To honor the life and work of philosopher María Cristina Lugones (1944-2020) the Editorial Team of the feminist-philosophy journal Hypatia has curated an online issue featuring many of Lugones' key work which were previously published in Hypatia. This comes alongside a translated tribute honoring her life and contributions. From the tribute: "Until her death in …
Hypathia Reading List, APA-blog “Black Issues in Philosophy” and “The Ethics of Black Lives Matter” video series
Marking Juneteenth, the feminst philosophy journal Hypathia, has decided to contribute a two part curated online issue, "featuring previously published work by Black feminist scholars, which is made available freely, without subscription." The first part of the issue highlights Black feminists’ reflections on the discipline of philosophy. Check it out here! The second part is …
Trans Day of Visibility
March 31st is International Transgender Day of Visibility. This day is dedicated to bringing "attention to the accomplishments of trans people around the globe while fighting cissexism and transphobia by spreading knowledge of the trans community." It's a day to show support for the trans community. In light of this, we wanted to (re-)share two …
Northern Diversity Forum Workshop#1 – Nov. 21st
The Northern Diversity Forum (NDF) is a new initiative with the aim to run a regular workshop series with focus on philosophical issues surrounding the notions of equality, diversity, and decolonization, as well as issues related to under-representation in the discipline - and their first workshop and launch event is coming up! When? November 21st …
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Listen to the audio-files of Sheffield’s “Women in the History of Philosophy Lectures”
Women make up a small minority in the common representation of the history of philosophy and philosophy as a profession. One can easily get the impression that women's contributions to philosophy are only a recent phenomenon. But this is not true. The Sheffield Philosophy Department sponsors an annual lecture to increase awareness of the work …
Annual Women in the History of Philosophy Lecture: “Rose Rand (1903-1980). From the Archives: Real and Unreal”
The departments annual public Women in the History of Philosophy lecture is coming up! 5th of April, 2:30 - 4:30 pm Humanities Research InstituteUniversity of SheffieldThis year, Professor Chris Meyns from the University of Pittsburgh will be presenting a paper on Rose Rand. See the abstract as follows: The philosopher Dr Rose Rand (1903-1980) shook …
Centre for Engaged Philosophy 