Confronting the issues of our time, inside and outside academia
On the 26th July 2023, Dr Jim Chamberlain will be running an event in John Pemberton LT A (Regent Court) between 12 and 3.30pm, to reflect on the completion of the Maidstone Prison Philosophy Project. Dr Chamberlain, Teaching Associate in the Department of Philosophy at The University of Sheffield, has recently finished delivering a 10-week …
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Affiliate centre member Matthew Cull is hosting a workshop in Edinburgh on their book manuscript, What Gender Should be. Centre members Jules Holroyd and Anna Klieber will be participating, along with Sheffield alumnus - and recent MAP lecture deliverer! - Esa DÃaz-León. The book is a project of articulating what gender concepts we should use, …
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield is delighted to invite postgraduates and early-career researchers to apply to attend an interdisciplinary two-day workshop in June on the theme of Media and Oppression. The goal of this event is to share work and learn collaboratively, on topics surrounding screen media’s role in perpetuating or …
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Professor Tommy Curry, Chair of Africana Philosophy and Black Male Studies, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, recently gave a talk as part of the University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts and Humanities Decolonisation Lecture Series. The talk, titled "Feminism as Racist Backlash: How Racism Drove the Development of …
UPDATE 03/04/23: The Kyiv Independent wrote an article about the event which can be read here. Professor Angie Hobbs' session is able to be viewed below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvEEpAQPoKI ORIGINAL POST: ‘What Good Is Philosophy? – A Benefit Conference for Ukraine’ will be taking place between 17-19 March 2023, and Professor Angie Hobbs, Professor of the Public …
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On February 20th, 1-2pm, visiting PhD researcher Tamara van den Berg will be giving a work in progress talk. In this paper, we conceptualize colonialism as a structural-historical injustice. From this, we develop an ameliorative understanding of refugees, as a particular group that is similarly unjustly constrained by colonial structures, and whose members are therefore …
Affiliate centre member Dr Jingbo Hu is a postdoctoral researcher at Fudan University, China. He has recently published work on reasons-responsive conceptions of responsibility in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. Some of his current research contributes to decolonisation efforts, by bringing contemporary work in Western philosophical debates on free will into contact with …
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Over the last year or so, Megan has given a number of talks on philosophical issues concerning climate justice. This includes: 'How to be an isolationist about climate justice', for St Andrews Philosophy Society 'Direct action against fossil fuel extraction', at the LSE Climate Agents of Change Workshop 'Climate change as a structural harm', for the Principles of …
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In this podcast, Centre member Megan Blomfield explores how carbon sinks might be understood as global commons; and whether justice will be promoted by conceptualising them this way. This is a recording of a talk that Megan gave at the 'Global Commons and their Discontents' online workshop.
Centre member Ryan Byerly has recently published in Psyche magazine a piece, based on his research, on the value of other-centeredness, and its role in our disposition to help others. Ryan also discussed the article in a radio interview on ABC Radio Australia's Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone, which you can listen to here (10th Oct …
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