Events

2022

• Expanding the Canon Annual Lecture with Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (14th October)
• First 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.