UWE Philosophy Visiting Speaker Series
All talks are open to the public.
Talks take place every two weeks during term time, are held in room 3E12 (UWE Frenchay Campus) and start at 16:00 unless otherwise indicated. Our visiting speaker series is kindly funded by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and the UWE Social Science Research Group
2017 - 2018
Programme TBC
Previous Years
2016 - 2017
Wednesday 29th March 2017 - Charlotte Alderwick (UWE Philosophy)
'Schelling's Virtues: Towards a Schellingian Ethics'
Wednesday 23rd March 2017 - Austin Smidt (University of Dundee)
'The Social Demand of Commodities'
Wednesday 15th March 2017 - William Large (University of Gloucestershire)
'Singing is not Seeing: Will Oldham and the Authenticity of the Voice'
Wednesday 22nd February 2017 - Joe Saunders (University of Leeds)
'Kant and Responsibility'
Wednesday 15th February 2017 - Madhu Krishnan (Bristol University)
'Introducing Franz Fanon'
Wednesday 18th January 2017 - Erin Plunkett (Royal Holloway)
'Possibility and Contingency in Kierkegaard '
Wednesday 30th November 2016 - Phil Cole (UWE Politics)
'Why there are no Climate Change Refugees - and why there Never Will be'
Wednesday 17th November 2016 - Thomas Lynch (University of Chichester)
'Materialism and Social Construction: Race and the Critique of Religion'
2015 - 2016
23 Sept 2015. Ekaterina Poliakov (Greifswald)
"Nietzsche's Critique of Kant: a great achievement or great futility?"
11 November 2015. Victoria Browne (Oxford Brookes)
"Teleology and Reproductive Failure in Aristotle's Philosophical Biology"
25 November 2015. Kirill Chepurin (HSE-Moscow and HU-Berlin)
"Utopia and Immanence in Kant and German Idealism"
2 December 2015. Sarah Flavel (Bath Spa)
"Approaching Nishitani through Nietzsche: Love of Fate and the Death's Head Contemplation"
Wednesday 4th February 2015 Lorenzo Chiesa, ‘Less than Less than Nothing: Lacanian Philosophies of Nature’ (postponed)
Wednesday 18th February UWE World Philosophy Day, 1pm, 3C01. Speakers include members of the Department.
Wednesday 18th March Céline Surprenant (Sussex), 'The Obverse Side of Derrida’s Interest in Freud'
Wednesday 25th March Kant, Freedom, Evil: A Disputation Between Professor Alison Assiter and Dr. Seiriol Morgan
Wednesday 1st October Film: (Slavoj Žižek in:) The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (Sophie Fiennes, U.K., 2013)
Wednesday 8th October Havi Carel (Bristol), ‘The Philosophical Role of Illness’
Wednesday 15th October Film: Hannah Arendt (Margarethe von Trotta, Germany, 2012)
Wednesday 22nd October James DiFrisco (Leuven), ‘Levels of Processes: Dynamic Individuation in Nature’
Wednesday 29th October Film: Freud (John Huston, U.S.A, 1962)
Wednesday 5th November Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway), ‘The Problem of Analogy in Hegel and Deleuze’
Wednesday 12th November Film: When Nietzsche Wept (Pinchas Perry, Israel, 2007)
Wednesday 19th November Daniel Whistler (Liverpool), 'Abstraction and Utopia in Early German Idealism'
(Debate)
Wednesday 26th November Film: Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, France,U.S.A., Japan, 2007)
Wednesday 3rd December Matt Lee (Independent), ‘Content, Constraint and Communities’
(Debate)
2013 - 2014
Wednesday 29th January 2014 – Chris Hose (UWE), 'Whitehead on Nature, Law, and Value'
Wednesday 12th February – Morwenna Griffiths (Edinburgh), ‘Educational Relationships: Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and Social Justice’
Wednesday 26th February – Francesco Tava (Milan/UWE), ‘The Subject of Laughter. Philosophy and the Comic’
Wednesday 5th March - 'What Has Marx Done for Me Lately: Reading Marx in the Age of the The Individual' - Francesco Tava (Milan/UWE) and Jamie Melrose (Bristol), Frenchay Campus, room 3E12
Wednesday 12th March – William Large (Glos.), ‘On Kierkegaard and Human Capital’
Wednesday 19th March - UWE World Philosophy Day (with Alison Assiter, Iain Grant, Andy Jones, Darian Meacham & Katrina Mitcheson), in M034, 3pm- 6pm
Wednesday 26th March – Simon Mills (UWE/De Montfort), 'Simondon and Powers'
Monday 7th October – Film Screening: Agora (Amenábar)
Wednesday, 16th October – Giuseppe Bianco (Warwick), ‘Verbose Dialectics’ and the Anthropological Circle: Michel Foucault and Jean Hyppolite.
