Workshop: Praise and Commemoration, May 19th

The Centre for Engaged Philosophy is delighted to open registration (free) for a workshop on:

Praise and Commemoration

Monday May 19th

Richard Roberts Building, Seminar Room B81, The University of Sheffield

There has been a recent upsurge in work on praise: what it is, how it differs from blame, its role in moral communities and its relationship to our practices of honorific commemoration. There has also been excellent recent work on commemoration and public honours, with a focus on when statues express or represent problematic values. This event brings together panellists of philosophers, local and international, working on praise and honouring to examine these topics and the connections between them.

The themes of the panel are as follows:

1. Praise and commemoration; to what extent is praise an apt mode of commemoration, or commemoration a fitting way to express praise? What challenges arise for the use of artefacts, in public spaces, to express praise?
2. Norms of praise: aside from desert or utility, what other norms might shape praise? Are there epistemic or standing norms that govern the propriety of expressing praise? How does the publicity of praise, and its use in public fora, affect these norms?
3. Resisting honours and praise: where praise is problematic, how is it best responded to? What can debates about responses to problematic statues contribute to our understanding of apt responses to praise?

Thanks to support from the Society for Applied Philosophy and the Analysis Trust, we are able to provide some bursaries to support attendance (priority will be given to PG, early career, and underfunded/underwaged philosophers). Please indicate on the registration form if you would like to access such support and we will contact you.

The link/QR code to register is available on this workshop poster (also above). Please feel free to share with your networks. 

Any questions, please contact Jules Holroyd j.d.holroyd@sheffield.ac.uk