Confronting the issues of our time, inside and outside academia
Since July 2021, Centre member Jim Chamberlain has been involved with the charity Philosophy in Prison, first as its Research Associate and then as a Trustee. Philosophy in Prison promotes the development and delivery of philosophy sessions in prisons and aims to explore the practical and philosophical principles that such sessions involve. As an example …
In this article, Philosophy Lecturer Max Hayward asks whether our cities, communities, and even democracy itself can survive in a world where life is increasingly lived in virtual online spaces owned by tech giants like Mark Zuckerberg's Meta.(subscription needed to access) https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/agora/2022/08/rise-metaverse-mark-zuckerberg-decline-cities
Today is the first day of a Decolonisation Guest Lecture Series taking place at the Department of Philosophy in Sheffield. We'll be hearing from Dr. Felix Maringe and Dr. Elvis Imafidon - from 1pm to 4pm in the Diamond Workroom 3. Schedule: 1pm: Welcome and intro from Philosophy Dept Race Equality Interns Charlotte Flores and …
Our very own Josh Forstenzer has begun working with Union of Justice and Synergie Family this semester, investigating what should be the future of education in response to the Climate Crisis. The project is entitled âEducating for Catastrophe: What should a Climate Crisis curriculum look like in practice for children and young people, communities and …
This event aims to showcase the diversity of criminological research at Sheffield with perspectives from humanities subjects. About this event Workshop title: Centre for Criminological Research Workshop - Humanities Perspectives on Criminological Questions Date of event: Wednesday 27 April 2022 Event Time: 1:30-5pm Speakers: Christopher Bennett (Philosophy), Udit Bhatia (Philosophy), Mark Brown (Law), Katherine Ebury …
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"What does black mean to you? What instantly comes to mind when you think of blackness?" Check out this recent blogpost by Sheffield student Tadhg Kwasi on "Redefining Blackness". In it, Kwasi refers to authors like Fanon and Du Bois and asks questions about what blackness means in the the context of our current society, …
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Our centre member Angie Hobbs recently took part in a panel discussion alongside historians Niall Ferguson and James Hankins, on the question whether empires and states die differently and what their deaths can teach us today. Hosted by Jack Visnjic of Ancient Greece Declassified Podcast, the conversation covers Ancient, Renaissance and the more modern state …
We have some exciting updates from some of our centre members who recently graduated â engaged in both practical and theoretical ways! Jane Gatley was recently awarded a Society for Applied Philosophy short-term postdoctoral fellowship to work on two papers: one about conceptual engineering and education, and one about cultural capital in education. For this …
In a recent piece in The Indepenedent, our centre co-director Josh Forstenzer and Magid Magid reflect on how philosophy, specifically in our current climate of misinformation and confusion, can help in making our world a better place. From the article: "Lies are repeated over and over again and carried at the speed of clicks (and …
This August, our centre member Jennifer Saul published a piece in The Conversation, talking about "racial fig leaves", the Republican National Convention, and why it's even more dangerous now than it was four years ago. In her article, she discusses how the overall picture of the Convention has changed in comparison to four years ago …
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