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 seminars
Research seminars
- When: every Wednesday at 3pm during term time
- Where: Humanities A01
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.
2nd October
- Alice Monypenny (University of Nottingham) ‘Tactical Testimonial Smothering and Epistemic Agency’
9th October
- Nikhil Venkatesh (LSE/King's College London) ‘Impartiality Without Alienation (and Within Limits)’
16th October
- Bart Streumer (University of Groningen) ‘How Berkeley Can Go Quasi and Lose his Mind-Dependence’
23rd October
- Robert Chapman (Durham University) ‘Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: The Ranters as Mad Activism’
30th October
13th November
- Emily Ryall (University of Gloucestershire) ‘The ontological significance of being in games’
20th November (joint with Theology, Philosophy and Religion seminars)
27th November
4th December
- Neil Willams (University of Southampton) ‘I am the River": Identity-forming Relationships and Relational Value’
11th December
- Celia Coll (University of Nottingham) ‘Why [Exemplarily] Bad Art?’
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
Everyone is welcome.
9 October 2024
- Anthony O’Hear (University of Buckingham) ‘The Truth in Myth’.
30 October 2024
- Rob Lutton (University of Nottingham) ‘The Cult of the Holy Name in Late Medieval England’
- Henry Parkes (University of Nottingham) ‘The Night Sky, Sung and Surveyed, in the Medieval Cult of Saint Benedict’.
20 November 2024 (joint seminar with Philosophy)
11 December 2024
- Joanna Leidenhag (University of Leeds), ‘Panpsychism, Leibnizian Embodiment, and the Question of Divine Corporeality’.
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