Seminars and conferences
We run a wide range of seminars and conferences aimed at addressing current issues, presenting work in progress and strengthening department culture. They are open, inclusive and welcoming!
Philosophy, Penelope Mackie seminars
Research seminars
- When: every Wednesday at 3pm during term time, unless stated otherwise.
- Where: Humanities A02, unless stated otherwise.
We welcome external speakers as well as from within our own department.
For more information contact Joseph Kisolo-Ssonko: joseph.kisolo-ssonko@nottingham.ac.uk.
5 February 2025
- Chenwei Nie (University of Warwick) ‘Delusions as seeming-based beliefs’
12 February 2025, room A27
- Ellie Robson (King's College London) ‘Susan Stebbing on Moral Philosophy and Ways of Living’
19 February 2025, time change 3:30pm
- Emerging Research Slot (UoN)
26 February 2025
- Luke Brunning (University of Leeds) ‘Uttering the One: A Platonic and Zhuangzian argument against monism'’
12 March 2025
- Charlotte Alderwick (UWE Bristol) 'Schelling, Freedom, and Exhibition: A Response to Stern'
19 March 2025, room A21
- Lea Cantor (University of Cambridge) ‘Uttering the One: A Platonic and Zhuangzian argument against monism'’
26 March 2025
- Nir Eyal (Rutgers University) TBC
30 April 2025
- Ulrike Heuer (University College London) 'Acting for a reason: the problem of intellectualism'
7 May 2025
- Mohammed Saleh Zarepour (University of Manchester) 'Future Contingency and God's Foreknowledge in Classical Islamic Philosophy'
See our previous philosophy research seminars
Postgraduate Research Seminars
- When: every Wednesday at 1.30pm during term time.
- Where: Humanities A01.
Usually, a research student presents their research, although occasionally we set a paper to read and discuss, or a member of staff presents.
For more information contact Kit Alcock: apyca@nottingham.ac.uk
Centre for Theology, Philosophy and Religion seminars
Research seminars
- When: selected Wednesdays at 1-2.30pm during term time
- Where: Humanities A02, unless stated otherwise
Everyone is welcome.
29 January 2025
- Katie Turner (Independant Scholar) 'Accultaration and Identity: Jewish Clothing and Dress in the First Centuries
19 February 2025
- Katie Gwyther (Independant Scholar) 'Accultaration and Identity: Jewish Clothing and Dress in the First Centuries'
12 March 2025
- Charlotte Alderwick (UWE Bristol) 'Schelling, Freedom, and Exhibition: A Response to Stern'
30 April 2025
- Belal Alabbas (Cambridge Muslim College) 'Al-Bukhārī on the Quran: 9th-century Muslim Debates on God’s Word as Temporal and Eternal'
21 May 2025 (room A27)
- Samuel Cardwell (University of Nottingham) 'It's Not All About Bede: Anonymous Exegesis in Early Medieval Northumbria'
11 June 2025
- Janset Cetinkaya (University of Nottingham) TBC
See our previous Theology and Religion seminars
Recent conferences
Functional Hypotheses and the Engaged Point of View
Lost in the Game: Philosophical explorations of play, power, and partying through the apocalypse
Past conferences at UoN