Monday 21st October – Film Screening: Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Wednesday 30th October - Peter Wolfendale, ‘On Wilfred Sellars and Thomas Metzinger’
Monday 4th November – Film Screening: Melancholia (von Trier)
Wednesday 13th November – David Webb (Staffordshire), 'Nihilism, Technology and Neoliberalism'
Monday 18th November – Film Screening: A Dangerous Method (Cronenberg)
Wednesday 27th November – Paul Davies (Sussex), 'Theism and Moral Asymmetry: The Interweaving of Nietzsche,
Kant, and Levinas’
Monday 2nd December – Film Screening: The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
2012 - 2013
Wednesday 7th November 2012, Frank Ruda (Berlin), Indifference and Repetition. From the Human to the Animal (and Back). [The Philosophy of Nature and Naturalism]
Wednesday 12th December 2012, Tom Greaves (University of East Anglia), Plenitude, Saturation,Withdrawal and Mesh: Hyper-phenomenal and hypo-phenomenal philosophies of nature. [The Philosophy of Nature and Naturalism]
Wednesday 30th January 2013, Richard Gray (Cardiff), What do our Experiences of Heat
and Cold Represent?
Thursday 14th February 2013, Robert Stern (Sheffield), 'Determination is Negation':
The Adventures of a Doctrine from Spinoza to Hegel to the British
Idealists.
Wednesday 27th February 2013, Ray Brassier (AUB), Nominalism, Naturalism, and Materialism [The Philosophy of Nature and Naturalism]
Wednesday 6th March 2013, Christine Battersby (University of Warwick), Of Cyborgs,
Robots and Drone Warfare: Revisiting the Human–Machine
Interface
Wednesday 20th March 2013, Gita Sahgal, Double Bind: The Muslim Right, The
Anglo-American Left and Universal Human Rights
Wednesday 27th March 2013, Margherita Tonon, Kierkegaard's Dialectics of
Possibility
Friday 5th April 2013, Graduate Conference on Kant and the Domains of Judgement.
Keynote Speaker: Beth Lord (Dundee).
Thursday 2nd May 2013, Andy Jones (UWE), Plasticity and Neurotranscendentalism: What Can Kant Offer to Contemporary Neuroscientific Developments?
Thursday 9th May 2013, Rauli Nykanen (UWE), Kant and the Unknown = X. The Metaphysics of Space.
Recordings of previous talks and conferences may be found on the Royal Institute of Philosophy tab at the top of this page, and on the UWE YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/BristolUWE/videos?query=philosophy
All talks are open to the public.
Talks take place every two weeks during term time, are held in room 3E12 (UWE Frenchay Campus) and start at 16:00 unless otherwise indicated. Our visiting speaker series is kindly funded by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and the UWE Social Science Research Group
2017 - 2018
Programme TBC
Previous Years
2016 - 2017
Wednesday 29th March 2017 - Charlotte Alderwick (UWE Philosophy)
'Schelling's Virtues: Towards a Schellingian Ethics'
Wednesday 23rd March 2017 - Austin Smidt (University of Dundee)
'The Social Demand of Commodities'
Wednesday 15th March 2017 - William Large (University of Gloucestershire)
'Singing is not Seeing: Will Oldham and the Authenticity of the Voice'
Wednesday 22nd February 2017 - Joe Saunders (University of Leeds)
'Kant and Responsibility'
Wednesday 15th February 2017 - Madhu Krishnan (Bristol University)
'Introducing Franz Fanon'
Wednesday 18th January 2017 - Erin Plunkett (Royal Holloway)
'Possibility and Contingency in Kierkegaard '
Wednesday 30th November 2016 - Phil Cole (UWE Politics)
'Why there are no Climate Change Refugees - and why there Never Will be'
Wednesday 17th November 2016 - Thomas Lynch (University of Chichester)
'Materialism and Social Construction: Race and the Critique of Religion'
2015 - 2016
23 Sept 2015. Ekaterina Poliakov (Greifswald)
"Nietzsche's Critique of Kant: a great achievement or great futility?"
11 November 2015. Victoria Browne (Oxford Brookes)
"Teleology and Reproductive Failure in Aristotle's Philosophical Biology"
25 November 2015. Kirill Chepurin (HSE-Moscow and HU-Berlin)
"Utopia and Immanence in Kant and German Idealism"
2 December 2015. Sarah Flavel (Bath Spa)
"Approaching Nishitani through Nietzsche: Love of Fate and the Death's Head Contemplation"
Wednesday 4th February 2015 Lorenzo Chiesa, ‘Less than Less than Nothing: Lacanian Philosophies of Nature’ (postponed)
Wednesday 18th February UWE World Philosophy Day, 1pm, 3C01. Speakers include members of the Department.
