Events

2025

• Annual MAP lecture, 16th May:
  Adam Hosein – Northeastern University: Religious Freedom, Social Status, and Fairness: Why Power and Privilege Matter When Assessing Religious Accommodations

• Understanding Value XIII: Call for abstracts including MAP panel

2024

• Department Seminar Series – Friday afternoons through the Autumn and Spring terms (2:30-4:30 pm) 
• Department Reading Groups 
• Film & Philosophy at Showroom

• Living Streets Reading Group
  • 29th January 2024 – online
  • 26th February 2024 – in-person
  • 7th March 2024 – Living Streets Summit
  • 22nd April 2024 – in-person
  • 29th April 2024 – book club
  • 20th May 2024 – in-person
  • 24th June 2024 – in-person (social)

• Understanding Bias: Implicit Bias Reading Group, Special Issue – Peter Finocchiaro & Timothy Perrine (2023) Linguistic justice in academic philosophy: the rise of English and the unjust distribution of epistemic goods, Philosophical Psychology (05/02/2024)
• Understanding Bias: Implicit Bias Reading Group, Special Issue – Will Fraker, Social kind generics and the dichotomizing perspective (19/02/2024)
• Women in the History of Philosophy Lecture Series – ‘Susan Stebbing’s Philosophy of Physics’, Professor Frederique Janssen-Lauret (01/03/2024)
• Understanding Bias: Implicit Bias Reading Group, Special Issue – Joe Vitriol, Change in attitudes and beliefs about implicit bias education: a demonstration among members of a police department (15/04/2024)
• Understanding Bias: Implicit Bias Reading Group, Special Issue – Uwe Peters, The philosophical debate on linguistic bias: A critical perspective (22/04/2024)
• Minorities and Philosophy Lecture Series – ‘Taking African Ontologies Seriously’, Professor Patrice Haynes (26/04/2024)
• The Philosophy of Disability and Difference Lecture Series – Professor Zsuzsanna Chappel (03/05/2024)
• Understanding Bias: Implicit Bias Reading Group, Special Issue – Kasper Lippert-Rassmussen, What is the folk concept of discrimination? Discriminators and comparators (13/05/2024)
• Caring for everyone: Developing gender-inclusive language materials (in person workshop) (23/05/2024)
• Understanding Bias: Implicit Bias Reading Group, Special Issue – Chamberlain, J., Holroyd, J., Jenkins, B., & Scaife, R. (2023). Implicit bias, intersectionality, compositionality (17/06/2024)
• Caring for everyone: Developing gender-inclusive language materials (online workshop) (24/06/2024)

• Expanding the Canon Lecture: ‘Rethinking Responsibility’ – Professor Monima Chadha (11/10/2024)

• The Philosophy of Disability and Difference Lecture: ‘Cripistemologies of Chronicity: A “coalition of the ‘left-behinds” (01/11/2024)

• Prison Voices Conference (This will be the culmination of the Prison Voices project, which is led by Jim Chamberlain, Antony Duff, and MM McCabe and embedded in the educational work of the charity Philosophy in Prison) (05/11/2024)

2023

• Decolonisation Lecture Series: Feminism as Racist Backlash, Prof Tommy Curry (14th March)
• Decolonisation Lecture Series: “Can Decolonising the Curriculum Transform Higher Education?”, Dr Manjeet Ramgotra (24th March)
• Decolonisation Lecture Series: Ibrahim Zeki (27th April)
• Annual MAP lecture: Esa Díaz-León (12th May)
• Decolonisation Lecture Series: Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins (18th May)
• Decolonisation Lecture Series: Prof Rachana Kamtekar (25th May)
• Decolonisation Lecture Series: Dr Kadija Sesay (15th June)
• Maidstone Prison Philosophy Project – Reflection Event (26th July)
• Engaged Philosophy, Inclusive Philosophy (17th October)
• Expanding the Canon – Lea Cantor – Philosophy Department Seminar (10th November)

2022

• Expanding the Canon Annual Lecture with Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (14th October)
• Decolonisation Lecture: Decolonising Philosophy: Paying Attention to Pedagogy, Dr Elvis Imafidon; Decolonising Higher Education in Global North University Settings: Opportunities and Impediments, Felix Maringe (9th June)
• Annual Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Lecture with Azita Chellappoo on “Fatphobia as Method” (26th April)
• Annual Expanding the Canon Lecture: ​Martin Luther King on Fearlessness and Faith, Meena Krishnamurthy (25th February)

2021

“Thinking in Action: Engaging Philosophy” is an event series by the CEP, with the aim to do exactly that: put thinking in action. In a series of events, organized by postgraduate students, we want to explore philosophical themes, paths and arenas that will engage topics and speakers both in and outside academia. It is our goal to introduce and discuss a range of philosophically engaging topics that will help students think critically about how their philosophical skills will be applicable and crucial in their lives after, or outside of, the academy. This should in particular help undergraduate, but also postgraduate students and the wider public, to think about philosophy in non-traditional ways and outside the ivory tower. This series is supported by the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities.

Thinking in Action: Engaging Philosophy events:

• Class, Power And Philosophy (25th November)
• Beyond Beauty (19th November)
• Balancing Representation And Authenticity (15th November)
• Capitalism And Mental Health (8th November)
• Spatial Agency, Territory, And The Right To The City (14th October)
• Epistemic Injustice in Asylum Policy and Practice (7th-9th of September)
• Northern Phenomenology Network Meeting (6th of July)
• Understanding Value X (14th-16th of July)

Other lectures:

• Annual Women in the History of Philosophy Lecture: Martha Kneale’s Necessary A Posteriori (14th of May)
• Annual MAP lecture: Controlling (mental) images and the aesthetic appreciation of racialized bodies (12th of March)

2020

• Understanding Value IX (9th-11th of December)
• Annual MAP lecture: Productive Online Environments: Why Twitter is (Epistemically) Better than Facebook (6th of March)

2019

• Climate Change, Climate Strike: Philosophers at Red Haus Books (22nd of November)
• Northern Diversity Forum Workshop #1 (21st of November)
• Philosophy in Schools (19th of November)
• Otis Mensah: Hip Hop and Philosophy / Access and Arts & Humanities (7th of November)
• Unpicking the neoliberal noose: working towards democratic parent engagement in a primary school (31st of October)
• Between Bodies and Witches: Philosophers at Red Haus Books (24th of October)
• Plates #29: Philosoplates (23rd of October)
• Ideas Alive. Climate Justice (10th of October)
• Decriminalization and Sex Work (6th of August)
• Understanding Value VIII (24th – 16th of July)
• Towards an Epistemology of Post-Truth (29th of May)
• Movements for Global Justice (29th of April)
• Sex, Gender and Ignorance: Philosophers at Red Haus Books (4th of April)
• Annual Women in the History of Philosophy Lecture: “Rose Rand (1903-1980). From the Archives: Real and Unreal” (5th of April)
• Annual MAP lecture: Holding Resistance Hostage. When Resistance is Futile (1st of March)
• Activism and Academia in the Anthropocene (20th of March)
• Who Are We? Who Do We Want To Be? (27th of March)

2018

• MAP and Diversity Reading List Workshop (November)
• Natural Mechanisms: Consciousness, Cognition, and Evolution (September)
• Luther as Philosopher (September)
• What Works? Empirically Informed Implicit Bias Training (September)
• Understanding Value VII (July)
• Just Theorising (April)

Further information about past philosophy events at Sheffield can be found on the departmental web page.