2020/21
Visiting Speakers 2020/21
Spring 2021
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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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 |
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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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