct 22 Professor Andrea Westlund (Florida State University) 'Telling our Stories'
Nov 12 Professor Karin Nisenbaum (Boston College)

’Fichte's Perfectionist Solution to the 'Paradox' of Kantian Autonomy and the 'Dilemma' of Post-Kantian Autonomy’

Please note the different start time of 4.30pm.

Nov 26 Professor Olivier Massin (University of Neuchâtel) ‘The Nature of Efforts’

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