Wednesday 18th March Céline Surprenant (Sussex), 'The Obverse Side of Derrida’s Interest in Freud'
Wednesday 25th March Kant, Freedom, Evil: A Disputation Between Professor Alison Assiter and Dr. Seiriol Morgan
Wednesday 1st October Film: (Slavoj Žižek in:) The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (Sophie Fiennes, U.K., 2013)
Wednesday 8th October Havi Carel (Bristol), ‘The Philosophical Role of Illness’
Wednesday 15th October Film: Hannah Arendt (Margarethe von Trotta, Germany, 2012)
Wednesday 22nd October James DiFrisco (Leuven), ‘Levels of Processes: Dynamic Individuation in Nature’
Wednesday 29th October Film: Freud (John Huston, U.S.A, 1962)
Wednesday 5th November Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway), ‘The Problem of Analogy in Hegel and Deleuze’
Wednesday 12th November Film: When Nietzsche Wept (Pinchas Perry, Israel, 2007)
Wednesday 19th November Daniel Whistler (Liverpool), 'Abstraction and Utopia in Early German Idealism'
(Debate)
Wednesday 26th November Film: Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, France,U.S.A., Japan, 2007)
Wednesday 3rd December Matt Lee (Independent), ‘Content, Constraint and Communities’
(Debate)
2013 - 2014
Wednesday 29th January 2014 – Chris Hose (UWE), 'Whitehead on Nature, Law, and Value'
Wednesday 12th February – Morwenna Griffiths (Edinburgh), ‘Educational Relationships: Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and Social Justice’
Wednesday 26th February – Francesco Tava (Milan/UWE), ‘The Subject of Laughter. Philosophy and the Comic’
Wednesday 5th March - 'What Has Marx Done for Me Lately: Reading Marx in the Age of the The Individual' - Francesco Tava (Milan/UWE) and Jamie Melrose (Bristol), Frenchay Campus, room 3E12
Wednesday 12th March – William Large (Glos.), ‘On Kierkegaard and Human Capital’
Wednesday 19th March - UWE World Philosophy Day (with Alison Assiter, Iain Grant, Andy Jones, Darian Meacham & Katrina Mitcheson), in M034, 3pm- 6pm
Wednesday 26th March – Simon Mills (UWE/De Montfort), 'Simondon and Powers'
Monday 7th October – Film Screening: Agora (Amenábar)
Wednesday, 16th October – Giuseppe Bianco (Warwick), ‘Verbose Dialectics’ and the Anthropological Circle: Michel Foucault and Jean Hyppolite.
Monday 21st October – Film Screening: Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Wednesday 30th October - Peter Wolfendale, ‘On Wilfred Sellars and Thomas Metzinger’
Monday 4th November – Film Screening: Melancholia (von Trier)
Wednesday 13th November – David Webb (Staffordshire), 'Nihilism, Technology and Neoliberalism'
Monday 18th November – Film Screening: A Dangerous Method (Cronenberg)
Wednesday 27th November – Paul Davies (Sussex), 'Theism and Moral Asymmetry: The Interweaving of Nietzsche,
Kant, and Levinas’
Monday 2nd December – Film Screening: The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
2012 - 2013
Wednesday 7th November 2012, Frank Ruda (Berlin), Indifference and Repetition. From the Human to the Animal (and Back). [The Philosophy of Nature and Naturalism]
Wednesday 12th December 2012, Tom Greaves (University of East Anglia), Plenitude, Saturation,Withdrawal and Mesh: Hyper-phenomenal and hypo-phenomenal philosophies of nature. [The Philosophy of Nature and Naturalism]
Wednesday 30th January 2013, Richard Gray (Cardiff), What do our Experiences of Heat
and Cold Represent?
Thursday 14th February 2013, Robert Stern (Sheffield), 'Determination is Negation':
The Adventures of a Doctrine from Spinoza to Hegel to the British
Idealists.
Wednesday 27th February 2013, Ray Brassier (AUB), Nominalism, Naturalism, and Materialism [The Philosophy of Nature and Naturalism]
Wednesday 6th March 2013, Christine Battersby (University of Warwick), Of Cyborgs,
Robots and Drone Warfare: Revisiting the Human–Machine
Interface
Wednesday 20th March 2013, Gita Sahgal, Double Bind: The Muslim Right, The
Anglo-American Left and Universal Human Rights
Wednesday 27th March 2013, Margherita Tonon, Kierkegaard's Dialectics of
Possibility
Friday 5th April 2013, Graduate Conference on Kant and the Domains of Judgement.
Keynote Speaker: Beth Lord (Dundee).
Thursday 2nd May 2013, Andy Jones (UWE), Plasticity and Neurotranscendentalism: What Can Kant Offer to Contemporary Neuroscientific Developments?
Thursday 9th May 2013, Rauli Nykanen (UWE), Kant and the Unknown = X. The Metaphysics of Space.
Recordings of previous talks and conferences may be found on the Royal Institute of Philosophy tab at the top of this page, and on the UWE YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/BristolUWE/videos?query=philosophy
